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  Construction.--The Twitch-up.--Its Peculiar Advantages for the Capture of the Skunk.--Chloride of Lime


id: 17093
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  "Punk Tinder," valuable in lighting fires.--How to light Fires without matches or Sun glass.--How to light a fire without Matches, Sun Glass, Powder, or Percussion Caps.--A


id: 45690
type: WORK_OF_ART
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  ''Pears like the more cows a man has, the less milk he gets; but I tell you it''s a mighty good thing


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id: 28574
title: Connie Morgan in the Fur Country
author: Hendryx, James B. (James Beardsley)
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  come to be out of grub?" asked Connie, when ''Merican Joe had lighted a ''Merican Joe shook his head: "I ain'' know--I can''t pull heem out. So Connie Morgan took the line from the hand of ''Merican Joe and as his Joe, and when the Indian made his way back, the boy pointed to Leloo. Leloo ain'' git mad for good mans." "He ain'' so good lak Injun dog," interrupted ''Merican Joe. Connie reached the man''s side and proceeded to scrape away the snow, "Leloo, he ain'' fool wit'' no fox tonight," answered ''Merican Joe. Connie started to place them close to the hot stove, but ''Merican Joe pack Connie produced the fox skin while the Indian lighted a fire. to fox trapping, and Connie told the Indian that he and ''Merican Joe had Connie waited for two days after ''Merican Joe returned from the trap


id: 17093
title: Camp Life in the Woods and the Tricks of Trapping and Trap Making
author: Gibson, W. Hamilton (William Hamilton)
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  for baiting traps, selections of ground for setting, and other THE COMMON BOX TRAP.--Two Modes of Setting.--Animals for which it Fondness for Salt.--Its Use as a Bait.--THE SELF SETTING TRAP.--Animals Modes of Setting the Trap.--The Baits Commonly Used.--The Dead Fall Alive.--Log Coop Trap.--The Pit Fall.--Bait for the Puma.--The Steel of its Fur.--The Steel Trap.--Various Methods of Setting.--Directions Steel Trap.--Several Modes of Setting.--Directions for Skinning the Trap.--Scent Bait for the Deer.--Various Methods of Setting and catch its extremity in the notch of the bait piece, and the trap If the trap is set for muskrats, minks, skunks, or animals of similar The trap may be set on the land, near the water''s edge, baiting the trap being set and covered in the opening and the bait secured Wherever or however the trap is set, the bait should be so placed of setting and baiting traps for all our leading animals are clearly


id: 26615
title: Black Beaver, the Trapper
author: Lewis, George Edward
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  The winter of my sixth year I had planed on trapping small fur bearing winter trapping with a man named Walker on the head waters of the at wild goose creek that I first began running trap lines under an old When we came home that day my father and mother held a long council over evening of the third day I camped on Hopkins creek under an old hemlock In due time we pitched camp and set our traps. The old routine of trapping even among the great rocky mountains grew of time to get my bearings I faced the music; the old dog arose and made creek--and set traps for fur--We moved once a week and averaged to take The following winter We raked up our old gang got together and went up off hunting and trapping grounds so many times by indians that I payed


id: 34063
author: Woodcock, E. N. (Eldred Nathaniel)
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  I have trapped bear and hunted deer in the mountains of Pennsylvania day while we were some ways out from camp setting traps my friend camp being completed we began setting the bear traps. The way Mr. Harris set a bear trap was to build a V shaped pen about As soon as I got back to camp I went to the bear trap to relieve deer hunting and marten and bear trapping, so I sprung the deadfalls After setting the trap I climbed the ridge to look for deer and got day after I had set the first bear trap when Will came in, shortly On the way back to camp we looked at two or three bear traps and time in deer hunting until we had looked all of the bear traps over. for a day or two and set two more bear traps south of camp, although

title:
  Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper Autobiography, experiences and observations of Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock during his fifty years of hunting and trapping.


id: 32236
title: The Story of the Trapper
author: Laut, Agnes C.
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  Hudson''s Bay and North-West Fur companies across Northern America to the to the north on the remote waters of Hudson Bay, the old English company Hudson''s Bay Company, past which North-West canoes must paddle to turn Your Spanish grandee of the Missouri Company, like Manuel Lisa of St. Louis, might sit in a counting-house or fur post adding up rows of snow-shoes, the way the Indians hunted north of the Yellowstone. plenty of water for men and horses when hunters and traders and Indians But if the trapper is an Indian, or the white man has a messenger to on the snow like a black marble, that the trapper detects the white Indian trapper will find his last hunting-grounds. Old; and here Indian trappers will hunt as long as the race lasts. Mid-day comes, the time of the short shadow; and the Indian trapper has Indian trapper as an exchange crash to the white man.


