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PRACTICE or AGRICULTURE. 



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through the MCtlunol the parchment into the vessel, than it retreats to the brick or stone, and commences 

 its lament ith.ii> Cot relief Nor are it* whining notes uttered in rain ; others soon follow, ami share the 

 same fate: when ■ dreadful connicl begini among them, to decide the possession of the dry asylum. 

 Bnttiet follow in rapid succession, attended with luch hmd and nouy shrieks, that all the rats in the 

 neighbourhood hasten to the ratal -i 1 "'. where the* experience similar disasters. Thus hundred! may be 

 caught by a stratagem, which might begreatlj facilitated by exposing a li\ing rat taken in a trap, or pur. 

 i haaed from ■ professional rat. catcher. 

 7633. A moeenful mode <>i enticing ruts baa been lately practised by Broad, a farmer at rhruxton in 



Herefordshire He uses B bore trap, two lect lone, eight inches wide, and nine inches deep, and little 



different in construction from the common one. \\\> secret consists in scenting light-coloured malt, and 



also some wheat straws, with oil of caraways, and not setting the traps for a day or two till the rats have 



been accustomed toeal the malt without fear. ./■'. Mag. xiv. p. 431.) 



I Paul ,;< Stanton's rattery is thus described bj s. 1'aylor, Esq. in the Gardener'* Magastnei — 



particular pair, tie betted a wacer that tie should soon catch 

 them both; which, in the course of a very few days, lie did. 

 lie selected, as the sileof his rattery, some outhouse where rats 

 were known to trequent, and which he could lock up, and keep 

 sacred to his own devices and operations. Hete he fixtd his 

 trap, tile construction of which will be bet) understood bv re- 

 ferring to the accompanying sketches {Jig*- 96*, 965.). Tliis 



;V,i« railrry, » .is invented t.s Mr. It. Paul of Starslnn, in 



He beatowrd much IsAoarand tine t<> bring; a '•' 



Ingj in a situation peculiarly I IVOUI 



able for encouraging the breed of rats, used Ui boasl that he 



had complete!. subdual them. In fact, I have heard turn say 

 th.a be offered a rew .ird to any one who would bring rats on 

 hi. promise*; and that having marked and turned off one 



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The saine letters refine to each of the 

 figures. 



a, End view of the trap, with the tub 

 (section). 



m. Longitudinal section of trap. 



Cj Birdseve view of longitudinal sec- 

 tion of trap. 



ii. Doubting Castle. 

 .'., Forlorn Hope. 



c, Hough of Despond. 



d, Partition wall. 



f, (.round level. 



J\ Pipe of brick or tile. 



g, Falling floor, or bottom of trap. 



h, The weighted end of the fall, to 

 bring it back into its place. 



i, The end of the fall, that gives way 

 under the rats. 



/, Trough, or thoroughfare, in v.hirh 

 the trap (a) is placed. 



vi. The feeding end of the trough. 



n. The end at which the rats enter. 



o, l^oose wood, to serve both as 

 cover and a road into the trap. 



f>, A slip of wood, to which the rats 

 .spring from the pipe /, ami which 

 gives way under them, and lots 

 flieiu into the water bt low. 



