GRAPE ISLAND 



Lake Michigan. When the steel traps came in 

 use the old rude traps were almost forgotten and 

 are remembered as a thing of the past. About 

 thirty-seven years ago I built and used a pen 

 trap on the foot-hills of the Rockies to catch 

 mountain lion and bear. I also built and used 

 a dead-fall on the Kankakee to catch a red fox 

 that was so cunning I could not catch it with a 

 steel trap. All old trappers know that a fox is 

 the most cunning animal in the world to catch 

 in a steel trap. I will tell you how we used to 

 catch wild turkeys in a trap. We would build a 

 pen out of poles eight or ten feet square and 

 two feet high, and cover it with poles and brush. 

 But before building the pen begin about ten feet 

 from one side and dig a trench, tapering it under 

 the edge of the pen just deep enough for the tur- 

 key to get in by stooping down. You continue 

 the trench on inside of the pen a couple of feet 

 until the trench is not more than six or eight 

 inches deep at the end. You then scatter corn 

 in the trench to the end and around in the pen. 



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