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Title: Outdoor opportunities; the raising care of small animals, birds and plants; a practical treatise on the raising and care of small animals, birds and plants for profit and pleasure
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Outdoor enterprise publishing co., Kansas City, Mo. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Domestic animals. (from old catalog)
Publisher: Kansa City, Mo., Outdoor enterprise publishing co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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to the fur farmer. Suppose an enclosureof a few acres is made for skunk or other animals, whynot take in a pond, if there is one, and raise muskrat, coon,fish and frogs? There is a ready market in all cities, usuallyat hotels and restaurants, for fresh fish and frogs. The farmer that raises sheep not only sells the wool,but fattens and sells some of the lambs, weathers or oldewes from time to time. The farmer is in the business tomake the most out of it, and such will be th-e case with thefur-farmer. In the cities there is a demand for the car-casses of coon and opossum at prices ranging from 40 centsto $1.00 for coon, and 15 cents to $1.00 for opossum, depend-ing upon the size of the carcass, as well as the city in whichyou are marketing. In New York, Boston, Philadelphia andBaltimore there is a ready sale for all coon and opossum car-casses at good prices. Other cities that use large quantitiesare Buffalo, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Detroit, Chicago, Milwau- THE FUR FARMING INDUSTRY 131
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132 OUTDOOR OPPORTUNITIES kee, Minneapolis, St. Paul. In fact, there is no city of any sizenorth of the Ohio River but offers a market. St. Louis, KansasCity, Louisville, Memphis and other southern cities, beingnear the coon and opossum producing sections, do not offerso good a market. Muskrat are now served as marsh rabbitin Baltimore and other cities. The trapper realizes from 5to 10 cents each. Other Important Points to Consider With th-e exception of muskrat, fur-bearing animals breed only once a year, unless the first litter are killed or die, whenanother is sometimes born, and it may be said, such is fre-quently the case. The number that the various animals pro-duce in a litter is given in the chapter dealing with the ani-mal. Raising fur-bearing animals may be compared with rais-ing bees for honey. Not all of those who have gon-e into thebusiness of raising bees are successful, yet how few failuresare there among men who began in a small way, learningmore of th-e business, and

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