Show ROD suggestion APPERS prize winning Ni nning letter tells how to capture coyotes coi otes firm farm and ki reside has been offering prizes for the beet beat letters entitled my beet beat trapping trick and the prize winning letters are published in thu current issue W F wilcox won the second prize with the following gug suggestion as to the best beat way to catch coyotes the coyote is one of the tha slyest sliest and hardest of all fur beating bearing animals to trap he deligh delightre delight tte ts in digging traps springing them eating the bait and otherwise disturbing the set without getting caught his sense of smell emell is very acute the best beat way to trap him la is to build a bonfire over the set after the traps have been properly placed throw into the embers some bacon lindil chicken bones or better yet bones bonea of sage hen or grouse the coyote habitually searches about camp fires for stray bits of meat ard is therefore less wary the fire obliterates oblie rates the traces ot of the tha set eel eliminates elimina tea the tracks and smell of a human being and the odor of the burned meat will attract him froni from long distance Hei he is amore more likely to walk into the tapu thus with the remann ts of a bonfire than any other unless you have a carcass literally surrounded oded with traps with a severe winter on and no other carcasses within miles |