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78 MINK IN 7 WEEKS! 
Have Taken 153 in One Season With My Method 
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My method works wherever mink are found. 
For the benefit of beginners I have aiso addwl 
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my book telling of great success with this 
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David Pugh: 
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Albright, W. Va. 
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Edgewood, Calif. 
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434 DeUns St., Allegan, Mich. 
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fact that an article of barter of no value 
to an Indian might be of considerable ' 
value to a white man. It took 154 horses 
to convey all the skins to the outfitting ' 
point. The party lived off the game , 
killed by the hunters. 
It is not strange that, with such ex- 
peditions in constant pursuit, beaver 
soon became rare. In the early days 
about 200,000 skins were exported an- 
nually. The wonder is that any beaver 
were left. Audubon found them very 
scarce on the upper IMissouri in 184T 
In his work on the "Quadrupeds of 
North America,” he records that a good 
trapper formerly caught about eighty in 
the autumn, sixty in the spring, and up- 
wards of three hundred during the sum- 
mer. But at the time that work was 
written (1842-6), he was of opinion that 
a trapper in the Rockies who secured lOO 
skins during the winter and spring was 
fortunate. 
The presence of beaver in regions 
where the land is cultivated is incon- 
sistent with agriculture. They are also 
a source of damage where timber of 
value is sparse. However, there are 
abundant expanses in the West, in 
Canada, in Alaska, and even in New 
York and Pennsylvania, where beaver 
should increase without injury either to 
the works of man or to forests valuable 
to man. When they become sufficiently 
plentiful to threaten valuable forest 
growth, they may be readily reduced to 
reasonable numbers. They increase 
rapidly, the annual litter being from four 
to eight. 
Formerly beaver skins sold by the 
pound. Audubon learned, so he tells us 
in his "Missouri River Journal,” that 
seventy average beaver skins weighed 
one hundred pounds and were worth five 
hundred dollars in a good market. This 
is a little more than seven dollars each. 
According to Ross, his rivals offered 
white trappers five dollars per skin and 
they were worth seven dollars and a 
half in the London market. Baillie- 
Grohman wrote that in the early eighties 
four dollars was considered a good price. 
During the first year or so of the recent 
war many were sold at this figure, 
though the average price had been from 
eight to ten dollars each. In 1922 Hud- 
son’s Bay Company paid an average 
price of about sixteen dollars each. The 
size of the skin, weight, color and con- 
dition of the fur are the elements en- 
tering into the value. 
r^ESPITE the books on natural his- 
tory, and the articles in magazines 
correcting the fanciful imaginations of 
the early travelers, the uninformed still 
attribute to the beaver many habits that 
make up no part of the life of that 
animal. Some of them it may be well 
to enumerate. Beaver do not use the 
tail as a trowel ; neither do they use it 
for the purpose of carrying mud or 
stones. The tail is used in swimming, 
as a support on land and as a means of 
giving a danger signal, both on land and 
water. The mouth is used to carry sticks 
and mud, and stones are carried by the 
forepaws. Beaver do not eat fish; they 
are strictly vegetarian, living on the m- 
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