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A Unique 
Fur Farm 
Here Is a Hint for Farmers 
Living in Good Fur Sections 
By WM. J. McNULTY 
ASTERN Canada contains the most 
unique fur farming enterprise ex- 
tant. Two years ago, Dave Collicott, a 
trapper and buyer of fur bearing ani- 
mals for many years, captured a 
slightly wounded male muskrat, in one 
of his traps, as he was patrolling his 
trap lines. Taking the animal to his 
home, he placed it in an unoccupied out- 
house. The following day, he fenced 
in a space, about fifteen feet long and 
five feet wide, beside a creek. After 
placing the muskrat in the space, he 
awaited an opportunity to secure a 
male muskrat and start a muskrat 
farm. In a week, he found another 
muskrat in one of his traps, that had 
been but slightly injured by the steel 
jaws. He then mated the rats in the 
space he had provided. 
It was not long before he found in 
one of his traps, a female marten, that 
had been barely caught by the trap 
mechanism. Seeing the injury was but 
slight, Collicott decided to retain the 
marten. He brought it home, and 
placed it in the outhouse that had been 
occupied by the female muskrat for 
a day. But the marten did not take 
kindly to the outhouse as a habitation, 
and fretted so: much, the trapper de- 
cided to remove the marten to the out- 
doors. But there was no available 
space except that occupied by the musk- 
rats. And, as the muskrat and the 
marten are feudists, the trapper feared, 
the marten would be killed by the two 
muskrats before he could build another 
wire cage, to house the newcomer. 
The following day he expected to see 
the marten stretched on the ground, a 
corpse, but his surprise was great when 
he tiptoed to the wire cage and saw the 
muskrats and the marten hobnobbing 
together, as though they were life-long 
pals. In due time, the trapper and 
buyer of furs, secured a male marten 
and this animal he added to the trio in 
the cage. From the unimportant start, 
he has reared no less than forty musk- 
rats and marten. It has been an as- 
tonishing sight to see the young musk- 
rats and marten playing together in 
the same cage, and exhibiting none of 
the natural animosity, one would ex- 
pect from hereditary enemies. The 
pelts that Collicott have sold have been 
prime, and very valuable. The coats 
have shown the benefit of excellent 
feeding, having been much more supe- 
rior to the coats of the animals obtained 
in the traps, in the ordinary course of 
his trapping endeavors. 
Tt will identify you. 
N°? content with rearing marten 
and muskrats in one wire cage, 
Collicott, who prior to going into the 
country maintained a fur’ buying 
agency in one of the eastern Canadian 
centers of fur buying—Woodstock, N. 
B., built another cage, about two hun- 
dred yards from the first cage. His 
idea was to secure some skunks for 
breeding purposes. At the entrance to 
the cage he placed a trap door, oper- 
ated by a rope from his house. On see- 
ing four skunks enter the cage, the 
trap door being open, they having been 
drawn hither by the bait, Collicott 
sprang the trap, and imprisoned the 
quartet of skunks. 
One of the stunts originated by Col- 
licott, in handling his animals has been 

to feed molasses regularly. Each day 
he feeds a small dose of molasses to 
the marten, muskrats and the skunks. 
None of the fur bearers liked the dark 
fluid originally. That was particularly 
applicable to the skunks. But the trap- 
per and fur buyer taught the molasses 
habit to the animals by leaving some 
of the liquid in the cages until the habit 
was contracted. Collicott had known 
that feeding molasses to animals would 
create a glossy coat. That is the 
reason why Collicott’s pelts are so much 
more glossy than the pelts of the ani- 
mals caught in the traps. 
In speaking of this fur farming pro-> 
ject, Collicott said: “Since I started 
this queer fur farm of mine, I have 
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