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creasing its value especially so should the ball 

 plough a furrow in the hide. Hence the query of 

 the experienced fur buyer or taxidermist to the 

 sportsman, hunter or trapper "Are your skins 

 trapped or shot" speaks for itself. 



Furs or skins tobe used as robes or clothing to sat- 

 isfy the demands of fashion are assorted into 

 grades or primes according to sizes and condition 

 varying in value from loc to $300. The small 

 prime skin of the Black Fox being worth today 

 that sum and the fortunate sportsman or trapper 

 who by a practice of the art during a single winter 

 can clear in a day's time often a sum equivalent to 

 that earned in a year, by some of his less fortunate 

 brethren. 



Among the valuable marketed skins today can 

 be classed that of the following American animals 

 that are to be found in almost every state: 



Antelope 



Bears all kinds 



Beaver 



Badgers 



Cats all kinds 



Deer 



Dogs 



Elk 



Fisher 



Foxes all kinds 



Lynx 



Marten 



Mink 



Muskrat 



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Weasels 

 Moles 

 Mountain Lions 



Opposum 



Otter 



Raccoon 



Skunk 



Squirrel 



Wolverine 



Wolves 



Wild Cat 



It obvious then, that some one must trap these 

 animals. Hence to aid them is the purpose of 

 this manual. 



In the experience of the vast army of trappers 

 at home and abroad, reaching to the heart of the 

 Russian and Arctic fur bearing countries. No 

 trap ever made has equalled the celebrated Amer- 

 ican or Newhouse steel trap of today, for over 

 40 years the standard. They are simple, (the 

 secret of their success) efficient, cheap and adapt- 

 ed to and for the capture of any animal that 

 walks, swims, crawls or creeps on earth or its 

 streams at the present writing, not even excepting 

 the Elephant. 



It is unnecessary to enter into details as to the 

 requirements of these traps or their construction, 

 let it suffice to say that if the "Newhouse Stand- 

 ard" is secured and used you have the best and 

 most reliable that money can buy. 



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