The Wrangell sentinel., 1923-06-14

1 within ever care or worry, but in
 perfect contentment and peace of
 mind
 Oh, yes You wanted to know
 whether I vary this diet. Sure shot, old top. I feed thns bread all sum- by them always-though the milk at at all necessary; I have it so I feed it, and they drink oceans of it. After whelping, I try to give each vixen a small, raw piece of fresh meat, say one inch square, each day in addition to the bread, milk and water. More often than otherwise she will not eat the meat at once, but will hustle 1t under ground to "cure". Alec I feed raw eggs at that time, yes, and before for a few weeks, when I have them. After the 'moulting" season-after all old coats are discarded, and the new winter raiment starts growing to meet the cold fall weather, then switch from bread to raw meat, feeding about half pound once daily. This raw meat should not be fed immediately after slaughter ing, but should be hung up in a cool, dry, airy place to age. Con trary to popular Qay) opinion, fox es do not relish or prefer freshly killed meat They will not eat it so, unless almost starving, but will bury it in fresh-dug earth to cool and ripen. Don't let some nice, dapper young thing tell you that the prospective mother fox should be supplied with fresh warm blood just before the day of her travail Such people mean well, no doubt; but they lack fox savvy and are more dangerous than profitable on fox ranch. Why, I have known men-yes,sir, grown men-to feed a COW raw beef before calving. Also hog men to feed a female swine salt pork in the same insane way.
 But back to the bread. Do I sus- pect worms? I cut the leaves of grass in three or four inch pieces, dry it, then mix large quantities of it in with the bread dough and bake into the bread. Repeat this about twice weekly and if there be either stomach or intestinal parasites of any name or nature they will be swept through the alimentary canal into the colon and evacuated along with a ".rope" of waste and grass, sometimes a foot in length.
 z Have you ever been present at the practice of vivisection ? While I loath and abhor the cruelty, I have been many times a witness to it and have sometimes thought I had to practice it myself. I have looked upon the entire operating machin- cry of an animals insides while it functioned in as nearly normal IhoHIci dS poooiDlc uuuel tHe Cii = cumstances, and observed the mar velous results of such inner "intelli- gence". First the stomach convuls- ing in its act of squeezing bit by bit of it's contents into the small in- testines, where, in turn, it is moved along through the same convulsive processes, mixed with bile from the gall duct, to be digested and assimi- lated as food, or passed along as waste according to it's merit as nourishment. These ''innerds'' be- have almost identically after the manner of an angleworm making progress as a trail breaker on an uncharted sea of fresh mud.
 The small gut literally skins itself in the opposite direction from which it's contents are travelling, little by little, enlarg- ing and contracting to grab a fresh supply as the movement progresses, until all these feet and feet of living pulsating, crawling and tumbling food tubes are free from their labors when they slowly and by degrees sub side and rest until once again their possessor renews the supply, when the whole performance is started and repeated in exactly the same man. ner-of course under normal condi- tions.
 And now you cannot see why I feed but once daily? It is because l have learned that all organs of ami mals, as we'll as their muscular or ganisms. require rest, and the sub conscious, vibratory intelligences, the inner man, of all beings need and must have rest and sleep. This is one of the secrets of the wonder full health of my animals, whether foxes, cows, poultry or what not. And know ye this, never in all my time have I had sick or ailing fox except from some avoidable and unnecessary accident or neglect.