Mink Trapping

While strictly speaking they are not a water animal, yet their traveling for food and otherw

me sections they eat muskrat, but we believe they prefer other anim

or fish will attract them. The trapper who makes mink trapping a business should have various kind

and very active. While a No. 0 Newhouse will hold t

log projects nearly to the water, carefully dig a hole the size of your trap and an inch or more deep, covering with a large leaf or a piece of paper first. Then place a thin layer of earth removed over leaf or paper, making the set look as natu

tude some ten or twelve hundred miles west in Minnesota and Manitoba, Canada mink are larger but not so dark. Still further west on the coast of Washington mink are again smaller, being somewhat similar in size to the Maine m

ame as a pale or light brown mink, but on blowing into the fur the under portion is white, hence cotton. Such

ally varies from a couple of hundred thousand to a half million skins or more. This gives but a

ould not or did not unless leaning trees. This is a mistake however, as trappers have tracked them in t

fur, but so far no great success has been achieved. The raising of mink will no doubt be undertaken from this on by many, especially if prices remain as of late

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r 1 and begin to shed by February, so that the extreme Southern trapper has only about two months when the skins are at their best. In the central section

e weather mink do not, and the trapper, even in th

r, an illustrated monthly magazine, of Columbus, Ohio, devoted to hunting, trapping and raw furs. New trapping methods are