90 POULTRY APPLIANCES AND HANDICRAFT 



plenty of play. The trigger stick should be long 

 enough to reach within an inch of the bottom of the 

 box, where the bait, e, is fastened. A hinged door in 

 the side of the box makes the last act easy that of 

 dispatching the entrapped animal. If the box is car- 

 ried carefully, there is no danger of the skunk opening 

 hostilities until immediate danger threatens him. 



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FIG 93 : PROTECTION FROM HAWKS 



A safe and quick way with skunks is narrated by 

 A. H. Binney of Massachusetts, as follows: "I take 

 an ordinary box trap and bait it with a chicken's head 

 or piece of liver by tying it onto the spindle, but 

 before doing that I drag the bait around on the ground, 

 and every time drag it into the trap so as to give them 

 a scent to follow. Then I dig a hole in the ground, 

 two and one-half feet deep, about eighteen inches 

 across, and now I am ready for the skunk. I am sure 

 to have him the first morning. I then take trap and 



