APPENDIX 



COMPARATIVE TAKES OF FUR ANIMALS 



IT is believed that many readers of this bulletin will be 

 interested in knowing how the fur take in Louisiana 

 compares with the production of furs in other sections 

 of the North American continent. So that such matters 

 can be studied by those interested, the tables that follow 

 have been secured from authoritative sources and are in 

 every way offiicial. 



Louisiana 





The remark is frequently made that "while it may be 

 true the great muskrat output of Louisiana does give that 

 state the lead in numbers of pelts of all kinds that go into 

 the market, the value of Louisiana's fur take is so much 

 less than the furs taken in the more northern states." 



Let us see if this is so. Quoting from the United States 

 Biological Survey and the Canadian Dominion figures and 

 from the year book of the National Association of the Fur 

 Industry, we find the following figures interesting, to say 

 the least : 



