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COW stables directly throiigli tlie cook house into 

 the ferret barns. This car is used to move the 

 milk from the stables and the meat and musli 

 from the cook house to the feeding pens, which 

 enables us to do a great amount of feeding 

 quickly and in a sanitary condition. We have 

 600 pens, which give us room for 4,500 ferrets.'' 

 The ferret business according to Ralph J. 

 Wood, of Huron County, Ohio, is not learned in 

 a day. Although he is an old hunter and trapfjer 

 having trapped as far back as the TO's and 

 familiar with the habits and nature of animals, 

 he still learns something new about the ferret 

 raising business each year. In 1900 when he first 

 began raising he kept them in outdoor pens but 

 now he has three buildings each fifty feet long in 

 which are one hundred and fifty single pens. 

 The open or outdoor pens are all right for sum- 

 mer and fall but not to be recommended for 

 winter. 



