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fancy prices. In all of the figures given in this bulletin an 

 effort has been made to strike averages and at prices re- 

 ceived by the man who severed the product from the soil. 



A Final Comparison 



In comparing the total fur take of Canada with that 

 of Louisiana, a table, "Fur Production of Canada," being 

 found on an adjoining page, it seems quite fair to point 

 out that the 1926-27 catch of the Dominion shows that 

 our northern cousins include a variety of pelts from animals 

 that do not appear in our lists, including farm raised 

 animals. 



For instance, their catch of 4,289,233 animals is swelled 

 by the inclusion of a number of game animals, such as 

 bears, rabbits, caribou, deer, moose, mountain goats and 

 sheep, squirrels, as well as more than a thousand domestic 

 cats! And their numbers are considerable. More than a 

 million rabbits are included ! 



Were we to subtract the following : 



Domestic cats 1,280 



Rabbits 1,234,850 



Deer 7,355 



Caribou 170 



Moose 1,309 



Bears 6,621 



Squirrels 63,294 



1,314,879 



the Canadian production would amount to 2,974,354 real 

 fur animals, compared to Louisiana's production for the 

 same season of 3,596,031 pelts. 



Due to the inclusion of many of the more valuable 

 per pelt fur animals the total value of the Canadian fur 

 crop exceeds that of Louisiana considerably, but sub- 

 tropical Louisiana exceeds in the value of her fur crop that 

 of any of the Dominion's provinces or territories, as a 

 study of the table of fur value on page 409 will demon- 

 strate. 



