being preferred. With a good chisel 
the work of cutting the holes isn’t so 
bad. Then you’ll need an ice dipper, 
for cleaning the chipped ice from the 
hole so you can see what you’re about. 
A small fire shovel with holes drilled 
here and there through it is O. K., but 
it represents a lot of needless weight. 
When a fellow has to pack his outfit 
around, every pound counts either way. 
A small birch bent in the shape of a 
loop and with rawhide lacings or fill- 
ing, similar to the webbing of a snow- 
shoe, is the clear rig and it weighs but 
a few ounces. 
Se distance from the lodge an 
experimental hole should be cut. 
The idea is to locate a place where the 
clearance between the bottom of the 
ice and the mud is a foot or so. Make 
a V-shaped pen of dry sticks, placing 
them fairly close together and forcing 
them well down into the mud. The 
sticks must be DRY otherwise the 
beaver will chew on them instead of 
on your bait. In the back of the pen 
green poplar sticks are staked and the 
trap set in the entrance and staked to 
a good dry pole. 
A set is made by fastening green 
stuff to a dry log, say one ten feet long 
and eight inches thick. Remembering 
that the log is to be stuck in the water 
at an angle of forty-five degrees or 
thereabouts, a resting place for the trap 
is chopped out just below where the 
green sticks will be. The trap fastened 
securely in place, the log is shoved 
down into the water so that the green 
stuff will barely project below the ice. 
The idea is this: when the beaver gets 
to chewing at that green stuff his feet 
will naturally come to rest on anything 
that feels solid and if your trap has 
been arranged right you’ll nab him. 
IFFERENT plans for trapping un- 
der ice will come to any ingenius 
fellow, the idea being always to have 
your bait and trap so arranged as to 
work together. After midwinter the 
beaver’s food in his cache becomes 
soured through being so long in the 
water, and the value of a fresh green 
stick as a lure cannot be over-esti- 
mated. In making any of these water 
sets beneath the ice one should not fig- 
ure very strong on making a catch the 
first night; better wait a week and be 
sure. Cover the holes with snow, where 
you have set the traps and they won’t 
freeze so hard again. 
HE spring is the best time for trap- 
ping beaver. In the North the furs 
are good until the first of June, for 
there is ice in the streams until later 
than that sometimes. The trapper’s 
biggest difficulty in spring trapping is 
this—locating the animal. When the 
spring freshets get in full blast they 
often wash away the beaver’s dams and 
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