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packed, even in hot weather, Avill keep for more 

 than a week. Several fresh horse skeletons lying 

 about bore evidence that these raisers fed con- 

 siderable horse meat, especially during the 

 winter months. 



A good many people are inclined to brag and 

 overrate their own business whether ferret rais- 

 ing or some other. The Chamberlain Bros. Fer- 

 ret Colony, C. M. Sackett, manager, has been 

 running for twelve 3^ears, that is the manager 

 had had that many years experience when the 

 writer visited them. Chamberlain Brothers, 

 some years ago, evidently saw that the business 

 had great possibilities. One of the brothers is a 

 successful merchant of Mansfield, Ohio, and the 

 other conducts a store on the farm where the 

 ferrets are raised. The following description of 

 their buildings and plant is taken from their 

 catalog : 



^'Our buildings are of the most up-to-date 

 plans, completely equipped. Fine pens with wire 

 fronts and backs, drop doors, automatic litter 

 carriers with steel rod tracks, for the purpose of 

 keeping the barns clean and sanitary. In our 

 cook house we have an engine, feed grinder, meat 

 grinder, saws (as we manufacture all our own 

 shipping crates), meat pit and Chaldron cookers, 

 also have tracks with feed car running from the 



