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the care and feeding of a wild animal in confinement is much more 

 difficult than feeding and attending domestic animals. Yet results 

 have been such that stringency in the money market and failures to 

 rear any young whatsoever in some ranches, does not prevent an 

 increasing enthusiasm for investment in the industry. The price of 

 a pair of five months' old silver fox pups of the best Prince Edward 

 Island stock has risen as follows: 



September, 1909 $3,000 



September, 1910 4,000 



September, 1911 6,000 



September, 1912 10,000 



September, 1913 16,000 



The price of old, proved breeders is more variable. Usually few 

 are sold as it is considered somewhat unsafe to remove them from the 

 pens in which they have bred. When old stock of proved fecundity 

 are sold they fetch from $25,000 to $35,000 per pair. 



