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PROTECTION AGAINST ANIMALS. 



Traps resembling sugar-tongs are advocated by E. Heyer 

 against the ^Yater-rat, as shown in tlie Figs. 50 and 51. They 

 niust be so i^laced that the rat, in running into its hole 



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Fig>. IS and 1!'. -Tubc-trap> I'loiii Holicnliciin {\ uat. iti:c). 



strikes the plate (a) with its head, and is then caught round 

 the body by the pincers (h). It is better to place two such 

 traps back to back in a hole. For the smaller species the 



Fi-'. 50. 



Fig. ol. 



tube-traps from Hohenheim are very effective. Figs. 48 

 and 49. 



Ordinary spring-traps (Figs. 52 and 53) are more useful in 



Fig. 52. — (I nal. nizc). 



closed rooms, such as seed-stores, but when concealed by 

 foliage, etc., they may also be used in forest nurseries, carrots 

 or beetroot forming a good bait. 



