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bujer. It was not long, however, until the 

 farmers learned that there was a ready market 

 at much more than the price Mr. Farnsworth 

 was paying them, so looked elsewhere for sale. 



Ohio is noted as well for the diversity as 

 well as for the extensiveness of her industries, 

 and every little while one hears that a new in- 

 dustrial activity has been established or an old 

 one pushed to a remarkable degree. An Ohio 

 man has developed the most extensive ferret- 

 breeding establishment in the United States. 

 He is Fred Held and his place of business is at 

 New London, a little village in the southeastern 

 corner of Huron County. 



The records of Held's business (he now has 

 a partner) shoAV that the number of ferrets now 

 annually produced there and sold reaches the 

 high point of 5,000. And they go to all parts of 

 the United States and to foreign countries. The 

 demand not only continues but is increasing, 

 they say, and the business at the Held plant 

 grows with it. 



The peculiar industry was started in that 

 vicinity by three brothers living near Rochester, 

 Ohio, a little village over the line in Lorain 

 County — Samuel, Levi and Ezra Farnsworth — 

 whose given names brand tliem as of New Eng- 

 land extraction. Their Yankee instinct led 



