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CANADIAN FOX BREEDING. 
L AST year we gave some facts about 
Canadian fox farming. Prince Ed¬ 
ward Island is headquarters for this 
business, and there was a tremendous 
boom not only in selling the foxes them¬ 
selves, but in selling the stock in various 
breeding enterprises. United States Con¬ 
sul Mays, writing from Charlottetown 
last Christmas, indicates that the wind 
is dropping out of the boom. He says 
that last March sales of silver fox skins 
in London averaged $1S2.73 each. In 
June this average fell to $181.71. The 
darker skins could hardly find a market 
at less than half the former prices. Then 
came the war, which has practically 
ruined the European market for luxur¬ 
ies. These fox-breeding companies were 
highly capitalized. In April, 1014, there 
were on Prince Edward Island 1600 sil¬ 
ver black foxes, and a number of red and 
patch foxes. The total authorized capital 
of the fox companies which were selling 
stock was $28,500,000, or $35,000 for 
each pair of silver black foxes. The to¬ 
tal number of black foxes now is esti¬ 
mated at 2600, with a total capitalization 
of $31,500,000. Mr. Mays says that 
probably $26,000,000 of this stock has 
been issued, which means 20,000 pairs, 
counting puppies and grown foxes to¬ 
gether. It seems rather a windy stock 
business, when this amount of money 
rests upon the life of a pair of foxes. It 
has been claimed that the foxes on Prince 
Edward Island are different from all 
others. The official statements show 
that 1920 foxes were imported to the 
Island in 1912 and 1913. A few ranches 
are still breeding the pure black silver 
foxes. In general, however, it is said 
that most of the foxes on the Island are 
of mixed blood, brought all the way from 
Ontario to Alaska. It is a myth to state 
that the black foxes on Prince Edward 
Island represent a distinct and peculiar 
strain. It is also said that the great 
reputation for Prince Edward Island 
foxes was largely obtained from the prices 
formerly received by one of the pioneers 
in the business. Pelts and furs from this 
same ranch now bring less than half as 
much as they did a year ago. Much 
has been claimed for the climate and soil 
of the Island ; when stock is offered for 
sale much is made of this point. Mr. 
Mays says that the testimony of the 
leading fur dealers in the world is unan¬ 
imous; that the furs from a strip of 
land about 1500 miles wide encircling the 
globe just South of the Arctic circle, are 
all of about the same value. Mr. Mays 
says in concluding his article that the 
outcome of this business of selling stock 
on the basis of a pair of foxes and a 
hole in the ground, is just about what we 
predicted over a year ago. 
Prince Edward Island people have 
made a valuable contribution to human 
progress by introducing the domestication 
of fur-bearing animals, especially of the 
silver fox. While the claim that they 
have produced a new breed of foxes can¬ 
not be substantiated, they deserve great 
credit for proving that if foxes are kept 
in separate pairs and are guarded from 
intrusion they will breed in captivity. 
Another thing they have demonstrated is 
that the fox rancher has a great advan¬ 
tage over the fox trapper in that he can 
always take his pelt when it is at its 
very best. Trappers could profit by this 
knowledge and keep unwounded foxes un- 
(il January and get top prices for their 
furs. When the prices of foxes and of 
pelts reach about the same level in Prince 
Edward Island the business will be on a 
sound basis. 
Bundle Corn in Silo. 
T NOTE the question of R. S., on page 
i 32, in relation to putting corn into 
he silo in bundles. It has been the com¬ 
mon practice among the sweet corn grow¬ 
ers in Maine to put the stover from their 
sweet corn fields into the silo in bundles 
as they come from the harvester. The 
practice is a good one with all varieties 
of corn that do not grow too large. The 
varieties of flint corn that mature in this 
latitude may be treated in this way to ad¬ 
vantage. 
