Prices Lower for Rabbit Skin Sale
Approximately 35 tons of rabbit skins were offered at the sale held on November 18, 1947, before the usual attendance of exporters and local trade. The bulk of the catalogues comprised hatters grades, milkys, summers and broken with a few parcels of racks and springs. Competition and demand were limited and prices as compared with last sale (October 21), were on the average 3d to lOd per lb lower, with the exception of racks, first milky and second broken which sold 4d 'to 7d per lb better. The range of prices is as follows: — Backs, to 56d per lb; summers, 32d to 35d; first milky, 67d to 80d; milky, 30d to 51d; second broken, 77id to 84d; third broken, 33-ld to 38d; second spring bucks, to 80d; second spring does to 108 d; first spring bucks, 86£ d to 95d; first spring does, 107 d to 108 d; late bucks, to lOOd; late does, to 113 d; blacks, to 20d; fawns, to 20d; hareskins, to 20d; horsehair, to 48d; first large ferrets, Is to 2s each; second ferrets, Id to 6d each; first whit© ferrets, to fid each; first stoats, 7s 6d to 7s 7d; second stoats, Id to 3d.
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Lake County Mail, Issue 27, 26 November 1947, Page 3
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206Prices Lower for Rabbit Skin Sale Lake County Mail, Issue 27, 26 November 1947, Page 3
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