Show hot are trapped trapping is one of the by which mush rata are secured the traps are made of boards about 6 inches wide and 3 feet long these are nailed together like an ordinary box trap the open enda being Becu redby swinging doors of wire network fastened to the upper part of both entrances these doors allow easy ingress to the trap but once in tha rat cannot et out without opening the door it to him which gehret they seem very alow to discover these traps are put in the leads running from the houses ta tha water when the tide is at low ebb and the rats are out feeding on the return they crawl up the leads push against one of the wira doors of the trap which immediately eppens into the trap but they cannot go further as the neat door opens toward tham tta fore they can gnaw out the tide makes up and they are drowned in the trap by having a number of traps and watce ing the tides closely a trapper can capture a large number in this dav baltimore san |