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Poisoning wolves. The proper dose for a 

 wolf is four grains of strychnia sulphate; for 

 a coyote, two grains. Two sizes of gelatin 

 capsules may be bought at drug-stores. Fill, 

 cap, and carefully wipe each capsule to remove 

 every trace of the drug from its outside. In- 

 sert this filled capsule into a piece of beef- 

 suet the size of a walnut and close the cavity. 

 The baits should be carried in a can or pail, 

 and not handled except with gloved hands or 

 with forceps. They should be dropped from 

 horseback along trails followed regularly by 

 wolves, or along an artificial trail made by 

 dragging an old bone or piece of hide well 

 saturated with some fetid scent. Or they may 

 be placed about a carcass on which wolves 

 feed. 



Trapping rats and mice. The best of all 

 traps for this purpose, are the cheap snapping 

 wire traps called guillotine traps, because they 

 catch the animal by the neck and choke the life 

 out of it in a moment. Those made entirely 

 of metal (see illustration on page 75) are bet- 

 ter than those with a wooden base. 



Guillotine traps, according to Lantz, should 



