An Annotated List of the Animal Parasites of Foxes

Abstract

Few people have any conception of the rapid growth and the importance of the new industry of raising black and silver foxes for their fur. According to Dearborn, 1917, the first profitable fox ranch was established in the Canadian Province of Prince Edward Island in 1894. This ranch, the forerunner of a remarkable industry, was stocked with two pairs of silver foxes, a rare and beautiful colour phase of the common red fox found in nearly all of the United States and Canada.