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their furs, and the animals were now breeding 
true and producing only the black phase. 
The United States Department of Agriculture 
has recently published a farmer’s bulletin on 
the subject of silver fox farming, by Wilfred 
H. Osgood. It concludes that fox farming 
should never be attempted south of the southern 
boundary of the Canadian zone, and it states 
by way of summary that: ‘‘ Like most new 
enterprises, fox raising is a business regarding 
which opinions vary. The favourable facts are 
that silver foxes are easily and securely kept 
in simple wire enclosures; that suitable food 
for them is cheap and easily obtainable; that 
they are not subject to serious diseases, and 
that their disposition and the colour of their 
fur can be improved by selective breeding. 
Opposed to these are the unfavourable facts 
that they are by nature suspicious, nervous, and 
not inclined to repose confidence in man; and 
that, largely for these reasons, they do not 
breed regularly and successfully, except when 
cared for by experienced persons more or less 
gifted in handling them. 
‘The number of persons now engaged in the 
business is relatively small, and the work is 
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