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Title: Fur-farming in Canada
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Canada. Commission of Conservation. Committee on Fisheries, Game and Fur-bearing Animals Jones, J. Walter
Subjects: Fur-bearing animals
Publisher: Ottawa, The Mortimer Co.
Contributing Library: NCSU Libraries
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: The best steady food for minks is bread and sweetmilk, corn-mush and milk, or corn-mush cooked with bits of meat init. The animals should have meat or fish about twice a week. Themeat may be a very cheap kind. Keep pans clean and feed only asmuch as the mink will eat up clean at each feeding. Feed once a day,except females that are suckling young. These should be fed twice.Provide fresh water regularly. Do not salt the food. (5) Pens: Pens should be 5 or 6 feet square, the sides of smooth,wide boards cut 4 feet long and set up with the lower end resting on afooting of stone or concrete 18 inches in the ground. The floor of thepen should be the bare ground. The pens can be built economically ingroups of four or more. The sides can be of heavy wire netting insteadof boards, but, in that case, the top would need to be netted or theanimals would climb out. (6) Boxes: Boxes about 2 feet by 1^ foot by IJ foot in size shouldbe provided for nests. They should have hinged lids so as to allow
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MARTEN OR AMERICAN SABLE 97 their being opened and examined. Fine straw or hay should be pro-vided. The boxes may be outside the pens, bolted to the fence; ahole in the fence and box admits the animals, the box to be 3 or 4 inchesabove the ground. The boxes should be as dark as possible, with a hole4 inches in diameter for the entrance of the minks. In 1913, continued reports of success in breeding minks, werecirculated and prices rose until they ruled at from $80.00 to $200.00 apair according to quality and disposition. Ranch-bred minks are re-puted to be more tractable than old wild ones and bring double prices.The rapidly growing interest in mink-ranching might, at first blush, bedescribed to the enthusiasm in Eastern Canada for fox-farming and tothe successes achieved in that industry, /a visit to one or two rancheshowever, furnished conclusive evidence that, when the initial difficultieshave been overcome, mink-ranching will become an important industry.) MARTEN OR AMERICAN SABLE

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