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sels. You must feed your live bait about three times a week. 

 Live Sparrows will do all right at any time of the year. If 

 there are no Mice or Chipmunks when you set your trap, you 

 must catch them with a wire trap at home or some other place 

 and put them in the trap. Always keep good, lively bait in 

 your trap and you will be sure to catch Weasels. Do not be- 

 come discouraged if you have a trap set for several weeks 

 without getting a Weasel; keep feeding your bait and if there 

 are any Weasels within three or four miles of the place, you 

 will be sure to get them. Remember, if you ai'e a hunter, that 

 killing one Weasel on your hunting grounds will s.ive hun- 

 dreds of game. 



GREAT INCREASE OF GAME. 



Until 1893 I only knew how to catch Weasels in winter with 

 dead bait; when weather got warm I could not trap any. In 

 1893 I began experimenting with wire trap; I found that they 

 would go into the trap and kill the bait, but that the trap could 

 iiet hold them; but that difficulty I overcame. When I could 

 only catch them in winter, they were always plentiful the 

 next fall; but now I, catch all I can in winter and summer, be- 

 fore they have their young and after they have their youn?, 

 attd the result is, farmers are successfully raising puullry 

 ag3.in and game has increased 900 per cent. 



In 1896 there were over 10,000 Rabbits shot within three- 

 fourths of a mile of Freeland, a town of 7,500 population. 



TO TRAP THE SKUNK AND RACCOON. 



TJie Skunk is caught in luiiiu'ious devices, and, as it 

 is not at all wary, little trouble is experienced in 

 trapping it. Steel traps, box traps and dead-falls, are 

 the usual methods employed in this region for their de 

 struetion. A steel trap can be placed at the entrance 

 of their burrows, covered over lightly with earth, 

 leaves, etc., and piece of meat, eggs, or mice placed 

 around it. 



Raccoons may be caught by placing a steel traj), 

 chained to a log, on the edge of a stream or pond 

 which these animals are known to frequent; the trap 

 should be set an inch or two below the water's sur- 



