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“This is mama fox speaking.
Tlie babies are doing fine, thank
you.”
The noises which come out of |
the loud speaker in the home of
D. E. Stubbs, owner of the Mt. |
McKinley Silver-Black Fox ranch i
at McKinley Park, might not
sound like that to Mr. Average
Radio Fan, but Stubbs knows
the language
Stubbs, a correspondent for j
The Gateway, has one of the
finest silver fox ranches in the
Territory, and possibly the only
one in the world equipped with
the microphone in eaclj vixen’s
nest box at whelping time.
“The silver fox is one of tha
most timid of fur bearing ani
mals raised in captivity,” StubU !
says. “Her nest box must be to- j
tally dark and undisturbed at
whelping time and it is highly im
portant for the rancher to know
without alarming the vixen, defi
nitely the hour of whelping, his
ranch records being only approxi
mate. The microphone saves him
much worry and gathers a great
amount of information without
the knowledge of the mother
fox.
“The microphone r e g i s ters
every noise, me moving ana
breathing of the vixen, the cry
of the new born puppies and
whether all is well and they are
being fed.
"The mother fox just before
whelping her young strips the
fur clean off her breast. She re
moves any bedding and stuffs
the fur into the corners of her
nest box. meanwhile crooning to
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herself in a low tone. All sounds
are transmitted to the lookout
house and any unusual noises at
whelping time is given prompt j
attention.” j
The microphones are made j
with the sensitive elements pro-!
tected by empty tea and coffee j
cans cut down to fit inside the i
nest boxes- * !
Firemen of the Juneau Fire
department have qualified as
experts in the use of rescue ap
paratus. under the direction of
George H- Miller, foreman miner,
of the U. S. Bureau of Mines,
reports the Empire.
SHD BOOSTING
ALtSKK HIGHWAY
In the American Motorist, Feb.,
1931, under the heading of “Tour
ing and Travel Bureau Notes—
Emergency Road Service Com
ments,” appears the following
interesting article pertinent to
Alaskan, and undoubtedly from
the versatile pen of Ernest Wal
ked Sawyer, of the Interior De
partment and member of the Pa
cific-Yukon-Alaska proposed high
way:
Both Alaska and Central Amer
ica will offer new horizons to the
motorist in the next few years,
as automobile highways are in
process of construction at the
present time. In the future,
Alaska and Central and South
America will see an annual
throng of pleasure-seeking tour
ists crossing their borders, com
parable to the thousands who are
attracted to Canada each year.
Those who have made long jour
neys through the United States
and Canada will be most grati
fied at the new fields for explora
tion opened up by these roads.
At the present time, however*
the roads are not sufficiently
developed to make the countries
a tourist mecca; but they are be
ing built, and many of them may
be used by making short tripe
by boat and train before the fin
al connecting links are complet
ed. This will offer the tourist an
opportunity of seeing the coun
try just as it has been for hun
dreds of years before it had
adopted many of the stereotyped
customs of modern civilization.
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on the health of your body.
Everyone knows thaf sunshine
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