CONTENTS. 
CHAPTER XI. 
TRAPPING OF RATS, AND THE VARIOUS KINDS OF RAT-TRAPS. 
Right Mode of Treating and Baiting Traps — How to Catch a grizzly 
old Rat — The Artistic Mode of Handling Traps — Excellent Mixture 
for drawing Rats — Whistling Joe's Method of Trailing Rats —His Plan 
of Cleansing an Estate of Vermin — His common Hutch Trap — Drawing 
Rats into the Traps — Ratcatchers' Secrets — Recipe for Scenting 
Traps Pages 247—253 
CHAPTER XII. 
POISONING OF RATS. 
Whistling Joe's Poison — His Mouse Poison — His Poisonous Draughts 
for Barns and Ricks — Joe's concluding Advice and Instructions — How to 
drive Rats away — Tofutnig ate Rats — Old Methods of destroying them 
— Different Kinds of Poison— Arsenical Paste — Arsenic Pills — African 
Mode of Destroying Rats — Prescription of the Family Economist" — 
Red Herrings and Arsenic — Bread, Butter, Sugar, and Arsenic — Malt 
and Arsenic — Sugar, Meal, and Arsenic — Danger arising from the 
drinking of Rats poisoned by Arsenic — Dangerous use of Arsenic in 
Tallow — A Rat poisoned with Arsenic Candles — Carbonate of Barytes — 
Fresh Herrings, Sprats, and Carbonate of Barytes — Precipitated Car- 
bonate of Barytes 253—262 
CHAPTER XIII. 
PHOSPHORIC POISONS. 
Method of preparing Phosphorus — Phosphorus Paste — Uncle James's 
Appeal against the Sale and Use of Poisons — How Rats die from 
Phosphorus — Uncle James's Advice for making Phosphoric Compounds 
— Safety of Phosphoric Pills — The best Bottles for Phosphoric Com- 
pounds, and general Cautions in using them — Phosphorus and Lard 
without Spirit — How to cut Phosphorus — How to obtain Poisons — 
To prevent Accidents to Live Stock 262 — 269 
CHAPTER XIV. 
MISCELLANEOUS ANECDOTES OF RATS. 
A Barrack for Rats — A Fox in the Loft — A Fox in the Barn — To 
drive Vermin out of Ricks — How to destroy Rats by Suffocation — To 
keep Rats out of Barns — To keep Rats out of Warehouses — Ratcatching 
in the Gambia — Hints to Farmers — Hints to Farmers' Sons and Sweet- 
hearts — Hints to Farmers' Wives and Daughters 269 — 273 
