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It would be well, then, to trap as many of the 

 year's crop as possible alive, and to put back 

 any notably large or very black ones to act 

 as breeders, while the small and light-colored 

 examples were steadily weeded out. In this 

 way only a few years would be required, in a 

 restricted community, to produce a notable im- 

 provement in your muskrats. 



As little expense or trouble is required, 

 muskrat-farming ought to be a very profitable 

 enterprise in many places. 



