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are positively staggering. Here is a list of 
whole skins from wild animals, taking no ac- 
count of paws, tails and parts of skins, nor of 
the domestic output. 
1920 
155,000 Red Fox, 
Australian 
160,000 Opossum, 
Australian 
3,100 Fox, dyed 
6,000 Muskrat 
tric” skins 
39,000 Rabbit “Electric” 
skins 
4,800 Bear 
11,000 Opossum, 
Ringtail 
189,000 Wallaby 
2,000 Chinchilla 
400,000 Squirrel 
10,500 Fox, Japanese 
1,500 Mouflon 
2,400 Leopard 
13,500 Kolinsky 
(Siberian Mink) 
8,500 Fitch (Polecat) 
26,500 Squirrel Backs 
500,000 Mole 
55,000 Marmot 
131,000 Hare, White 
70,000 Nutria (Copyu 
Rat) 
25,000 Slink Crosses 
8,000 Slink Skins 
1,200 Hare, Dyed 
27,900 Mole Coney 
Lonpon Fur Sares IN January, 
730,000 Skunk 
333,500 Muskrat 
364,000 Opossum 
21,000 Raccoon 
65,400 Civet Cat 
96,000 Mink 
1,500 Fox, Silver 
2,100 Fox, Cross 
70,000 Fox, Red 
16,000 Fox, White 
705 Fox, Blue 
15,000 Fox, Gray 
65,000 Fox, Kit 
9,000 Beaver 
4,610 Otter 
980 Lynx 
805 Wolverine 
2,600 Fisher 
10 Sea Otter 
210,000 Ermine 
6,500 Marten 
2,800 Sable, Russian 
250 Baum Marten 
3,500 Stone Marten 
30,000 Wolf 
9,700 Badger 
8,000 Fur Seal, salted 
450 Fur Seal, dry 
420 Fur Seal, dyed 
5,029 Hair Seal, dry 
Total number of dead wild repre- 
sented by skins, in one London fur auction, 
8,965,259. 
We leave out of the above reckoning 18,889 
house cats, because we are dealing only with 
wild species. 
To the exhibits expressed in terms of skunk 
skins of the depths to which the fur wearers 
have descended in comparison with the high 
levels of fifty years ago, we add the following 
remarkable showing of unjustifiable slaughter 
in the name of “the fur trade,” drawn jointly 
from the New York auction referred to above 
and the London fur sale of January 26 to 380, 
1920: 
“Elec- 
animals 
Foreign. Pseupo ‘Furs’ 
1,500 Mouflon sold in London 
63,933 AustralianOpossum “New York 
26,902 Koala(‘““Wombat’) “ ‘“ New York 
400,000 Squirrel = eeelvondon 
189,000 Wallaby = eedlvondon 
65,400 Civet Cat >= London 
63,382 Civet Cat “ “New York 
1,216 Ocelot <— “" New York 
2,400 Leopard “London 
INDIAN 
It contains about 7 leopard and 24 nutria skins. 
LEOPARD COAT TRIMMED WITH NUTRIA 
Value, $475. 
345,804 Squirrel New York 
55,000 Marmot london 
625,000 Chinese Rabbit I_.ondon 
5,029 Hair Seal I_ondon 
2,344,566 
The above list shows how hard pressed are 
the fur wearers in “keeping up with Lizzie,” in 
the demand for “fur,” regardless of quality, ac- 
tual value or price. As wearable furs, the great 
majority of the skins enumerated above are poor, 
and in comparison with real fur, about 80 per 
cent. of the total number are to be regarded as 
beneath contempt. Fancy wearing the skin of 
a prairie dog (marmot) as ‘fur!’ And consider 
the hair seal as “fur,” to keep a lady warm! 
