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will soon clear thein out. I have on two or three oc- 

 casions tried this way of dealing- with .Mioe, and each 

 time it was successful. 



SOME METHODS OF TRAPPING FOXE.S. 



Poxes are exceedinjtly wary and they are among 

 the most difificult of all animals to catch in traps. 

 Sometimes, but not often, Foxes are caught in a dead- 

 fall. Senator Lafayette Rowland, of Pike county, 

 where Foxes are numerous, who lost a great many 

 chickens and turkeys from the repeated visits of these 

 sneaking animals, which c;une from their dens in the 

 mountains about a half mile from his premises and 

 carried off the poultry in the daytime as well as in the 

 night, has practiced a novel plan with good success 

 of capturing th.em. He describes it as follows: 



"I built a slat pen or coop in a woods back of my house and 

 put a rooster and duck in it and left a couple of slats at one end 

 so the Fox, by a little effort, could get in. The first night he 

 came to the coop but did not find the place to go in. He re- 

 turned the second night and got in and killed the duck but the 

 young rooster got away. I then threw some chickens' heads and 

 meat in the pen and shot some sparrows and threw them with 

 the heads and entrails of ducks and chickens on the ground 

 about the pen and continued to bait the Foxes in this way for 

 about a week. Then I took four strong steel traps and covered 

 them over with moss, leaves and dirt— very loosely placed so 

 covering would not clog the traps and prevent them from hold- 

 ing the Fox— and set them at different places around the pen, 

 where another duck was confined. This plan worked admirably 

 and I caught several Foxes." 



THE TRAP AND BED. 



To be successful in trapping Foxes, it is absolutely 

 necessary that your steel trap should be clean and 

 free from rust, and it should not be handled with the 

 bare hands; always handle your trap with gloves; 



