Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 263, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 November 1917 — Five-Year-Old Seal Skins. [ARTICLE]

Five-Year-Old Seal Skins.

A number of skins of flve-year-old fur seals will be taken on the Prlbllof Islands, Alaska, to enable the United States bureau of fisheries to determine fully how they will be received by the trade and the best uses to which such skins may be put, says the Scientific American. These skins have about twice the area of the skins from an average three-year-old seal, and are regarded by experts as fully equal in quality to the average skin of the younger seals that have heretofore made up the quota for the natives’ use. Two expert seal skinners from Newfoundland and two sealskin specialists from the St. Louis concern will proceed to the Pribilof Islands for the purpose of assisting the agents and instructing the natives in taking and preparing sealskins.