PROFIT FROM THE MUSKRAT 93 
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 vety profitable 
enterprise in many places. 
