The Fur Animals of Louisiana 



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The use of the clothes wringer for cleaning muskrat pelts before they are hung up to cure 

 is becoming universal in the Louisiana marshes and is recommended by this department. 



In Louisiana all shipments of furs, whether sent by- 

 parcel post or express, should carry an official shipping tag 

 issued by the Department of Conservation, which not only 

 provides for the trapper's name and address but a list of 

 skins contained in the shipment, a detachable section mailed 

 to the Department of Conservation at New Orleans. A 

 special shipping tag must be used, and if the consignment 

 is to be sent out of the state the fur tax must first be paid 

 or the furs are liable to confiscation by the Department's 

 conservation agents. 



