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shall designate certain watersheds where trapping of stated animals 

 should be forbidden for a period of years, and others where trapping 

 rights should he leased for short periods, subject to renewal and 

 under the supervision of game or forest wardens. 



Dearborn ^■'■^^ shows that the United States could sell at home 

 twice as much fur as it is now producing, and that landowners can 

 increase and improve the fur talcen on their prol>erty and make it a 

 regular source of income. He reports that in 1919, this government 

 received an income of f4, 000 ,000 from the harvest of sealskins 

 taken on the Pribllof Islands by the Bureaa of Fisheries. It also 

 took from these islands 938 blue fox pelts having a value of |165,uOO. 

 He reports that in 1919 -the total value of furs imported into the 

 United State was more than f76,O00,O00 and that the gross trade of 

 fur merchants in Kew lork alone during the year amounted to upwards 

 .of #375,000,000. 



Fur farming is an important industry in Canada and is becoming 



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 so in this country. Janes shows that the protection afforded 



by woods improves the fur value of foxes and other forest inhabiting 

 species and that such areas are best adapted for the production of 

 these animals. 



It is impossible to make a general statement concerning the 

 size of the area required for public or prtvate reserves. A com- 

 paratively small and narrow strip controlling a stream can produce 



a substantial annual revenue from fishing or hunting priveleges, 



usually 

 according to the use for which it is developed. A larger are^ would 



be required to make hunting privileges valuable, the size depending 



