582 
FOREST AND STREAM 
FOR SALE 
Setters, Pointers and Hounds 
GEORGE W. LOVELL, Middleboro, Mass. 
Telephone 29-M 
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THE SOUTHERN FARM COON HOUND KENNELS, 
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DOGS FOR SALE. 
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send for list and prices of all varieties. Always on hand 
OXFORD KENNELS. 
35 North Ninth St., Philadelphia, Pa. 
Book on Dog Diseases 
AND HOW TO FEED. 
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11S W. 31 st Street New York 
OORANG AIREDALE PUPS for sale. Vigorous young¬ 
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DUCKS LOVE WILD CELERY AND RICE.— 
My Seeds now ready, also Live Decoys. Free 
Circular. Clyde B. Terrell, Dept. 1, Oshkosh, 
Wisconsin. 
WANTED—Pointers and Setters to train. Quail plen¬ 
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Wanted Pointers and Setters to train; plenty of game. 
Have some fine Pointer pups for sale, 12 months old. 
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Reading, Michigan 
they appeared considerably larger than ours, 
and I am told, sometimes weigh thirty or forty 
pounds each.” In the southwestern country 
1849, Marcy reports one chase by horses in 
this manner; A hunter “discovered a turkey 
upon the prairie, and putting spurs to his horse 
started after him at full speed. I thought this 
a novel method of hunting wild turkeys, and 
looked on the chase with a good deal of inter¬ 
est, particularly as I knew that the quality of 
our supper depended upon the result. The tur¬ 
key was about a half a mile ahead at the start, 
and made good running for a short time, but 
soon found it necessary to resort to flight. The 
hunter followed on till the turkey alighted and 
ran into a timbered ravine; he still followed out 
df sight with his horse, hut soon appeared again 
with a stick driving the exhausted bird before 
him. I expressed much surprise at the facility 
with which he run down and caught the turkey; 
but he informed me that they seldom ever fly 
more than twice 'before they become exhausted 
and are easily taken.” 
One of the most profitable methods is the so- 
called trap or pen, more generally used in Vir¬ 
ginia than in any other region. Bruce ( 1 . c., p. 
213) in speaking of Virginia in the 17th century 
writes that “among the ingenious devices em¬ 
ployed for its capture was the large trap 'built 
in the midst of the forest; lured by a long train 
of grains of corn to the hole in the ground 
which led into the trap, where there was piled 
up a quantity of the same grains, the turkey 
entered unhesitatingly, and once in, was too 
stupid to find its way out of the same hole 
again.” Beverly informs us “There are many 
pretty Devices besides the Gun, to take wild 
Turkeys; and among others, a Friend of mine 
invented a great Trap; wherein he at times 
caught many Turkeys, and particularly seven¬ 
teen at one time; hut he could not continue it 
so, as to let others in, after he had entrapped 
the first Flock, until they were taken out-” An- 
burey ( 1 . c. Vol II, pp. 340, 343) notes this same 
practice in Virginia. “Just before we came to 
Goochland Courthouse, we saw the manner by 
which the inhabitants catch them; they make 
a long fence of about twelve feet square, se¬ 
curing the top with heavy logs, hut before they 
covered it over dig a passage from the center, 
to the outside of the fence, which is covered 
over so as to admit light, and round about the 
entrance, and through this passage they strew 
Indian corn, as well as a quantity for them to 
feed on when in the trap, the birds seeing the 
corn in the inside, keep walking around to gather 
it, till they meet that which is laid to conduct 
them into the passage, which having consumed, 
they keep eating on till they get into the trap, 
and these foolish birds, when they wish to get 
out, instead of returning the way they came in, 
keep continually flying up, by which means one 
or two out of the flock, in the morning are found 
dead, and they frequently catch a flock of ten 
or a dozen at a time in this manner.” In 1819, 
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Warden (Vol. II, p. 178) practically repeats the 
above for Virginia. 
Of Ohio in 1814 and 1815, Walker writes 
’“Wild Turkeys are very plenty. I have often 
set a square pen made of rails, then scattered 
a little corn about it and into it, and caught 
eight or ten fine ones at a time. The pen being 
covered at the top the turkeys could not fly out, 
and they never thought of ducking their heads 
to get out by the same passage they came in.” 
In Michigan, about this same period, the pen has 
this description: (Tibbits, J. S., 1 . c., p. 404) 
“The wild turkey is sometimes caught in pens 
made of poles, some five or six feet in height 
and covered over the top to prevent their escape. 
A covered passageway is made under the pen 
large enough for the turkeys to crawl through. 
Corn or other grain is scattered in the pasage- 
way inside the pen. The unsuspecting birds, 
seeing the grain, commence picking it up, and 
thus one after another crawl through the hole 
into the pen. ‘Once in, forever in,’ for they 
never think of putting their heads down to 
crawl out again.” 
When at the Mammoth Cave, Blane ( 1 . c. p. 
277), an English gentleman finds, “The manner 
in which great numbers of wild turkeys are 
caught is very simple and curious. A Pen is 
made by placing rough hewn rails one above 
another, so as to form a vacant space, about 
six or eight feet long and as many broad, which 
is closed at the top by heavy rails laid across. 
A small trench is then dug for a yard or two 
on the outside and continued under the lowest 
rail into the interior. In this trench some In¬ 
dian corn is strewed, and the turkeys, while 
employed in picking it up, advance with their 
head downwards into the Pen. As soon as 
they find themselves in the enclosure, these 
stupid birds never think of stooping down, or 
they could walk out as easily as they walked 
in; hut instead of this they try to force a way 
out at the top and sides, and continue jump¬ 
ing about in great alarm, till some one in the 
course of the day visits the Pen and secures 
them. I have known as many as seven or eight 
caught within four and twenty hours in a single 
Pen.” 
In Canada the same method used to be in 
vogue. Smith finds a “common mode of cap¬ 
turing them is by trapping. This is effected by 
erecting a large pen or hut of fence rails, leaving 
the lower rail of one side a sufficient height 
from the ground to allow of the Turkey creep¬ 
ing under it. A long train of barley, corn, or 
some other grain is then laid on the ground, 
leading into the trap; the Turkeys gather up 
the grain till they arrive at the trap, when they 
follow the bait and creep' under the rail; as 
soon as they discover the predicament they are 
in they become so alarmed that they appear at 
once to lose all instinct; there is nothing to 
prevent them leaving the trap the way they came 
in, but they seem to not be aware of that, and 
remain stupidly staring about them till they are 
captured. In consequence of this known stu¬ 
pidity of the Turkey, trapping is prohibited in 
Canada, as tending to exterminate the breed, 
the Turkey usually wandering in flocks or 
families, and the whole flock being thus gen¬ 
erally taken at once; whereas, if they are shot, 
the chances are that some one of each brood will 
escape. 
