72 HUNTER'S AND TRAPPER'S GUIDE. 



Fresh squirrels, rabbits, birds or fowls of 

 any kind will serve as a bait for the wildcat. 



Save the blood of the fowl and use it in 

 making trails for your traps, also use the 

 urine of the cat on or near your bait. The 

 cat, in striking the trails of blood, will follow 

 them to the traps, and on smelling the scent 

 of its kind will come to the bait without fear. 



In hunting the wildcat, search for its tracks 

 in gullies and ravines, near water in the 

 woods, and look out for its dung on knolls or 

 logs that cross streams. Set your trap in 

 such a ravine, conceal it well, and make it 

 fast to a stake ; drop a bait on each side of it, 

 about six inches from it ; make trails from 

 the bait by dropping blood on each side of the 

 trap for fifteen or twenty feet, and use three 

 or four drops of urine near the bait. When 

 the animal finds the trails of blood, it will 

 follow them to the bait. After getting one 

 of the baits it will attempt to cross the trap 

 to get the other. 



