PHOTOGRAPHING A WILD FOX 



Throughout 



the wooded dis- 

 tricts of Otsego 

 County in New York State 

 west of the GHmmerglass, 

 there are to be found a con- 

 siderable number of foxes. 

 The natural conditions for 

 their protection and even 

 increase exist there to a 

 marked degree. Although the woodsman has worked 

 great havoc among the pines, hemlocks, and chestnuts 

 that once "covered the high hills of the district, here 

 and there even now may be found a comparatively 

 large forest. The ground, not being found suitable 

 for agricultural purposes when cleared, has been al- 

 lowed to run wild, and a luxuriant growth of scrub 

 oak and pine, cherry, a few evergreens, and a tangle 

 of brier have taken the place of the larger timber. 