id: 34098
author: Kreps, Elmer Harry
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  words the trap is set without bait in a trail where the animal place a bait inside, setting the trap directly in front of the hole or stakes, setting the trap in the entrance, and placing the bait in My method of setting is to place the trap inside of a small enclosure fishers, lynx and other large animals about, it is best to use a No. 1 1/2 trap. point, set the trap in the water, at the end of the trail. trappers set the trap a foot or more from the shore, where the water trappers set their traps several inches under water, as by so doing the winter, traps may be set on muskrat houses, and bait placed on Some trappers set traps around large baits, such as the carcass of a When trapping around a large bait, sometimes the animals will not

title:
  Science of Trapping Describes the Fur Bearing Animals, Their Nature, Habits and Distribution, with Practical Methods for Their Capture


id: 34229
author: Harding, A. R. (Arthur Robert)
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  Trappers in stating the size traps that they use for a certain animal then the best size for the animal being set for is the trap to use. find mink and other small animals dead when caught in this trap by traps good ones for other animals than skunks and muskrats for which set steel traps for many kinds of animals, is to suspend the bait [Illustration: TREE TRAP SET AND ANIMAL APPROACHING.] To a lone trapper setting bear traps miles away from any human When setting trap in wet earth, place paper, cat tail, dry leaves, traps once set the trapper should keep away from, as far as possible times the bait is too near the trap most likely, the animal reaching times has a trapper set traps at dens where within a few hundred To place a bait anywhere above the trap is well enough for an animal

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  Steel Traps Describes the Various Makes and Tells How to Use Them, Also Chapters on Care of Pelts, Etc.


id: 34228
title: The Accomplished Muskrat Trapper: A Book on Trapping for Amateurs
author: Schmidt, Arno Erdman
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  Trapping Muskrats--Open Water Methods. amphibious class of animals, consequently traps must be set in or One of the best traps for muskrats ever invented is manufactured by for trapping ''rats when streams are free of ice. animal, is to set traps at the foot of their slides, in two or three such a place, set a trap in the water at each end of the trail. good places to set traps, as every passing ''rat will visit such setting of traps in difficult places, especially under ice. set traps in or upon muskrat houses. traps through the ice, in three or four feet of water. spring, when pelts are strictly prime and the fur is at its best. Handling and Grading Muskrat Fur. Thousands of dollars are annually lost to trappers on account of the of fall muskrat pelts than among any other kind of fur.


id: 47639
title: Hints on Wolf and Coyote Trapping
author: Young, Stanley Paul
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  HINTS ON WOLF AND COYOTE TRAPPING THE RANGE of coyotes and wolves in the United States to-day is confined Time consumed in finding a wolf or coyote scent post is well spent, If traps are placed where the animals are FIGURE 1.--First step in setting traps for wolves and coyotes. Places where carcasses of animals killed by wolves and coyotes or offer excellent spots for setting traps, for wolves and coyotes often Ideal places for wolf or coyote traps are points 6 to 8 shown in place; B, trap completely bedded, springs and jaws covered, hole dug to bed the trap is placed on the setting cloth. to step directly over it onto the pan of the trap; C, place the scent drops on weeds or ground 6 or 8 inches from the place where the trap the natural scent dropped by the animal while in the trap.


id: 48710
title: Hints on Bobcat Trapping
author: Young, Stanley Paul
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  Scented trap sets 3 setting bobcat traps, the care with which the art is practiced need not [Illustration: Figure 1.--"Blind" or trail set being placed for bobcats. (Fig. 2.) If the double set is to be used, the trap holes [Illustration: Figure 2.--Details of setting trap for bobcat in trail; Bobcats usually have their scent posts slightly off the trail, on stubble The trap should be set between the trail and the from the trail a trap is set, however, the more scent will be needed. [Illustration: Figure 3.--Placing a scent set for bobcats: A, double trap Scent sets are placed between the trail and a [Illustration: Figure 4.--Details of placing scent set on cleared space Between the trap set and the scent post may be buried a jar having Trap sets placed, as described around such scent points have pan, springs, and jaws after the trap is placed.


id: 48711
title: Hints on Mountain-Lion Trapping
author: Young, Stanley Paul
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  HINTS ON MOUNTAIN-LION TRAPPING control of mountain-lions, is based on the experience of Biological fresh track of a mountain-lion have trailed the animal for 10 consecutive Under certain conditions mountain-lions can easily be caught in traps of The mountain-lion is trapped as it comes through the saddle of the divide Figure 1.--Trap most suitable for mountain-lions (No. 4½), control area shows unmistakably that a mountain-lion did the killing, at trapping in mountain-lion control: mountain-lions are known to travel, particularly near deer trails that writer has known catnip pans to be visited by mountain-lions in such In forested areas a mountain-lion hunter may find his traps sprung by jaws and thus spoiling a set well placed for a mountain-lion. adjusted to mountain-lion traps to prevent their being sprung by small attached to the No. 14 steel trap used for mountain-lions. animals and birds in traps set for mountain-lions or other predators:


id: 45690
title: Jack the Young Trapper: An Eastern Boy''s Fur Hunting in the Rocky Mountains
author: Grinnell, George Bird
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  "Where are you going to look for that antelope, Hugh?" said Jack. "Well, Hugh," said Jack, "what particular place did you think of going "By the way, Hugh," said Jack, "how much grub will we want to take with "Well," said Jack, "you''ve worked pretty fast, Hugh, haven''t you? "Of course you do, Hugh," said Jack; "I know that well enough. "Why, son," said Hugh, "I can tell you whole lot about beaver trapping. "That bear skin is going to make us a lot of trouble, son," said Hugh, "All right," said Hugh, "we''ll skin that little beaver, and roast him "Hugh," said Jack, "you told me to hang the beaver skin where the "Well," said Jack, "this beaver lived in those old times, a good way "Well, Hugh, this is a good camp," said Jack. "It looks to me, Hugh," said Jack, "as if the skinning of these four


