Fox Farming Proves Costly

1920

Pair Valued at $3,000 Escape; Trapper Kills One

GRASS VALLEY, Cal. — Fox farming in the Lake Tahoe region of the Sierras has proved a costly experiment and may end in failure.

Of three pair of silver-gray foxes brought from British Columbia early last winter to stock a farm projected there, two have escaped, one of them being killed recently by a trapper, and the other is at large.

The animals are said to be have cost $3,000 per pair at the place of purchase, and their pelts are valued at from $500 to $1,200.


To Exterminate Grasshoppers

To exterminate grasshoppers, a Wisconsin man has invented a device to be pushed across a field, the insects jumping against a policed metal surface from which they slide between rollers that crush them.

—The Saturday Blade, Chicago, March 27, 1920, page 2.