FUR-SEAL FISHERIES OF ALASKA IN 1910. 



21 



Assortment of Alaska Salted Fur Sealskins for Account of United States 

 Government, Department of Commerce and Labor. 



[London, 19th November, 1910, 64 Queen Street, E. C. Subject to recount.] 



78 



713 



3,032 



4,899 



1,266 



11 



33 



135 



498 



501 



88 



10 



71 



238 



421 



81 



6 



55 



Lbs. oz. 



smalls 7 15 



large pups 7 2 



middling pups 6 7 



small pups 5 12 



ex. small pups 5 5 



ex. ex. small pups 4 10 



smalls, low 7 11 



large pups, low 6 9 



middling pups, low 6 1 



small pups, low 5 9 



ex small pups, low 5 



smalls, cut 7 2 



large pups, cut 6 13 



middling pups, cut 6 2 



small pups, cut 5 6 



ex. small pups, cut 4 15 



smalls, rubbed 7 



large pups, rubbed 6 14 



195 middling pups, rubbed. 

 290 small pups, rubbed 



75 ex. small pups, rubbed. 



36 faulty. 



Lbs. oz. 

 ... 6 6 

 ... 5 11 

 ... 5 3 



5 smalls. 

 21 large pups. 

 48 middling pups. 

 94 small pups. 

 18 ex. small pups. 



2 faulty. 



188 



a 12, 922 



a See p. 15. This number recorded as shipped, but two skins afterwards found wedged under floor of boat 

 used for lightering skins to steamer Homer. 



ENUMERATION OF BREEDING HERD. 

 COUNTS OF HAREMS. 



The usual counting of harems and idle bulls at the height of the 

 season of 1910 disclosed the following: 



Count of Harems and Idle Bulls on St. Paul Island, 1910. 



The number of harems on Sea Lion Rock, which could not be 

 visited at this season, is placed at 61, the number found last year. 



