Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1919-11-20
LADIES LIFT BUNNrS HIDE
Old Nursery Rhyme About Rab.
bit Skin Is No Longer Fiction
Abnormal Rage for Furs Ii Rapidly
Depicting the Worlds supply Of
Animals That Are Killed for
Their Pelts
(By Frederic j. Haskin)

The old nursery rhyme about getting
a rabbit skin to wrap your baby bunting
L.. ,, ,o,,oa o., IN e,,,o, rhous,rda
% ..-,,,,,,-,,,, h,h,aa aro ,uo,,,na ,ro,,nd
,,,ta fou yronroa IL, rohhit .lIi,s and
,hn,soras ~ Am.r,oon h,shands ara
,,.,,a o.. ,,ona,, o,,,,uh ,o INV ,be
-e.,,,,a,. h,us ~ - rabht. obi, coat
,ua,,oi,ng rndar come oNoa ,,oh n, "sea-
it, ;, ,,nr sooi mr. oonay NOV costs
on,',,haro fro,,, ses 70 s,es
mi, r.oo for rabbit fur has yr,yr mn
staaau,, s,roo tho hegi,n,nt, op tbe war
,na hn. onnarart,v NOT ,,at rooched ita
h,trh, r, &c th. ,otoet dayo,on,nont in n
Low, nrocas, nv which tho r,o ioritv of the
,o,r nno, hoya coma doyn fror, wearing
sno, ara orn,ino and mini, ana fox as
,,,n,, a,1 annor.t,on 400 IN tho co,di.
it, -, ha,rr s,,oa 70 tha,, o., GOT house
no, sr,nt mnspr,t mr. rahhit f,rs with
49,. .L,u,,,t,n, ,hoir h,,shona,
re-, .ho hur,b,o s,,,,rl, ,rd tho ,,us,,-
en-, o.. f.s, h.ooninu sc,rco unfor the
...a,,s. 20 ea,,iorohIo d,,,,,a u,bicb
,,,.,,o.. :. ,,ono.s,r,, f,r o,,orv uon,ar IN
,,,. r,,u. 40, o,,,y tn .ho u.,rtor I'M.
a,,o, t., ,,,a.,r,n,or ubon tho f,d costs
- 400, al T., n,rsnir,,ion nc ,roll as
move.
,r,,I, riso ne ,ho bur,h,o burnv IN 4,
r,,oa ~ honnr about ,riI,dv,s mack and
shor,dors lie tho ono fortunate tbinp
nho,,, th,s ahrorn,i ,,,d unsoasonobln
ne for fur. I, b,s den,oted tho worlds
su,,,,,, 90 naa-,y aysr,, other f,r.boar,np
,ni,,a, hao,r.o moot of .beso animals
a ra wild on.s and tho bipb nrIces offered
Co.. tbeir nelts has been an inducement
a. ~. ,,,o,, 90 extinction rr,e Soma
nro,rosa h,u haan rade in don,esticat.
i,,s, ,oyaraI s,.oias Tb.ro 10 , small in
du.,,,. In fox farming skunks ara raised
T., ,srdo-oh,o numbers and a f.w mink
or ,od,,,.d in c,n,iy,ty Ono man in
an hoe ,nod. , succesa of raising
Nav, or Il forr put tho wild f,r.
hoorora ,,,uet stiu he relied ,non for most
of tho sunnIv .rd all NJ them arc stoadilv
hacon,,rr ,caro.r
Tho f,r.bearny rahhi. stands On an
ort,r.,v difyorent footipg He is essen-
tally n domestic animal. and has been
for bunarsds 10 M, thousands of wears
{ Hence the sudden demand for his pelt
,as ,noraasad hi. ,,r,hors ,rsto,d os do
cr.asing Thorn ,vbol. pevy industry
or rahhit f,rr,,r, hoe grown nm IN This
country In tho mast fnur vears If has
r..cbed ito greatest dimensions in GER
tam states where 'here Is reau! MAJ
Ket 1or RABBIT meat as wen as 'or 'ie
hur' chio' M,ehisa'i anu Naiiioi"ia are
espeei"i'y soo" i"oot' "'"'o"' "oDi'
snow VIII De heid IN every county III
Mlchlean TINS year \ great sho" WAS
recenti! neio IN tieVelanu' "nIch Is d
getting ready to hold a rabbit show ad-
Vertised as the greatest ever helu any
"here' one expert ON rapoils Is schec-
uled TO act as a JudSe AT % important
SHOWS THIS year rive years ago not
hait uoZen rappit SHOWS were helu an
nually In the whole United states Inc
| number OF rabbits In the country mas
multiplied many-loio-hopooS KNOWS no"
many.
we even nave RABBIT kings ana rappl'
plutocrats now. For example, shortly
before the war certain man OF Belgian
birth IN New YORK observed with inter
est the growth OF demand Tor tanned
RABBIT skins, 1t was wanted at that time
chiefly for trimmings. but this man saw
that the demand would grow because 9TH
err furs were becoming more and more
/ hard to get. Furthermore this man knew
all about the preparation of rabbit skins
His father had made a business of tan
ming and dyeing them in Belgium where
they have been used to some extent fol-
n long time. He therefore knew the val
ue OF rabbit skin and how to treat 1t
He hired barn in New Jersey, adver-
tised for rabbit skins and went 10 work
| In 1916. he made $3.50 900. He Is adyer.