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How to make and set traps : Including hints on how to trap moles, weasels, otter, rats, squirrels and birds. Also how to cure skins / by J. Harrington Keene.
Author
Keene, J. Harrington.
Date Added
9 January 2014
Format
Journal
Language
English
Publish Date
1902
Publisher
New York : Frank Tousey
Series
Ten cent handbooks > no. 40
Source
Dime Novel and Popular Literature
Alternate Title
Ten cent handbooks -- no. 40
Topic
Trapping > Handbooks, manuals, etc. Hunting > Handbooks, manuals, etc. Hides and skins > Handbooks, manuals, etc.
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“HOW TO’ MAKE AND SET TRAPS. ~ __ 87
|. —whether fish, flesh or fowl—would become extinct as the
;dodo,
\ The bird-lime-itself is the next consideration under this_
‘heading. I do not advise any boy to make it himself, but —
\if he nevertheless chooses to do so, here is a recip2 which will
f produce a very good ‘lime.’’ Half a pint of Linseed: oil
« should be put into an iron pot and carefully boiled over the
‘fire for four hours, or, in fact, till it thickens sufficiently,
stirring it repeatedly the while with a stick. The oil is
*, Smooth when it boils. In order to ascertain when it is done
‘take out the stick and immerse it in water, after which sees
‘if it sticks to the fingers. If it does, the oil is ready to be
“poured into cold w ater, and thereafter placed in little flat
jtin boxes.—the most convenient receptacles, as they fit in
‘the waistcoat pocket, and can be used asirequired.
; Birdlime is also made from holly bark, but according to
the directions given in the ‘‘ Rucy clopzedia Britannica” the
process is much’ too troublesome for boys, aud as one can
buy birdlime enough to stick a tlock of rooks together for a
few pence from a professional bird-catcher, life may be con-
sidered too short for that process at this time. Aslam some
distance from a town,-much less a professional bird-catcher,
I make mine as above, and find it little if any inferior to that
I have been in-the habit of buying.
During winter time, when frost and snow cover the earth,
birdlime 1s very useful, for at that time the ‘clap ” net is of
very little use. A good plan then is to sweep a bare place
anywhere near a plantation or wooded garuen, or even in the
farm-yards, and having anointed a few dozen wheat ears with
the straw attached—or rather, having anoited the straw for
about a foot nearest the ear—to spread them about in the
patel. The birds will attempt to take the ears away, and
_Will so get limed and drop to the ground. You must very
“quickly pick them up or you will lose ‘some, as their strug-
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~ gles not infrequently release them, avleast partially, and they se
Hutter out of reach.
Sometimes it will be found that a few handfuls of oats,
barley or wheat thrown down where the limed straws are
will be of service when they do not seem to care for the wheat
. ears themselves. There is the probability of the little fellows
comitg in contact with the ears, and so getting limed.
These methods are chiefly applicable, as I have said, to cold
~ weather. »
A dilferent mode of procedure may be practiced when the
| Weather is very hot. Cut, say, a hundred twigs of some
smooth, thin wood, such as withy, and after liming, slick
‘ therm down by the side of any rivulet of water near woody
| growths, and of course not near & large tract of water such