Before beginning to cut the fodder into 
the silo this was the practice at “The 
1 fines,” and always with good results. The 
packing is best done in a circular silo, 
the bundles being laid around the wall 
first and the layers finished in the middle 
of the silo. The point to bear in mind 
the most carefully is to keep the packing 
as close to the side as possible. This can 
best be done by keeping the edges a trifle 
the highest and firmly packed. There is 
no lateral pressure to silage packed 
whole, and but very little to that packed 
from a cutter, hence the necessity for 
closely packing the edges. Silage packed 
in bundles can be removed vei’y easily 
by procuring a hook on a handle about 
like a hoe handle, and catching this hook 
under a string on a bundle and pulling 
out the entire bundle. Where a cutter is 
not available this method will give the 
best results of any I have ever tried. 
Maine. b. Walter mckeex. 
BOSTON MARKETS. 
P LENTIFUL supplies and reasonable 
prices on practically all classes of pro¬ 
duce and native fruit is the rule in 
Boston market. Cranberries in over¬ 
abundant supply go at buyer's offer. Ask¬ 
ing prices are $2.50 to $4.50 per barrel 
and 75 cents to $1.50 per crate, but any 
reasonable offer moves them. Apples are 
about as plentiful, both in storage and 
in growers’ hands and prices are sure to 
drop on these, as demand is poor, both 
in home markets and across the water. 
Fancy McIntosh have been selling at 
$4 to $5 per barrel; best Kings and 
Baldwins, $2.50 to $3.50. Fair second 
quality sometimes sold as No. 1. have 
brought $2 to $2.50 per barrel. Native 
box fruit, 50 cents to $1.50, according 
to quality. 
Frozen shipments and unsatisfactory 
prices for Florida oranges and the end 
of the season on California stock will in¬ 
crease the price on this fruit in the next 
few weeks, present prices, California, 
$2.25 to $3 per box; Florida. $2.50 to $3. 
Pineapples and strawberries coming in 
quite plentiful, the former being $2.50 
to $4 per crate, the latter 50 cents or 
more per box. Grapermit plenty and 
brings about $2 per box. 
Potatoes and onions plenty, and prices 
rule low: good Maine potatoes only 
bring $1.05 to $1.15 per two-bushel bag, 
with sweets about $1.50 per basket. 
Onions, native. $1.25 to $1.75 per bag of 
lot pounds. Spanish and Cuban, $2.75 
to $4 per crate. Native squash in de¬ 
mand. but prices are not very large as 
yet. Marrow, $1.25 per barrel; Turban, 
$1.50, and Hubbard, $1.75 per 100 
pounds. Roots of all kinds are in de¬ 
mand and the supplv light. Beets. $1 
per box; carrots. 85 cents to $1; 
parsnips, $1 to $1.25; turnips, white 
egg, 75 cents to $1 ; rutabaga, $1.25 per 
bag: radishes, 30 cents per dozen 
bunches. Spinach, $2 per barrel; kale 
$1.50. 
Butter has declined again from the rise 
it took a short time since, as the market 
would not stand it. This rise was worked 
by interested parties to unload some of 
this surplus stock at a profit, but did not 
work as expected. Best tub prices are 
35 Vj cents; fancy prints, 37 ; good storage, 
32 to 34 cents. Cheese in poor demand 
and fair supply, but moves slowly at 15 
to 17 cents per pound. Native eggs com¬ 
ing in more plenty and prices declining; 
45 cents is the limit, with many going 
at 42 and 43 cents. 
Live poultry in fair supply and de¬ 
mand at 15 to 16 cents per pound. 
Dressed poultry of all kinds in excessive 
supply and is being frozen for future 
demand; 14 to 16 cents per pound are 
the prices on much of the stock sold, 
which has not been fancy. Ducks, 14 to 
17 cents; geese, 14 to 16 cents; turkeys, 
18 to 25 cents. Live hogs, 7 to 7% cents 
per pound ; dressed stucK, 9 to 9 1 / £ cents. 
A.~ E. P. 
This is a general agricultural district. 
Farms average 80 to 100 acres; main 
crops wheat, hay, corn and potatoes. 
