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Show CATCUI5U IUTS-15-JArtS. THE USIQXP MAJKSKB OK KIM.LVO , K0UKNT8 IS IltTRMAjr. Tlie jar trap is tlie most successful rat catcher in Burmah. Even pussy must hide her diminished head in that country where rata are such a pest This jar trap was set for three nights, says a correspondent On tbe first occasion I saw seventy.two rata turned out, on the second enlv nine were caught and on the third night not one was caught The common pegujar I used was about one and one-half or two feet deep and fourteen or fifteen inches broad, and a nolo was punched In tho shoulder Just large enouch for rat to enter." There was about six or seven Inches of rice in busk in the Jar, which was then buried to within about eight inches of the top. The mouth' of tbe jar was then closed with a board and a stone. 1 incline to the opinion that my bluelegged Burmah servant very "Judiciously" punched the hole with an old nail and a hammer; though' it was by no means regular or quite round (it seemed at first sight too Bmall), it Just admitted a hungry rat I do not -think the rats, after they had eaten all the grain could have spy?"51- "JS hJe, th-.y seemed f?i0U.,; othe"-l. with such a t il. ?i ,ar' 7? oouIJ h8Te P' I Imagine! PUU&i th"sS, A moving mass of frightened, creaming rata Is a bad "taking off" "'Jtoft I admit, but an oU fel-hTv?M fel-hTv?M " lho might have htt LvL it,V- X tia?.11 he eou,J' how-SJF how-SJF sot throu81'. It is important, im-portant, however, In trara of this vidit?ttothat "" lnsJde of toe T1,1, f KnooU' to afford no foothold to the rats, or they wU BBBBBBHflL'!fBBBBi |
