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Australian Rabbit Skins

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Parent Issue
Day
12
Month
September
Year
1889
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

In the last ten years 29,000,000 rabbit skins have been exported f rom Victoria. In addition to the exporta froin the colonie3 many have been used locally by hat manufacturera and others, and large numbers have doubtless been destroyed or allowed to decay. The eupply from Australia has flooded the English market and the trade has on hand a supply sufficient to last for a year or two. The English rabbit breeders also found it to their advantage to kill rabbits mainly for their skins, and the supply of home skins is said to reach 80,000,000 annually. Belgium, which supplies us with the tame bred rabbits so largely appreciated and imported for food, eends away over 6,000,000 rabbit skins, but then these skins are much larger, of a finer color and better fitted for furs than thoso of the wild

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Subjects
Old News
Ann Arbor Register