Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1891 — Quail in a Skunk Trap. [ARTICLE]

Quail in a Skunk Trap.

A skunk has been taking too much interest in my poultry for my benefit. I found his tracks in the snow, and they were very plain and easy to follow. I found what seemed from the number of tracks to be quite a den of them. Procuring a good trap I placed it well down in the hole, and in the morning the skunk was in the trap all right. I let the trap remain in the same place until seven had been caught; and tbeq imaging my surprise to fiu& aiquaiPin the same ‘trap that all of those deadly foes of quail and all biMs that roost on the ground had been caught in. Have tljsy no instinct to tell them to keep away ? There was quite,;* flock I should think by.the traokS around the hole.—. Forest artd Stream. -* „■ , t , , - . . Thb natives of Griqauland are just noWßUfferihglrom a cjlrions qpideifiic. If alarmed by any shdden 'noise 1 they will start violently/; contract their features, stiffen their limbs, jump about and waltz like dervishes. ■ " France exported shoes to the value of 03,909,945 francs in 1890.