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Show Chinchilla Farmer Successfully Raises the Soft-Fleeced French Gray Rodents Twenty-three years ago the world's original chinchilla farm, now valued at S1.V50.000, was started start-ed at Inglcwood, Calif., by M. F. Chapman, a mining engineer, who had Indian trappers capture eleven chinchillas up in the lofty Andes. There are now 1,103 of the so't-ileeced so't-ileeced French gray toyhke roder.'.s. valued at SI. 603 each for breeding purposes. They ore housed in fine- ! wired cages, wilh separate apartments apart-ments for each family. According to farm authorities, says a writer in the Detroit News. the chinchilla mates f. r life, with father and mo-hcr sharir." rcsp.-.n- ' sihihty for brireirg up the ch.l- j dren. They even take s...f' in hov- j I alfalfa hay being only $10. Every other day he gets a quarter-kernel of a walnut, but being a strict teetotaler tee-totaler he gulps a teaspoon of water every twenty-four hours. Since once in the farm's history half the population was stolen, these shy little animals, which measure I about ten inches in length, not ; counting their bushy tails, are row t guarded by armed men and burglar alarms on each of their houses. ! There are few pel's on the market and prices vary from S'.O.C'Vj to Sa1').-0''0 Sa1').-0''0 f'-r fjl!-!er.;th chir.ch.ha wraps. : Consequently, rr.ost wearers rrajFt i te contort v..-'n c i'ars rr sh'rt jackets of this r.renvis gray ijr. ' Tht.-e rare animal are prac':cal-ly prac':cal-ly cxt.r.ct tn the Ar.'"':s. v :. re th' y cl..-: .'' a .? of i r i. |