Identifier: maintenanceoffur00dear (find matches)
Title: Maintenance of the fur supply
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Dearborn, Ned
Subjects: Fur-bearing animals Fur farming
Publisher: Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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Department Circular 135, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. Plate IV.
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BI4MM Raccoon Skin. Taken in southeastern Wyoming. The 2-foot rule shows the size of the pelt. Maintenance of the Fur Supply. 5 gardecl as having little or no value as fur became popular undervarious trade names. A comparison of the highest prices at theOctober sales in St. Louis in 1915 with those in 1919 illustrates theremarkable increase in fur values: Beaver advanced in these fouryears from $17 to $38.50, otter from $14 to $101, muskrat from $0.36£to $5.10, red fox from $15.20 to $64, fisher from $25.50 to $205,skunk from $3.36 to $10.60, and marten from $15.20 to $145. (SeePis. Ill and IV.) The crest of the rising wave of fur values was reached in the auc-tion sales of February and March, 1920, when the following werethe highest prices paid: Weasel, $4.10; muskrat, $7.50; skunk, $12.25;raccoon, $30; lynx, $66; red fox, $71; mink, $75; otter, $105; marten,$201; and fisher, $365. These inflated values, which involved anenormous amount of money for financing the fur industry, comin

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