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Show IVo Patent On This. An Iowa farmer has devised a rat trap upon which he claims no patent but which any one troubled with rats! can use. He purchased a big galvanized galvan-ized iron bucket or garbage pail and placed it in the barn. He filled it two-thirds two-thirds full of water an 1 on top of the water a layer of chaffy oats an inch d'ep. The next morning he emptied o .it mixture of water, oats and drowned rats. He rebated his trap and the next morning he figured results and found that he aimlessly but with malice aforethought, afore-thought, gotten rid of eighty-nine rats. He declares it will rid a barn in a short time. |