186 THE OREGON SPORTSMAN 

Can You Beat It? 
The above picture shows a two-months-old spotted fawn on the 
homestead of Mr. P. S. Frye at Peak, Benton County, Oregon, and its 
adopted mother. 
The fawn was found by Clayton Frye, the young son of Mr. and 
Mrs. Frye, in a dying condition and taken home, where the little 
fellow has practically taken possession of the ranch. An evidence of 
this is to be seen in the picture, which shows the fawn taking his 
regular meals, and the adopted mother apparently enjoying the process 
as much as the young buck. 
Shortly after the fawn had recovered its strength, under the care- 
ful nursing of the Frye family, it took up with its present foster- 
mother, a young Jersey cow, which had recently lost her calf, and 
the two, declares Mr. Frye, have become almost inseparable. 
SOME CATS AT SILVERTON 
The Silverton Tribune says that a subscriber of that journal 
suggests that a company can operate a cat ranch near Silverton at 
a great profit. “To start with,” says the subscriber, “we could collect 
about 1,000,000 cats. Each cat will average twelve kittens a year. 
The skins will run from 10 cents each for the white ones to 75 cents 
for the pure black. This will give 12,000,000 skins a year to sell at 
an average of 30 cents apiece, making a revenue of about $10,000 a 
day gross. A man can skin 50 cats a day for $2. It will take 100 
men to operate the ranch, and therefore the net profit will thus be 
$9800 per day. The cats will feed on rats, and a rat ranch can be 
operated next door, so there will be no cost for maintenance.” 
