The sun., 1908-08-30
FOXES YIELD HER AN INCOME
FORMER STENOGRAPHER'S FARM
IN NEW HAMPSHIRE.
Chicken Raising Was what She Tried When
She Left the City, but 1t Didn't Pay, and
Then Chance Opened Her Eyes 70 the
Posaibie Pro1its or Breeding Foxes.

Chicken Raising Was what She Tried When
she Left the City, but 1t Didn't Pay, and
Then Chance Opened Her Eyes TO the
Possible Prefits or Breeding Foxes.
Having failed as chicken breeder am
now making thousand dollars q year on
my fox farm
The speaker was New Hampshire
woman who passed through New York
the other day on her way to take two
months vacation In the Northwest.
About ten years ago my mother inherited
u small farm In New Hampshire and We
went there TO live.' she continued. Il had
had some four years experience in the
city aa stenographer and had managed
to save up In the neighborhood Of $500.
Mother had let furnished rooms and had
managed to sorape together more than
double the amount Of my savings.
"As we hadn't found city life all that II
is cracked up to be and both being country
bred We were anxious enough TO get back
to the country. My capital was invested
In chickens and worked faithfully to make
my poultry pay. At the end of five years
hadn't one cent more in bank than when
I started out.
~The trouble wasn't In raising the chickens
and eggs, but in selling them. Our farm
was several miles from the shipping sta
tion and the shipping station was many
miles from q good chicken market. BY
the time shipping expenses were paid there
wasn't much in the way Of profit.
$50 decided to try something that
would not be 90 expensive In getting to
market. That spring the hired man dug
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beauties and 1t seemed q pity to destroy
them for the misdeeds Of their parents.
who we all knew had lived on my poultry
for moro than year.
'Finally we decided to keep them and
try to raiss them for their skins. They
proved most interesting. and before the
lot Of reading on the subject Of raising
fur bearing animals for profit and decided
to keep them and experiment.
Il made a run and three dens Of fine
wire netting. according to the directions
gwen by q breeder Of the red fox. feeding
he advised The next February there was
an increass Of twenty to my flock. and two
of them were silver foxes.
.Of COURSE ! felt at onoe that my for
tune was made. It 10 the Object Of every
o sst VII fssT only Ss I
Of good silvers will fetch $500. The silver
fox Is nothing but q freak In color Of the
common red FOX, just as the black sheep
is freak Of the common sheep.
Though q pair Of red foxes may have q
black fox in their litter and the black fox
may prove to be the parent only Of red
foxes, still there 10 pretty good chance
that two silver foxes win have some OF
their own kind In each litter. a. such things
usually run In families. Tho discovery
that ali my stock came from o family that
produced silvers was like finding q small
gold mine. II decided me to give up my
poultry and eggs and devote my attention
entirely to fox farming.
sAs both my silvers were females de.
cided 10 put Q II the money thatI could safely
lay out In buying the very bcst silver male
fox on the market There we're not many
TO be bought. and the best could do was
one that was not nearly 90 beautiful as my
own at $500 caeh and q promise Of an even
division Of all the silver kits he fathered
during the first two years
The: flrst year there were no silver kits
In his litter. The second year he accepted
asecond wife and between the two families
there were three silver kits. While none