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the flooring. Cover up the approaches to the 

 nest in such a manner that only one entrance 

 is left open, and that one by way of the 

 artificial flooring on which the trap is set. In 

 this way you prevent trapping the pheasants, 

 but if you put your nest and traps on the 

 ground the pheasants are very apt to go to 

 them, in the laying and nesting time. You 

 may set a nest and traps, twenty yards from 

 the wood, in a fallow field, without much fear 

 of trapping hen pheasants. 



In trapping at a pond, drive two stakes, 

 about a foot apart, into the water, two feet 

 from the side of the pond, and make a kind of 

 pier from the side of the pond to the two 

 upright stakes by means of two horizontal 

 stakes, covered over with turf and lathes. A 

 quiet pond in a wood, remote from all noise of 

 men, is always a favorite drinking place for 

 vermin, and, consequently, a good place to set 

 two or three traps on piers, as I have described. 



A dead cat, laid on the fallow field, is a 

 good bait for flying vermin, or a hedgehog, cut 

 open and laid belly upwards. A good plan to 



