rubber seal. 
Why lose your time trying to make bait?—better let Dad make it.. 
My reason for not giving the recipes to make these baits is that 
there is not one person out of a thousand that is careful enough to 
make good scent baits. It takes even more than a chemist to com¬ 
pound a good, reliable bait that will last and not mould or spoil. 
Besides, the trapper, whether he is a professional or amateur, will 
lose more trying to make his own baits. The baits should be made 
commercially, by an experienced trapper, something you can depend 
upon. It will only take one or two furs to buy all the bait you need. 
CHAPTER XIX. 
HOW TO MAKE TRAPPING PROFITABLE 
If you wish to trap beaver, otter, mink, raccoon or muskrat you 
should have a row boat and an outboard motor, and a small scow, 
say 10x16 feet, with a comfortable room to live in. Trap the water 
courses, using your row boat to set traps and to move your scow 
from place to place as you catch the animals out. 
Should you trap coyotes, wolves, fishers, martin, lynx, lynx cat, 
fox, cougar, lion, panther, bear—go to the mountains in the fall of the 
year and look out your trapping ground and build a cabin at the upper 
end of your trap line—then go down your line say five or ten miles 
and build a cabin. Then build one near the snow line. Pack in your 
supplies on burros leaving some supplies at each cabin. When you 
reach the upper cabin, turn your burros loose; as the snow comes they 
will go down the mountains themselves. 
Start your trapping at the upper cabin and as the snow drives 
the animals to a lower altitude, make you a sled out of poles, load it 
with your outfit and slide down to the second cabin. If the moun¬ 
tain is very steep you can rough lock your sled; in extremely steep 
places you can use a rope. Take one wrap .around a tree and make 
the end fast to the back end of your sled and snub it down. When 
the main snow comes, move down to the lower cabin, near the snow 
line; there trap until the snow begins to melt and the animals begin 
to go up the mountain. Hunt up your burros and follow the animals. 
During the spring and summer you can fish trout and look out the 
best places to trap, build snow sheds, etc. 
If you are a farmer and have to stay close to home, build your 
snow sheds, look out for the best sets, and catch all the animals that 
pass through your trap line. It is a good idea to take the animals by 
storm, that is to say, cover all good sets with plenty of traps. As soon 
as the animals find out you are trapping them they will leave; when 
you see this, move your outfit unless you are where the animals are 
traveling or drifting. Remember—when an animal is attracted by 
bait and caught in a trap and pulls off a toe or foot, he will never 
go to the same scented bait again, and will warn his companions., 
Therefore, use good traps and plenty of them. 
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