Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-07-29 | Page 8 | Arkansas Boy's Animal Farm

ARKANSAS BOY'S ANIMAL FARM. Lawrence county has a number of industries, but the most unique Is that of capturing and raising animals for their fur and hides The occupation Is followed by a boy, Crockett Gibson, who lives on a farm four miles south of Imboden, and who has been well paid for hl6 labor During the summer and fall Gibson spends his leisure capturing opossums, raccoons anU foxes, which arc placed "in woven wire pens. Ho foods and" cnre3 for the animals and their young untlL winter sets in. at which time tho animals, being fat and eloek, are killed. The hides usually bring a much higher price on the market than those of animals caught wild In the woods Imboden Correspondence SU Louis Globe-Democrat