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As to the number of traps that one can handle, this depends on conditions. The kind of animals that one intends to trap for, the nature of the country, the method of setting and tending traps, the amount of fur to be found, etc., must all be considered. The muskrat trapper who is in a good location where traps may be set from a boat or I the marshes where muskrat houses are plentiful as on some parts of the Atlantic Coast, can easily handle from seventy five to a hundred or more traps, looking at them once a day. The marten trappers of the North West sometimes use five or six hundred traps, but the traps are not set far apart and the trapper spends a number of days going over the set. In the thickly settled districts there are comparatively few that use more than five or six dozen traps for they must be seen each day, and for beginners from two to three dozen traps will be sufficient.
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