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and more of them set. The traps should be baited so as to take the 

 rook by the head, for when caught by the leg the bird does not stop 

 struggling until away or dead. Nothing scares wood-pigeons and 

 rooks so much as capturing a few of them in traps, so that when either 

 or both are troublesome, trapping should be had recourse to in a 





FIG. 114. LANE'S WIRE SPRING TRAP SET FOR WOOD-PIGEONS. 



similar way as on newly-sown corn, setting several traps at the 

 outside of the centre or centres from which the birds work and 

 near by the unpecked plants. 



But trapping in not a few cases is objected to under absurd con- 

 viction of game -preservers that only winged or ground game cap- 

 ture is the sole object of setting spring traps in the open ; there- 

 fore, under such circumstances, recourse may be had to protecting 

 young cabbage, cauliflower, and other brassica-plants, also peas 

 and other legumes, with beets and other plants, the treated parts of 



