. Fur-farming in Canada . Beaver. Live SkunksLong-striped SKUNK 107 spurs every hunter and trapper to his utmost effort, are the principalreasons. Then coon hunters coming from the city with a pack ofhounds to hunt for sport, destroy a good many. In fact, they usuallyget one coon and kill six or eight skunks. You can follow their trail bythe smell and the dead bodies of skunks which they have wantonlydestroyed. Skunks can be raised as easily as house cats, provided you havean enclosure where they cannot dig out or climb over. For every hun-dred mature skunks, you should have an acre of ground
. Fur-farming in Canada . Beaver. Live SkunksLong-striped SKUNK 107 spurs every hunter and trapper to his utmost effort, are the principalreasons. Then coon hunters coming from the city with a pack ofhounds to hunt for sport, destroy a good many. In fact, they usuallyget one coon and kill six or eight skunks. You can follow their trail bythe smell and the dead bodies of skunks which they have wantonlydestroyed. Skunks can be raised as easily as house cats, provided you havean enclosure where they cannot dig out or climb over. For every hun-dred mature skunks, you should have an acre of ground enclosed. I experimented for three years on a small scale. The first year, Ihad one male and three females. They brought forth fifteen of the young ones died, leaving eighteen—eleven females and sevenmales. Five of the young graded as No. 2, the balance star black. The second year, I started with twelve females and two males,which brought forth forty-three young. Three of the young ones died,so I had fifty-four in all
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