60 



Annual Supply. 



The foregoing figures refer to skins worked up into 

 muffs, neckpieces, caps, gloves and garments with the fur 

 outside. In estimating the wearing quality of linings for 

 women's wraps the Sable Gills, which weigh 2% ounces 

 to the square foot and have less than forty per cent, of 

 the strength of unplucked Otter fur. are taken as the 

 standard at 100. The relative durability and weight of 

 other linings is as follows : 



Ounces. 



Coney 40—3 



Ermine 57 — l^L* 



Fox-White 50—3 



Hamster 10— 1^4 



Kit Eat 60—3 



Ounces. 



Sable-Skin 85-2^2 



-Head 65—1% 



Squirrel-Back 50—1% 



-Belly 20—114 



-Head 35— 2V2 



ANNUAL SUPPLY. 



All estimates as to the number of Fur-Bearing Animals 

 killed annually are largely speculative. It is true that the 

 sales reports from London. Leipzic and the Russian Fur 

 ^Markets show how many skins are sold each year at the 

 regular fur sales, but they do not tell how many of the 

 offerings were skins held over from previous years or re- 

 sold for former purchasers; and there is positively no way 

 of finding out how many skins pass directly from the hands 

 of the trappers and collectors into those of the manufac- 

 turers, nor how mauy are kept by the hunters for their 

 own personal use. 



The following figures are based upon information 

 received from a number of sources, and while necessarily 

 only tentative give the reader an approximate idea of the 

 quantities of the various skins marketed each year, and 

 positive information as to the localities from which the 

 different kinds are obtained: 



