A FEW WORDS ON DEADFALLS. 



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fall can be set in a thicket of evergreen trees or under a single pine, 

 hemlock or other evergreen tree, or it may be protected by building 

 a frame of poles above the trap and cover with boughs to partly 

 protect the trap from the heavy snows. Now you have a trap that 

 will work alright, where a steel trap would freeze down from 

 sleet or other causes and would not spring; nor will Johnny 

 Graball carry off a deadfall. 



No, boys, do not shun the deadfall when trapping skunk in 

 a section where material is convenient to build it with, and 

 especially if you are near your trapping grounds so that you 

 can go out at times and put up a trap or two so as to have a 

 good line of deadfalls ready when the trapping season arrives. 



