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The money you get out of your furs 
depends upon the grading. When you 
ship us a No. 1 ekin, you get paid for 
a No. 1, not for a No. 2. 
We absolutely guarantee to pay ex¬ 
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sponsibility. Write our nearest office 
for Price List. 
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(Established 1854) 
Dept. N46—18-20-22- W. 40th Street 
New York. N. Y. 
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Milton Schrelber & Co. 
I RAW FURS 
138-140r^^^P!»; YORK 
''''si CITY. 
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for our price list we are 
both losers because you want 
our high prices and we need 
your Raw Fure. 
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(Est. 1861) 
148 West 25th St., NEW YORK CITY 
HIGHEST PRICES 
Paid for all kinds of 
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you to get iny price list. 
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sections. Write for my price 
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TDADDCD6I Furs are high; trap- 
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lots of good stories. Send 10c coin for copy of book and 
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SKUNK 
We pay highest cash price-for 
all staple furs—Skunk. Mink, 
Sluskrat, Raccoon, Red Fox. 
Fancy furs a specialty, includ¬ 
ing Silver and Cross Fox, 
Fisher, Marten, etc. Est. 1870. 
continued prompt returns and liberal policy are 
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Rabbit Hutches 
Can you tell me the best inexpensive 
house or hutch for rabbits? Could you 
send me a description and dimensions and 
how many rabbits one need buy to have 
some to eat and some to sell? 
Albemarle Co., Va. mbs. b. w. c. 
There is no such thing as the “best” 
hutch for rabbits. All that is required 
is plenty of room, sunlight and air and 
freedom from dampness and draft. The 
care which the animals receive is much 
more important than the type or style of 
hutch in which they are housed. Of 
course,'in constructing the pens, thought 
should be given to convenience of feeding 
and cleaning. One can invest as little or 
as much as he pleases in rabbit hutches. 
W'ith a large packing case, some tar pa¬ 
per, one-inch mesh poultry netting and 
two or thrte lights of glass, a hutch can 
be constructed which will answer very 
nicely for one or even two pens. The 
size of the pens varies according to con¬ 
ditions, but a breeding doe should have 
10 or 12 square feet of space with a 
nest box about 18 inches square, while 
single animals can get along very well 
in smaller quarters. Eighteen inches to 
two feet is plenty high enough for the 
pens so that in an ordinary building, six 
or eight feet high, three tiers of pens can 
be built. 
A very practical house large enough 
for six pens can be constructed from two 
piano boxes with a little additional lum¬ 
ber, tar paper, poultry netting and one 
or two windows at a cost of $12 or $15. 
Remove the backs and tops of the boxes 
and set them back to back, 2^/^ to three 
feet apart. Use the two backs for the 
roof, which with the two slanting sides 
on the outside of the boxes will form a 
gable or gambrel roof. That will leave 
the two gable ends and one opening about 
three by six feet to be filled in (the two 
tops can be used for this), the other 
opening to be for the door. Leave an 
opening about 35 or 18 inches .square in 
each gable at the very peak of the roof 
for ventilation, such openings to be cov¬ 
ered with poultry sheeting, preferable on 
a binged frame which can be opened in 
very hot weather. There should be a win¬ 
dow in the door or in the opposite end— 
preferably in both. The roof and sides 
shoviid be covered with tar paper. 
This will make a building about nine 
feet by five feet eight inches, which can 
be divided into three pens on each side, 
with a pas'teagew'ay three feet wide be¬ 
tween. The tw'o lower tiers of pens will 
each be about three feet by five feet eight 
inches wide and twenty inches high. The 
upper pen.s, because of the slant in the 
roof, will be narrow’er and somewhat 
higher. One-half the space provided by 
the.se pens will he suflicient for single 
adult animals or two or three youngsters, 
so that one or two should be subdivided 
by a permanent or movable partition. If 
the boxes are set directly on the ground 
the bottoms should not be used as the 
floor of the lower pens as it would be 
(lamp. Either raise the boxes above the 
surface of the ground or put in another 
floor of the lower pens, as it would be 
Half-inch lumber from packing (boxes 
will do very well for floors. 
Of course, a more expensive building 
coiild be constructed, but in general the 
plan outlined above is most economical 
of room as well as the most inexpensive. 
Much information can be acquired on the 
subject from the government bulletin on 
the “Raising of Belgian Hares and Other 
Rabbits.” The number one should buy 
in order to produce meat and breeding 
stock to sell depends, of course, upon how 
extensively you expect to engage in the 
enterprise. Pour or five does and one 
buck should produce a large number of 
youngsters, since the does can be bred 
about four times a year, the average lit¬ 
ter numbering five or six. 
