Mink Trapping

Iowa trapper and buyer. Now I will state it more plainly. Take a medium sized mink, a male one if handled right will be, wh

a point being 6 or 8 inches wide at base and a foot lon

or 18 inches long, and you have added 25 per cent. to the value of the hide. I shipped two large mink hide a short while ago. They were near of a size

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a tapering center piece, stretch the hide over the two outside pieces. Draw the hide down as far as you possibly can. See that the nose do

in. The center piece will not always go through the full length. The size of the mink regulates that part of it. One must have different sizes of boards or laths. Now turn yo

uble. If the one piece is carefully made, planed on both sides, and about three-eighths inch

Eastern States and Canada; the other larger, with lighter-colored, coarser and less valuable fur, common in the Western and Southern States. The dark-c

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Iowa, Minnesota, Dakota, Manitoba and adjoining Canadian pr

es at root of tail and 3 1/8 inches at neck. This measurement being from root of tail to end of nose. From

rker color it is worth as much if not more than skins larger, but caught in a more open section, such as the Dakotas, Iowa, etc. In the states of Ohio, Indiana,

otton mink. In size they may be as large as any in the section, but the under fur is light, in fact oft

, and sizes from the different sections, to which are added Nos. 2, 3 and 4, it can be seen

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to grade mink--large, medium and small. The s

, but after looking at the suggestion

at section caught. The five pound skin, usually from an open country, is pale and not s

by a standard size, they

fairly submits the following measurements f

long, 4 wide at t

ong, 3 1/4 wide at

ng, 2 3/4 wide at t

ot of tail (tail not me

ntral, Western and Northwestern sections, with the exceptions already noted, but at the

d from the animal as possible. If allowed to lay around for

d, just like you were cracking a whip, then by the hind legs and crack it

oroughly dry, that is, after the skin will not shrink. They should be left on boards from three days