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Show PROFIT IN MOLE SKINS Owing to the indefatigable advertising adver-tising methods of many moleskin firms, the humVe mole is now recr-nized recr-nized as the foremost British fur-bearing fur-bearing animal. Its trapping, therefore, there-fore, provides very lucrative employment employ-ment for many people in agricultural J stricts. The nmle-cntehlng season begins In November and ends about the begin ning of April, when the skins become badly marked and the fur nf nor oiutlity. February and March are the best trapping months; ihen the moles run we!! and are easily caught. An Iron mole trap consists of two curved jaws, forced toc-tlier by n powerful spring; to sp! the trap nn iron trigger Is lodged between the Jaws, holding them apnrt. The set trap Is Inserted In a mule run. found between two mounds of earth by the aid of a polred stick, and Is placed j so as to bring the trigger in the way , of any passing mole. The trap Is i thu. covered with earth and moss to I exclerle light from the run. A mole meeting the trigger of n trap is forced either to burrow round It or to knoek It nside." The latter rf.urse Is usually chosen, the trap Is 1 s rung and the mole held In the Iron lews, from which escape is practically Impossible. |