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at the top and opens up into the box. 'The hinges are placed on the 

 front of the door rather than at the back or center, the better to 

 secure complete closing action. 



The "trip" consists of one piece of wire about three-sixteenths of 

 an inch in diameter and eighteen and one-half inches long, bent as 

 shown in drawing. A piece of board six inches wide and just long 



A Group of Four Trap Nests in Position 



enough to reach across the box inside is nailed flatwise in front of 

 the partiton and one inch below the top of the box, a space of one- 

 fourth on an inch being left between the edge of the board and the 

 partition. The purpose of this board is only to support the trip 

 wire in place. The six-inch section of the trip wire is placed across 

 the board and the wire slipped through the quarter-inch slot and 

 passed down, close to and in front of the center of the seven and 

 one-half inch circular opening. Small wire staples are driven nearly 

 down over the six-inch section of the wire into the board so as* to 

 hold it in place and yet let it roll sidewise easily. When the door 

 is set, the half-inch section of the wire marked "A" comes under a 

 hardwood peg, or a tack with a large round head, which is driven 

 into the lower edge of the door frame. The hen passes in through 

 the circular opening and in doing so presses the wire to one side and 

 the trip slips from its connection with the door. The door promptly 



