2G FERRET FACTS AND FANCIES. 



industry, with his three sons, Levi, Samuel and 

 Ezra, they moved the business to near New Lon- 

 don, where the breeding and raising was carried 

 on, on a more extensive scale, raising and selling 

 several hundred if not thousands yearly for 

 some time. Later one of the sons married, an- 

 other moved (who followed raising for a time) 

 but for some years past none of these Farns- 

 worths have been regularly in the business. 



Among those who engaged in the business 

 during the early da^^s were : N. A. Knapp, O. E. 

 Hemenway, K. J. and Will Wood, George Zarker, 

 Kiefer Bros., Olin Washburn, and Clayton Dim- 

 ick. Some of these perhaps looked upon the in- 

 dustry as a get-rich-quick method, for after a few 

 years witli more or less success, most of these 

 raisers dropped out. Others, however, went into 

 the raising, not only in and around New London, 

 but in other towns such as Eochester, Green- 

 wich, Wellington, Ashland, in fact many towns 

 and villages in Huron, Lorain, Ashland,, Eich- 

 land and other nearby counties, but New London 

 became and still is the center of the industry. 

 Within a radius of ten miles of New London, 

 half of the ferrets in America are probably 

 raised. 



New London (Ferretville) is pretty well ad- 

 vertised throughout America as the village where 



