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The object of this book is to encourage the man and boy in the country, on whom the future supply of fur depends, to take an mterest in the small fur bearers that live in his district, and protect them during the summer and during the breeding season, and to only trap and hunt in the Fall and Yinte, when the pelts are prime and the fur is valuable. Trapping in season will never deplete the supply of furs. Most of the fur bearers are very prolific and attain maturity quickly and are found in large quantities in nearly every state in the Union. The question is often asked is trapping cruel ,and the answer from anvone who knows wild life is unhesitatingly it is not .A gnes Laut, who is probably one of the best informed women on wild animal life in the country, has pointed out that there is less cruelty in trapping than there is in the slaughter house. Anyone need only go into the wilds to at once realize that natural wild life is more cruel by far than the most careless and thoughtless hunter. To begin with there is hardly such a thing as natural death in the wilds. The weak fall victims to the strong. The weasel hunts the rabbit and kills indiscriminately; the fox hunts the weasel and so on through the entire list; and if fur bearing animals did not multiply with such terrific rapidity they would soon exterminate one another. To give an idea of the Vapidity with which wild animals multiply, a number of years ago a settler in A ustralia, whose home had been in England, decided to have a pair of rabbits sent over to Australia as pets for his children. Previous to this time there were no rabbits in Australia and the rabbit was not a native of the soil. The pair of rabbits which this English immigrant had sent over from the old country was the beginning of the Australian Rabbit. In due time the rabbits had a litter of young. Some of the young were given to neighbo
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