Fur Farming For Profit With Especial Reference To Skunk Raising

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Fur Farming for Profit, with Especial Reference to Skunk Raising is a book by Hermon Basil Laymon. It describes the basics of fur farming and the raising of skunks in a meticulous manner that most everybody interested can learn from.

Vols. for 1971- include annual reports and statistical summaries.

Fur Farming For Profit by Hermon Basil Laymon "I came from a family of hunters and farmers." This reminds me of a quaint saying I heard when I was a boy. We were talking about hogs at the time. A young girl overhearing our conversation, remonstrated with us because we appeared to have some of the habits of hogs wrong. We asked her how she knew we were wrong in our diagnosis of the hog? And she answered: "Well, I guess I ought to know, I was brought up among hogs, lived among them all my life!" This is my case exactly, I have been brought up among skunk. I have made a study of skunk, and I think I know skunk. I know this much well: Years ago the thought struck me that there ought to be money in raising skunk for fur and breeding purposes. To prove the right or wrong of this, I started to raise skunk. I captured a female and her litter, later got a star buck, and with this beginning I have succeeded in establishing one of the largest and most successful skunk farms in America, and I am proud of it. I do not mean to imply by this that I think I know "it all" about skunk. Far be it from that. But what I know has been learned by diligent study and the best of all "practical experience." My farm was not a success from the start. It took a few years for me to learn the "how of things," but I am glad to say that things are looking bright for yours truly. I firmly believe a few years more will see me independently rich, and from an old piece of land which would be practically worthless for any other use.