New York. fbed g. button. 
Whitewashing the Skunk 
Years ago I bought a farm that was 
overrun with skunks. It was an aban¬ 
doned blackberry farm that bad about 10 
acres of tangleS vines. I got a few 
ukunks in various ways, and had all kinds 
of trouble, and finally bit upon a way 
that I followed until I bad cleaned them 
out to the extent of over a hundred, and 
the time taken was inside of two years. 
November 9, 1918 
I sawed a hogshead in two parts, took 
one-half and nearly filled it with white¬ 
wash, and then I made a box trap ex¬ 
actly as boys and men used to in years 
past to catch rabbits in the woods. I 
baited it with chicken wings the first time, 
and I got one the first night; then I took 
a pitchfork, carefully lifted the trap and 
dropped it into the whitewash. I had the 
hole in which to bury him all dug. When 
I was sure it was dead I lifted the box 
out, raised the cover and let the contents 
sHde into the hole. 
The first skunk I got was a cat that 
belonged to my near and good neighbor, 
but no one knew M’here she went for 10 
years. . To avoid further trouble I put a 
window on each side of the trap, about 
three or four inches square, cut any 
shaped hole and tacked outside any 
shape of broken wndow glass. After that 
I could see what I had, and once in a 
while I got a cat. 
There is absolutely no flaw in this ar¬ 
rangementlift the box from behind 
carefully; if you are busy, just weight 
down the box after dropping it :u the 
wash and bury it when you get ready. 
There is no odor whatever, and I have 
used the same wash all Summer, but had 
a cover to keep over the hogshead. Have 
the wash quite strong; when you wish to 
change the wash the old washds of some 
value in certain places where lime is 
needed. The trap pictured here was de¬ 
scribed by Walter Warringer in Forest 
and Stream. l. n. SUAW. 
Massachusetts. 
BOX TRAP FOR SMAUL ANIMALS 
Make a plain box about two feet six 
inches long by nine or 10 inches square 
and leave open on the top and one end. 
The cover is then made with an end on 
it and fastened in the back of the box. 
Have it so it w'orks up and down easy. 
Now nail the two strips (C C) on the box 
about four or five inches back from the 
open end of the trap. Have them about 
12 inches over the box. Now nail a strip 
across the top of the two strips (CC), 
then make your bait stick and stick 
through the hole in the back of trap. 
Make a short stick to fit in a notch in 
the bait stick and a notch in the box. 
Next take a long stick about two feet six 
inches and put it on top of the crosspiece 
and fasten one end on to the cover with a 
piece of cord about six inches long and a 
piece on the other end around the trip 
stick. To set the trap lift up the cover 
anl put the trip stick in notch in box and 
bait stick. The catch is made of a springy 
piece of wood and when the trap is sprung 
the catch prevents the cover from being 
pushed up again. It has never failed me 
and is a trap that is easily made. 
More About Skunks 
As to destroying skunks in an odorless 
manner, the Indian deadfall does the busi¬ 
ness. It leaves them in condition to be 
skinned with no more objectionable smell 
than a rabbit. It is made with a small 
pen, about 2x2 feet; three flat stones set 
edgewise makes a go(xl one. Before the 
opening a log is suspended in such a way 
that on entering the skunk steps on -a 
stick which releases a trigger which in re¬ 
turn releases the log, which falls on it 
and kills it. An old man lived near my 
home who followed trapping, and I have 
met him carrying the dead animals and 
seen him engaged in skinning them, and 
have run the traps with the animals as 
caught. This old man used for bait the 
skinned carcass of muskrats. This dead¬ 
fall is nothing like the figure four. 
Orange Co., N. Y. ^ s. D. 
Get a stick or scantling four or five 
feet long and four or five inches square; 
n(^xt a barrel, sugar, salt or apple barrel, 
with a good bilge, for if the staves are 
too straight it will not work. Nail the 
bait in the bottom of barrel, and balance 
the barrel over the stick, with the open 
end on the ground, and when Mr. Skunk 
comes around he is sure to walk in, and 
as soon as his weight passes the fulcrum 
the barrel will tip upright and he cannot 
get out. You can take the barrel up care¬ 
fully and carry him anywhere without 
danger; drown him or drop a cloth satu¬ 
rated with chloroform (carefully) inside 
and cover the barrel with a blanket. Be 
sure the barrel has plenty of bilge; the 
user can tell by testing it before leaving 
it for the night. The writer caught three 
in this way and turned them into a bran 
sack, tied them up (two in one s.ack), and 
sold them to a chap who was raising 
skunks. Don’t make fun of this, for it 
certainly will work all right if the oper¬ 
ator has things adjusted right. L. a. b. 
New York. 
