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



Plate V. 



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Fig. I. — Otters. 



Photograph taken in National Zoological Park, Washington, I). C. Otter skins have advanced in 

 price from $14 to $101 during the years of the war, and the crest seems to have been reached in 

 1920, when the highest price paid" was $105. This is about half the price then paid for marten, 

 and less than a third the price paid for fisher. 



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Fig. 2. — Skins of Predatory Animals. 



The February catch of a hunter of the Biological Survey in Montana. Most of the skins are of 

 coyotes, the animals having been killed by poisoning operations, a measure necessary to protect 

 live stock from their depredations. The skins are sold and the proceeds turned into the Treasury 

 of the United States. 



