. Fur-farming in Canada . al Co. gets all the skins taken, com-pensates the natives for their labour, and furnishes a certain amount offox food; but the feeding, trapping and entire conduct of fox affairsis in the hands of the government agents. While the regular annual catch of fox skins on St. George islandsince the present methods were adopted is less than half what it wasfrom 1870 to 1890, as herein shown, it is evident that the herd, andwith it the annual catch of skins, can be indefinitely increased. Thefact that on St. Paul island, where nothing was done to perpetuatefox life, the speci
. Fur-farming in Canada . al Co. gets all the skins taken, com-pensates the natives for their labour, and furnishes a certain amount offox food; but the feeding, trapping and entire conduct of fox affairsis in the hands of the government agents. While the regular annual catch of fox skins on St. George islandsince the present methods were adopted is less than half what it wasfrom 1870 to 1890, as herein shown, it is evident that the herd, andwith it the annual catch of skins, can be indefinitely increased. Thefact that on St. Paul island, where nothing was done to perpetuatefox life, the species is about extinct, justifies the opinion that themeasures taken on St. George island have preserved the foxes it up, it may be stated that the preservation and increase ofthe foxes on St. George island depend, primarily, upon the bountifulfeeding of proper food for about eight months every year; and second-arily, upon the careful and methodical selection of the animals reservedfor breeding purposes. i Sf. O 3 KARAKUL SHEEP (Of the Ovis platyura or broadtail class) THE mformation respecting the breeding of karakul sheep for Per-sian lamb and astrakhan fur production has been, in large part, ex-tracted from a Russian Government bulletin by Mr. M. Karpov, publishedin 1912 and entitled Facts concerning Karakul Breediag; from theUnited States Department of Agriculture which experimented for twoyears with karakul sheep supplied by Dr. C. C. Young; from Dr. Younghimself; from the article of Prof. Wallace of Edinborough Universityin the Pastoralist magazine published in 1909; from Herr Carl Thorerof Leipzig, the largest importer of karakul sheep fur in the world; fromMr. Vladimir Generosoff, Russian Agricultural Commissioner in Amer-ica; from Consul Emil Brass book Aus dem Reiche der Pelze; fromthe American Breeders Association; from daily personal observation ofthe karakul sheep recently imported to Charlottetown, , andfrom the examination of skins produced on t
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