. The encyclopaedia of sport. elastic to stretch todouble its natural size, which has caused anerroneous impression as to the dimensions ofthis rarely observed animal. The primest fur is only to be obtained in theinterior, and the best and darkest Marten orSable will be found among the densest andlargest timber. The trapper therefore selectswhat he considers the most likely lookingcountry for a winters campaign, and, afterbuilding himself a shanty, gradually sets out ated, by setting the lra|) just under water in oneof the numennis warm springs often found inthe north, and covering the pan wit
. The encyclopaedia of sport. elastic to stretch todouble its natural size, which has caused anerroneous impression as to the dimensions ofthis rarely observed animal. The primest fur is only to be obtained in theinterior, and the best and darkest Marten orSable will be found among the densest andlargest timber. The trapper therefore selectswhat he considers the most likely lookingcountry for a winters campaign, and, afterbuilding himself a shanty, gradually sets out ated, by setting the lra|) just under water in oneof the numennis warm springs often found inthe north, and covering the pan with the trap a grouse should dangle froman upright stick, and the fox, rather than wetits foot in this cold climate, will, in order toreach the bait, place it u])on the deceptive mossand become caught. The Cross and Red Fox may be capturedby the spring pole, which consists of any con-venient young tree cut of sufficient weight atthe butt to suspend the animal for which it isset. This should be fixed to another tree. Leaving the Hut. some fifty miles of traps over mountain andvalley, composed of deadfalls, snares, and steeltraps at intervals of a third of a mile apart, witha rough lean-to every twenty miles to sleepunder and to cache a few provisions in. Thetrapping season lasts from November to April, butJanuary and February are the least productivemonths. Taking in rotation, somewhat according totheir market value, those animals likely to beobtained during a winters trapping, we com-mence with the Silver Fox which, like all itstribe, dreads the smell of iron, and is mostdifficult to capture in a steel trap. A successfulcapture may be effected, and all scent obliter- beside the trail in such a position that the stringloop, attached to the lighter end, hangs abovethe trail at the height of the animals pole is held there by a portion of the nooseattached with a jam round a peg driven in theground ; on a tug at the noose, this releases it-self and the pole, whic
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