TKAPPING. 



fresh from under the saw, without bits of 

 stick in, as these would be liable to get into 

 the teeth of the trap and stop them from 

 closing. Where you see the runs put a 

 handful in say about 30 different places, every 

 night, just dropping the sawdust and meal 

 out of your hands in little heaps. That 

 means 30 different heaps. Do this for four 

 nights, and you will see each morning that 

 the sawdust is all spread about. Now for 

 four more nights you must bury a set trap 

 under every heap of sawdust. Thus you 

 will have 30 traps, on each of which there is 

 a square centre plate; you must level the 

 sawdust over the plate with a bit of stick, and 

 set each trap as fine as you can on the catch 

 spring, so that the weight of a mouse would 

 set it off. They will play in the sawdust 

 as usual, and you will have Eats in almost 

 every trap. You will find that this plan will 

 capture a great many of the Eodents. I have 

 trapped as many as 114 in one night in this 

 way. 



In time, however, the Eats will cease to go 

 near sawdust. Then you must procure a bag 

 of fine soot from any chimney sweep, and 

 you will find that they will go at the soot just 

 as keen as they did in the first instance at the 

 sawdust. When they get tired of soot (which 



