The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-01-13

america to be. treated.
We Furnish Them
When a woman in New York is
wearing silver fox fur about her
neck 1t is likely an Idaho coyote
worked over. She very gladly pays
$500 for a skin that your Idaho
trapper received $14 for and it is
quoted on the eastern market at 1872
today. The dye and treatment and
making 1t from the raw fur into
fur of wearing apparel gives it the
difference in value.
We Have Them.
The muskrat that gives you so
much trouble along the ditch banks
used to be worth 10 cents for the
fur. Now it is worth $500. Why
should not the farmer boy set aside
a bunch of bitches and dykes for
breeding muskrats? 1t costs nothing
to feed them and costs but little to
leave them in possession of their
haunts until the time you want them
for market. The difference in
trouble of raising a $500 pig and
$500 muskrat is considerable. If
boy can harvest 100 or 1000 musk
rats a year, after he has been at it
long enough, why should he not have
an income of from $500 to $4,000
a year from the acre or few acres of
land farmed in that way? The
muskrats are forcing themselves
upon the farmers and the farmer
boys, but their energies are being
devoted to destroying the muskrat
instead of merely harvesting them.
Muskrats breed like lice and why not
let nature have it's course making
great wealth for us to harvest?
Destroying Greatest Asset
The sheep men of this state find
the coyotes forced upon them and
they are spending fortunes to destroy
chem. Why should not the dry
armer and the sheep man join
forces gathering the coyotes into
some enclosures which will mean
greater fortunes than the sheep man
is making ON his sheep. l talked to
ex-governor Gooding a few days ago,
about preserving the coyotes, and he
nearly gave me whipping at the
mere mention Of the thing. He said
he had spent fortunes trying to de-
stroy them, but after he had looked
the question squarely in the face and
considered the rising and permanent
market for coyote skins, the great
amount of trouble he has protecting
and caring for his bands of sheep
and the little trouble it would be to
take care of some wild animals in a
small enclosure, he laughed and said
he had been working to destroy what
he should have been working to as
semble what nature had provided,
and let it have it's course and produce
wealth for him. He operates hotel
at Gooding and after studying the
matter of raising wild animals for
furs he said he could fence off fifty
feet square at the rear of his hotel
and raise foxes on it. They would
live we'll on the refuse from the
,itchen and he could make more
money on few pair of foxes than
he has been making on a few bands
of sheep at tremendous investment.
1t would take one hour of his time
in the morning and one hour in the
evening and he had concluded that
those two hours day would be a
pleasure to him-a greater pleasure
than he felt IN visiting with his in
telligent sheep dogs that are over
worked, while he is overworried with
the problems. of the sheep business.
Boy Made a Fortune
| know boy down in Chicago,
who was considered no account. Up
to the age of fourteen he was always
raising the devil. His parents did
not know what to make of him, but |
one day they went out to the zoo and
looked at the pheasants. The boy
was crazy about the pheasants. He
studied pheasants night and day
after that and pestered his father to
buy him pair. He fenced off fifty |
feet in the back yard and put the |
pheasants there and took proper care |
of them. They raised a flock of |
beautiful little pheasants and the |
next year he had yardfull of pleas
ants. Every year since that he has |
been selling pheasants on rising |
market. Every year the family |
moved little farther out Of the con-
gested part of Chicago, finally leas-
ing little farm out north of Chicago |
to give that boy all the room he
for pheasants. He was max
ing more money than his father had
ever made in his life. The boy had |
4 chance to buy 640-acre farm for
$64 900 and he took it. He did not
have enough money to complete the
payments, but he made it out of
Dheasants. He is still a young man
and owns a $4,000 farm, has every
hing he wants and since he got that
irst pair of pheasants at the age of
fourteen he has been the happiest
'esident of Chicago.
Made Boys Happy
Not long ago | was asked to attend
/ convention of educators at Gary,
nd. They asked me to give one ad-
lress of short duration to class of
$50 small boys. told them to mark
he subject of my address in one
word, Kindness" When | went be-
ore the group of $50 boys l said to
hem, do you boys know about a
kunk?" They all ducked their
,hins, held their noses and giggled,
which showed they had but one
bought about skunk-the odor.
cached in my side coat pocket and
ook out baby skunk and they
learly had a fit. The skunk looked
hem over so Interestingly and be-
laved so we'll sitting in my hand that
ha hovs hacame interested in the