* * * ' NEW FUR FARMS.
A good many industries that resemble village industries are growing in favour. One is fur-farming. For example, a fur farm is in existence at King's Langley in Hertfordshire, where chinchilla, sable, silver fox, and sitka are farmed, as you might farm pigs or sheep. England has a climate• more suitable than was once thought for all sorts of tissues. For example, Professor Barker, of Leeds University, showed at Harrogate some magnificent specimens of Corriedale. Merino sheep which are said to produce an even finer and heavier fleece in Britain than in Newfoundland, and to flourish exuberantly. The experience with fur-bearing animals is quite as remarkable. They are killed humanely, that is instantly ; and success of such experiments should hurry forward the date when trapping of wild animals for the sake. of the pelt will be at an end.
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