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Mark Valente operates a fox farm on Beaver Island, 1988

Also Mark Valente fox farm · Beaver Island silver fox farm

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TypeEvent
Date1988-10
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
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Event
Date
1988-10
Kind
Announcement
Where
Beaver Island
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
animalseconomycommercewildlifecommunication
Within
Beaver Island

Summary

The October 1988 Beaver Beacon profiled Mark Valente’s southeast-side fox farm, reporting 80 breeding animals, multiple color varieties, seasonal pelting practices, and international fur-auction sales.

Evidence limits

This is a newspaper agricultural and business profile, not a farm license, livestock inventory, or audited price record.

Sources

  1. Describes Valente’s herd of 60 females and 20 males, breeding and feeding practices, seven color varieties, pelting and drying, Hudson Bay Fur Sales, and reported pelt prices from the 1986–87 and 1987–88 seasons. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1988-10_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held twenty-page October issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and preserves the fox-farm profile.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1988-10_Beaver-Beacon

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Beaver Island Archive, “Mark Valente operates a fox farm on Beaver Island, 1988”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-fox-farm-mark-valente-1988/, accessed [date], citing Fox farm, Beaver Beacon, October 1988. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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