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dations will obtain by being associated in an 

 orderly array. To them belongs credit for 

 the larger part of the facts presented in the 

 pages that follow. I have simply arranged and 

 enforced the material anew in the most suitable 

 form I could devise. 



Attention may be called, further, to one novel 

 feature in the book, namely, the detailed in- 

 structions as to the cultivation of certain wild 

 animals in captivity as an industry. Among 

 those recommended for this purpose are the 

 deer, for sale alive to parks, and to furnish 

 venison to market; the muskrat for food and 

 skins; the silver fox for its costly pelt, and 

 such other fur-bearers as the mink and skunk. 

 All over the country young men are so situated 

 as to be able to add one or more of these enter- 

 prises to their year 's work, and to derive from 

 them an attractive addition to the annual in- 

 come, while contributing in no small degree to 

 the general wealth and welfare of the country. 



New York, Jan. 1, 1911, 



