194, 
AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST 
[May, 
A BOOK FOE HUNTERS. 
THE 
HUNTER Ml TRAPPER. 
BY 
HALSEY THRASHER, 
AN EXPERIENCED HUNTEIt. 
IU.TSTKATED. 
This little book will be read with interest by all who 
would find instruction and entertainment in the narrative 
of an old hunter’s experience. The following, from the 
author’s Preface, will give an idea of the character and 
design of the work: 
“I am a blacksmith by trade, but when I was a boy I 
became fond of a gun and a trap, and my first success in 
my shop was to make a steel trap. It was my aim to 
become an expert trapper, and I tried my hand at catch¬ 
ing foxes. 
“ Many a dollar have I paid to cunning old men to learn 
the art, and I have succeeded pretty well, too ; but why 
has not some man of experience written a book explain¬ 
ing the art of successfully trapping the different kinds,of 
fur animals ? I propose to tell the boys how to do it. 
“ I have studied the nature and habits of animals of 
different species, and a plan that was good to capture the 
otter, the mink, and the beaver, forty years ago, is just 
as good now as then. The nature of animals doesn’t 
change like the nature of men ; we have grown wiser, 
while they have remained the same. The mode of cap¬ 
turing them when I was a boy, and the way used now, 
may be put together, and succeed hotter than either one 
alone. 
“ Men are traveling through the country selling recipes 
at a high price to teach how to dress skins. I propose in 
this work to teacli all these things, so that a man may 
have them in a neat little volume for reference at any 
time. I shall also treat upon angling for the trout, the 
bass, and the pickerel, which I think I understand. I 
hope to make it all so plain that even the inexperienced 
will, in some measure, succeed.” 
CONTENTS. 
CHAPTER I.—Deer Hunting. 
CHAPTER II.—How to Catch the Fox. 
CHAPTER III.—How to Hunt and Catch the Beaver. 
CHAPTER IV.—IIow to Catch the Otter. 
CHAPTER V.—IIow to Catcli the Mink. 
CHAPTER VI.—How to Hunt and Cateli the Muskrat. 
CHAPTER VII.—How (o Catch the Marten. 
CHAPTER VIIJ.—IIow to Catcli the Fisher. 
CHAPTER IX.—How to Catch the Raccoon. 
CHAPTER X—IIow to Hunt and Trap the Bear. 
CHAPTER XI.—How to Hunt and Trap the Wolf. 
CHAPTER XII.—How to Trap the Pocket Gopher. 
CHAPTER XTTI.—Fishing for Trout, Pickerel, and Bass. 
CHAPTER XIV.—How to Hunt the Honey Bee. 
CHAPTER XV.—Hints About Shot-Guns and Riiles. 
CHAPTER XVI.—Traps. 
CHAPTER XVII.—Dressing and Tanning Skins and 
Purs. 
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A Manual of Instructions 
For eapljiring all Rinds of fur-bearing 
animals, and curing tbeir skins ; with 
observations on the fur trade, hints 
on life In tlie woods, and narra¬ 
tives of trapping and hunting 
excursions. 
By S. NEWHOXJSE, 
And other Trappers and Sportsmen. 
Edited by the Oneida Community. 
21G Pages Octavo. 
With 32 full page Illustrations, and numerous 
smaller Engravings. 
CONTENTS. 
INTRODUCTION. 
Connection of Trapping with other Trades.—Observa¬ 
tions on the Fur Trade.—Season for Trapping.—Statis¬ 
tics of the Fur Trade. 
THE TRAPPER’S ART. 
I. PRELIMINARIES. 
II. CAPTURE OF ANIMALS. J 
HI. CURING SKINS. 
IV. LIFE IN TnE WOODS. 
THE TRAPPER’S FOOD. 
