Jan. i8, 1913 
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Breeding Fur-Bearing Animals. 
According to the annual report of the 
Biological Survey, recently submitted to Sec¬ 
retary Wilson, the rearing of fur-bearing ani¬ 
mals in the United States for their pelts con¬ 
tinues to be a subject of much interest. Skunks, 
muskrats, mink, and foxes are bred in cap¬ 
tivity or on preserves. The large prices asked 
for mature black foxes for breeding purposes 
have resulted in confining the industry in the 
hands of a very few. Comparatively few at- 
temps have been made to raise mink in the 
United States, but experiments are being con¬ 
ducted in co-operation with the National Zo¬ 
ological Park, with a view to determining the 
most successful methods of rearing these ani¬ 
mals. Muskrat farming has probably reached 
its highest point of development on the Eastern 
Shore of Maryland. Muskrat marshes are 
worth more, measured by their actual income, 
than cultivated farms of like acreage in the 
same neighborhood. Only one other animal 
in the world, the European rabbit, exceeds the 
muskrat in the number of skins marketed. 
This report also calls attention to experi¬ 
ments for the extermination of prairie dogs, 
ground squirrels, and gophers that are being 
conducted by means of poison baits,_ traps and 
other methods. Spotted-fever ticks in the twp 
younger ' stages live almost wholly upon small 
native rodents, and the California ground 
squirrel has been infected with bubonic plague 
by fleas from rats. The danger that these dis¬ 
eases may become endemic furnishes an addi¬ 
tional important reason for the destruction of 
the animals. 
The bureau reports that the antelope is in 
greater danger of extermination than any other 
kind of American big game; that there is great 
need for a suitable preserve in the antelo{>e 
country. 
The buffalo on the National bison range 
have now increased to eighty-one, or forty- 
four more than the original number three years 
ago. ^ 
Ihere are fifty-six bird reservations, and 
additional inspectors and wardens have been 
appointed to care for them. 
Every effort has been made to stop the sale 
of plumage of certain birds, gulls, terns, and 
especially herons. 
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