APPENDIX. 



TRAPPING THE ONLY EFFECTUAL WAY TO 

 DESTROY VERMIN. 



I HAVE put together the following directions for the trapping 

 of vermin, in order that gentlemen may judge of the merits 

 of their keepers in this respect ; being well aware how few 

 have any thing like a perfect knowledge of this most neces- 

 sary part of their business. No moors or manors can abound 

 with game unless the vermin are killed off ; and if the traps 

 are not set with much skill, and the places for planting them 

 for the different kinds of vermin selected with great judg- 

 ment, more harm than good is done, as few are caught and 

 the rest put on their guard, and thus rendered more cunning 

 and difficult to be trapped afterwards. 



A gentleman should first ascertain if his keeper can per- 

 form the mere manual act of setting a trap. This must be 

 done by cutting a shape for it with a mole-spade in the turf, 

 thinly sprinkling the plate with earth, and then a top cover- 

 ing precisely the same as the ground : when set, it should be 





