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Secrets of Harvesting 
the Pelt Crop 
Do Not Overlook Nearby Territory 
By CLAYTON G. GATES 



ONTRARY to the 
belief of many 
trappers, there is, 
within the reach 
of most farms, a 
golden opportunity 
for cashing in on 
the big fur har- 
vest, and it is not 
necessary to go to some distant field 
or territory in order to realize good 
returns in trapping. There is fur and 
plenty of fur within your reach if you 
will only look it up. 
Trapping demands a certain amount 
of study; it is essential that you know 
something about the habits of animals 
and just where you are most likely to 
catch them, and until you understand, 
to a certain extent, the real secrets of 
trapping, you are not going to cash in 
for the big money and wholesome sport 
there is in it. 
There are trappers who average two 

hundred dollars worth of furs each 
week during the time on the line, and 
that done only by trapping the farm- 
land districts. 
Take the muskrat, for instance. 
There are vast marshes in the eastern 
part of the country where muskrats 
are numerous. 
of such marshes often take from 4,000 
to 5,000 
$1.50 each this makes a tidy pile of 
the “long green.” 
Men who have parts 
’rats annually and at only 
EFORE the season ojpens, these 
trappers are at work making ex- 
tensive preparations for the season. 
They cut stakes, go over all their traps 
and store them out in the marsh where 
they may be gotten as needed. After 
the season opens they are busy from 
dawn to twilight, wading the marsh 
with a pack of drowned ’rats, stakes 
and traps. This is no boy’s life, yet 
they say it is sport and like it—they 
are surely rewarded in cash. 
I have mentioned this particular line 
of muskrat trapping, merely because 
of the extraordinary system used on 
these marshes. 
of the ambitious, energetic young trap- 
pers ever get on one of these marshes, 
but they will find that if they give 
their territory a good trapping, that 
Of course only a few 
six or seven hundred dollars may be 
realized in a few months’ work. You 
may find it to your advantage to let 
specializing alone; the muskrat marsh 
trapper can well afford to let the other 
animals alone, but the average trap- 
per will find that there is more money 
in mink, ’coon, skunk, fox and musk- 
rat, where there are a few of each, but 
not many of either class, than there is 
in only one class of trapping. 
You may say that the trapper who 
specializes in any particular line of 
the work is better able to meet the 
tricks of that animal than the trapper 
who traps them all, and I will agree 
with you that you are not far off the 
trail. It is only natural that the trap- 
per who traps muskrat alone under- 
stands the muskrat better than the 
trapper who traps anything within his 
reach, but in a hard trapped territory, 
where fur is scarce, a trapper may 
realize more from a dozen mink, a 
dozen fox, a dozen ’coon, a dozen skunk 
and a dozen muskrat than he could 
from a hundred and fifty muskrat, 
more than he could possibly catch over 
the same distance that the other catch 
as a rule is possible. 
HERE are two kinds of sets—the 
blind sets and the bait sets, which 
will take in every set known to trap- 
pers. My own experience with the two 
has taught me that the blind set, for 
several reasons, is the most successful 
for the inexperienced trapper. 
Bait is more or less a warning to 
the sly mink or fox. However, it is 
true that excellent results have been 
made from such sets. A blind set is a 
set made in a trail or runway without 
the use of any bait or lure. Due to 
the fact that it catches the animal 
when not expecting danger, there is a 
higher and firmer grip which is a big 
lead in its favor. For years I have 
used blind sets almost exclusively 
wherever favorable conditions  ex- 
isted. 
The full value of blind sets depends 
largely upon the knowledge you have 
of fur bearers. Some trappers find it 
difficult to locate natural places to 
make sets. This to a great extent is 
true, but with a very little time and 
work, places may be fixed that will 
work as successfully as natural loca- 
tions. However, natural locations are 
better unless you have prepared far 
enough in advance to make your own 
sets appear natural, and water sets are 
always better than a similar set placed 
on land. 
It will identify you. 
