LETTERS FROM R.USERS. 145 



I feed my ferrets bread and milk twice a day 

 and a sparrow or some other kind of meat once 

 a week when I have it. I also feed them corn, 

 when it is in the millvy or good roasting ear time, 

 watermelon rinds and pumpkins, when they are 

 ripe. I feed the pumpkin by making a hole in 

 them near the bottom, large enough for a ferret 

 to go through, and put it in the pen. The ferrets 

 will eat until there is nothing but the shell or 

 outside rind left. 



Rats will not stay on a place where ferrets 

 are raised. Before I kept ferrets our farm was 

 overrun with them, but after I had ferrets six 

 months we never had any trouble with them and 

 none could be found. AYe never used the ferrets 

 to hunt them witli but they left, we think, be- 

 cause they disliked ferrets. Ferrets and rats are 

 natural enemies. 



The best pen I have ever had for a female and 

 young I will illustrate and describe : The pen is 

 6 feet long, 3 feet wide, 2 feet high. First dig 

 a trench the size of the pen, one foot deep, and 

 line this with boards on bottom, sides and ends, 

 using boards 14 inches wide for the sides and 

 ends. Be sure and have the boards fit close 

 together so a ferret cannot get through. Now get 

 four scantling 2x4 for corner posts, long enough 

 to reach from bottom of the trench to two feet 



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