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Fur Farming A book of Information about Fur Bearing Animals, Enclosures, Habits, Care, etc. By: Arthur R. Harding (1871-1930) |
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[Illustration: SOME YOUNG BLACK AND SILVER FOX.]
FUR FARMING A BOOK OF INFORMATION ABOUT FUR BEARING ANIMALS, ENCLOSURES, HABITS,
CARE, ETC. BY A. R. HARDING Published By A. R. HARDING PUBLISHING CO.
Columbus, Ohio.
Copyright, 1909 By A. R. HARDING PUB. CO.
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER. PAGE I. SUPPLY AND DEMAND 15 II. WHAT ANIMALS TO RAISE 27 III. ENCLOSURES 38 IV. BOX TRAP TRAPPING 53 V. FOX RAISING 63 VI. SKUNK RAISING 83 VII. MINK RAISING 97 VIII. OPOSSUM RAISING 107 IX. MUSKRAT RAISING 115 X. RACCOON RAISING 129 XI. THE BEAVER AND OTTER 137 XII. KILLING, SKINNING AND STRETCHING 146 XIII. DEER FARMING 152
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
PAGE Some Young Black and Silver Fox Frontispiece Enclosure in Thick Woods 32 Corner of Enclosure 39 Fence with Wire Turned in at Top 41 Fence Showing Sheet Tin 43 Plan for Combined Enclosures 46 Box Trap for Catching Animals Alive 55 Box Trap with Swing Gate 58 Barrel Trap for Catching Animals Alive 60 Another Box Trap 62 Northwestern Fox Skins 66 Map Showing Where Fox Farming is Feasible 72 Plan for Arrangement of Fox Yards 74 Box Shelter for Female and Young 75 Corner of Fox Yard 77 Fox Yard, Showing Outer Fence 78 Yards of a Maine Fox Farm 81 Corner of an Ohio Skunk Farm 90 Mink Enclosure in Detail 103 Ideal Location for an Opossum Farm 112 Fur Farm Near a Farmhouse 117 Muskrat House in a Marsh 122 Barrel Shelter for Female and Young 134 Fur Farm on Open Ground 135 Elk in Enclosure 163 Tame Deer Eating Watermelon 178
[Illustration: [G. R. Harding.]]
INTRODUCTION.
Ever since Columbus discovered America, furs have been an important
article of commerce, but at the rate of the catch during recent years,
the supply drawn from the natural sources forest, field and
stream will soon prove inadequate if not entirely depleted in some
species. Less than 30 years ago, there were countless thousands of Buffalo upon
the Western Plains. Where are they today? In the 70's and early 80's
they were slain by tens of thousands by hide and robe hunters. Does or
does not such a condition face some of the American fur bearing animals
at the present time? Many hunters and trappers must think that the
supply will not long be equal to the demand, judging from the hundreds
of letters written the Editor of HUNTER TRADER TRAPPER, asking
information about raising fur bearing animals. This work has been hastily gotten out to meet this demand, yet the
sources of information from which the work has been gathered, are
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