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Show 5genitors of approxi , chinchillas in the 30.000 1 today, pius a t State Canada. Despite Tep ta contrary the chinc J r to the little animal, requiring har ' care. In order to J""? H growth of the industr1? ate 0 organizations that sell e ate chinchillas for from '" Pairs I 600 aPairandguaranS l51'-chasers l51'-chasers that if thev , e PUr-fertile PUr-fertile healthy pair ,h e nt a Place them within a y111 K Because of the relativ' '' of the animals, there : market to speak of at thf Mt 'i according to the articL "T organization which sell, Vk 1 the ' chillas will buy back trClli- '"' spring at $600 a pair or tT 0ff" i bring as much as $12nn yc4 open market. ' UU on the ; One of the real hazard, ' growing industry is th Z ?f the ; many owners grow t 1 Wtle pets so dearly "ttke cannot part with them the-y -to the article. ' accor CHINCHILLA RAISING I GROWING INDUSTRY ! IN UNITED STATES i Fifteen hundred families in the United States are pinning their hopes of old-age security on raising rais-ing chinchillas, those incredibly tiny animals from' South America with the most beautiful fur known to man. How one middle-class Brooklyn family invested $2,400 in two pair of chinchillas and saw their small herd increase within a year to the value of nearly $8,000 is told in an article in the July issue of Cosmopolitan magazine. . With chinchilla coats selling for from $30,000 to $40,000 each there has never been sufficient fur to fill the demand. It was an enormously enor-mously profitable industry until the turn of the century when the small animals became virtually extinct. The industry was revived in the United States about twenty-five years ago when M. F. Chapman, an engineer stationed in South America became interested in stories he had heard about chinchillas. chin-chillas. He let it be known that he would pay well for pairs of the' tiny animals. Eventually he obtained ob-tained 18 animals and made arrangements ar-rangements to bring them back to the United States to start a farm similar to the enormously profitable profit-able mink and fox farms. Eleven of the 18 survived the trip and these became the pro- |