METHOD OF UNEARTHING. 313 



If foxes are bred in an earth which you think 

 unsafe, yoti had better stink them out : that^ or 

 indeed any disturbance at the mouth of the 

 hole, will make the old one carry them off to 

 another place. 



In open countries, foxes, when they are much 

 disturbed, vvill lie at earth. If you have difS- 

 <;ulty in finding, stinking the earths will some- 

 times produce them again. The method which 

 I use to stink an earth is as follows :— Three 

 pounds of sulphur and one pound of asafoe- 

 tida are boiled up together ; matches are then 

 made of brown paper, and lighted in the holes, 

 which are afterwards stopped very close. Earths 

 that are not used by badgers may be stopped 

 early, which will answer the same purpose ; 

 but where badgers frequent, it would be use- 

 less, as they would open them again. 



Badgers may be caught alive in sacks, pla- 

 ced at the mouth of the hole : setting traps 

 for them would be dangerous, as you might 

 catch your foxes also. They may be caught 

 by stinking them out of a great earth, and 

 afterwards following them to a smaller one, 

 and digging them. 



Your country requires a good terrier. I 

 should prefer the black or white terrier : some 

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