%m TREATISE ON THE OULTUUE AND 



fatal*; as it is pofiefled of a ftrong narcotic quality, arid is 

 found a certain poifon for dogs and cats, as well as for rats 

 and mice. All domeftic animals fhould, therefore, be kept 

 from the places where the poifon is laid. A very good way 

 Jo prevent accidents is, to cnclofe the traps in cafes, having 

 holes in the ends of them large enough to admit the rats, but 

 fmall enough to exclude dogs, cats, &c. 



A Bait for Rat-Traps. 



Take a pound of good flour, three ounces of treacle, and 

 fix drops of the oil of carraways ; put them all in a dith, and 

 rub them well together till they are properly mixed ; then add 

 a pound of crumb of bread. 



Set the traps, baited with fome of the foregoing mixture, as 

 near their haunts as poffible ; but, for two or three days, fo as 

 not to fall or ftrikeon the rats going in, and let them have free 

 liberty to go in and out at pleafure ; this will make them fearlefs. 

 Lay fome of the bait at the rat-holes, and fcatter a little of it 

 quite up to the traps, and fo on to the bridge of each trap, 

 where you may lay a handful. It may alfo be proper to fcent 

 the traps with the following mixture, for the purpofe of en- 

 ticing the rats into them. 



Take twenty drops of oil of rhodium, fix or feven grains of 

 mufk, and half an ounce of oil of annifeed ; put them in a fmall 

 phial, and fhake it well before ufing -.—then dip a bit of twilled 

 paper, or rag in the mixture, and rub each end of the trap 

 with it, if a box-trap, and put two or three drops on the 



* ft has been taken in dofes of from five to ten grains, twice a day, in interrnjtfents 

 and dyfenterles, 



; bridge, 



