all trappers make them doubly effective by using ' 

 powerful scents some of them truly "the king of 

 stinks" most offensive and nauseating to the user 

 of them, yet so powerful are they that when u*ed 

 right they decoy animals for miles away. Of 

 these there many among which is "fish oil" made 

 by the simple plan of cutting up fish of any 

 kind (rich or oily preferred) such as trout, eels, 

 etc., into small bits, putting them into a bottle and 

 exposing it to the sun. In a few weeks, according 

 to the weather a rancid oil is formed, a few drops 

 of which smeared over the bait or trap with a 

 feather will draw most any animal to it that hap- 

 pens that way, while without it it would have 

 passed and repa^sed again. Other powerful 

 scents are obtained by the trappers from the ani- 

 mals themselves from the Beaver (called casto- 

 reum) which is now a regular article of commerce. 

 Others being secured from the Muskrat female or 

 even from the Skunk, or a drug known as "assa- 

 foetida." Oftimes these are compounded or mixed 

 together resulting in the ne plus ultra or quintes- 

 sence of diabolical stenches, which despite their 

 nastiness, irresistably lure many animals to their 

 doom, and called "medicine." Again plants serve 

 the same purpose, such as fennel, cummin, fenu- 

 greek, lavender, even the perfume of rhodium (oil 

 of rose) costly as it is. No two trappers choosing 

 hardly the same, "each swearing by his particular 

 kind of stink" yet all agree that without it, oftimes 

 all their efforts would be in vain, as by its use 

 the chances of failure is reduced to a minimum. 

 These can be purchased and should my readers 

 desire to acquaint or test their virtues, samples 

 can be had at an expenditure of 25 cents. By its 

 use "trails" are made by dragging along the ground 

 from distances away to the traps pieces of ploody 

 meats, fish or entrails of fowl or animal which has 

 been smeared in the preparation. At times tl.e 

 soles of boots are smeared with it, occasionally as 

 the trapper goes his rounds, thus covering his 

 entire line of traps (usually he visits or goes these 

 rounds early in the morn) or especially at the ap- 

 proach of stormy weather. Nature has endowed 

 all animals with the powers of knowledge neces- 

 sary as ij to warn them to skirmish for their 



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