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PROTECTION AGAINST ANIMALS. 



Traps resembling sugar-tongs are advocated by E. Heyer 

 against the water-rat, as shown in the Figs. 50 and 51. They 

 must be so placed that the rat, in running into its hole 



Figs. 48 and 49. Tube-traps from Ilohenbeim ( nat. size). 



strikes the plate (a) with its head, and is then caught round 

 the body by the pincers (b). It is better to place two such 

 traps back to back in a hole. For the smaller species the 



Fig. 50. 



Fig. 51. 



tube-traps from Hohenheirn are very effective, Figs. 48 

 and 49. 



Ordinary spring-traps (Figs. 52 and 53) are more useful in 



Fig. 52. Q nat. size). 



closed rooms, such as seed-stores, but when concealed by 

 foliage, etc., they may also be used in forest nurseries, carrots 

 or beetroot forming a good bait. 



