Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1907 — Swisher's Fox Crop Large And A Good Yield. [ARTICLE]

Swisher's Fox Crop Large And A Good Yield.

John Swisher, of up about Kersey brought in six fox scalps Wednesday and filed claims for the bounty. They were all seemingly of the same litter, and it looks like Jehu did not lose any time in harvesting his fox crop as soon as they were ripe, which is at the age of six months. If killed prior to that age the bounty is only ene dollar, while for six months and over it is 12.50. John is the same party who brought in a whole bunch of fox cubs a couple of mouths or so ago, and was revelling in imagination and perhaps also in reality, over the prospective unlimited wealth he expected from them, and greatly disappointed to learn that the bounty on baby foxes was only one dollar. This time he seema to have figured better for be is very positive they are six months old. He is a little indefinite in his details of how he got this bunch all in two days, bnt says he has a dog that chases them and a gnn that shoots them. Perchance John has an amateur fox farm up there in the woods and Lence does not care to go into particalare very minutely. He was very anxious to sell his claims to the bounties for a discount while here, which would certainly be a foxy deal in foxes in case he does not care to appear in person before the comissioners and answer too many embarrasing questions.