Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 March 1912 — Profit In Muskrat Farm [ARTICLE]

Profit In Muskrat Farm

Womln Enlarging Her Bank Account In Novel Manner —Owns 400 Acres of Marsh Lands. Newark, Del.—Running a muskrat farm may be ft queer business, but that it is profitable Mrs. John Fox can vouch. Mrs. Fox owns four hundred acres of marsh land between Silver Run and Appoqulnimink river, in. the lower part of New Castle county, on which nothing whatever can be raised., except muskrats, yet she wilt clear in the four months from November IB to March IB more money than any wheat or corn grower in the state will in a year on a farm of the same site. . The muskrat crop this year is unusually good and as a consequence Mrs. Fbx is fattening her bank ae-

count. In the past 15 days men employed by her have trapped 1,700 muskrath. The pelts are worth 45 .cents apiece and the bodies five cents, making tbe market price 60 cents tot each anlmaL During the entire season it if expected that ten thousand muskrats will be trapped oh Her marsh land, which will bring in $5,000, and of that amount at least three thousand dotlars will be profit.