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AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. 
A BOOK FOR HUNTERS, 
THE 
HALSEY THRASHER, 
AN EXPERIENCED HUNTER. 
2 !< LUSTRA TED. 
This little book will be read with interest by all who 
would lind 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 better 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 teach 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.—Doer Hunting. 
CHAPTER II.—How to Catch the Fox. 
CHAPTER in.— How to Hunt and Catch the Beaver. 
CHAPTER IV.—How to Catch the Otter. 
CHAPTER V.—How to Catch the Mink. 
CHAPTER VI.—IIow to Hunt and Catch the Muskrat. 
CHAPTER VII.—How to Catcli the Marten. 
CHAPTER VIII.—How to Catch the Fisher. 
CHAPTER IX.—How to Catch the Raccoon. 
CHAPTER X —How to Hunt and Trap the Bear. 
CHAPTER XI.—How to Hunt and Trap the Wolf. 
CHAPTER XII.—How to Trap the Pocket Gopher. 
CHAPTER XIII. — Fishing for Trout, Pickerel, and Bass. 
CHAPTER XIV.—IIow to Hunt the Honey Bee. 
CHAPTER XV. — nints About Shot-Guns and Rilles. 
CHAPTER XVI.—Traps. 
CHAPTER XVII.—Dressing and Tanning Skins and 
Furs. 
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W TRAPPER’S Ml; 
A Manual of Instructions 
S^or capturing all kinds of fur-bearing 
animals, and curing their skins ; with 
observations on the fur trade, hints 
on life in the woods, and narra¬ 
tives of trapping and hunting 
excursions. 
By S. NEWHOUSE, 
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. 
TEE TRAPPER’S ART. 
I. PRELIMINARIES, 
n. CAPTURE OF ANIMALS . ) 
HI. CURING SKINS. 
IV. LIFE IN THE 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 
Experieuce.—The Deer Hunt.—Muskrat Hunting.—An 
Amateur in the North Woods.—Traveling in a Circle.— 
Au Expedition to the Laurentian Hills. 
APPENDIX. 
History and description of the Newhouso Trap.—Con¬ 
clusion. 
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