Mie fascinating 
business offers you 
REAL MONEY 
HERE is real enjoyment as well as 
good profits in raising Windswept 
Quality Silver Foxes. It is interesting 
outdoor work, requiring no previous 
experience, The important thing is to 
get strong, healthy foxes with good 
pelts. Windswept Quality Silvers are 
scientifically selected, fed, mated, and 
cared for. Our twelve years’ experience 
is at your service in helping you make 
the largest possible profits. 
Write today for full details of our 
four plans which make it easy to get 
started, even though you own no land 
or do not want to leave your present 
occupation, 
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Silver Fox Farming 
Mail course now obtainable 
in a new uncrowded field. 
Condensed, practical, 
no written answers re- 
quired. Special introduc- 
tory price $25 to first pur- 
chaser in each county. 
DUFFUS SILVER FOX CORP. 
Dent. J. 38 W. 34th Street, New York 



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WILBUR SHOTGUN PEEP SIGHT, 
deadly addition to the modern shotgun. Makes good 
shots of poor ones. Fast enough for snap shooting, 
ducks, or at traps. Automatically shows how to 
lead correctly—No more guess work. Made of blued 
steel, clamps rigidly on breech of gun barrels, 12, 
16, 20, 28 gauges. Double guns only. Postpaid, $2.50 
including booklet ‘‘Wing Shooting Made Easy. 
Booklet alone sent on receipt of ten cents. Teaches 
the art of wing shooting. New York Agents, Aber- 
crombie and Fitch Co., Madison Ave. and 45th St., 
New York City. 
WILBUR CUN SICHT 
P.O. Box 185 Times Square, New York 



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A model silver fox ranch. 
Silver Fox Breeding 
A Growing Industry with Unlimited Possibilities 
By J..H.-LINSLEY,.D.D.S: 
RADLED in a little corner of 
Prince Edward Island, the midget 
province of Canada, over thirty 
years ago, and unknown to the world 
until 1910, the silver fox business has 
grown and developed until to-day it is 
one of the largest breeding industries 
of fur animals in America, and rap- 
idly is becoming one of America’s valu- 
able live-stock industries. 
While practically confined to its 
birth place until 1916, it has since 
spread rapidly over various Canadian 
provinces, and the United States, Nor- 
way, Sweden, Scotland and Japan now 
boast of a few ranches each, and profits 
out of all proportions to the capital in- 
vested are being realized. 
Keenly alert to the interest of its 
citizens, the Washington Department 
of Agriculture has on various occa- 
sions sent special investigators to 
Prince Edward Island and published 
their reports in bulletin form, and just 
now they have published a very com- 
plete digest of this wonderfully fasci- 
nating and profitable industry in their 
new Silver Fox Farming bulletin, 
No. 1151, which can be had by writing 
the Government. Those who wish to 
procure this booklet must enclose 15c. 
The Canadian government also has 
done this and is maintaining experi- 
mental farms. Our own government 
has established such a farm in the 
northern part of New York state. 
These farms are carried on under the 
supervision of skilled biologists who 
have opened a registry under the con- 
trol of the Department of Agriculture 
where the pedigrees of the finest silver 
foxes are certified. 
Silver fox breeders are filling a 
world want. Nothing demonstrates 
this more clearly than the well-known 
fact that in 1910, 95 per cent of the 
silver fox pelts entering the London 
fur markets were secured by trappers, 
while to-day the wild silver fox has 
approached so nearly to extinction that 
the trappers now contribute only 20 
per cent, and the breeder 80 per cent 
of the annual collections. 
What is a silver fox? Wherein does 
it differ from the red reynard? It is 
the same species, a “dandy” of nature 
or, as Darwin would say, produced by 
“selective mating.” Where the red fox 
is red or yellow the silver fox is black. 
Wherever, in the wilds, red foxes have 
been taken, an occasional silver fox has 
been found— perhaps one in twenty 
thousand. 
In indiscriminate mating in the wild, 
where the silver and red are crossed 
the “sport” generally reverts to his red 
ancestry, but where silvers have been 
caught and mated together some sil- 
vers have been found in the litters. 
The best of these bred together have 
been the foundation stock for one of 
the finest herds of silver foxes in ex-. 
istence to-day, and have formed the be- 
ginning of an industry that is bound 
to become one of America’s leading 
farm products. 
OME have endeavored to prove that 
the silver and the red are differ- 
ent species, but scientific breeding 
proves conclusively that this cannot 
be so. 
Selective breeding has done for the 
silver fox what it has accomplished 
for other domesticated animals. The 
color has been fixed, the texture of the 
fur has been refined, the sheen has 
been improved and the silver fox clari- 
fied. It is possible to-day to increase 
or decrease the proportions of silver 
It will identify you. 
