THE OREGON SPORTSMAN 



gives an animal a chance to jerk out before the jaws become set 

 on the foot. 



For footwear, rubber boots or shoes are very much the best, 

 as they leave no scent in the tracks. Rubber gloves also, are best, 

 but leather coated over with tallow or hard pitch will do. When 

 not in use they should be left in the open and only used for 

 handling traps. 



Size of Traps to Use. 



The Newhouse Trap Company makes a No. 4 wolf trap; also 

 No. 14, which is the same size, but having teeth. Both these traps 

 have been condemned by good trappers on account of being too 

 small for animals having as large a foot as the wolf or cougar. 







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The remains of a deer after a cougar had finished his meal. Photograph 



taken toy Mr. Will McMahon of Oakridge, who found 



the carcass on Kitson creek. 



Either of these animals can step on the jaws and have enough 

 of their foot reach the pan of the trap to spring it. In such 

 cases it seldom holds them ; there is just enough of the foot caught 

 to allow them to pull out, or pull one or two toes off and get 

 away. In one locality during the past winter, out of seven 

 catches that were made — five timber wolves and two cougar — 

 only three of the animals were held. The other four pulled out; 

 two of these being caught only by two toes, which they pulled off. 

 The No. 4 ,:L /2 Newhouse trap is nearer the ideal size for these 

 animals. It has a much wider spread of jaws and is well made. 



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