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Second Counc. Meet.......(2)

[[underline]] Prof Lantz [[/underline]]: I told him to send 50 stomachs per month as long as he could get them. The bounty is 5 cents, and 5 cents for the stomach ought to make it worth while to get them. When I was in Girard [Kansas] a dozen years ago they told me that boys who went out in numbers to the crow roost, could sometimes make $20 apiece in a single night killing crows. They got 3 cents bounty, and also 3 cents a wing -- 6 cents for each crow -- from some millinery firm, making 9 cents for each bird. The place is a large plantation, 2 square miles, that is, 2 miles long and a mile wide, of hardy catalpa trees. Many of the trees have been cut down. They were planted 30 years ago, and whenever a tree is cut out it send up sprouts that make the growth denser. Even when the leaves are off the trees it makes very good shelter for the crows, as hardly any wind goes through there.

[[underline]] Dr. Fisher [[/underline]]: Have you heard anything interesting in regard to silver fox farming in the last week?

[[underline]] Prof. Lantz [[/underline]]: Nothing, except that I have talked with the man in the Department here who is figuring on going into the business. He has advertised for animals for breeding purposes. He and his father-in-law have started a farm on Prince Edward Island, but have been handicapped in getting stock. The only stock offered is at $6,000 a pair.

[[underline]] Dr. Fisher [[/underline]]: Did you tell me that someone got a concession from the Government?

[[underline]] Prof. Lantz [[/underline]]: Mr. Barnes of Kansas City, who has been wanting to go into the business of fox farming, has decided not to establish his fox farm in Maine as he originally intended. He expects to raise squabs to feed the foxes. He says he can get suitable land in Newfoundland at 10 cents per acre, and the food question is just as easily provided for there as in Maine. He has the consent of the Government to dig out young foxes during the summer, and can get them cheaper in this way than by paying $6,000 a pair. He says that black and silver foxes are not uncommon in Newfoundland and that they are larger there than in Maine. He has $25,000 to invest in the business and thinks the outlook there is better.

[[underline]] Dr. Fisher [[/underline]]: Have you recently heard of any damage done to orchards by mice and rabbits?

[[underline]] Prof. Lantz [[/underline]]: The other day I read of some damage to orchards in Washington. They recently killed 1,800 or 1,900 rabbits in one drive in that State.
I am now working on the paper on protection of fur animals.
A man in Newport, Pa. has 16 skunks for breeding purposes for sale, and another in Schwenksville that I have been figuring on visiting for some time, furnishes black skunks for breeding purposes.