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 United States Department of the Interior, J. A. Krug, Secretary
Pish and Wildlife Service, Albert M. Day, Director

midlife Leaflet 322

Washington 25, D. C. August 19^9 1

PUBLICATIONS ON FUR ANIMALS AND TRAPPING

Compiled in the Branches of Wildlife Research and

Predator and Rodent Control

Contents

Page Page
Publications of the Department Other publications contd.
of the Interior •••• 1 Periodicals
Other publications American ••• 4
Fur animals and the fur trade. 2 Canadian* •••••••••••••••• 4-
Trapping fur animals. ••••••••• 3 European* •••••••••••••••• A

PUBLICATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Publications listed in this section preceded by a star (*) can be

obtained only by purchase from the Superintendent of Documents,
Government Printing Office, Washington 25, D. C, at the prices stated,
Remittfiinces should be sent direct to the Superintendent of Documents —
NOT to the Department or the Service,

Publications listed without a star and the processed leaflets of

the Fish and Wildlife Service can be obtained free from the Fish and
Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior, Washington 25, D, C,

The supply for free distribution of the publications and processed

leaflets is limited, hence not more than 5 copies in all may be sent
free to any one person. Additional quantities of printed bulletins may
be purchased from the Supeirintendent of Documents at price listed. In
all requests please mention the series, the numbers, and the titles of
the publication desired, and list them in numerical order by series.

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 Conservation BviLletins

U CB Rabbits in relation to crops. 10/J

16 CB Mole control, lOfi

23 CB Pocket gopher control. 10/^
30 CB Trapping and Transplanting live beavers* IQfB

36 CB Control of destructive mice. 1(^

Circulars

^a Hints on bobcat trapping. 5/^

•m2 Hints on coyote and wolf trapping. 5^

«6 Mountain lion trapping- 5/^

•tf? Coyote control by means of den hunting. 5^

B Capturing foxes* 10/^
13 Rat control methods. 15^

Wildlife Researc h Bulletins

«4 Pood habits of the coyote. 20jl(

Processed Leaflets

WL 181 Control of skunks.

UL 302 Feedl^'g and caring for sqiiirrels.
WL 187 on the care of opossxiras.
ffiLnts
WL 189 Publications on the selection and care of furs.
WL 229 Recipes for cooking muskrat meat.
WL 263 Manufacturers of traps.
Wl 271 Tularemias an animal-borne disease.
WL 306 Estimating muskrat populations by house counts.
WL 314. —
For an important wildlife crop.
WL 315 Annual fur catch of the Iftiited States, November 1948.
WL 316 Abstract of fur laws, 194-8-1949.
WL 319 Nutrias grow in the United States.
WL 323 Old man of the Pribilof s.

OTHER PUBLICATIONS

The publications listed in this section can be purchased from

commercial publishers and are not distributed by the Fish and Wildlife
Service or the Department of the Interior. Requests for copies should
be sent to the publishers at the address given. The prices quoted are
subject to change.

Fur Animal 3 and the Fur Trade

American animals. By Witmer Stone and W. E. Cram. Doubleday, Page

and Co., New York, N.Y. $6. Postage extra.
American fur trade of the Far West. By Hiram Martin Chittenden. Press
of the Pioneers, Inc., 11 W. 42nd Street, New York, N.Y. $12 for
2 vols.
American mammals. By W. J. Hamilton, Jr. McGraw-Hill Publishing Co.,
New York, N. Y. $3.75.

