Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 July 1908 — Carroll County’s Skunk Farm. [ARTICLE]

Carroll County’s Skunk Farm.

Lebovics Marton of Delphi IS running a skunk farm at the junction of Pleasant Run and the Wabash river. He now has 1,200 of the little animals enclosed An a park of an acre and a half The park Is surrounded with a mesb wire fence hooded at the top and extending below ground several feet to prevent the stock from burrowing out In the center of the tract is a smaller enclosure where the skunks are ted. They live on dead horses, cows, etc., and Mr. Marton keeps them supplied by removing deid animals free of charge. He expects to begin realizing profits next winter. He estimates a return of |I.OO per head in oil, which will pay expenses, leaving him the hides as eleer profit As to the killing—he says his process is a secret, but we have a suspicion It will leak out when butchering day comes.