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Show ri I Advice to Breeders of Black Skunks wy V careful sHoetlve brrcdljg the skunk (P farmers arc 'rylng to produce an animal which will have no white on its back, for fashion demands tbat skunk fur be all black. In the ordinary skins the white stripes have to be cut out and the black remainder sewn together J. A. Drtlefsen o.' tbc Illinois Agricultural Experiment Ex-periment Station aud F. M Holbrook of the .kunk Development Bureau. White Plains. N. T.. describe In the Journal of Heredity some of the results of their experimental breeding, and give some Interesting facts about skunks. They remove the sacs containing the malodorous malodor-ous oil with which the animals protect themselves. This is done by a simple operation performed either with or vrltlWUl nnaesthetlc ir seems that there I quite a market for the vile smelling oil. It being used extensively by hunters who trap or hunt animals that avoid the scent of man. They smear It on their boots and traps, thus quite disguising the human srent and at-f at-f trading such creatures a are enemies of the skunk. The experimenters five the followinc advice to any one who may meet with misfortune in his association with a skunk- "Strong soap and water and gasoline will npnnifv and dissolve out most of the oily srent fluid which may perchance per-chance get on the hands or face Such faint traces as remain may be covered up and sealed br balsam of Peru " T. B Aldrich made some Interesting tests on the amount of the secretion which may be reeog-nfzed reeog-nfzed by the sense of smell and reported to the Journal of Experimental Mediolne that ft dilution dilu-tion of one sixty-nlne-bllllonth of a milligram to a cubic centimetre of air was fainty apparent to nil In the room while one slT-hlllion-nlne-milllonth of a milligram to a cubic centimetre of air was easily detected. "These trials" remarked the experimenter!, "arc only another proof of the extremely sensitive sensi-tive testing apparatus we have in the olfactorv sense far more delicate than the spectroscope. Mdliob states' |