THE RABBIT. 



5' 



orchards, cutting the plants and barking the 

 young trees. 



For bait, turnips, potatoes or apples may 

 be used. 



In order to trap the rabbit, search the farm 

 for its trails in gullies and drains, and also 

 notice where it regularly goes through the 

 fences. Set your trap in its path within two 

 or three inches of the fence, conceal it well, 

 and make it fast to a stake. No bait is needed 

 at a place like this. 



In drains or gullies where you have seen 

 trails, set the trap in the trail, making it fast 

 to a stake. Place the bait within three or four 

 inches of the trap on each side. After find- 

 ing one bait, the rabbit will go along slowly 

 in order to get the other one. 



Skin the rabbit by splitting the skin from 

 one hind foot to the other in the manner de- 

 scribed for the mink ; take the hide off whole 

 and stretch it on the mink stretcher described 

 on page 26. 



