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FOREST AND STREAM 
February, 1920 
If 
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Comfort 
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Fortress Monroe, 
Virginia 
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(To Be Continued) 
ON THE FINE ART 
OF FUR TRAPPING 
(CONTINUED FROM PAGE 63) 
and seldom leaves the water courses, ex- 
cept to cross to another body of water. 
The mink visits every burrow, den, hole 
and drift pile on its route, dives into 
hollow logs and noses around snags and 
doesn’t hesitate to leave the water to 
chase squirrels, rabbits or partridge. 
In the fall the ’coon also dabbles in the 
water a lot and will be found using the 
same runways and crossings utilized by 
mink and otter. These animals will in- 
variably cut across a point of land where 
theie is a sharp bend in a stream, and 
when such a trail is located the trapper 
can set a trap at each end of it with a 
treble chance at a catch. 
The muskrat is a widely distributed 
and prolific water animal. It seldom 
leaves the banks of streams further than 
a hundred yards, only then to feed on 
some farmer’s crop. The natural food 
of the ’rat is the roots of acquatic plants. 
It is an abundant “sign” maker, and a 
colony of ’rats will have well-worn 
trails along the edges of the water and 
bank. Where these trails are narrowed 
by a tree, stone, or ledge of rock the 
trapper makes his set. While the No. 1 
trap is standard for muskrat, the mink 
feeds on this animal when hungry and 
other food is scarce, consequently it fol- 
lows the muskrat runways and a trap 
that would hold only the ’rat would not 
be much of a money-maker compared 
with the numbers 1% and 115. These 
latter traps not only secure a high grip 
on the ’rats’ leg, but they hold the mink 
or ’coon that gets in them and even the 
otter, provided it didn’t get a solid pull. 
So the systematic trapper makes a 
water set and expects it to catch any 
water animal that comes along. A trap 
for the medium sized animal is used, 
which will hold the smaller and larger 
ones as readily. 
When he makes a land set he may 
expect to catch a skunk, but the chances 
are a ’possum will amble along first 
For the land animals, including the 
skunk, ’possum, civet, weasel, marten, a 
bait set is the most practical because 
trails in the woods are hardly discern- 
ible and a proper bait attracts any of 
these animals to the set. 
A muskrat, chicken or bird should be 
used for bait. Invariably the bait must 
be placed either in a natural enclosure 
of some sort or in a cubby pen. The 
latter may be made with old sticks or 
chunks placed in such a position as to 
protect the bait from robbers and force 
the animal over the trap. The pen is 
usually made horseshoe shape and cov- 
ered over to keep out snow, whiskey- 
jacks and crows. 
