FOXES AND FOX-FARMING —=§ 223 
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 
