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be just large enough to receive the trap and 
should be covered so as almost to exclude the 
light. Scalding the trap frequently to remove 
the animal odor is important. 
‘CA few days’ experience will teach one more about 
setting traps for gophers than pages of directions 
could. He must not be discouraged by failure at 
first, but vary the method of setting the trap until he 
learns the best way for his locality. While the 
method is somewhat slow, persistent trapping steadily 
decreases the pests until the last gopher on a farm 
may be captured. A correspondent of the Biological 
Survey writes that he caught 1,332 of the animals 
within 2 miles of his home. A friend of the writer 
in Kansas trapped 350 gophers on a 40-acre clover 
field in four months. A California newspaper stated 
that in the spring of 1901 a man near Watsonville, 
by using 52 traps, caught 233 in twenty-four and 
one-half hours. William Burniece, of Bowbells, N. 
Dak., trapped more than 1,500 gophers on his quar- 
ter section during a single year.’ 
Snares and Traps for Rabbits——Rabbits are 
easily trapped or snared, and few farmer-boys 
need instruction how to do it. An improve- 
ment upon the figure-four and similar traps 
is widely used in the West, and known by the 
name of its inventor, Fred Wellhouse, of To-: 
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