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    Breeding minks in Louisiana for their fur
    Breeding minks in Louisiana for their fur
    Breeding minks in Louisiana for their fur
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    Breeding minks in Louisiana for their fur

    By William Andre Elfer

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 25, 2013
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      Breeding minks in Louisiana for their fur - William Andre Elfer

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Breeding minks in Louisiana for their fur, by

      William Andre Elfer

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with

      almost no restrictions whatsoever.  You may copy it, give it away or

      re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included

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      Title: Breeding minks in Louisiana for their fur

      Author: William Andre Elfer

      Release Date: July 7, 2012 [EBook #40157]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK BREEDING MINKS IN LOUISIANA ***

      Produced by Tom Cosmas and the Online Distributed

      Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was

      produced from images generously made available by The

      Internet Archive)

      FOR THEIR FUR

      BY

      William André Elfer

      FOR SALE BY THE

      GESSNER CO.,

      611 CANAL ST., NEW ORLEANS, LA.

      COPYRIGHTED

      BY

      W. A. ELFER

      1909

      Press of J. G. Hauser

      The Legal Printer

      620-622 Poydras St.

      New Orleans

      PREFACE

      his little volume is issued in illustration of the feasibility of breeding minks in Louisiana for their fur. It is the result of experiments conducted by the author himself, and he feels that it should be of interest to many and of value to the few who are looking for fields for profitable investment. It is the author's aim to issue a more elaborate work on the same subject sometime during the early part of next year.

      W. A. E.

      A Louisiana Mink. Notice the Small Eyes, and the Low, Rounded Ears, Scarcely Projecting Beyond the Adjacent Fur.

      or the following description of the American mink I am indebted to the Encyclopædia Britannica:

      "In size it much resembles the English polecat—the length of the head and body being

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