FOX TRAPPING

A Book of Instruction Telling How to Trap, Snare, Poison and Shoot A Valuable Book for Trappers

EDITED BY A. R. HARDING

Published by A. R. HARDING PUB. CO. COLUMBUS, OHIO Copyright, 1906 By A. R. HARDING

CONTENTS.

I. General Information

II. Baits and Scents

III. Foxes and Odor

IV. Chaff Method, Scent

V. Traps and Hints

VI. All Round Land Set

VII. Snow Set

VIII. Trapping Red Fox

IX. Red and Grey

X. Wire and Twine Snare

XI. Trap, Snare, Shooting and Poison

XII. My First Fox

XIII. Tennessee Trapper's Method

XIV. Many Good Methods

XV. Fred and the Old Trapper

XVI. Experienced Trapper's Tricks

XVII. Reynard Outwitted

XVIII. Fox Shooting

XIX. A Shrewd Fox

XX. Still Hunting The Fox

XXI. Fox Ranches

XXII. Steel Traps

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

Fall Catch

Almost Dry Enough To Turn

Vermont Hunter and Fox Skins

Left for the Foxes to Devour

A Good Runner

Some Pet Foxes

Silver and Black Fox Skins

Live Silver Fox

November Catch

Awaiting the Trapper

After the Chase

Trap and Grapnel

Caught in Maine

Caught by a Missouri Trapper

White Fox Skins

A Rhode Island Scene

Grey Fox

Sacking Foxes

Wire or Twine Snare

The Wire Loop

Spring Pole Snare

The Runway Snare Set

Some Canadian Reds

Caught in a No. 1

Caught on His Own Farm

Tennessee Trapper and Traps

Thirty Silver Fox Skins worth $5000

California Trapper Visiting Traps

Pennsylvania Fox Trapper's Cabin

New England Trapper's Catch

Pack of New England Fox Hounds

The Spring and Sod Set

Odorless and White as Snow

Canadian Trapper and Fifteen Reds

Adirondack Trapper

Fox Traps with Drags

Killed Before Breakfast

Result of a Three Day's Hunt

Always Hungry

Black Fox Skin Valued at $1500

Northern Fox Trapper's Dog Team

Fox and Other Steel Traps

INTRODUCTORY.

If all the methods as given in this book had been studied out by one man and he began trapping when Columbus discovered America, more than four hundred years ago, he would not be half completed.

The methods given on the following pages are principally taken from articles published in the H-T-T, and as the writers give their own most successful methods, the trapper of little experience with fox will find them of great value.

Their articles are from all parts of America, so that trappers from any section will find a method or methods that can be used. The red fox is the one most sets describe, yet what is a good method for one species is apt to be for others.

A. R. HARDING.