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...cashing in on their year's work. Non-existent at the turn of the century, fur farms now supply about 20% of all raw furs on U. S. and Canadian markets. From farms come 98% of silver fox pelts. Farming of other furbearers is still largely experimental. But mink farms, of which there are now several hundred in the U. S. and Canada, are this year beginning to rank as steady and important sources of supply...
...Mink fur, dark brown, deep, silky, lustrous, rates with silver fox as most popular all-round fur. It takes 75 to 100 pelts. which now average $5 to $20 apiece, to make a coat. With so rich a market in prospect, farmers have been trying to breed and raise mink for more than a decade. It has taken them that long to learn how. Not until this year have pen-raised pelts approached trapped pelts in quality...
Ready to join dog-owners in fervent gratitude to the Field Council and its researchers is many a fur-breeder. Distemper has often wiped out stocks of silver fox, ferret, fitch, mink, fisher. Preliminary experiments indicate that the Laidlaw-Dunkin treatment will be effective for these animals...
...York's Reinhardt Galleries smelled of gardenias last week. There were a great many mink coats, and gentlemen carrying chamois gloves in their inverted bowlers. On the walls were brilliant, brittle portraits in flat, bright color of very smart people immaculately dressed, and decorative landscapes in which trees and houses were frankly drawn with ruler and compass. Bernard Boutet de Monvel was having his first New York exhibition in five years...
Having personally directed the sleuthing, Commissioner Mulrooney announced that Miss Bischoffs murderer was one Harry Stein, 32-year-old footpad. He was found to have had in his possession a mink coat, from which the lining and identifying tags had been torn, and an unmounted diamond. (Miss Bischoffs mink coat and diamond ring were missing when her corpse was found.) Four others were arrested as his accomplices...