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absence of beauty; but its fur, when taken in season, is worth 

 in the London market from $25 to $70 per skin. 



On various islands along the Alaska coast, especially in 

 the Aleutian Archipelago, about thirty commercial companies 

 and individuals are engaged in breeding Blue Foxes for their 



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fur, some of them with satisfactory success. The foxes are 

 fed daily, on cooked corn-meal and dried fish. They come 

 up to be fed, and when the time comes to handle and sort 

 them previous to killing the annual allotment, they greatly 

 facilitate matters by the readiness with which they enter box 

 traps. 



On the Atlantic coast of the United States, none of the 

 efforts that have been made to breed the Blue Fox were suc- 

 cessful. The great decrease in the annual supply of good fur 



