. Andersch bros. hunters and trappers guide illustrating the fur bearing animals of North America the skins of which have a market value. Hunting; Trapping. [from old catalog]; Game laws. Andersch Bros.' Hunters and Trappers Guide. 145 The Commercial Company, which has the contract from this government, is only permitted to kill a certain number of young bachelor seals. The killing of females is entirely prohibited. The female brings forth one pup, in rare cases two pups, which are born three to six days after reaching the rookeries. Strange as it may seem, the new companion of the mother take
. Andersch bros. hunters and trappers guide illustrating the fur bearing animals of North America the skins of which have a market value. Hunting; Trapping. [from old catalog]; Game laws. Andersch Bros.' Hunters and Trappers Guide. 145 The Commercial Company, which has the contract from this government, is only permitted to kill a certain number of young bachelor seals. The killing of females is entirely prohibited. The female brings forth one pup, in rare cases two pups, which are born three to six days after reaching the rookeries. Strange as it may seem, the new companion of the mother takes kindly to the pup. The bull seal usually gathers about him a number of females, sometimes as high as eight, but usually two to five. These, with the offspring of the female and her previous com- panion are protected by him, the father of her next-pup, which is born in about a year. The skins taken from seals inhabiting the oceans about the Shetland islands are superior in fur qualities to that of the Alaska seal, while the latter is superior to others, especially those coming from the Copper islands, Japanese, Lobos, Cape of Good Hope and other sections. The elephant seal that is found at various portions of the globe, and formerly along the coast of California are monsters, and historians state that the elephant seal is the largest species of the seal family, single bull seals of the above species weighing between two thousand and two thousand five hundred pounds. Many believe that the sea lions inhabiting the rocks just off the Cliff House in San Francisco are animals that produce the fur seal skins. Such is not the Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Andersch bros. , Minneapolis, Minn. [from old catalog]; Andersch, Louis. [from old catalog]. [Minneapolis, Minn. , Press of Kimball-Stor
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