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about the farm. Fresh drinking-water, of 

 course, should be supplied regularly. If a 

 spring or other natural supply can be included 

 within the yards much labor is saved. 



A daily allowance for each fox, according to 

 the experts consulted by Osgood, is one-fourth 

 of a pound of meat and a small handful of 

 miscellaneous scraps. One of the most success- 

 ful breeders feeds a quarter of a pound of meat 

 and a quart of skim milk daily. Another varies 

 the meat-diet with a sort of hoecake made of 

 corn meal and sour milk. The meat used is 

 beef or mutton in the form of butchers' scraps, 

 unsalable parts, and the like or, most com- 

 monly, horse-meat procured especially for the 

 purpose. 



In the producing season, November to 

 March, feed must be restricted to just the right 

 quantity and carefully chosen. In the summer 

 less caution is required. Two eggs should be 

 given daily to a nursing mother for a month 

 after the pups are born; and fresh milk three 

 times a day. When located on the seacoast 

 near fishing settlements fox-raisers supply fish, 

 lobsters, and other sea-foods to their foxes at 



