32 BULLETIN" 1350, L T . S. DEPARTMENT OF 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 
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Fig. 28. — White foxes in pens at Shishmaref, on the Seward Peninsula. Overhead 
wire is necessary to prevent the foxes 1 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 Avill be- 
