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fresh sometimes they will eat it; but I find that Funsten's Animal 

 Bait is a good helper to draw them to the meat baits. A red fox is 

 hard to catch, and they only den up in the spring, when they 

 are raising young ones, and a trapper does not care to catch them 

 then. The way I can catch them is to set traps in their runways. 

 I find where they travel up and down bluffs, and where they travel 

 along paths, and where they go through fences, and I take a No. 1H 

 or a No. 2 Newhouse steel trap, and set it in the path. If it is a 

 path anywhere in the woods, a fox will travel it every time. In 

 setting traps in the path, I always find where they step over a pole 

 or log, or where they go through a fence. If I set a trap in a path 

 by the fence, I dig out a little hole in the path where they go through 

 the fence, just deep enough to let trap down level with the top of 

 the ground and about ten or twelve inches from the fence; then take 

 some fine leaves and cover the trap. Then take a piece of fresh rab- 

 bit, bird or chicken, and lay it on the ground five or six inches to 

 one side of the trap, and take a stick sharpened at one end and 

 stick it through the bait into the ground. Then take Funsten's Fox 

 Bait and put a little on the meat, and sprinkle a little over the 

 leaves on the trap, and you will catch a fox every time they come 

 along, for every time they smell Funsten's Fox Bait they will go to 

 it. I have caught foxes by the use of Funsten's Fox Bait without 

 any other baits. 



Traps should always be kept clean and free from all animal 

 scent. I have experimented with them for seven or eight years, 

 and I find it pays well to keep traps clean and free from animal scent, 

 especially if I am trapping at dens or on the ground. If I am trapping 

 in the water it doesn't make any difference, for when traps are under 

 the water no animal can smell them anyway, but I never set a trap 

 for a fox unless it is clean, for they are a fine-scented animal. I have 

 caught several foxes in my life, and I have caught more foxes by 

 setting traps in paths where they step over poles and go through 

 old rail fences than any other way. Traps set in this way will catch 

 more foxes if some kind of scent bait is used than any way I have 

 tried. It is best to use scent baits to attract their attention. Fun- 

 sten's Scent Baits are the best baits for that purpose I have ever 

 used, for when they smell it they will go to it and fool around the 

 traps, and, nine times out of ten, they will get a foot in the trap 

 while they are smelling around it. 



Gray foxes are easily caught, because they den up all through the 

 winter season, and you can catch them at dens where they go in 



