Word: currituck
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Their pelts retail at from 50? to $1.25., But prime muskrat is black muskrat, whose native habitat is around the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays and whose pelts bring $2. With the money he got for his trap factory Mr. Gibbs promptly bought 3,000 acres of muskrat marsh on Currituck Sound, N. C., began transferring his black muskrats south. More than half the 2,400 muskrats he caught alive in Maryland last year he shipped off to breed in North Carolina. Since then he has been busy dredging canals and ditches so his muskrats can swim deep in winter...
...year industry, the money going for guides, guns, shells, food, clothing, transportation, grain, etc., etc.?about $50 from each of two million shooters. Furthermore, millions of dollars are spent on preserves: near Sandusky, Ohio $3,000,000 was spent for dikes alone; at Currituck Sound, N. C., Tycoons William Ellis Corey (steel) and Joseph Palmer Knapp (American Lithographic Co.) put up $500,000 for canal locks. Such investments provided a potent argument for the sportsmen in their campaign for more ducking days...
...test his theory, Mr. Knapp tried raising ducks himself on Currituck Sound, N. C. He successfully hatched out 54% of his eggs. Many a game specialist has experimented along the same lines. Bobwhite quail have been bred for ten years by William B. Coleman, in Virginia. Eugene M. Simpson, superintendent of Oregon State Game Farm is now trying to rear grey partridges on a large scale. This week the commission meets in Manhattan to elect another president in Senator Hawes's place. Among founders of the More Game Birds in America foundation are Publisher Thomas Hambley Beck of Collier...
Virginia natives were chuckling last week over a story about Tycoons William Ellis Corey (steel) and Joseph K. Knapp (American lithographic) and some 3,800 wild ducks on their expensive Back Bay and Currituck Sound shooting preserves. The story was that Sportsmen Corey & Knapp, just to be sure of something to shoot at when they went ducking, caused expert duck raisers to hatch and raise 3,800 wild fowl. So fond of their homes did these ducks become, so fat did they grow on tycoon-bought grain, that when Sportsmen Corey, Knapp & friends appeared to do some shooting, the ducks...