February, 1921 
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89 
&eal” and rather suspect it was unprime, 
faded fur, or side and belly fur rubbed 
by wear. 
The kittens of the nutria run from 4 
to 6 in a family; and the fur will always 
be a favorite on the American market, 
where the climate does not demand as 
heavy a fur as beaver except for motor- 
ing, which has been one of the chief 
causes in restoring the heavy furs to 
favor. In a country, where of 6 million 
cars, at least a third are long distance 
touring cars, the demand for heavy furs 
is bound to increase, just as improve- 
ment in highways permits the touring 
car to supplant the Pullman with its in- 
creasing scale of fares. 
The increased use of touring cars is 
one reason why the American trade is 
bound to see increased demand for 
heavy furs. Look at the motor coats in 
the shop windows if you want to fore- 
cast the need for farming and increas- 
ing the diminishing supply of heavy 
furs. When touring cars numbered 
only a few thousands, you could buy a 
good beaver coat for $200 to $300. That 
was in 1914. You can’t buy the same 
coat to-day even with an increased sup- 
ply of beaver, under $500 to $700; so 
when beaver prices fell off in 1920, the 
wise old traders, whose finances permit- 
ted it, put their best beaver pelts back 
in storage for future demand.- 
Size for size, beaver is to-day cheaper 
than nutria. 
Nutria are trapped only from May to 
October, chiefly by the half-blooded race 
of Gauchos in South America. The 
flesh like the beaver and the muskrat is 
prized for food. 
TALES THE RIVER 
TOLD TO MATT 
(continued from page 68) 
fellow before going to bed to-night,” 
said Mr. Adams, “and in the morning 
we will have broiled bass for breakfast. 
Then you will know how they taste; 
you saw for yourselves how they can 
fight on a line.” “He’ll never beat them 
eels,” said Matt forcibly then added: 
“He was a fighter all right, but I 
d’know what you mean when you said 
you would drown him in the deep pool.” 
“That is just what was done,” was the 
reply. “These fish have the habit, 
when hooked, of fighting with their 
mouths open which stops their gill 
actions. As a result they suffocate for 
lack of what we call oxygen.” “Oh,” 
said the lad, and he thoughtfully pulled 
"t his par. 
1 It was a contented trio that retired 
that night with nothing but the thin 
tent between them and the bright stars, 
while the trees close overhead whispered 
a soothing lullaby. 
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