Show FUR INDUSTRY SOLID AND SUBSTANTIAL The 1926 1026 fur sales of the United States as taken from the market reports reports reports re re- re- re ports show that over five hundred million dollars were spent for furs by bythe bythe bythe the people here hers Of this enormous sum over on half on-half half was spent paying for imported furs brought into this country It is difficult to see how people can even think of a saturation The possibility of arriving at a saturation point in the fur industry is no nomore nomore nomore more likely than that of reaching the saturation point of wool cotton or at leather For all these products wool products wool cotton and leather are basic com com- used in wearing apparel and consumption is going on steadily ever every where because the articles made of these products wear out and must be replaced with new articles of like kind As a readily marketable commodity fur has in its favor in addition to the fact that it has already alread assumed the position of staple article of dress with women the fact that it is women's most desired article of wearing apparel Ever Every woman wants furs to wear and she will continue to want them as long as she lives and after a while finds her trading up in her dress until she reaches the ultimate goal the goal the honor of a silver fox skin As previously stated the supply of fur is limited in the wilds and is rapidly diminishing The overwhelming majority of fur that is going to tobe tobe be brought to market will be supplied b by farmers who raise pelts and fur ranches whose sole purpose e is the raising of furs for fOl market A resume of the increase in the price of furs compared with other farm products indicates the rowing growing scarcity of fur supply and the great demand for them that has increased their value b by thousands of per pel cent Most men of fifty who were raised on a farm can remember when muskrat pelts sold for 8 cents and a mink for 50 cents a skin when wheat brought 60 cents and dressed hogs sold for 4 1 cents a pound Today muskrat brings and mink 25 while wheat has advanced from 60 GO cents to Had wheat heat advanced in price as muskrat it would be he selling for 18 a bushel There has been an advance of per cent in the price of muskrat and only per cent in the price of wheat The raise in the price of mink from 50 cents to 25 25 represents an increase of per c cent nt while hogs going from 4 to 14 cents show nil art increase of only per cent Hogs should be he selling at a pound to have kept pace with the advance in price twice of mink skins The great difference in values between products for a fur fut farm and the ordinary livestock farm appeals so forcibly to many farmers that they are gra gradually devoting more and more of their time to the raising of silver foxes in place of cattle and hogs c x m iwo r rA A UTTER LITTER OF SIX SIL SILVER VEU FOX PUPS PUIS f 8 0 i |