Practical Game Breeding 
(Continued from page 653) 
Having erected the fence, the next 
thing is to get after the vermin. Keep 
all dogs out, even those you know that 
may seem friendly. Have open box 
traps, here, there, and everywhere, for 
cats, possums and ’coons. These ani- 
mals will climb over the fence in spite 
of everything—unless you use the very 
expensive fencing. Bait your live box 
traps with fish and place them along 
your fence, both inside and outside. A 
good plan is to have a hole in the fence, 
of such a type that every fox, skunk, 
mink or weasel, running along the out- 
side of the fence, is invited inside. 
Thus, such an animal in entering your 
place would enter by way of a trap 
from which he could not escape, instead 
of getting into the game farm and 
destroying the birds. 
N the proper season, you can procure 
salable furs, while out of season 
you can secure your vermin alive and 
sell them alive. Every little helps: 
your boys will want pocket money even 
if you or your keeper should not be in- 
terested in that phase of game farm- 
ing. Then, too, boys are always inter- 
ested in the trapping and shooting of 
such animals. 
When you have eliminated the ver- 
min—of which I will give you details 
in later articles—which I presume you 
will want to do yourself, with the aid 
of your boys, you will consider more 
seriously and definitely whether you 
will go into game breeding on a large 
and high paying plan from the begin- 
ning, or go into it gradually by breed- 
ing just one kind of bird or one kind 
of animal. If you plan to breed game 
on a large scale, as most Americans do 
things, you will require a married game 
keeper. If you want to do the work 
yourself, it is wiser to begin gradu- 
ally and gain experience. 
ECURING a good game keeper re- 
quires a great deal of care and 
thought, as well as right advertising. 
One good game keeper whom I met out 
West has a family of children who are 
nature lovers and thus are a tremen- 
dous help to their parents, to say noth- 
ing of their parents’ employers. On 
the other hand, I had a game keeper 
who had a large family of children 
who were not at all interested in help- 
ing their parents with the birds, though 
I think this was more the fault of the 
parents than of the children: When 
you are engaging your game keeper, 
remember you are also engaging his 
family, for a game keeper’s wife and 
children always help a great deal about 
the birds. A California game breeder, 
whom I visited several times, received 
a scathing letter one day from a woman 
In writing 
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