POISONING AND TRAPPING 308 
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 
