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OVEMBER is the 
month to begin to 
reap the benefits of 
S}your pre-season 
work. If you have 
prepared, during 
the past month, to 
meet difficulties, you 
should have a suc- 
cessful season and 
you may remember that your success 
will depend on how much you have 
prepared for the furbearers before you 
actually begin work on the trap-line. 
The mink is famous because of its 
sensitive nose and keen wits. He is a 
rambler, following the banks of streams 
and ponds in quest of food. In fact, 
he seldom travels very far from water 
and invariably takes the same route 
over and over again. However, he is 
hard to trail in winter while the ground 
is frozen, but then should be trapped 
along the edges of the water. Mink 
continue to use their old places of go- 
ing in and out of the water and un- 
less these places were located early 
they are now very hard to find. 
It is possible to locate such places 
by finding mink tracks along logs run- 
ning into the water from the bank. 
Here you may find footprints visible, 
since on cold nights the wet print of 
the foot will freeze. I have located 
many a good set this way. 
It is a good plan to set traps at such 
places along the stream, and another 
excellent set may be made where the 
bank of the stream is steep. Here, 
stick up a little row of sticks about six 
inches from the bank and at the end 
of the little fence toward the center of 
the stream place a No. 1% trap. 
ROUND driftwood and other dé- 
bris along the streams runways 
may be found where a catch or two is 
almost certain. They almost always 
travel near the edge of the water and 
if there is a stump, log or stone half 
in the water they are sure to go in the 
water around it in preference to climb- 
ing the bank. 
My best mink set has always been 
where small streams flow into the main 
stream. Mink are particuarly fond of 
wading around in such places while ex- 
ploring and hunting their food. A trap 
set at the mouth of these branches, up 
near the bank, is almost sure to make 
a catch. 
Harvest Time on the 
Trap Line 
Some Hints for the Amateur Trapper 
By CLAYTON G. GATES 
When the banks of a stream are low 
and flat, place a log at right angles to 
the water, slightly raised at one end 
to form a guide for the mink. Place a 
trap in the water where the mink will 
step in preference to climbing over the 
log, and you have an ideal set. It is 
best to always stake traps a chain’s 
length toward deep water. A No. 1% 
is generally considered the ideal mink 
trap. 
Raccoon are more or less water-lov- 
ing animals. They may be trapped in 
very much the same way that mink 
are trapped. Their curiosity concern- 
ing any shining substance in the water 
is never failing and when a piece of 
tin or a metal fish is placed upon the 
pan of a trap the ’coon is sure to in- 
vestigate and feel for the bright thing, 
thus getting caught. 
AKE a short log and place it ‘n 
shallow water, so one end is high 
and the other submerged. Several 
traps should be placed about the log 
and a good lure sprinkled on the log. 
When caught by one trap the ’coon, in 
his efforts to get away, is caught in 
the others and held fast until taken 
out. 
I also like sets made in raccoon run- 
ways in and out of corn fields and sets 
made at the mouth of branches. A 
’coon is unusually strong and will test 
the power of a trap as. will no other 
animal of equal size. 
The muskrat is an aquatic animal, 
and, unlike the ’coon, is found only on 
the water. They frequent most all 
streams, lakes and ponds and are more 
or less easily caught. They build their 
houses out of mud, grass and sticks in 
shallow water, during the fall, having 
their entrances beneath water. The 
stream ’rats burrow back in the banks 
with the entrance to these holes gen- 
erally about one foot under water. 
There is not much money in early 
trapped ’rats, and although winter 
’rats bring good prices they do not 
reach their prime before spring. 
In trapping muskrats, place your 
traps in a few inches of water at the 
foot of their slides and stake the chain 
out toward deep water, so the rat will 
drown. In trapping marsh ’rats or 
pond ’rats set your traps in the same 
manner at the edge of the water where 
their trails show frequent travel. 
Successful sets may be made in run- 
It will identify you. 
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