140 FERRET FACTS AND FANCIES. 



and keep things clean themselves. The summer 

 house should be made of strips about one inch 

 apart. Feed them meat, such as rabbits, birds, 

 sweet milk with bread in it; When they have 

 young ones don't finger them or feed them while 

 they are nursing. If you do the mother will eat 

 the bunch and look for more, and when one of 

 them gets sick, don't doctor it for it is going to 

 leave you sure without cure and to cure it is out 

 of the question. P. H. Doss^ West Virginia. 



I began raising a good many years ago real- 

 izing that many more ferrets could be used to 

 advantage in flour mills, elevators, freight and 

 express offices, as well as by the land owner or 

 farmer. This was evident to me from the grain 

 destroyed by rats gnawing lioles in bins and 

 sacks containing grain as well as playing havoc 

 in general in freight, express office or store. 



Again the use of ferrets has been most too 

 general in some localities — near towns and cities 

 for instance — where scores of ferrets are used 

 by rabbit hunters, not only in season, but too 

 often at all times. It is pretty hard to catch' the 

 ferreter as the animal can be so easily concealed. 

 Ferrets are useful, in their place, but can be 

 made very destructive on protected game which 

 it seems some ferret owner* and users stoop to. 



