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BULLETIlSr 1350, U. S. DEPARTMENT OP AGRICULTURE 



BREEDERS' ASSOCIATIONS AND RANCHES 



Blue-fox raising in Alaska has increased rapidly in the past few 

 years. At present (1925) there are four breeders' associations rep- 

 resenting the industry in the Territory, as follows : 



The Southeastern Alaska Blue Fox Farmers Association, at Juneau. 

 The Blue Fox Farmers Association of South Central Alaska, at Cordova. 

 Cook Inlet Silver and Blue Fox Breeders Association, at Seldovia. 

 Southwestern Alaska Blue Fox and Fur Farmers Association, at Kodiak. 



According to the most recent reports to the Biological Survey, 

 there are 232 ranches in the Territory, distributed as follows: In 



Fig. 28. — White foxes in pens at Shishmaref, on the Seward Peninsula. Overhead 

 wire is necessary to prevent the foxes from escaping over snowdrifts 



southeastern Alaska, 129 ; in the Prince William Sound region, 36 ; 

 in the Lower Cook Inlet region, 14; in the Kodiak- Afognak region, 

 14 ; in the islands off the Alaska Peninsula, 13 ; and in the Aleutian 

 Islands region, 26. 



WHITE-FOX FARMING IN NORTHERN ALASKA 



Several experiments have been undertaken by individuals in north- 

 ern Alaska in raising white foxes for their fur. The white fox is 

 the normal phase of the Arctic fox Alopex, as noted on page 3 of this 

 bulletin, and the description of the white and blue phases and their 

 relationships are there mentioned. The experiments already under- 

 taken have indicated the possibility that white- fox farming will be- 



