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J. Harrington Keene. How to Make and Set Traps
How to Make and Set Traps
Table of Contents
I. THE MOLE
II. THE WEASEL, STOAT AND POLECAT
III. RATS
IV. THE OTTER
V. THE SQUIRREL
VI. BIRD TRAPPING
VII. BIRD-CATCHING BY NET
VIII. BIRD-CATCHING WITH TRAPS
IX. BIRD-CATCHING WITH TRAPS, ETC
The Art of Stretching and Curing Skins
Dressing and Tanning Skins and Furs
Coloring or Dyeing Skins and Furs
Some Additional Valuable Miscellaneous Information Useful Alike to the Hunter, Trapper and Angler
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J. Harrington Keene
Including Hints on How to Trap Moles, Weasels, Otter, Rats, Squirrels and Birds; Also How to Cure Skins
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I have said that there is a fortress usually built by a colony of moles in the approximate form of Fig. 2, and so there is. The aim of the mole-catcher should be if possible to find out where this central position is and cut off retreat. I have seen the mole-catcher in Windsor Park dig the moles out on finding out this metropolis of moles—as it might be fitly called.
It has been proved that immediately on anything very alarming occurring, they forsake their explorations and flee into the citadel. This is how it was done and who did it.
