Mink Farms Busy
(N.Z.P.A. -Reuter) TOKYO.
The Japanese Mink Breeders’ Association expects the demand for mink to reach 140,000 pelts this year. A spokesman said that Japanese office girls who, a few years ago, used to wear rabbit round their necks before graduating to fox, are expected this winter to turn to mink. Fur dealers said that because mink was being more widely worn, upper income customers were keeping one step ahead by turning to jaguar, sable and chinchilla. Japanese minks are mostly reared on the northern island of Hokkaido, often on a diet of whale meat
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31499, 13 October 1967, Page 2
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