The Fur Animals of Louisiana 40$ 



Value of Catch, 1924-25 

 United States Canada 



LOUISIANA $6,490,340 Ontario $3,406,868- 



Michigan 3,000,000 Quebec 2,272,095 



Pennsylvania 2,500,000 Alberta 2,030,974 



Minnesota 2,399,200 N. W. Territory 1,780,666 



Tennessee 2,000,000 Manitoba 1,589,078 



Alaska 1,657,448 British Columbia 1,403,769 



New York 1,500,000 Prince Edward Island . . . 326669 



Arkansas 1,500,000 Yukon Territory 309,549 



Wisconsin 1,341,000 Nova Scotia 271,753- 



Texas 1,000,000 New Brunswick 246,091 



Maryland 500,000 



Kansas 250,000 



Oregon 250,000 



Virginia 200,000 



Vermont 150,000 



All of which rather abruptly disposes of that argument 

 as to the value of the pelts that come out of Louisiana each 

 year. 



'The United States, including Alaska, has been pro- 

 during approximately seventy million dollars worth of pelts 

 a year for several years past. Our seventy million-dollar 

 production compares with Canada's fifteen millions and 

 Russia's thirty-five millions. The last, however, includes 

 all countries tributary to Moscow and should perhaps be 

 better termed the Soviet's. These figures are approximate ; 

 those for the United States may be several millions too 

 high, those for Canada and Russia are low, as the native 

 trappers and their families use large quantities, points out 

 David C. Mills, director of the National Association of the 

 Fur Industry, in a recent article.* 



"This comparison is astonishing because the United 

 States appears in it as such a large producer. There 

 are various reasons for this. For example, the Mississippi 

 Basin is, as it always has been, an ideal section for wild 

 life, with plenty of cover, plenty of water, plenty of food. 

 For some of the animals, such as the opossum and the 

 muskrat, we might add plenty of good company, for they 

 exist in very large numbers. 



♦Mills, David C, The International Fur Trade, Journal of Home 

 Economics, vol. 18, No. 11, p. 625. 



