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Show A Mnakrat Trap. j Jim Candee, an old Lyme trapper, has caught an unprecedented number of mnskrats this year. He si nks a h4lf barrel near the runs of the rats to the level of the ground, half fills it with water, and then on floating pieces of lioa.rds in the tab places small pieces of carrots. When the mtiskrat jumps in after tho bait ha can't get oat, and he leaves the trap set : for another victim. Mr. Candee has caught as many m sis rats in a single barrel in one uitfUt. Hartford Times, j |