280 EXPERIENCES OF SPORT. 



disease. Their hutch should be hot lime washed 

 every month or six weeks. 



Good and clean wheat straw for their bed, 

 and constantly changed. 



After using them in damp or wet weather, 

 well clean and dry their claws and/ee. 



If they show symptoms of rot in the feet or 

 tail, at once scrape off all the affected part with 

 your nail, or blunt penknife. Do not mind its 

 bleeding, it must be got off. Then dip the 

 affected parts in spirits of turpentine. Ferrets 

 should have 2^ en ty f room it is the small 

 confined space that is* generally allotted them 

 which brings on disease. 



A cat is capital food for them, gives a splen- 

 did coat, and makes them as fat as butter. A 

 hedgehog skinned is equally good. 



If your ferret is low in condition by over- 

 work, or other causes, the yolk of an egg given 

 twice a day is not to be beaten they will take 

 it greedily. 



Bread and milk, or milk and oatmeal por- 

 ridge, is capital food, but it should not be given 

 warm ; it is not natural to a ferret to have hot 

 things, and it scours them. 



