THE MOLE 



The KENT GARDEN TUBE and BOARD-TOP MOLE TRAPS, Fig. 78, 

 combine the advantages of the common wooden ones with the 

 substitution of a steel spring for the ordinary spring stake, and 

 dispensing with pegs ; otherwise the construction is the same. 



FIG. 78. THE KENT GARDEN TUBE AND BOARD-TOP MOLE TRAPS. 



D, tube trap : v, tube ; w, forked piece or table ; x, table and spring string-hole ; y, flat eye to re- 

 ceive lower end of spring ; z, knot on main string where snare strings secured ; a, point where 

 wire-snares affixed to snare-strings ; b, steel spring ; c, loop of main string affixed on hook of 

 spring, thus the main string held by table is tight and the snare strings slack so as not to disturb 

 wire snares inside tube ; d, slope made in soil so as to admit spring of trap. E, board-top trap : 

 e, \ in. board, preferably hardwood ; /, bows ; g, main string and table hole ; h, snare holes ; 

 i, wires placed inside bows ; j, forked piece or table ; k, flat eye for spring ; /, main string (tight) ; 

 m, snare strings (slack) ; n, steel spring ; o, loop of main string passed over hook of spring. F, 

 detached spring : p, wedge end ; q, hook end. 



The KENT GARDEN TUBE MOLE TRAP, Fig. 78, D, is constructed 

 the same as the Common Tube one, Fig. 77, A, but has an eye at 

 y to admit the steel spring. The Kent Garden Board-top Mole 

 trap, Fig. 78, E, is made like the Common Board-top one, Fig. 

 77, B, but has a flat eye, k, formed of galvanized wire (ends clenched 

 on under-side) to receive the lower end ot the spring about |-in., 

 the eye i in. wide inside. The spring F is formed of re -hi. steel 

 plate and the shape shown ; scale J in. equals i in., formed to 

 fit the eye of the trap at the lower end f>, with a hook at the small 

 end . 



