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Title: Ferret facts and fancies; a book of practical instructions on breeding, raising, handling and selling; also, their uses and fur value
Year: 1915 (1910s)
Authors: Harding, A. R. (Arthur Robert), 1871-
Subjects: Ferret
Publisher: Columbus, O., A. R. Harding
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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errate their own business whether ferret rais-ing or some other. The Chamberlain Bros. Fer-ret Colony, C. M. Sackett, manager, has beenrunning for twelve 3^ears, that is the managerhad had that many years experience when thewriter visited them. Chamberlain Brothers,some years ago, evidently saw that the businesshad great possibilities. One of the brothers is asuccessful merchant of Mansfield, Ohio, and theother conducts a store on the farm where theferrets are raised. The following description oftheir buildings and plant is taken from theircatalog: ^Our buildings are of the most up-to-dateplans, completely equipped. Fine pens with wirefronts and backs, drop doors, automatic littercarriers with steel rod tracks, for the purpose ofkeeping the barns clean and sanitary. In ourcook house we have an engine, feed grinder, meatgrinder, saws (as we manufacture all our ownshipping crates), meat pit and Chaldron cookers,also have tracks with feed car running from the 50 FERRET FACTS AND FANCIES.
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BARNS AND SHEDS. 51 COW stables directly throiigli tlie cook house intothe ferret barns. This car is used to move themilk from the stables and the meat and muslifrom the cook house to the feeding pens, whichenables us to do a great amount of feedingquickly and in a sanitary condition. We have600 pens, which give us room for 4,500 ferrets.The ferret business according to Ralph J.Wood, of Huron County, Ohio, is not learned ina day. Although he is an old hunter and trapfjerhaving trapped as far back as the TOs andfamiliar with the habits and nature of animals,he still learns something new about the ferretraising business each year. In 1900 when he firstbegan raising he kept them in outdoor pens butnow he has three buildings each fifty feet long inwhich are one hundred and fifty single pens.The open or outdoor pens are all right for sum-mer and fall but not to be recommended forwinter. CHAPTER V. FEEDING AND MANAGEMENT. CIKE most industries, vocations or busi-nesses the man, boy, woman or

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