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ering. Sometimes I use a large chunk of meat for bait, but prefer 

 the apples, as Mr. Bruin is very fond of fruit and honey, and he can 

 smell the apples a long ways off; then he will pay them a visit and be 

 caught. I have caught many that way. Try it." 



W. M. Hammer. 



"Find a hollow log with a hole in it of about eight inches. Cut 

 a piece of it about eight feet long, take it to where you know bears 

 travel, or where they come to drink. Place the log on a clear place. 

 If you have lots of traps put a No. 5 at each end of the log; make a 

 hole the depth of trap in ground, cover well with old leaves, grass or 

 loose black earth. Never make trap fast. Clog it with a short pole 

 that will weigh sixty or eighty pounds. For bait, get a sheep's head 

 or some other meat such as you can procure, put it in a pan and roast 

 it briskly for five or eight minutes over a hot fire or in a hot oven. 

 Take it out, put the size of a large hen's egg of bee's comb, honey 

 and all, and a half can of salmon over the bait, and put it back to roast 

 for five minutes more, then take the bait and put on some Funsten 

 Animal Bait for Bear over it, put cord on bait, trail it in circles 100 

 yards in every direction around trap, put the bait in the center of 

 the hollow log, go away, and if two bears come along you will have 

 them both, as bears can not leave an attraction like that." 



John Brown. 



"The following methods are the ones I used in trapping bear in 

 the eastern provinces, by setting your traps in the water and on the 

 hills in the spring of the year, and in setting on the beech ridges in 

 the fall season. 



To Set in the Water in the Spring — In the spring, when the bear 

 comes out of his den he has a habit of traveling along the shores of 

 streams, especially those streams that have fish in them. Locate a 

 place where the water is smooth and where the bear, in traveling 

 along the stream, is likely to pass. Set your trap in the edge of the 

 water, so it is covered by about three or four inches of water. Cover 

 it well with moss. Turn the springs of the trap well around. 



Fasten the bait well to a stake and drive it out into the water 

 about three feet beyond the trap, so that the bait will be above the 

 water. For bait use bacon rind, fish (fresh or dried), dried or fresh 

 fruit. Also use some scent. Beaver castor I have found very suc- 

 cessful. I have known bear to be trapped where nothing was used 

 for bait but a small piece of beaver castor. Before ydu have set 

 your trap, as described, build an enclosure around your bait, ex- 



