Show I I H ML KEEL KEEI FISH OLIVI I Although muskrats ire arc genes shy lly sir Ir game for lor the trappe amateur as 01 professional and great quantities or of their skins 11 1 sic c e sold annually the are arc sometimes protected because e their ra r bits are useful to their s Vernon Bailey of the Biologics l Sur Sur cy IY Bey of the United States Depart rai nt os or Agriculture found that thit cl at Grael Gra el 1 lake ahe near the fish hatchery in North Dakota trapping mush rits was wi Wl pi In this region near mar the i 5 border winter col coIl coll l h i a severe That lake had been stocks I 1 with fish ind muskrats were em mr ged urage l to toI I build their houses along the barres In an order to keep breathing hois hoi's open tonie to I IIII nie III ic e ent the ice ace from closing mJ up oco oco o 0 co as to smother the fish As Asa Asa n a ie both fish and muskrats sea el rapidly and the mu rIts lad Iud become co e tarn tarlE At the fish hatchery I itself elf the musk muskrats muskrats muskrats rats were ere less popular ir because i a dam had been constructed there to form forma a hitching hatching pond a aid the muskrats sere are in an the habit of digging into the m J and lettin the water cut tout I the burrows they the made I Where muskrats prove annoying It ItI usually is easy to dispose dISPO of them I I when State law permits through trap trapping ping pang In suitable localities loc it ha has been found profitable to grow gro grothem them cons com on muskrat farms fans comI I |