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I sometimes use two or three lengths of ordinary stovepipe with a swing door on one end, which the skunk is able to push inward; the other end is closed. I also fasten the pipe so that the animal cannot roll it when inside. I have taken as many as six skunks in one night. For bait I use a piece of muskrat or part of some old stinking chicken. Either of these are good. A neighbor and myself dug a trench long enough for four lengths of stovepipe and covered it with earth and placed an old chicken for bait inside. One of the openings was closed, and in the other end a swinging door, opening inward, through which the skink was supposed to pass, was arranged. A dead chicken was dragged in various directions leading to the opening. On one occasion we dragged this bait for such a distance that there was very little left of it. The next morning, however, we found thirteen skunks in the stovepipe.
Submitted by Alan Lambert
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