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Arctic trader. The account of twenty years with the Hudson »s Bay Co.
By Philip Godsell. Macmillan Company of Canada, Limited. 1943.
Beaver in the Yellowstone National Park. By E. R. Warren. Roosevelt
Wild Life Forest Experiment Station Bulletin, Vol. 1, Nos. 1 and
2, Oct. 1926, Syracuse, N. T. $1 a single number.
Fading trails. U.S. National Park Service. The MacMillan Company,
New York, N. Y. |3.
Field book of North American mammals. By H. E. Anthony. G. P. Putnam's
Sons, New York, N. Y. $3»50.
Forty years a fur trader on the Upper Missouri, 1833-1872. By Charles
Larpenteur. (Rare). 2 vols. Arthur H. Clark Co., 1214 S. Brand
Blvd., Olendale, Calif. $12.50.
Fur bearing mammals of California. By Joseph Grinnell, Joseph S. Dixon,
and Jean M. Linsdale. 2 vols. Univ. of California Press, Berkeley,
Calif., 1937. $15.
Fur dressing and fur dyeing. By William E. Austin. D. Van Nostrand Co.,
250 Fourth Avenue, New York, N. Y.
Fur trade directory. Fur Trade Review, 342 Madison Avenue, New York 17,
N. Y. $1.50.
Fur trade of America. By A. L. Belden. Peltries Publishing Co., 370
Seventh Avenue, New York, N. Y. $3.
Fur trade of America. By Agnes Laut. MacMillan Co., N. Y. $6.
Fur traders and fur bearing animals. By Marcus Peterson. Hammond Press,
Buffalo, N. Y. $3»50 postpaid.
Fur trade of Canada. By H. A. Innis. Oxford l&iiv. Press, Canadian Branch,
Toronto, Canada. $2.
Furs. By Max Bachrach. Prentice Hall, Inc., New York, N. Y» $6.
Journal of fur-trading expedition on Upper Missouri, 1812-1813. By
J. C. Luttig. (Rare). Arthur H. Clark Co., 1214 S. Brand Blvd.,
Glendale, Calif. $12.50.
Life histories of northern animals. By E. T. Seton. 2 vols. Charles
Scribner's Sons, New York, N. Y. $18 postpaid.
Life in the Rocky Mountains. By W. E. Ferris. 1940. Old West
Publishing Co., Denver, Colorado. $5.
Mammals of North America. By Victor H. Cahalane. The MacMillan Company,
New York, N. Y. $7.50.
Northwest of the world. By Olaf Swenson. 1944. Dodd, Mead & Co.,
New York, N. Y. $3.
Russian fur trade, 1550-1700. By Raymond H. Fisher. Univ. of Califoinia
Publications in History, Vol. 31. 1943. Univ. of California Press,
Berkeley 4, Calif. $3,
Ten years in Oregon. By D. Lee and Frost. 1844 (Rare) Arthur H. Clark
Co., 1214 S. Brand Blvd., Glendale, Calif. $9.
Wild animals of North America. By E. W. Nelson, with colored plates
by Louis Agassiz Fuertes. National Geographic Society, Washington,
D. C. $3*
Wolves of North America. By Stanley P. Young and Edward A. Goldman.
1944. Wildlife Management Institute, Washington, D. C. $6.

Trapping Fur Animals

Camp life in the woods and the tricks of trapping and trap making.
By
W. Hamilton Gibson, 1881, and several later editions. Harper &
Bros., New York, N. Y. $1.75.

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Deadfalls and snares.
Fox trapping.
Mink trapping.
Steel traps.
Wolf and coyote trapping.
All obtainable from the author, Arthur R. Harding, 174 E. Long St. ,
Columbus, Ohio. $1 each.
Guide for trapping and care of raw furs. 1935» By Harry J. LaDue,
St. Peter, Minn.
How to catch more fur, catalogue and guide. Published by Animal Trap
Company of America, Lititz, Pennsylvania.
Science of trapping. By S. Kreps, 1909. Published by Arthur R. Harding,
174 E. Long Street, Columbus, Ohio. $1.
Trapping. By Walter L. Arnold. 1921. Obtainable from the author,
Guildford, Maine. $1.
The wilderness trapper. By Raymond Thon5)son. 1924-. F. J. and W. F. Heer,
Columbus, Ohio. $1.
The fox in New Torks By Clayton B. Seagears. New York Conservation
Department Educational Bulletin. 1944. Albany 7, N. T.
Trapping in West Virginia. Bv John Handlan and W. R. DeGarmo.
Conservation Commission of West Virginia, Charleston, West Virginia.
Trapping - the craft and science of catching fur-bearing animals. By
H. McCracken and H. VanCleve. Published by A. S. Barnes and
Company, New lork. $2. 75.
Trapping tricks, catalogue and guide. Published by Triumph Trap Conqjany,
Inc., Oneida, New York, price 1C^»

jPeriodicals

American

American Fur Breeder, 315-317 Providence Building, Duluth 2, Minn. $2.

American National Fur and Market Journal, Wausau, Wis. $2.
Black Fox Magazine, 425 Fourth Avenue, New York 16, N. Y. $2.
Central Furrier, 38 E. Washington Street, Chicago 2, HI. $2.
Fur Age Weekly, 127 W. 30th Street, New York 1, N. Y. $3.
Fur-Fish-Game, 174 East Long Street, Columbus, Ohio. $2.
Fur Journal, 1008 Western Avenue, Seattle, Washington. $1.
Fur Reporter, 127 West 30th Street, New York 1, N. Y. $5.
Fur Trade Review, 342 Madison Avenue, New York 17, N. Y. (weekly) $3.
National Fur News, 444 Seventeenth Street, Denver, Colorado. $1.

Canadian

Canadian Silver Fox and Fur, 204 Richmond Street, W., Toronto, Canada.
$1.
Fur of Canada, 303 Kennedy Street, Winnipeg, Canada.
$1.
Fur Trade Journal of Canada, 588 Mt. Pleasant Rd., Toronto, Canada.
$1.50 and 25/^ for postage.

European
British Fur Trade, 46 Empire House, St. Martin's Le Grand, London.
E.G. 1.
England, 12 shillings.
Fur Record, 14 King Street, Richmond, Surrey, Endlando 12 shillings.

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