. Bulletin. Natural history; Natural history. September, 1943 MoHR: Furbharer Uistrirution AND Income 517 the 1939-40 season as compared with those of the previous season. If these correlations, or differences, be- tween monthly report index figures and corresponding figures derived from data accumulated in the course of the oral sur- vey were constant previous to the 1938-39 season, then we may assume that an aver-. Fig. 8.—Female coon in slab box on the Chautauqua National Wildlife Refuge, Mason County. The box, originally erected for wood ducks, had been appropriated by the coon which, shor
. Bulletin. Natural history; Natural history. September, 1943 MoHR: Furbharer Uistrirution AND Income 517 the 1939-40 season as compared with those of the previous season. If these correlations, or differences, be- tween monthly report index figures and corresponding figures derived from data accumulated in the course of the oral sur- vey were constant previous to the 1938-39 season, then we may assume that an aver-. Fig. 8.—Female coon in slab box on the Chautauqua National Wildlife Refuge, Mason County. The box, originally erected for wood ducks, had been appropriated by the coon which, shortly before the picture was taken, had given birth to four young. age of approximately 8,800 fur-takers caught coons annually; the calculated number was about 12,000 during the 1929- 30 season and about 11,210 during the 1939-40 season, 10 years later. As will be noted below, these figures are very con- servative. The total annual catch of these coon trappers and hunters is estimated to have averaged at least 32,000. Income is estimated to have averaged about $102,- 000 annually. Averages are for the sea- sons of this study ending with 1939-40. The above figures are equivalent to about 1 coon hunter or trapper per square miles, or 86 per county; 1 coon to square miles, or 314 per county; about $ per square mile, or $1,000 per county. It is possible that the number of coon takers in 1929-30 may have been as high as 50,000. It will be noted that, in the 1937-38 season, there was a large and suddenly increased percentage index of coon catchers from 27 to 32, an increase of 5 points, table 4. This 1937-38 figure was greater than that derived for any previous year, even 1929-30, and was due apparently to a change in the law, bring- ing a suddenly increased number of fur hunters to record, fig. 2. Fur hunters average a greater number of coons per individual than do trappers. Indications are that the 1936-37 data and those for all previous seasons should be raised 5 point
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