. The complete American and Canadian sportsman's encyclopedia of valuable instruction. Camping; Fishing; Hunting. Por Cold Nights Sleeping—Use a pair of Arc- tic or loose sleeping socks. No fear of cojd feet at night when sleeping. Price only 25 cents. To Make Traps Rustproof—Dip them in a so- lution of melted beeswax and rosin. Set Traps Whenever Possible—In the runways or paths of animals. In Rutting Season—Use for Skunk bait, musk of skunk or rotten eggs with old meat. In Baiting With Muskrat—Use for scent musk from the rat. In baiting with fish, use fish oil for' scent. A Practical Trap—Ca
. The complete American and Canadian sportsman's encyclopedia of valuable instruction. Camping; Fishing; Hunting. Por Cold Nights Sleeping—Use a pair of Arc- tic or loose sleeping socks. No fear of cojd feet at night when sleeping. Price only 25 cents. To Make Traps Rustproof—Dip them in a so- lution of melted beeswax and rosin. Set Traps Whenever Possible—In the runways or paths of animals. In Rutting Season—Use for Skunk bait, musk of skunk or rotten eggs with old meat. In Baiting With Muskrat—Use for scent musk from the rat. In baiting with fish, use fish oil for' scent. A Practical Trap—Can be made by boring a series of tw^o-injch or larger auger holes in a water logged stump or log, and driving in two or three horse shoe nails, so that any small headed animal who thrusts in his head to secure bait behind the nails cannot withdraw his head, because the nails catch and kill him. Set Traps for Otter—At the foot of their slides a trifle under the water. Beaver also. The Secret of Trapping Wild Animals.—My style of setting traps was most simple and very ef- fective, although it required a good many traps to do the work. Knowing the habits of the animals I was trying to catch alive I adopted the- following methods. I set my traps only on the trails running through the thickest part of the woods. Here we would bury traps at intervals along the path by first dig- ging a hole with a hatchet and removing the earth. Then we carefully laid a trap in place, laying a piece of canvas under the trap pan to keep the earth from interfering with the spring or clogging it. Next we carefully covered the trap with earth and smoothed the ground off, after securing the trap chain to limb of a busli or trunk of a tree. We were careful to place a few branches or stones on either side of the path ahead of each trap to guide the animal directly over the trap into it. Then all was ready but one thing and that was the SGcret of our great success in trapping animals. We place
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