94 HUNTER'S AND TRAPPER'S GUIDE. 



The old and young ones stay in flocks 

 from the time the young are hatched until 

 the mother turkey begins to lay again. The 

 season for trapping the wild turkey is from 

 the ist of October until the ist of March, 

 and the method of doing it is quite simple. 

 Go wherever you are in the habit of seeing 

 the wild turkey, and make a trail of shelled 

 corn. Let the turkey get your corn for two 

 or three days, then place several C or beaver 

 traps (see page 114) on the trail well con- 

 cealed from view. Rebait the trail and also 

 drop some corn on the traps, setting them 

 twice the length of their chains apart. 



When one turkey gets caught the rest do 

 not know what it is flopping about, and run 

 up and begin to fight it. Very often in this 

 way you will catch the principal part of the 

 flock the first setting. 



The Newhouse, or any trap that catches 

 by the foot, will not answer for this work, for 

 the turkey will wring his foot off. 



