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fur-farming
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1n.
the operating of a fur farm (def. 1).
Quotations
1934
Fur farming will undoubtedly gradually take the place of primitive trapping and trading.
1964
Fur-farming was still in its infancy [c1900]. . . .
2n.
See quote.
See: fur farm(def. 2)
Quotations
1958
Such a programme involves such measures as . . . "fur-farming" in the full sense of the word, that is flooding or draining areas as the case may be, and transplanting beaver and muskrat to areas of plentiful food supply so as to increase the fur-bearing animal population. . . .