SCIEHCE 



OF 





SCIENCE OF TRAPPING 



Describes the Fur Bearing Animals, Their Nature, Habits 

 and Distribution, with Practical Methods of Their Capture. 



This book contains 245 pages, 5x7 inches, with more than 

 40 illustrations, many of which are iull page of the various fur 

 bearing animals, also several 

 pages of tracks. 



The author, Mr. E. Kreps, in 

 his introduction says: "In order 

 to be successful, one must know 

 the wild animals as a mother 

 .knows her child. He must also 

 know and use the most practical 

 methods of trapping, and it is 

 my object to give in this work, 

 the most successful trapping meth- 

 ods known. These modes of trap- 

 ping the fur bearing animals have 

 for the most part been learned 

 from actual experience in various 

 parts of the country, but I also 



five the methods of other success- 

 ul trappers, knowing them to be 

 as good as my own. I am per- 

 sonally acquainted with some of 

 the most expert trappers in North 

 America, and have also followed 

 the Indians over their trap lines, and in this way have learned 

 many things which to the white man are not generally known." 

 This book contains twenty-four chapters, as follows: 



1. The Trapper's Art. 13. The Raccoon. 



2. The Skunk. 14. The Badger. 



3. The Mink. 15. The Opossum. 

 The Weasel. 16. The Lynx. 



17. The Bay Lynx or Wild Cat. 



18. The Cougar. 



19. The Wolverine. 



20. The Pocket Gopher. 



21. 

 22. 



23. 

 24. 



4. 



5. The Marten. 



6. The Fisher. 



7. The Otter. 



8. The Beaver. 



9. The Muskrat. 



0. The Fox. 



1. The Wolf. 



2. The Bear. 



The Rabbit. 

 Tracks and Signs. 

 Handling Furs. 

 Steel Traps. 



The chapter on TRACKS AND SIGNS contains sixteen 

 pages eleven of description and five of illustrations. 



The author goes into detail, telling where the tracks and 

 signs of the various animals are most apt to be found. This 

 with an accurate drawing of the footprints, makes the chapter 

 on TRACKS AND SIGNS alone worth dollars to the young 

 and inexperienced trapper, while the distribution, nature, hab- 

 its, etc., will prove interesting to all. This book is rightly 

 named Science of Trapping. 



Price, postpaid, Cloth Bnnnd. $1.00 



A. R. HARDING, Pub., 106 Walnut St, ST. LOUIS, MO. 



