Trapping on the farm . erysatisfactorily. Rolled oats or crumbs of bread should be scat-tered around and beneath these traps to attract the catching sparrows one should be very careful to see thatno native birds are HOW TO CATCH FUR ANIMALS. The devices intended for capturing fur animals are num-berless, ranging from simple deadfalls (fig. ),constructedon the spot out of such convenient materials as saplings and 1 See Department Bulletin G21, The Crow and Its Relation to See Farmers Bulletin 493,_ The English Sparrow as a Pest. 458 Yearbook of the Department of A
Trapping on the farm . erysatisfactorily. Rolled oats or crumbs of bread should be scat-tered around and beneath these traps to attract the catching sparrows one should be very careful to see thatno native birds are HOW TO CATCH FUR ANIMALS. The devices intended for capturing fur animals are num-berless, ranging from simple deadfalls (fig. ),constructedon the spot out of such convenient materials as saplings and 1 See Department Bulletin G21, The Crow and Its Relation to See Farmers Bulletin 493,_ The English Sparrow as a Pest. 458 Yearbook of the Department of Agriculture, 1919. slivers, to patented products of factories. Although certainstyles of traps may be used for catching many different kindsof animals, others are used exclusively for a single specieshaving peculiar habits which make ordinary traps inef-fective. The assortment of traps here illustrated, while byno means complete, is sufficient for capturing all of the ani-mals included within the limits of this Fig. G.—Cat Trap Designed by the Biological Survey tor CatchingVagrant Cats and Disposing of Them and operation are shown in figure 7. Steel traps (figs. 12 and 13) and other traps likely to becarried away by the animals caught in them are eitherchained fast to a stake or other immovable object or attachedto a grapple or clog which yields when the captured animalsmake their first frantic efforts to escape, but which can notbe dragged far. A sapling makes an excellent drag, thechain being attached 2 or 3 feet from the larger end, whichmakes it move more or less crosswise and soon becomefastened in bushes or weeds. Trap chains should always in-clude a swivel. Trapping on the Farm. 459 In setting a trap a careful trapper always springs it sev-eral assure himself that it is going to work prop-erly. Before the trapping season opens, steel traps shouldbe cleaned, the joints oiled, and any necessary little repairsmade. STRIPED SKUNKS. T
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