Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1907 — An Industry That Will Speak For Itself [ARTICLE]

An Industry That Will Speak For Itself

• Delphi- - Carroll county is to have a skunk ; farm. That’s a loud one isn’t its L Marton. the junk man, has former! a partnership with Allen : - Hobntigh, who lives on the Wabash • river about 3 mil. s north east of ’ the city. They are fencing in ten { acres of ground for the culture of skunks. It is necessary to sink a; wire fence four feet in the ground j to keep theauimals from burrowing ! out. They multiply very rapidly! and their pelts are quite valuable, j ; The firm already has fenced in an ! acre of ground and is offering to! buy all ti e liv3 black skunks that; arc bi ought in to them. .