Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1917 — Good Word for the Skunk. [ARTICLE]

Good Word for the Skunk.

•The Age-Herald of a recent issue devotes a cdlumii of to" the skunk, yes the skunk, and the article was as timely as it was well written. Whoever saw a skunk moving gracefully along to his lair in the full flush of dawn after his nightly prowl, perhaps full as a tick of hlgh-pedi-greerteggs, the pride of some ~i nd us* trious housewife, must confess that he is one of the most beautiful denizens of our forests, with his black fur coat, striped with white, and that fur is valuable ; not quite so much so as the pelt of an arctic sable or silver fox, but still a valuable article of commerce. We mean skunks, and not spotted polecats which do not rank quite so high in the commercial world, though they may rank with the skuiik in another well-known way. It is a toss penny game as to which would outrank the other. In the North and IWest there are many skunk farms, where the aninmls are bred for the value of their fur. In the South, their natural habitat, they could be still more profitably bred. We are not jesting. Skunk farming is a .profitable industry.—Talladega (Ala:) Home.