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Sion, are adding materially to the supplies 
of food. Greenbacks come in these smaller 
bodies of water and hays to lay their egg.s 
each Fall, and until the first week in 
December, after the season opens, the 
commission allows the netting of fish by 
licensed fishermen. 
At the docks the fish is sold for as low 
as five and six cents per pound, and a 
catch of two tons a day during the flush 
of the season is not an unusual occur¬ 
ence. The price, this year is the lowest 
it has been in three, or four years. At 
one time the fish commanded a price of 
around 15 cents per pound. The men 
pack the fish in special 100 -lb. boxes, 
iced, and forward by express to New 
York, Philadelphia and other large cities. 
Each year the State Conservation Com¬ 
mission supplies the State hatchery at 
Caledonia with spawn for hatching. The 
fish are taken in great quantities by the 
State men and stripped of their eggs. 
The fingnrlings are returned to restock 
the waters, and it is said that the work 
of the commission is affording a most 
satisfactory increase in the supplies <>f 
this variety of fish. With the first week 
in December the ban is again on the tak¬ 
ing of the greenbacks, but usually by this 
time the fish are making headway back 
into the lake, so that catches would he 
much smaller, anyway. 
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chief expense being the outfitting of the 
equipment necessary to catch and market 
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Trapping Skunks and Rabbits 
Will you (ell me about trapping skunks 
and rabbits? The place I am trapping 
is under an old barn containing bay and 
cornstalks. The animals go in from un¬ 
der the barn. Do the animals go around 
in the barn? There are stables, ami it 
is warm in there. The traps that I am 
using are No. 1 steel traps. Is the use 
of bait beneficial? If so. what kind 
would you recommend with the skunks 
and rabbits, and how is it used on the 
traps, or is it hung by a string? Does the 
law permit one to go in the barn and set 
traps, or must one have the consent of 
the owner? C. t. 
New York. 
Both skunks and rabbits usually have 
very definite places where they go under 
a building, and traps set in those places 
without bait will usually catch the ani¬ 
mals. Babbits move about all Winter, 
and it will be easy ro tell where they go 
in after any fall of light snow. Skunks 
mostly don up when cold weather sets in, 
and do not come out. until about the time 
the woodchucks first appear. Where rab¬ 
bits arc very numerous it is often possible 
to catch them in a single trap, but it is 
better to so*- two traps, so that if they 
jump over the first they got into the 
second. 
Each rabbit that goes under the barn 
has some particular spot where it spends 
the day. It does not usually go anywhere 
else in the building, except the regular 
path to its bed. Skunks will move around 
wherever they enn find food in the build¬ 
ing, but they are mostly asleep in their 
holes now. and will not move around 
much until there comes a night of warm 
rain and mist. 
T believe the law does now permit or 
perhaps even encourages you to go on 
this neighbor's land and trap his skunks 
and rabbits. Perhaps he could get small 
damages from you in a lawsuit if he 
found you going in the barn after them, 
but that is not the point of the matter. 
The right and neighborly thing to do is 
to go to him and ask permission to set 
traps on. bis land. lie may be trying to 
persuade the skunks to stay around his 
barn (o keep down the mice and rats, 
lie may have some cats that he does not 
like to have injured in the traps. Or he 
may have some special interest in the 
rabbits, and so does not want them 
caught. 
Skunks can be easily caught in a box 
trap baited with almost any kind of fresh 
meat. The door must have a latch of 
some kind to keep the animal in after it 
is caught. The box trap is the best one 
to use around a building where there are 
cats. T have never had much success 
trapping rabbits in box traps, but many 
others say it can be done. 
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Uncle .Tethro sat fishing on the batiks 
of a tiny rivulet, when a stranger stopped 
beside film and said: “Is it possible that 
there are ati\ fish in such a small stream 
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