Identifier: trappersguideman01newh (find matches)
Title: The trapper's guide; a manual of instructions for capturing all kinds of fur-bearing animals, and curing their skins; with observations on the fur-trade, hints on life in the woods, and narratives of trapping and hunting excursions
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Newhouse, S. (Sewell) Noyes, John Humphrey, 1811-1886
Subjects: Trapping Hunting
Publisher: Community, N.Y., Oneida community, limited
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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y prefer to take them on land. Thetrap should be set near the bank of a stream. If one of theirholes cannot be found, make a hole by the side of a root or astump, or anywhere in the ground. Three sides of the cavityshould be barricaded with stones, bark, or rotten wood, andthe trap set at the entrance. The bait may be fish, birds, orthe flesh of the muskrat, cut in small pieces ; and it shouldbe put into the cavity beyond the trap, so that the animal willhave to step over the traj) in taking the bait. The trap shouldbe concealed by a covering of leaves, rotten vegetation,or, what is better, the feathers of some bird. In very coldweather the bait should be smoked to give it a stronger smell. Mink can be attracted long distances by a scent that is pre-pared from the decomposition of eels, trout, or even minnows.These fishes are cut in small pieces, and put into a loosely-corked bottle, which is allowed to hang in the sunshine fortwo or three weeks in summer, when a sort of oil is formed
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pu, capturf: of animals. 2t which emits a very stron<T odor. A few drops of this oil ontlie bait, or even on a stick without bait, will draw Mink veryeffectually. The chain of the tra)3 should be fastened to a spring-pole,strong enough to lift the animal, when caught, out of thereach of the fisher, fox, and other depredators ; or if the trapis set near deep water, it may be attached to a sliding-pole,which will secure the game by drowning it. Both of thesedevices are fully described on ))ages. 17 and 18. THK MAKTEN. The Marten is found on this Continent from about northlatitude forty degiees to the northern limits of the woods, orabout sixty-eiglit flegrees. On tiic Eastern Continent they in-habit all the North of Europe and Asia, except the treelessdistricts of the cold regions. The principal species are, thePine Marten, which inhabits both continents, the Beech orStone Maiten of Europe, the Sable^ of Russia and NorthernAsia, and the Japanese Sable. Naturalists class the fisher,al

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