xii PREFATORY NOTE 
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, 
