Fur-farming in Canada

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Identifier: furfarmingincana00cana (find matches)
Title: Fur-farming in Canada
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Canada. Commission of Conservation. Committee on Fisheries, Game and Fur-bearing Animals Jones, J. Walter
Subjects: Fur-bearing animals
Publisher: Ottawa, The Mortimer Co.
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: NCSU Libraries

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depletion of the species in some sections. Because of the ease of stocking a marsh and feeding the rat, it isfeasible for owners to take charge of their marshes, control the numberkilled, improve the housing and nesting conditions and supply foodby planting suitable crops and feeding vegetables and fruits. In the salt marshes around Delaware and Chesapeake bays, on theAtlantic coast of the United States, a good quality of rat is producedand the marshes are protected by the owners. The ratting privilegesare rented, usually for one halt of the catch. Use is made of the fur,the flesh and the musk bags. The flesh, known as marsh hare or marshrabbit, is sold in large quantities on the Baltimore, Philadelphia, Nor-folk and Washington markets and is said to be very agreeable in thefall and early winter, but to be unfit for food in the spring becauseof the musky flavour. The Indians consider it a splendid dish. In the ♦For further information wi