are making an order for bait, deduct 50c from list price. All baits 
and guides will be sent prepaid by insured parcel post. Send money 
by post office or express money order, or your check certified by 
your banker. 1 will accept furs of any kind, where you haven’t the 
money, and pay the difference in cash. 
1 also purchase beaver’s casters and the oil stone of the beaver; 
skunk oil and skunk musk; the musk of coyotes, wolves, mink, fisher, 
lynx, lynx cat, cougar, panther and lion—to be paid for in bait. This 
plan will give us a medium of exchange without money. I have often 
seen the time when I had several hundred dollars worth of furs and not 
one dollar in money; such might be the case with you. 
When taking caster sacks from beaver, cut around the sacks, 
allowing considerable flesh to come with the sacks. You will know 
the caster sacks as they are a long flat form and contain a yellow 
substance and are grown together at the small or vent end. Clean 
the flesh off the. sacks, cut a small hole in the large end to allow 
them to drain, hang them on a cord to let dry. 
You will know the oil stones as they lay by the side of the 
caster sacks and are a long round shape containing a white oily sub¬ 
stance. Clean the stones of all flesh and tie the small or vent end, 
hang up and let dry. 
When taking the musk from the skunk, tie the vent end of the 
sacks, cut around, being careful not to cut the sacks. Remove the 
fat and flesh, hang on cord and let dry. Remove the musk of the 
mink in the same way. 
When removing the musk from wolf, coyote, fisher, lynx, lynx 
cat, cougar, panther or lion, cut around the vent, allowing consider¬ 
able flesh to come with the vent. Clean off the fat. being careful not 
to cut the glands. Hang on a cord and let dry. 
All scents can be carried by mail except skunk; it must be placed 
in a Mason jar with a rubber seal and sent by express. 
When your different musk is well cured and dried, pack them 
separate and state what you are sending. This is very necessary as 
it will not do to get the scents mixed. 
1 know there are many good trappers that can make their own 
scent bait, but these fellows that never trapped a day in their lives 
that are trying to sell scent baits, know for a certainty they are selling 
you bait for the money, not to attract animals. No one is reliable 
to compound scents to attract animals except an experienced trapper, 
and many trappers are too careless to compound good scent baits. 
Should I, or any one else, induce you to buy scent baits that will 
not attract the animal, we would not only be wronging you out of 
your money, but your valuable time as well while you were trying 
the bait. Any bait that will not attract the animal will frighten him. 
The bait is placed on each side of the trail so the animal will get the 
scent of it regardless of the way the wind is blowing. 
Good scent baits, properly compounded, are far superior to flesh 
baits, will attract the animal whether he is hungry or not. My scents 
will hold the scent when exposed for a week or two, and will keep 
from year to year as they are packed in the Mason fruit jar with a 
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