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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 runabout the enclosure above ground, which is secured by a highfence with chicken netting sunk about three feet in the groundunderneath. The mother having escaped, is not molested.The impression is that she will remain in the district, and indue time produce another litter of whelps. The prospectorrealizes that a profitable industry would be wiped out if thespecies were not propagated. Besides, the game laws of bothCanada and America are drastic, and precautions are taken toprevent the wholesale slaughter of fur-bearing animals. Infact, laws have been passed by American and Canadian au-thorities, prohibiting the exporting of female foxes withoutpermission of game commissioners. The fur of these animals killed in summer is of littlevalue. In taking foxes out of the traps the trappers weargloves to avoid leaving the scent of their hands on the trap,which might frighten away foxes approaching later. AtCaribou, on the White Pass Railroad, is a fox-breeding farm
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Black and Silver Foxes Bred in Captivity, AlaskaGold Mining in Klondike, Ground Thawed by Steam Before Washing Out Gold ALASKA 249 at the rear of the hotel. A sign warns visitors against inter-fering with them, as they are easily frightened by strangersand do not thrive under excitement. Madam Fox is a monogamist. In her minds eye she hasher soul mate, and sometimes reaches the climacteric beforefinding her mate. This feature of fox life makes fox farmingan uncertain and hazardous occupation. The mating questionis one to be reckoned with. Madam Fox is one of the mosttimid and shy creatures of the animal kingdom. The samecannot be said about Mr. Fox, for he is crafty enough tomake up for Madam Foxs timidity and shyness; and it ispossible that from him has been gathered the reason for theexpression crafty as a fox. A cross fox is produced by crossing the -black with thered, which results in a beautiful glossy skin with a clear signof a cross over the shoulders; in fact, it is a species

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