Democratic Sentinel, Volume 4, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1880 — Trappng Game in Russia. [ARTICLE]

Trappng Game in Russia.

In St. Petersburg and Moscow, of one hundred pieces of game so'd only one has been shot, the ninety nine others havej been entrapped. Each peasant has a path iu the woods, which is his exclusive property. This path is sometimes thirty miles long. On each side of this path traps of all sorts and sizes are set; wolvep, foxes, martens, sables, badgers, hares, squirrels, rabbits, purtridges, quai', grouse, etc., are caught. As it often happens that the owner of the ptih is weeks wi lout visiting it, numbers of these auima's perish iu the traps without benefit to anybody. As these traps are set all the year round the destruction of animals in breeding person is fast ridding Russian forests of every sent of game. There are ninety-five lakes in lowa, covering an area of 62,000 acres. Should these lakes dry up, as some of them are doing, the laijd mil belong to the Government.