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which they do just before it freezes up, cut the top of young popple, 

 stick one in bank at each place; set first time so they can cut it off 

 without having to reach much for it; place a little higher next time. 

 You will find the bait and popple pole gone every time. 



To set traps, use boat. Have plenty of No. 9 wire, long enough 

 to reach deep water. Tie large stone to one end of wire, drive stake 

 full length of chain out from shore, set trap so it will be about five 

 inches under water; bend long loop in wire, out several feet from shore, 

 so game will be under water when trap ring reaches loop; set small 

 prop under wire to hold wire out of mud, so trap ring will run down 

 wire easily; set up fresh popple pole high enough now so he will have to 

 stand on his hind feet to reach it. In this way you are sure to catch 

 him by the hind foot. Place calamus root (I also recommend the 

 Funsten Animal Bait for Beaver) just above popple pole; set at all 

 places you have made, also at all places where you see they go out 

 of water. Bait and stake all the same. With these sets you are sure 

 of your game, as they are not hard to catch, but hard to hold. Use 

 nothing but the old reliable Newhouse trap. When game is caught 

 they go for deep water, the trap ring runs down wire to loop, and they 

 are under to rise no more. 



To trap them in winter, use similar places to set, having wire laid 

 beforehand. After it has frozen up solid, and the water has settled 

 away from ice at shore, they are searching all along shore for fresh 

 food. Make small hole at the edge of ice, where wire is laid, put end 

 of popple pole through hole into water at side of bank. In passing, 

 they stop to work at bait. To set trap, cut hole in ice length of chain 

 from shore, reach in and set trap near bait, stake through hole in ice, 

 slip trap ring over wire and fasten to stake. Cover hole with ice and 

 snow. 



For spring trapping, use same set and bait as for fall.'* 



C. S. BREWER. 

 Winner of Second Prize 



"I use No. 3 Newhouse traps. Set trap as near deep water as 

 possible, with seven-foot chain well staked. Set trap near the bank 

 of the stream, put it four inches under the water; set it endwise, as I 

 call it, so the animal will come over one spring to get the bait, which 

 is on a stick six inches long, sticking in the bank four inches from the 

 end of the other spring. Cover trap well with some soft substance, 

 cotton, leaves, mud or moss ; then get two sticks, about two feet long 

 and the size of a lead pencil, and stick one on each side of the trap, 

 placing the far end from you, one up the stream and the other one 



