FUR FARMING
AN EXPANDING INDUSTRY IN CANADA. OTTAWA. Fur farming in Canada reached unprecedented heights in 1937 with a total of .9,179 farms in operation. More animals and pelts were sold in the year, bringing in a revenue of 6,810,38 G dollars, an increase over the previous year, despite a reduction in average prices. The number of pblts sold from fur farms totalled 259,870 valued at 5,779,498 dollars, including 196,436 silver fox and 54.819 mink. The amount realised from the sale of live fur-bearing animals in 1937 was 1,030.888 dollars and included 14.819 mink. 9,670 silver fox, and 719 other animals. The number of fur bearing animals on the farms at the end of 1937 was 241,359, of which the silver fox population accounted for 153,822, or 64 per cent of the total; the number of mink was 71,410, or 30 per cent. The chinchilla, a native of the Andes in South America, is recorded in the Canadian fur farming industry for the first time. The number was two. Others were: Cross fox, 1.388; muskrat, 10,003; red fox, 1,119; blue fox, 723; beaver, 787, an# -racppn, 38.5.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 4 May 1939, Page 2
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