Department Circular 135, U. S. Dept. of Agriculture. 



Plate VII. 



I . — Feeding Minks. 



View taken on the Biological Survey Experi- 

 mental Fur Farm in the Adirondacks. 

 This illustrates the fact that wild fur 

 bearers under domestication may be as 

 friendly with their keepers as arc the other 

 live stock of the farm. 



Fig. 2. — Mink Skins. 



A, From Northwestern Alaska, pale, coarse 

 haired, and very large; B, from Labrador, 

 dark, fine haired, and comparatively small. 

 Mink skins from Labrador to Hudson Bay 

 and southward to the Adirondack Moun- 

 tains and Nova Scotia are the best in the 

 world. The highest price paid for skins in 

 1920 was S75. 



B 



