Fur Farming for Profit, with Especial Reference to Skunk Raising is a book by Hermon Basil Laymon. It describes the basics of fur farming and the raising of skunks in a meticulous manner that most everybody interested can learn from.

The founder and president of PETA, Ingrid Newkirk, and bestselling author Gene Stone explore the wonders of animal life with “admiration and empathy” (The New York Times Book Review) and offer tools for living more kindly toward them. In the last few decades, a wealth of new information has emerged about who animals are: astounding beings with intelligence, emotions, intricate communications networks, and myriad abilities. In Animalkind, Ingrid Newkirk and Gene Stone present these findings in a concise and awe-inspiring way, detailing a range of surprising discoveries, like that geese fall in love and stay with a partner for life, that fish “sing” underwater, and that elephants use their trunks to send subsonic signals, alerting other herds to danger miles away. Newkirk and Stone pair their tour through the astounding lives of animals with a guide to the exciting new tools that allow humans to avoid using or abusing animals as we once did. Whether it’s medicine, product testing, entertainment, clothing, or food, there are now better options to all the uses animals once served in human life. We can substitute warmer, lighter faux fleece for wool, choose vegan versions of everything from shrimp to marshmallows, reap the benefits of animal-free medical research, and scrap captive orca exhibits and elephant rides for virtual reality and animatronics. Animalkind provides a fascinating look at why our fellow living beings deserve our respect, and lays out the steps everyone can take to put this new understanding into action.

This vintage book contains a comprehensive guide to breeding rabbits for profit, with information on selection, housing, feeding, marketing, and more. Highly-accessible and full of useful information, this timeless book will be of considerable utility to the modern reader with an interest in rabbit breeding, and would make for a valuable addition to collections of related literature. Contents Include: “Commercial Possibilities”, “The Different Breeds”, “Rabbitry”, “Construction Foods and Feeding”, “Breeding”, “Keeping Records”, “Diseases and Ailments”, “Marketing the Products”, “Killing and Dressing”, “Preparing and Cooking”, etc. Many vintage books such as this are becoming increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, high-quality edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on breeding rabbits. This book was originally published in 1927.