Vintage THE TRAPPER'S COMPANION, 1918 Trapping How-To!

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This vintage soft cover book The Trapper's Companion published in 1918 by Peltries Publishing Company Incorporated is the third edition with 160 pages.

The title page says:

An Up-to-date replete with Trapping Methods, Approved Sets used by the Most Experienced Trappers, Instruction for Handling, Grading and Shipping Raw Furs, Traps, Bait, Scents, Fur Farming, Camp Building, Boat Building, Turtle Trapping, Bee Hunting, and many minor matters, embracing everything a trapper should know to insure success.

Contents in alphabetical list:

• Badger Trapping
• Baits
• Bear Trapping
• Beaver Trapping
• Bee Hunting
• Boat--One Man Trapping
• Boots--How to Dry
• Box Trap
• Botanical Drugs--How to Collect
• Burning Glass


• Camp Building
• Carbolic Acid--Uses of
• Care of the Rifle
• Carrier for Game and Traps
• Chains
• Civet Cat Trapping
• Cleaning Fur
• Collecting Botanical Drugs
• Compass
• Cooking Game


• Crows
• Deadfalls
• Dogs
• Drags
• Drowners
• Drying Furs
• Drying Rack for Roots
• Early and Late Trapping
• Ermine Trapping
• Fastening Traps--Methods of


• Figure Four Trap
• Fish Oil
• Fisher Trapping
• Fox Trapping
• Fox Snaring
• Fur Farming
• Game--How to Cook
• Game--How to Keep
• Game Heads--How to Prepare for Mounting
• Grading Raw Furs


• Guns
• Hawks
• Handling Skins
• Hides
• Hot Water--Uses of
• Humane
• Indian Snowshoe Hitch
• Knife
• Late Trapping and Early
• Lemon--Uses of


• Lynx Trapping
• Marten Trapping
• Matches
• Mink Trapping
• Mole Trapping
• Muskrat--Preparing for Market
• Muskrat--Shooting
• Muskrat--Trapping
• Net Making
• Opossum Trapping


• Otter Trapping
• Owls
• Pack Sack--How to Make
• Pearl Hunting
• Photography
• Preparing Skins for Market
• Prime
• Raccoon Trapping
• Rifle--Care of
• Rubbers--How to Repair


• Rules for Sportsmen
• Salt
• Scents--How to Make
• Scraping Beam
• Skinning Device
• Skunk Trapping
• Snake Poison
• Snaring Foxes
• Snow Shoe Hitch--Indian
• Soap


• Springy
• Steel Traps--Sizes to Use
• Stretcher--Wire
• Stretching Board
• Stretching Skins
• Success in Trapping
• Tail Bone--How to Remove
• Tempering Steel
• Tents--How to Warm
• Tracks and Tracking


• Trail--How to Mark
• Trail Sets
• Trap Carrier
• Trapping Boat--One Man
• Turpentine--Use in Fur Business
• Turtle Trapping
• Venison--How to Cook
• Waterproofing Shoes
• Warming Tents
• Weasel Trapping


• Wildcat Trapping
• Winter Fishing
• Wire Stretcher
• Wolf Trapping
• Wolves--Hunting Young
• Wool Skins--How to Tan

This old book that fits in the palm of your hand has loads of diagrams, drawings, photos and tips to ensure your trapping success.

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