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Scotia, Canada&nbsp; B3H 3A6</div><div><a = Christopher Majka wrote: . . . . > > In 1918 skunk pelts sold for a maximum of $9, a small fortune in those > days. In that era skunk pelts were marketed under various exotic names > such as "Alaskan Sable" or "American Sable." When furriers were required > to call them by their actual name (skunk) the market collapsed. :-> > > Later, when the market for their fur declined, many were permitted to > escape from fur farms on PEI and promptly became a nuisance. From > 1932-1956 approximately 4,000 skunks/year were trapped on PEI and > submitted for a $1 bounty. Banfield reports that in the 1971-72 fur > season 179 skunks were sold in the Canadian fur market for an average > value of $0.28. Now prices are are more robust, and I understand skunk > pelts sell in the range of $10-12/pelt. . . . . Somewhere near Woods Hole, Massachusetts there was a skunk farm around the same time. They bred the skunks to increase the amount of white fur. They were all released when the market collapsed. The results of that breeding program are visible among the wild skunks there. I estimate the white stripes are about 5 times the size of those on what I think are normal skunks.
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