Word: nutria
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...South American nutria, a furry, aquatic, testy little wild animal, is a new U.S. resident. In the current issue of the Journal of Wildlife Management, Frank G. Ashbrook of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announces that nutrias have recently appeared in many parts of the U.S. -from Louisiana to Michigan and Oregon. They seem to be increasing and spreading rapidly...
...York Nutria...
...hind toes, reached Manhattan from the Argentine last week. They were sent up the Hudson River on whose banks they were to be released to live on water plants, to breed, multiply and furnish a domestic supply of the fur which, when shrewdly treated, resembles badger and is called nutria...
...White, dermatologist to the Royal Albert Edward Infirmary in England, has completed a careful study of the way in which eruptions on the skin are caused by poorly 'dyed furs. In the fur business it is necessary to dye fitch to represent sable, goat for bear, muskrat for seal, nutria for beaver, rabbit for seal, beaver, otter, mole, chinchilla or sable, and house cat for skunk or sable. The substance of importance in the process of dying is paraphenylendiamin, which is also the basis of most dyes for human hair that are now on the market. When oxidized this becomes...