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best calculated to effect their extirpation. The ordinary mole-trap 

 is to be obtained from any of the agricultural implement-makers, 

 or any of the farm ( *eed-shops. The principle of its construction 

 Depends on a spring formed of some elastic sort of twig, stuck in 

 the ground, and l^nt until its other extremity is attached to the 

 trap. The trap is placed in the mole's run, and is baited with 

 earth-worms or a bit of raw meat. On the mole entering the trap 

 and setting the spring at liberty, it is suddenly caught up, a noose 

 drawn tight by the reaction of the twig, and the mole suspended 

 by the neck. 



I recently met with what I conceive to be a far more efficacious, 

 and less troublesome mode of destroying moles. 



Take a quantity of fresh worms, put them in a wooden box, 

 with a small quantity of carbonate of barytes in powder, and let 

 them remain for an hour or two ; then find out the runs where the 

 moles leave the .fences for the land, lay in every run five or six 

 worms, and continue doing so as long as the worms are taken 

 away by the moles. I was infested with moles before I used this 

 remedy, which was about fifteen years since, but have never been 

 injured since, by giving a little attention to them in the spring. 



THE EUROPEAN RABBIT has been introduced into America, and 

 will soon be spread widely. 



The rabbit is unquestionably, when left to its own unrestrained 

 devices, a very serious pest, but an animal which may, neverthe- 

 less, with proper management, be rendered a very considerable 

 source of emolument, while the annoyance they have occasioned 

 will be, at the same time, abated. 



If you would have rabbits and only profit, never suffer by them ; 

 keep them in enclosures, and provide them with well-sheltered huts. 

 The hutches should stand on dry ground, and be well ventilated. 

 If sloping, so much the better, as this allows the wet to run, and let 

 there be tanks placed in front to receive it. It is, when mixed 

 with straw, valuable as manure. 



Be careful while you have your rabbit-house well ventilated, 

 that it at the same time afford them sufficient shelter, and* be care- 

 fully preserved from damp. Do not give green food in a wet 

 state ; it> is apt to produce the rot. If, however, a proportionate 

 quantity of oats or other hard food be given, you need have no 

 fear on this head. Keep them clean. Let the breeding-boxes 

 have two apartments one for day, and the other, furnished with 

 a bed, for night. Do not give more food than will be consumed 



