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 (14768374292)

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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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and repass it in going to and from theirhouse. The butt of the tree should be fastened at the shoreunder the ice. Directly under the butt, about ten or twelveinches below, a platform should be prepared by driving stakesor by any other means that is convenient, on which the trapshould be set. The chain ring- should be attached as beforeto a dry sliding-pole. After the trap is set and secured, thehole in the ice should be filled up with snow and allowed tofreeze. The Beaver, passing the newly cut tree and discover-ing its freshness, will proceed toward the butt for the purposeof securing the whole for food, and, in gnawing it off near theshore over the trap, will be likely to be taken. The reasonwhy the sliding-pole should be dry is, that if it is green theremaining Beavers will be likely to gnaw it off and take ithome with them, trap, Beaver and all, for the sake of the bark. The Beaver is said to renew its breath, when travellingunder the ice, in the same manner as the muskrat; and of

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^<^# <n5- CAPTURE OF ANIMALS. 4T course might be caught at certain times in the way describedon page 22. THE WOLF. There are many varieties of the Wolf, and tliev are foundthrougliout Nortli America, Europe, and Asia. They aresubstantially the same in form everywhere, but vary in colorfrom black through shades of brown, fulvous, yellow, andgray, to white. The most common color is gray. They varyin size from the great White and Gray Wolves of the northernregions of America to the Coyote of the Avestern plains. Theyinhabit chiefly unsettled and mountainous regions. They be-long to the same family with the dog and fox. They are car-nivorous, and combine both ferocity and cowardice in theircharacter. Though lean and gaunt in appearance, they arefleet and powerful animals. They hunt mostly in packs, anddestroy great numbers of deer in the stiff snows of winter,sometimes slaughtering whole herds in a single night. Thesheepfold of the frontier farmer also suffers from their depre-datio

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