. St. Nicholas [serial] . A GLIMPSE OF THE FOX COUNTRY. PHOTOGRAPHING A WILD FOX. By Silas A. Lottridge. Throughout the wooded districts of OtsegoCounty in New York State, west of the Glim-merglass, there are to be found a considerablenumber of foxes. The natural conditions forthe protection and even increase of this speciesof wild animal exist there to a marked the woodsman has worked greathavoc among the pines, hemlocks, and chest-nuts that once covered the high hills of the dis-trict, here and there even now may be found acomparatively large forest. The ground, whencleared,
. St. Nicholas [serial] . A GLIMPSE OF THE FOX COUNTRY. PHOTOGRAPHING A WILD FOX. By Silas A. Lottridge. Throughout the wooded districts of OtsegoCounty in New York State, west of the Glim-merglass, there are to be found a considerablenumber of foxes. The natural conditions forthe protection and even increase of this speciesof wild animal exist there to a marked the woodsman has worked greathavoc among the pines, hemlocks, and chest-nuts that once covered the high hills of the dis-trict, here and there even now may be found acomparatively large forest. The ground, whencleared, not being suitable for agricultural pur-poses, it has been allowed to run wild, and a lux-uriant growth of scrub-oak, pine, and cherry, afew evergreens, and a tangle of brier have takenthe place of the larger timber. The whole sec-tion, therefore, offers ideal homes for the foxes. It was during the tapping of the sugar-bushthat some boys noticed numerous fox-tracks inthe snow. They also caught an occasionalglimpse of a lo
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