>Just out of curiosity, does anyone know "where" Marshall Farm is located?...
>I'm assuming they must ship them out in large quantities and I'm wondering
 
While I really can't answer many of the other MF questions you had in your
post, I can tell you where Marshall Farms is located.  It is here in Western
New York.  I do believe that they are head-quartered in a town called
Wolcott.  To find Wolcott on a NY map, look south of Lake Ontario and east
of Rochester.  Wolcott's not a huge place by any means so look on a good NY
map if you want to find it.
 
From what I understand, MF is one of the largest ferret farms around and
ships all over the US/world.
 
Just a silly "fact" I heard not long ago was that if Western NY was a state
unto itself, that it would be the 3rd most exporting state in the US.  Not
hard to imagine with "big guns" of exporting here like Kodak, Xerox, Bausch
& Lomb, plus oodles of smaller companies doing business around the world.  I
have to wonder if MF ferrets were counted in that figure?  ;)
 
-kim, squirt (hates this hot weather we are having), pippi (ditto),
 atlas (That's Atlas Charles to you!), and 'Jinx (Mom! He's biting
 me again!)
 
Kimberly Burkard     |             _    Everything I needed to know in life,
Eastman Kodak Company|      _____C .._. I learned from my ferret:
Rochester, New York  | ____/     \___/  Frolic and dance for joy often, have
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[Posted in FML issue 1655]