Tor Cold Nights Sleeping Use a pair of Arc- 

 tic or loose sleeping socks. No fear ot cold feet at 

 night when sleeping. Price only 25 cents. 



To Make Traps Rustproof Dip them in a so 

 lution of melted beeswax and rosin. 



Set Traps Whenever Possible In the runways w 

 or paths of animals. ^ 



In Rutting Season Use for Skunk bait, musk 

 of skunk or rotten eggs with old meat. 



In Baiting With Muskrat Use for scent musk 

 from the rat. In baiting with fish, use fish oil for 

 scent. 



A Practical Trap Can be made by boring a 

 series of two-inch or larger auger holes in a water 

 logged stump or log, and driving in two or three 

 horse shoe nails, so that any small headed animal 

 who thrusts in his head to secure bait behind the 

 nails cannot withdraw his head, because the nails 

 catch and kill him. 



Set Traps for Otter At the foot of their slides 

 a trifle under the water. Beaver also. 



The Secret of Trapping Wild Animals. My 

 style of setting traps was most simple and very ef- 

 fective, although it required a good many traps to 

 do the work. Knowing the habits of the animals I 

 was trying to catch alive I adopted the following 

 methods. 



I set my traps only on the trails running through 

 the thickest part of the woods Here we would 

 bury traps at intervals along the path by first dig- 

 ging a hole with a hatchet and removing the earth. 

 Then we carefully laid a trap in place, laying a 

 piece of canvas under the trap pan to keep the 

 earth from interfering with the spring or clogging 

 it. Next we carefully covered the trap with earth 

 and smoothed the ground off, after securing the 

 trap chain to limb of a bush or trunk of a tree. 

 We were careful to place a few branches or stones 

 on either side of the path ahead of each trap to 

 guide the animal directly over the trap into it. 



Then all was ready but one thing and that was 

 the secret of our great success in trapping animals. 

 We placed a small stick across the path right in 



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