Every farmer keeps a few cows, say 
about six to 20; most all sell milk to 
creamery, few ship to city (Philadelphia). 
Cows bring about $80 to $100, butter 40; 
milk 4c to farmers, 8c retail; pork 10; 
ham, whole. 25; sliced 50; sausage 18; 
lard 16; chickens 20-22; eggs 50; pota¬ 
toes 70 to 80; per half peck 15 retail; 
onions 50 per five-eighth basket; hav $18 
to $20; retail $1.05 per 100. Corn 70 
to 80; sweet potatoes 18 per one-quarter 
peck; cabbage 5 to 10 per head. No 
fruit grown here to any account, though 
this last year there was a good crop. 
Apples sell 25 to 40 per basket. Or¬ 
chards neglected, used as hog lots or rab¬ 
bit hunting grounds. 
Chester Co., Pa. E. v. w. 
.Tan. 13. At present cattle are under 
quarantine; three cows sold for $80, im¬ 
mediate slaughter. I sold two veal calves, 
weight 191 pounds at 11 and 145 pounds 
at 10y 2 , under permit from veterinarian. 
I have been fortunate so far, not having 
this cattle plague on farm. 17 dairies 
destroyed and buried. I paid 40c for a 
pound of butter at the creamery this 
morning and received 42c for butterfat. 
Dressed pork 10*4 to 11, delivered to 
butcher; received 46 for eggs for six 
weeks. Nice potatoes sold for 75 at a 
farm auction ; cabbage at Doylestown de¬ 
livered, good heads, 3c per head, I at¬ 
tended two auctions, owners deceased; 
canned goods, peaches in quart jars, sold 
eight cents per quart jar; blackberries 
and cherries 5c to 7c quart jar; toma¬ 
toes 2 to 3c quart jar; goods all pre¬ 
pared for own use. No cattle are fed 
through this section; quarantine stopped 
all movement of cattle except for imme¬ 
diate slaughter on the public highways. 
Bucks Co., Pa. s. H. 
\l's/ 
Cheapest 
and Best Feed for 
COWS! 
Seldom does quality go in hand with low price, but right 
now Dried Beet Pulp is the cheapest standard feed you 
can purchase, as well as the best individual ingredient of a ration. You can¬ 
not afford to continue buying bran, middlings, corn meal, barley, oats and 
other carbohydrate feed when you can get a better feed like Dried Beet 
Pulp for LESS MONEY PER TON. At today’s prices. Dried Beet Pulp 
offers you the biggest value that can be obtained. 
Nothing Elso 
Good 
Mark j 
Nothing Elso 
So 
Cheap 
[Re^USAtjOfn 
Best 
Combina¬ 
tion: 
Dried Beet 
Pulp blends well 
with Gluten Feed, 
Distillers’ Grains 
or Brewers’ Grains, 
but does exception¬ 
ally well with Cottonseed 
Meal which at present is 
tho cheapest source of pro¬ 
tein. Try a mixture of five 
pounds. DRIED BEET 
PULP and two and one-half 
pounds of Cottonseed meal for 
safe, economical milk pro¬ 
duction. 
This is a clean, whole- ' some, pure, dried, veg¬ 
etable food—All of the sugar beet that’s "left” 
after man’s food (sugar) has been soaked out w 
by water. Cows and all other animals are M- .. , For 
very fond of it — succulent, bulky, palatable, W - 3tt©flingS 
laxative—Absolutely free from Adulteration. M Dried Bcei 
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Larrowe*s Dried Beet Pulp can be substitute for 
bought now to best advantage and Jr . , , 
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we would advise you to order . . * materially 
in liberal quantities to in- W assist in growth and 
sure having a supply to Jr finishing. Try it also 
last through next sum- Jjy for sheep and hogs, 
mer when pasture 
fails. Your feed 
Specify Larrowe’s 
Dried Beef Pulp 
when you order and you will 
be sure of getting the best grade 
of dried beet pulp produced in 
this country. 
Dealer carries 
it in stock, or 
can get it 
for you. 
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