The Monett times., 1922-01-27
MILTON ABERNATHY


resident of Cassville, died Sunda
night at the home of Arch Hesse
and Mr. and Mrs. Harris Hudson
| near this city, following lingering
illness Of many weeks. He was Z,
years old.
| Uncle Milt, as he was familiarl,
called, had been bedfast for sever
weeks but had been in very poo
health for sometime. He had mad,
his home lately at the Hessee home
and Mrs. Harris Hudson gave hin
the attention that a daughter would
give her own father. This Uuclf
MiIt greatly appreciated - on,or
day Of his illness F,t ,o+tars of ON
Milton S. Al recipients of the e
nurino tbn when paid for his trap
. ,nhito ~ Il says more than COM
1a+on =, ~ ~ for the attendant trouble
no,,a,, 80. direct result of profiting
oan,n the past failures and care
onJ ,4dy of the subject, less than 10
~, cent covers the entire field of
tipping fatalities.
! Acting upon the theory that ones
dreams often come true, he purchased
little farm near Cassvile, and an
interesting feature of this move was
that he brought three fine beagles
with him TO his new home. Mr., Fer
rel was in the habit Of contributing
articles from time to time to certain
sporting publications, and it was
through this medium that an old
friend interested him in a beagle
proposition. Ferrell consented to
take a beagle to train which soon
afterward became a field champion.
A little later he was induced to send
some of his own dogs to the field
trials, and in this manner was soon
drawn into the game in public way.
Dogs were sent to Ferrell from
various states for training, Today
there is such a demand for his train
ing that farm work to him is a lost
art, so busy is he training beagles in
the spring and summer attending
field trials in the fall, and into the
wild cottontail business up to his
neck in the winter time. Naturally
the two sports are closely interviewer
more beagles demanded more rab-
bits and vice versa. Trapping 4 few
rabbits for friends on special orders
proved to be the vital link of an end
less chain of demand.
This peculiar line of industry has
evoked many humorous press COM
ments in this section of the country.
Last year Mr.. FeTell used an aban-
doned canning factory as headquar-
ters to buy the bunnies. A nearby city
got wind of the fact and asked him
for a story, concluding the request by
asking him to be sure to state in the
article just how he Canned" the rab-
bits.
1t was plainly up to Ferrell to "de-
liver the goods" in his rabbit trade to
establish domestic peace. Until this
year his wife had tried to discourage
him in the project of rabbit buying
which on small scale had consumed
considerable time without any great
remuneration. As previously state,
he would receive an order for dozer
or so rabbits from some particular
friend and, being Of an obliging dis
position, Ferrell would try to furnish
them the game.
This season Ferrell told his wife ht
would go into this thing on scale
of sufficient size that would either
"make or break" him. If he did nor
make success of it, he promised t
quit. He succeeded, and today Mrs
Ferrell takes an active interest in the
work assisting in more ways than one
Incidentally, she IS riding about in l
new car.
We are not going 20 disclose any %
Mr.. Ferrell's trade secrets, but viii
say upon good authority that his rab
bit business this season will probabl!
net him three or four thousand dollar
considerably more than his neigh
bors make by their labors on thei
farms for an entire year.
Next year Ferrell expects to in
clude the native opossum in his trap
ping and shipping business and i
making the necessary arrangement
for this addition at the present time