Show home made traps in gibson gibbons s camp in the woods and the tricks of 0 trapping published come years ago the follow ins ing effective traps that can be easily made are described A arouse trap may be mado made with a bowl find and a knife blade put a dicce or of cheese on the end of the blade of a table tabe knife one edge of the bowl a and nd rut jut the knife standing on its edge under it allowing the bait to he be about an inh inch and a halt half beneath the bowl the odor of cheese will attract tho the mouse and he will find his way under the edge of the bowl and a very slight nibble will tip the blade and tho the bowl will tall fall over on the prisoner prison fr A thimble may lie be used in place of the knife lorce borce the tha cheese into the thimble and put the thimble under the bowl boil with mith the open end inward a al lowing about half the length of tho thimble to project out of it tho the mouse in tra tr ing to get gel the cheese out oat of the thimble will cause the bowl to 0 fall it if the thimble be too small to allow the mouse monse to pass underage under unde rAbe the edge 0 of t the e bowl 0 put a bit of pasteboard or a flat chip under the thimble to make a fly trap take a tumbler and halt half fill it with ith strong soapsuds cut a elide of stiff paper which wil wh exactly fit into the top of the glass and in the center of the paper cut a hole halt half an luch inch lu diameter A slice of bread way may be used in place of the stiff paper smear the under astle of the disc with molasses before insert ing riles will find their way may downward through the hole and once onca be low the paper their doom la Is settled scaled in their effort to escape they will wl toll into the soapsuds and speedily meriall by setting a number of such traps in EL a room it m v III soon be rid of the pests |