The Cordova daily times., 1922-01-10

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 1 Upon entering fur shops in cities with populations ranging from 25,- 900 to 75,OO0 one will seldom find blue fox on account of the European demand being heretofore greater than the supply, and the European buyers took pains to secure all the blue foxes offered Since the war the people of the United States have started to use fox skins and at the last sales held there was good demand and all of- ferings were readily sold at prices ranging from $45 to $185 each.
 After several years of breeding, a certain strain, say the dark blue, which brings the highest price. will be obtained, and a fur farmer with an island stocked with a true strain will be amply repaid for his work and trouble as there is no question as to their beauty both in color and in quality of fur. The majority of the blue fox sold in the United States to- day only reach the largest cities, and ! the choice skins after being made up bring some very fancy prices.
 One may go into any large city today and mingle with the crowds or stand on the streets and watch the passing throng and see but rarely i woman wearing true blue fox fur If is not many years since these furs were considered very rare and 1t IS my opinion that they are still rare. True, one will sec some eo.called blue fox furs but they are white fox dyed blue or steel gray, but it is ln"ee" rarely that Cnp will see true natural blue fox.
 ] The fur farmer trying his hand at the game should receive ample com nensation for o5s labor and expense in- c;1rred and tiere is no doubt in my mind from ,ry observations. talks and studios, tn |: fur farming Is ono of the r.ost profitable industries which we nave in ti4:s vicinity After having been a resident of this section for nine years and always being on the LOOK ont for a chance to better myself, l studied far farming very carefully De- fore deciding to try it out and the re- cn1t of my studies convinced me that the brue fox was the one to breed. | To eliminate the expense of fenc- ing. I leased an island from the gov ernment in 1919 and with partner stocked it in the fall of 1920 a little over wear ago. We found that there was great deal of hard work and considerable expense attached to our operations, but our increase the first wear has been good and we feel that we have been amply repaid for our venture.
 This new industry, which had it's first boom in the fall of 1919, has 1 been going forward by leaps and bounds until now several of the l ranchers are starting to realize on their investment All farms in this section have shown good increase, with the exception of one or two, ana these will probably remedy thelr .trouble in the near future.
 i I have in person visited nearly all of the fox farms situated in this sec tion and find that the average in- crease on all of them ranges from four to seven pups per pair of breed- ing stock. This is more than double the increase reported from the west ward section or from the government farms on St. Paul and St. George islands in the Boring Sea. This proves conclusively that the climate of this section is ideal for raising blue foxes, and with the large quantities of feed | obtainable at small expense, this seems to be the ideal locality for breeding blue fox.
 Blue foxes must be fed at regular intervals or they become dissatisfied and leave at the first opportunity. To be successful fox farmer one must do lot of hard work, make care full study of the industry, have lots of common sense (and use it), and pay lots of attention to the animals them selves The fox industry will in few years be one of the largest here and will be so developed that those engaged in it will reap their harvest each year, like any other farmer producing a yearly crop which is controlled by market nrice and demand With this