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...Litter Registration...
...American Kennel Club has decided to register all pure bred dogs born in the U.S. on and after next Jan. 1, by litters. The owners of the whelping dam must furnish information on the breed, number of pups, their sex, markings, whether dam fed or foster-mothered. If litter registration is not fulfilled, the pups are ineligible for later individual registration. The litter record will be added to the bitch's register. Fees: $1 within 60 days after the throw, $2 thereafter; or for members of the constituent A.K.C. clubs, nothing for the first 60 days, $1 thereafter...
...would farm out pairs of their offspring to smaller raisers, promising to buy the grandchildren back at $2 a head.* Then she would market the lot in huge batches. Prices and customers at first were all Mrs. Brown could ask. Her rabbits multiplied with their well-known rapidity (six litters per year, of four to eight offspring per litter). But suddenly the booming U. S. rabbit industry became overproduced everywhere. And last week bankrupt Mrs. Brown explained: "About a year ago rabbits began coming in from everywhere, thousands of them, by parcel post, truck and express. I couldn...
Cottontails raise at least two litters per season with an average of eight to a litter. New Jersey's new Westerners, but for automobiles and other foes, would number around 180,000 by the end of a year...
...party of Norwegian scientists from the sealer Brattvaag put ashore on desolate White Island northeast of Spitsbergen three weeks ago. About 150 yards from shore they rounded a big rock, stopped, stared with amazement at a litter of cooking utensils laid bare of ice by the August sun. The same question sprang to the mind of each, the same name to all their lips: "Andr?...