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Show Wealth in Maine Fur Trade. As for the fur trade in Maine, careful care-ful estimates place a money value of a million on this business. To be sure, tills Is through the figures reported report-ed by the state game department. But the official totals do not give the catch on thousands of farms where tho boys do their own shooting and trapping; nor do they Include many thousand dollars' worth of furs shipped directly out of the state without with-out check on them, says the Lewiston Journal Many a farm is worth far more for the furs it bears than for the garden stuff it raises. The state is rich in skunks, for instance, which Is one of the most valuable "crops" we have. Muskrats, though not so plentiful, when dyed form the fashionable fash-ionable "Hudson seal." Minks .and raccoons rac-coons and weasels and foxes, with other game, constitute the bulk of this wealth. |