Practical Muskrat Raising 



Gives Practical Methods of Raising*, Both nnder Natural 



Conditions and in Fens, Fencing*, Feeding*, Diking^, 



Ditching-, Dam-Building*, Shipping* Stock, Btc. 



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PR4CTICAL 



MUSKRAT 



RAISING 



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UE to popular demand, we are 

 publishing a new and authentic 

 book on the raising of musk- 

 rats. This book is captioned : 

 "PRACTICAL MUSKRAT RAIS- 

 ING", and has been prepared by 

 Mr. E. J. Dailey of our Question 

 Department. In this book the writer 

 not only draws from his years of 

 experience, trapping and studying 

 muskrats, along the great marshes of 

 the St. Lawrence River and else- 

 where ; but gives every practical 

 method of raising, both under natural 

 conditions and in pens, explains feed- 

 ing in both winter and summer, fencing, dam-building, diking, 

 ditching, collecting stock, selective breeding, trapping, shipping 

 stock, the selecting of ranch location, preparing and marketing of 

 the skins, and in fact every phase of the vocation. 



This book contains about 130 pages, 22 cuts and drawings, 

 and 1 1 chapters as follows : 



I. The Muskrat in the Wild. 711. Other Fur - Bearers to be 



II. Raising Muskrats Under Raised in Connection with 



Natural Conditions. Muskrats, Etc. 



III. General Information. VIII. Trapping Muskrats for the 

 Procuring and Selecting 



IV. 



Fur. 

 Stock. IX. Care and Marketing of 



V. The Planting and Raising of Muskrat Skins. 



Proper Foods. X. Things to be Avoided. 



VI. Pen Raising Muskrats. XI. Conclusion. 



This book "bound in cloth will "be sent postpaid to 

 any address, for $1.25 



A. R. HARDING. Publisher, COLUMBUS, G. 



