Fur Farming for Profit, with Especial Reference to Skunk Raising
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LIVE MINK WANTED
ALSO MINK PELTS GINSENG YELLOWROOT ETC.
Highest market price paid for A1 Live Mink and Mink fur. Write your dealer for quotations, then write us. We pay express charges and remit same day goods are received.
WILLIAM WEDDLE SPENCER, IND.
With Especial Reference to Skunk Raising
By H. B. Laymon Proprietor of the Laymon Skunk Farm
1913 The Laymon Fur Farm Co. Spencer, Indiana
Copyrighted 1913 By H. B. LAYMON
PRESS OF THE EPITOMIST PUB. CO. SPENCER, INDIANA
Hermon Basil Laymon
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CONTENTS.
General Character of The Skunk.
The Skunk a Clean Animal.
The White Skunk.
The Black Skunk.
Short Striped Skunk.
Narrow Striped Skunk.
Broad Striped Skunk.
One Striped Skunk.
Fur Farming—Supply and Demand.
Enclosures, Dens, Food and Care.
Feeding.
Breeding.
Trapping, Skinning, Shipping.
How to Kill Without Being Scented.
Steel Traps.
A Box Trap.
A Barrel Trap.
Killing, Skinning and Stretching.
Two Methods of Skinning.
Skins Should be Fleshed.
Stretching Important.
Habits of The Skunk.
Breeding.
CULLED FROM CORRESPONDENCE.
Miscellaneous Information.
Removing the Scent Sacs.
Description of The Scent Glands of The Skunk.
Directions for Removing the Scent Sacs From Live Skunks Without the Escape of Any of the Scent Fluid.
Laws Affecting Fur Farming.
Dye Markings to Denote Sex—Toe Clipping to Denote Age.
A Simple Fur Press.
Live Skunks Can be Shipped by Express.
Questions and Answers.
