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Title: Forty years on the Pacific : the lure of the great ocean, a book of reference for the traveler and pleasure for the stay-at-home
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Coffee, Frank, d. 1929
Subjects: Oceania -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : Oceanic publishing company
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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er on, he may allow them to run about the enclosure above ground, which is secured by a high fence with chicken netting sunk about three feet in the ground underneath. The mother having escaped, is not molested. The impression is that she will remain in the district, and in due time produce another litter of whelps. The prospector realizes that a profitable industry would be wiped out if the species were not propagated. Besides, the game laws of both Canada and America are drastic, and precautions are taken to prevent the wholesale slaughter of fur-bearing animals. In fact, laws have been passed by American and Canadian authorities, prohibiting the exporting of female foxes without permission of game commissioners. The fur of these animals killed in summer is of little value. In taking foxes out of the traps the trappers wear gloves to avoid leaving the scent of their hands on the trap, which might frighten away foxes approaching later. At Caribou, on the White Pass Railroad, is a fox-breeding farm
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Black and Silver Foxes Bred in Captivity, Alaska Gold Mining in Klondike, Ground Thawed by Steam Before Washing Out Gold ALASKA 249 at the rear of the hotel. A sign warns visitors against interfering with them, as they are easily frightened by strangers and do not thrive under excitement. Madam Fox is a monogamist. In her minds eye she has her soul mate, and sometimes reaches the climacteric before finding her mate. This feature of fox life makes fox farming an uncertain and hazardous occupation. The mating question is one to be reckoned with. Madam Fox is one of the most timid and shy creatures of the animal kingdom. The same cannot be said about Mr. Fox, for he is crafty enough to make up for Madam Foxs timidity and shyness; and it is possible that from him has been gathered the reason for the expression crafty as a fox. A cross fox is produced by crossing the black with the red, which results in a beautiful glossy skin with a clear sign of a cross over the shoulders; in fact, it is a species

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