Fur Farming for Profit
by Hermon Basil Laymon
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About this eBook
- Author
- Laymon, Hermon Basil, 1888-
- Title
- Fur Farming for Profit, with Especial Reference to Skunk Raising
- Credits
- Produced by Melissa McDaniel and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net. (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- SF: Agriculture: Animal culture
- Subject
- Fur farming
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 42888
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42888
- Release Date
- June 6, 2013
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.FUR FARMING FOR PROFIT
- 2.CONTENTS.
- 3.INTRODUCTION.
- 4.CHAPTER I. — 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.
- 5.CHAPTER II. — Fur Farming—Supply and Demand.
- 6.CHAPTER III. — Enclosures, Dens, Food and Care. — Feeding. — Breeding.
- 7.CHAPTER IV. — 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.
- 8.CHAPTER V. — Habits of The Skunk. — Breeding. — CULLED FROM CORRESPONDENCE.
- 9.CHAPTER VI. — 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.
- 10.CHAPTER VII. — Questions and Answers.
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