TRAPPING. 



buildings in January and February, as they 

 begin to breed in March, and every bitch Eat 

 means, on the average, eight more. Also get 

 as much ferreting done as possible before 

 breeding time, for a young Rat can get into 

 the ends of the joisting under a floor, where a 

 ferret cannot get near it, and the consequence 

 is that a ferret is unable to cope with its task. 

 The best thing I can advise for clearing young 

 Rats is a good cat, one that must not be 

 handled nor made a pet of, but allowed to live 

 in almost a wild state. A good cat can do as 

 much, in my opinion, in one night, when Rats 

 are breeding, as two ferrets can do in a day, 

 especially in a building where there are cavity 

 walls, as it is impossible for a ferret to follow a 

 Rat in such walls. 



This is all the information I am able to give 

 on the trapping of Rats a method I have 

 proved by 25 years' experience to excel all 

 others. Still another way of clearing the 

 pests is as follows : The majority of Rats are 

 Black, or what we call Drain Rats ; if they are 

 in a building they will in most cases come 

 from a water-closet. Sometimes you will see 

 from the drain pipes in the water-closet, say, a 

 six-inch pipe fitted into a nine-inch pipe, and 

 the joint covered round with clay, through 

 which the Rats eat and scratch and get into 



