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but his body shuts out the light and he 

 fears to enter the dark. 



The aforesaid method of catching 

 weasels is also excellent for rats and if 

 set under a shed can be utilized the year 

 round and catch every newcomer. Where 

 rats have become well established, but 

 few can be caught before they get wise 

 and a successful trapper will resort to 

 many methods— in fact, it is a matter of 

 wits against cunning before all are ex- 

 terminated. 



Another good set is to take a box such 

 as is used for canned goods, make a hole 

 three inches or less in diameter in one 



Another good set is to take two six- 

 inch tiles, placing them end to end, and 

 set a trap in each and about six inches 

 from the outer end, leaving opening just 

 large enough for rats or weasels to enter. 

 Oftentimes a trap placed in a pan of 

 sawdust or chaff with meal or grain over 

 the pan or trap, placing same in a box 

 with cover off enough to allow a rat to 

 enter is quite successful. For bait use 

 bread, cheese, cooked meat or grain. All 

 traps should be made to spring very 

 easily and should also be concealed by 

 some light litter. 



In setting a trap in a runway it should 



no. / 



end and about five inches from bottom 

 of box, placing the trap about where the 

 animal would naturally land after gain- 

 ing an entrance. The cover to box 

 should be removed every day to see that 

 rat is not left long enough to scent up the 

 box. The rat and trap are easily removed 

 as the entrance hole is so small that the 

 trap would not pass through ; conse- 

 quently, the trap does not require fas- 

 tening. 



be so placed that the animal would pass 

 over lengthwise the jaws as shown in 

 Fig. 2, turning the spring to the right so 

 as not to oblige the animal to step on 

 the spring. Never under any circum- 

 stances place the trap so that jaws are 

 at right angle with line the animal trav- 

 els (see Fig. 3) as with short-legged 

 animals the jaws when springing would 

 strike the animal on the belly and often 

 throw him out. 



NOTES FROM THE GAME FARMS AND PRESERVES. 



GAME BREEDING AT CORNELL 

 UNIVERSITY. 



Instruction in Wild Life Conservation 

 and Game Breeding. 



Recognizing that we are at the begin- 

 ning of knowledge of our plant and ani- 

 mal resources, this new educational en- 

 terprise takes for its scope the wild life 



of New York State and the conservation 

 of all that is valuable in it. Beginning 

 with the rearing of game birds and wa- 

 terfowl, to replace in some measure these 

 rapidly vanishing wild groups, it is ex- 

 pected that this work will be extended 

 to the conservation and care of fur-bear- 

 ing animals, of valuable song birds, of 

 wild flowers and useful native shrubbery, 



