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Because of his tendency to bark young orchards he has been made 
an outlaw, that any one may kill at any season of the year. 
Of fur-bearing’animals we have but few. In places the muskrat is 
sufficiently numerous to attract the trapper. His fur has a real value, 
and for that reason this animal is well worth protecting. Mink are not 
numerous but some are caught by trappers along our water courses. 
The fox and the wolf are by no means plentiful throughout the 
State. But in those sections where there are large tracts of timber 
land, many of these animals are to be found. The hunter regards them 
primarily as of value, because of his love of the chase. In addition, the 
fur of these animals have a commercial value. The farmer looks upon 
the wolf and the fox as a pair of thieves that should be exterminated, as 
their fondness for young pig and domestic fowls make them an expensive 
animal for the farmer to keep. 
At the present high value of farming land, the farmer cannot afford 
to maintain much woodland and other places that are haunts of wild 
animals. It is therefore probably that we shall see’a decrease in all 
these animals, except possibly the rabbit, and he is not likely to be as 
plentiful in the future as he is now. 
