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Fox farming. Original description: The best location for a ranch is a woodlot.

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Title: Fur-farming in Canada
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Canada. Commission of Conservation. Committee on Fisheries, Game and Fur-bearing Animals Jones, J. Walter
Subjects: Fur-bearing animals
Publisher: Ottawa, The Mortimer Co.
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
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in a climate cold enough to produce a heavy fur andoverhair and which is cool iu summer. 2. The value of the pelt depends on good health as well ason climatic conditions. Wholesome, varied food is a necessarycondition for health and can be best secured in a thickly-settledrural district. 3. Foundation stock should be the best obtainable. Thebest foxes are those in captivity in ranches, and they have theadditional advantage of being half-domesticated. There are some advantages to be gained by conducting extensiveranching operations in one locality, particularly because breedinganimals may be easily exchanged and the dangers of close, or in-breed-ing, prevented. Neighbours can also impart to one another morefreely what their experience has taught them. These advantages,however, may be offset by the difficulties of securing food for the foxes.In every rural township there is enough cheap meat and offal to supply *Fur-Bearing Animals in Nature and Commerce, p. xvi. By Henry Poland, F.Z.S.
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FOX-FARMING IN CANADA flesh diet to scores of foxes, but not to hundreds. ^Several hundredfoxes, therefore, ui one neighbourhood, would necessitate the purchaseof costly meat. An ordinary farm has enough waste meat scrap,dripping, bread, biscuits and game to support several animals. A wooded area, not subject to flooding, and where thesi 16^°°**^*°** snow does not pile up in deep drifts in winter, is best adapted for the site of the ranch. The subsoil shouldbe a hardpan to prevent deep burrowing and escape under the fences.Areas which produce a growth of birch, spruce, fir and cedar, withheath plants and blueberries in the open areas, have usually a goodturfy cover and a hardpan subsoil near the surface. In such a situa-tion it is easy to erect pens as the fences have only to be extendeddown to hardpan to prevent the foxes from burrowing under andescaping. A sandy soil and subsoil, on the other hand, while provid-ing good dramage, entails an additional expense, as foxes can burrowt

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