42 HUNTER'S AND TRAPPER'S GUIDE. 



robber, making its home for the most part in 

 hollow logs and underground holes, gener- 

 ally near water. 



The baits for the mink are made as fol- 

 lows : 



Take two ounces of the mink's urine and 

 add to it the musk of one mink (this is found 

 near the vent), and also one ounce of fish 

 oil. This is made by cutting fish in small 

 pieces and placing them in a loosely stopped 

 bottle. If this be hung in the sun for two 

 weeks, the fish will rot and the oil rise 

 to the top. The bait thus made is called 

 natural bait. 



Or, take the flesh of rabbits, birds or fowls, 

 or the flesh of the mink itself ; but these 

 baits are greatly helped by using one or two 

 drops of the natural bait. 



In hunting the mink, go near the edge of 

 streams and lakes and search for its trails. 

 On finding them, place some of your traps 

 just in the edge of the water, and make them 



