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chickens or the like, by baiting with a piece of meat, &c. Its 

 adoption, too, in barns and similar houses as a trap which 

 may always be kept set, owing to its conspicuousness, can 

 also be advised, and as a general addition to the usual stock 

 of gins it is by no means to be disparaged. 



There may be some enquiry why we have included the 

 rat in this work, but there canbe no doubt in any practical 

 mind as to the damages which rats commit amongst game, 

 and we consider that, such being the case, it is well within 

 the province of the game preserver, who should make it 

 his business to keep these varmints down alike in the farm 

 and other buildings as in the preserve itself. 



