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Title: Fur-farming in Canada
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Canada. Commission of Conservation. Committee on Fisheries, Game and Fur-bearing Animals Jones, J. Walter
Subjects: Fur-bearing animals
Publisher: Ottawa, The Mortimer Co.
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
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ns.If the domestication of the marten, fisher, otter, mink and skunk,or, in other words, the family of the mustelidce, were accomplished,there is no doubt that a market for more than $10,000,000 worthof raw fur annually could be found. The annual production of allAmerican pelts is between $25,000,000 and $50,000,000, andthe above-mentioned family, with the Russian sable included, wouldsupply a large proportion of the demand for high-priced furs—^probablywell over one half. It is worth noting in this connection that therecently established fur-farming experiment stations in the UnitedStates will experiment first with this family of animals. They willprobably keep the marten and the mink, these two being considered, byexperts, among the most desirable for domestication. MINK(Putorius Vison) There are two well-known species which resemble each other closely,the European mink or marsh otter of Europe (P. lutreola) and theAmerican mink (P. vison). The latter is found over a large portion
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MINK 91 of North America, the finest and darkest being the small minks ofQuebec and the Maritime Provinces of Canada. While it lives on thewater a large part of its time and makes its home near streams, it canlive on the land away from the water and has even been found in trees. The fur is dense and soft and the over hair is of stiff, lustrous waterhairs. The darkest colour extends down the back and tail. The dyersusually accentuate the dark colour by brush dyeing or tipping the fur. Brass estimates the worlds yearly supply as follows: America,600,000 skins; Europe, 20,000; and Asia, 20,000. They do not seemto be decreasing rapidly, but the price is advancing and, owing to theexcellent quality and durability of the fur, is likely to remain high.Some fancy ranch skins have been sold for $13.00 and the best skins bringabout $10.00 each wholesale. Some conception of the extra value ofnorth-eastern mink can be formed when it is known that Quebec furrierssold their mink to New York in 1911

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