LETTERS FROM RAISERS. 141 



Land owners and tenants are generally given 

 permission to use ferrets where rabbits are doing 

 an injury and with this leeway many use ferrets, 

 at times, where they have no lawful right to do 

 so. I have always found ready sale for all raised, 

 selling mostly in this state — Pennsylvania — for 

 rabbit and rat purposes. Some have asked for 

 mink and skunk driving ferrets but having never 

 tried or experimented with ferrets on those ani- 

 mals I do not know whether they would do the 

 work or not. 



Some of the diseases of the ferret are: foot 

 rot, which is cured by dipping the feet in kero- 

 sene ; scurvy is the same as foot rot, only all over 

 the body and can be treated similar to the feet. 

 Young ferrets have what is called sweating, on 

 account of the mother ferret covering the young 

 too deep with straw. Most of the straw should 

 be taken out of the box, leaving only a little. 

 Lump jaw is a disease like a boil and should be 

 lanced. Distemper is a hard^ matter to cure and 

 all of them should be separated at once and taken 

 out, but better kill all that are sick than to let it 

 run. They can be cured by using skunk oil and 

 sulphur, by pouring it down them and plenty of 

 it. If given good care, they are not hard to raise. 

 A Northern Pennsylvania Raiser. 



