CHAPTER III. 



HUTCHES AND XESTS. 



eONSIDERABLE personal observation, 

 coupled with catalogs from the larger 

 breeders, as well as letters from those 

 keeping a few only, reveals the fact that 

 hutches and boxes are all pretty much along the 

 same general plan. If a person keeps but one 

 or two ferrets, a very good cage, hutch or house 

 can be made from an old organ box, laid flat and 

 cut down so that it Avill only be about two feet 

 high, which is about right for two pens. With a 

 partition through the middle, this will make two 

 pens about 4x3 feet. They should not be smaller 

 than this for each female to get best results. 

 For the front of the box heavy poultry net- 

 ting with one-half or three-fourth inch*^ mesh 

 can be used, as one side of the pen should be open. 

 The old riddles out of a threshing separator 

 make very good and durable fronts. The front 

 half of the top of the box should be hinged to 

 make a door. In one of the back corners of the 

 pen should be placed a small box about a foot 

 square to be used as sleeping quarters. There 



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