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bauk, where Minks are known to frequent. The bait— 

 a tish, frog, bird or head of a ehicken— is hung about 

 eighteen inches above the traj). The bait should al- 

 ways be so placed that it cannot be reached from the 

 bank or rock without the animal steps into the trap 

 to reach it. 



The trap may also be placed on the laud and cov- 

 ered with leaves, si'ow. moss, etc.. but be careful that 

 the covering will not stop the jaws from closing prop- 

 erly, and hang the bait, which can be scented with 

 fish oil or a mixture of equal parts of peppermint, 

 sweet oil and honey. Traps can also be set in shallow 

 water, and a tT.ig can be stuck in the water near the 

 trap from which the scented bait can be suspended. 

 A trap can be set at the foot of a tree, cO'vered. and 

 the prepared bait hung abO've it. The carcass of a 

 Muskrat, a favorite article of food, by the way, of the 

 Mink, a dead chicken, fish or chunk of fresh beef can 

 be fastened to a string and dragged along the ground 

 to your trap. When a Mink strikes the trail thus left 

 he will visiially follow it until caught. This is a plan 

 often pursued by professiooal trappers who run a line 

 of traps along water courses. 



HOW TO TRAP AND KILL WEASELS.' 

 For winter trapping, tlie most successful is the Newhouse 

 double-spring Fox trap. Malie two lioles in leaf of trap, get 

 any kind of a small bird (English Sparrow is best), tie string 

 around body of bird, under feathers of back and wings, and 

 tie fast under leaf of trap; set trap under rocks, in a bed of 

 dry ground, where snow or raim cannot reach it, and cover all 

 but leaf and bird with gravel. The Weasel will take hold of 



*The instructions concerning best methods of destroying Wea- 

 sels given here are those employed by Mr. Hugh Malloy, of 

 Freeland. Luzerne county. Pa., who is undoubtedly the most 

 successful hunter of these animals in the State. I have quoted 



Mr. Malloy's methods substantially as he ?ent them to me 



B. H. Warren. 



