Because animals have keen scent they can soon locate bait. The art of selecting and placing the bait is worth all the attention one can give it.

For general field setting an ear of dry corn and a smoked herring, or peanut butter mixed with molasses spread on whole wheat bread, will attract most varieties of wild animals. These baits will not spoil for a considerable length of time, so you can look at the trap from a distance without having to scent up the vicinity of the trap.

FOLLOWING IS A SPECIFIC LIST FOR DIFFERENT ANIMALS

ARMADILLO: Meal worms, other worms, or insects enclosed in a little cloth bag, maggots, sardines, fish

BIRDS: Sunflower seeds or scratch grain

CAT OR BOBCAT: Fish, meats, oil or catnip, sardines

CHIPMUNKS: Prune pits, unroasted peanuts, corn, sunflower seeds, peanut butter, cereal, grains, popcorn

FOX: Red or Gray: Rancid fish or meat

GOPHERS: Peanut butter mixed with molasses, spread on whole wheat bread

MICE: Cheese, bread and butter, small nuts, cherry pits, oatmeal, sunflower or similar seeds, mixed peanut butter and oatmeal, gum drops, flour. These baits are also good for rats.

MINK: Chicken head and entrails, fresh fish, fish oil scent, parts of rabbit, muskrat, fresh liver

MUSKRATS: Fresh vegetables, parsnips, carrots, sweet apples, or musk from another muskrat

NUTRIA: Muskmelon or cantaloupe rind, ripe bananas

OPOSSUM: Vegetables, sweet apples, chicken entrails, sardines, crisp bacon, canned cat food

OTTER: Fish

PORCUPINE: Apples, salt, carrots

RABBIT: Fresh vegetables, such as brussels sprouts, cabbage, carrots, lettuce, or apples. In winter time, bread is a good bait. Spraying the inside of the trap with apple cider has also proven effective.

RACCOON: Anything of a fish nature; sardines, raw fish; smoked meat, sweet corn, fruit molasses, peanut butter or honey

RINGTAIL OR CIVET CATS: Same as raccoon

SKUNK: Almost anything edible; chicken entrails, fresh or canned fish, insect larvae, crisp bacon, eggs

SNAKES: Whole eggs (bantam)

SNAPPING TURTLE: Freshly chopped fish or freshly chopped chicken entrails, any whole fresh fruit pieces

SQUIRRELS: Cereals, nuts, popcorn, crackers, peanut butter or molasses on bread, field corn, oatmeal, grains

VOLES: Peanut butter mixed with molasses spread on whole wheat bread

WEASLES: Fish, fresh liver, chicken entrails

WOODCHUCK: Any kind of green vegetable, fresh string beans, sweet corn, lettuce, peas