on the pelt, to meet the ever changing 
modes of fashion. No danger now ex- 
ists, where pure bred animals are used, 
of any reverting to the red color un- 
less two strongly developed, but en- 
tirely different strains are mated. 
Pelts of wild silvers sell from $25.00 
to $200.00, rarely above $100, while 
the highest type of the pure bred do- 
mesticated silver fox, if properly fed 
and cared for, will produce skins which 
occasionally bring $1,000 each, and 
should average not less than $350.00. 
The reasons for this great disparity 
are: first, the wild fox is taken in all 
months of the year from September to 
April, though his pelt is at its best for 
only a short time in December and Jan- 
uary. Consequently there are many 
under prime and many over prime wild 
skins always in the market. The ranch- 
bred fox, on the contrary, is always 
“pelted” at the right time. Second, 
wild skins are rarely free from red 
taint, which condemns them, while the 
farm-raised product is rarely off color. 
Third, many of the wild foxes taken 
are either shot or caught in traps and 
allowed to linger there until death. 
These factors enter into the price ob- 
tained for skins, while the ranched fox 
is never damaged in any way by trap- 
per’s methods. 
ILVER foxes bred under favorable 
conditions and with reference to se- 
lective mating, proper feeding and sani- 
tary surroundings can be depended 
upon to double their number annually 
at the very least. Some raise litters 
as large as eight or ten pups. Prob- 
lems connected with the raising of 
these animals have been solved, and 
any young farmer who has succeeded 
with the young of other farm animals 
or any person who loves animals of 
any kind can successfully raise these 
beautiful foxes. Many women through- 
out this land are now numbered among 
our most successful fox breeders. 
As to the commercial aspect of sil- 
ver fox farming, be it known that each 
year’s crop of pelts invariably has been 
absorbed long before the marketing of 
the next year’s pelting time. Market 
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this fur will show a greater increase 
than that for precious stones, and 
values will appreciate in consequence. 
If every silver fox in captivity were 
killed this winter and placed on the 
fur markets they would all be absorbed 
at even higher prices then prevail to- 
day. During the war over fifteen thou- 
sand new millionaires were made in 
the United States alone and they are 
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