The Deer.—The Buffalo.—The Rocky Mountain Sheep, 
or Bighorn.—The Argali.—The Prong-horn Antelope.— 
Squirrel Hunting. — The Ruffled Grouse. — Pinnated 
Grouse.—Sharp-tail Grouse.—Cock of the Plains.—Dusky 
Grouse.—Canada or Spruce Grouse.—White-tailed Ptar¬ 
migan.—Willow Ptarmigan,—European Grouse.—Water 
Fowl. 
FISHING IN AUTUMN AND WINTER. 
Spearing Fish.—Fishing through the Ice.—Net-fishing 
in Winter. 
NOTES ON TRAPPING AND WOOD-CRAFT. 
PLAN OF A TRAPPING CAMPAIGN. 
BOAT BUILDING. 
SNOW-SHOES. 
NARRATIVES, 
An Evening with an old Trapper.—A Young Trapper’s 
Experience.—The Deer Hunt.—Muskrat Hunting.—An 
Amateur in the North Woods.—Traveling in a Circle.— 
An Expedition to the Laurentian Hills. 
APPENDIX. 
History and description of the Newhouse Trap.—Con¬ 
clusion. 
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THE PRACTICAL 
POULTRY KEEPER. 
A COMPLETE AND STANDARD GUIDE TO THE 
MANAGEMENT OE POULTRY, 
FOR DOMESTIC USE, THE MARKETS, OR 
EXHIBITION. 
Beautifully Illustrated. 
By L. WRIGHT. 
NOTICES BY THE PBESS. 
This book is a valuable manual for everybody who 
feeds chickens or sells eggs. It suits at once the plain 
poulterer who must make the business pay, and the chick¬ 
en fancier whose taste is for gay plumage, and strange, 
bright birds. The most valuable portion is the first sec¬ 
tion, extending through fifty-five pages: These were writ¬ 
ten with the intention of producing a manual so plain, 
minute, and practical, that anyone could, by using it as a 
guide, with no previous experience with poultry, become 
at once successful in producing eggs, young chickens, and 
fat fowls for market. The author has not missed his aim. 
The middle parts of Mr. Wright’s Manual are taken up 
with minute directions for making show fowls for Fairs, 
a nice discussion of the good and bad points of the dif¬ 
ferent breeds, and a brief sketch of such fancy stock as 
peafowl, pheasants, and water-fowl. Then follows a 
section on artificial hatching, and another, worth special 
attention, on large poultry yards.. ..A study of Mr. 
Wright’s hook will convince any farmer’s wife that all 
she needs is to give a half hour each day, of intelligent 
and sagacious attention to her poultry, in order to obtain 
from them, not tape, and knitting needles, and buttons, 
and nutmegs merely, hut the family supplies of sugar, 
shoes, and cloth. Neui York Tribune. 
» It is the most complete and valuable work on the mat¬ 
ters of which it treats yet published. It will be found a 
plain and sufficient guide to any one in any circumstances 
likely to occur, and is illustrated with elegant engravings 
of many breeds of fowls. Farmer's' Cabinet. 
This is a reprint, with numerous wood engravings, of 
an English book, the object of which is to convey in 
plain language a great deal of practical information about 
the breeding and management of poultry, whether for 
domestic use, the markets, or exhibition....The book is 
eminently practical, and we recommend it to farmers and 
others interested in breeding and selling poultry. 
Philadelphia Press. 
It is a handsome volume, brought out in the best style, 
and enriched with nearly fifty illustrations. It is evidently 
the fruit of a thorough, practical experience and knowl¬ 
edge of fowls, and will he found a plain and sufficient 
guide in all the practical details of poultry management 
as a profitable business. United Presbyterian. 
The subject is treated fully and ably by an experienced 
hand, and the volume will doubtless find a large sale 
among the growing class of poultry fanciers. It is em¬ 
bellished with numerous illustrative engravings. 
New York Observer. 
The author has called to his aid all who were experi ¬ 
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and exhaustiveness. Pochester Democrat. 
The book is a complete and standard guide to the man¬ 
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for exhibition. Watchman and Reflector. 
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