Show TRAPS ARE GOOD RAT DESTROYERS Most Reliable for General Use Is Inexpensive Snap or Guillotine Guillotine Guillotine Guil Guil- Device AVOID SHEET METAL MET At BASES They May Be Placed in Great Variety of Favorable Places Around Farm Small Breeds of Dogs Are Most Valuable From the tho United States Department of or Agriculture No opportunity to kill 1111 rats should be neglected on the farm Traps dogs dugs cats and poisons ma play may be useful The need is traps and und a knowledge of how low to use them item The fhe most reliable traps raps for general use are the Inexpensive sive I snap or guillotine ull traps Many 1 e efficient kinds are on the market but butI buthe he the cheaper ones are me rarely to be he recommended ree- ree I for Cur durability Those that have lave sheet metal bases are le not desirable desirable desir deIl i able as us rats ruts fear Cear and aw avoid them Snap i traps raps should be he set so thin that they y will spring at nt a n slight touch They may maybe be jc placed in rat runs Iun at rat rut burrows behind boards leaned against the wall wali and in a n great variety of other favorable favorable favor favor- able places pInel's Dry oatmeal rolled oats outs Is s r recommended commended as ns a n halt for fOl both rats and mice Place a n few grains on the trigger rigger pan or under the trigger wire with a n few grains near the trap Useful Wire Cage Trap The wire cage cage trap if s substantially made is useful on the morns farm CO Course Coarse bait is required and mu may be he hung from om the he top of the trap h by a u light wire Set Sethe the he trap on a n. floor or on ou n board l. hayA lay hay I I II A aS i i a. a i. i tl t- t tI 3 i I irn V e rw Guillotine Trap With Wooden Base and Trigger Plate a n short board on top tend and cover the whole with an nn old cloth or 01 gunny gunn sack leaving caving only the trap entrance unco ered cIell The trap may be halted baited and left ripen GIen for a night or two until rats learn to feed inside after utter ww which a n good catch cutch mn may be he expected An excellent plan for using the cage trap Is to boll bore boro boroa borea a l hole two or O Othlee three inches In diameter at nt proper height in height In the door dool of gran- gran iry nn or feed room oom The hole ml me- me be covered with n a metal slide when the trap Is Is Is- not in use Set the trap In Inside Inside Inside In- In side the granary ranH with Its entrance fitted to the he hole nail and cover and ond haltIn ballIn ball halt ballIn In the usual manner munner any uny rat entering ente the thc granary is caught The fhe same plan Is applicable to rat rut holes In other situ itu 1 and it has been used effectively between connecting rooms of ot cold storage storage storage stor stor- age warehouses The small breeds of dogs especially especial especial- I ly terriers are valuable as ns rat killers or 01 the farm They are ore easily trained and are always available when needed Wherever rats are ore routed from fromn nests or 01 harbors these dogs are eager for tOl forthe forthe the frn fray When shocked or stacked grain is moved mo or thrashed they kill many tIl rats Sometimes a barrier or fence of light boards Is placed about a n stack stock and mul do dogs dohs s Inside get all the rodents dislodged In this wn way GOO or ra rats ts hn have been destroyed oed from rain a o single stack ShICk Cats Destroy Mice Ca Caa are useful about form farm buildings u mainly H cause they kill mice Sometimes Some Sonic times timeR they thew hunt and destroy rats but hut buta a ml cat that will kill 1 an adult rat is rare The fhe chief objection to cats on a farm farmis is their persistent destruction of oC son song birds A good cat Is valuable when her hel killing propensities can cnn be lie confined confined con con- fined to rodent pests but hut the majority of felines are worthless or actually In InjurIous Injurious injurious In- In jurious on the farm Great GrEnt caution should nh a always s 's be he observed observed ob ob- ob- ob served el in the 1 use e of poisons but there then are situations on the farm tarm aria In which poisons may many be lie lieI I used ed safely and mill tI el lively In the open llen fields poisoned grain mn may he be scattered near rat bur lair Jow rows In the I poultry yard poisons may mar he be exposed for Cor rats inside darkened darkened darkened dark dark- ened boxes A small rather shallow box hox containing the time baits Is set on the ground with a n larger box Inverted over it A hole in the larger er box will admit the te rat mt to the food while chickens will willbe willbo bo lit safe Str Strychnine Is the safest poison polon pot poi son on to use where poultry run because hens are arc Immune to small quantities of this poison |