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American Agriculturist, May 5,1923 
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PATENTS 
The Hen House Rat 
Hm To Combat It and Other Enemies of Poultry 
O NE of the easiest By L. H. 
places to catch and 
destroy rats is in the‘hen-house by the 
use of simple home-made devices or 
by. turning feed hoppers or troughs 
into traps. The very fact that the hens 
eat from these hoppers or stand on the 
box traps seems to give the rats confi¬ 
dence, or else destroys the man scent 
so that they walk into them blindly. 
Of course, the work connected with 
these traps must be done by the poul- 
tryman at night, but, as the farmer or 
chicken man is generally around in the 
early evening, it is not a great hard¬ 
ship to pull a string if it results in 
killing a few rats. 
One of these traps is made for rats 
especially. It is g box eight feet long, 
ten inches or more high and a foot 
wide. The cover is hinged along one 
side. To set the trap, a small piece of 
wood is placed to raise the unhinged 
side, and to this wood or prop is at¬ 
tached a piece of string leading away 
through a window or door, where the 
trap may be sprung without disturbing 
the rats. Bait the trap with corn of 
some sort, and be sure you spread this 
in the box with a shovel or pail. Un¬ 
der no circumstances use your hands. 
HISCOCK distance. Set traps 
occasionally. A good 
set is made at the foot of a tree. Nail 
a piece of meat to the tree ten inches 
from the ground. The weasel 'will 
stand upon its hind legs and'jump for 
the bait and be likely to get caught. 
Around the stone walls, the traps are 
placed under stones that arch. It is a 
good plan to place a handful of poultry 
feathers under the trap, as these attract 
the creatures. Drop a few drops of 
blood from some animal about the trap 
whenever you visit it and that is all the 
bait needed. Traps for weasels need 
not to be fastened securely. Simply 
attach a small drag to the chain. The 
creature is very courageous but being 
so small is not very strong. 
GAS ’EM 
B. H. PAUL 
A new use for the flivver but a 
practical one has been recommended 
by the poultry department at Wisconsin 
College of Agriculture. 
Make a rat exterminator of your car 
if the rodents are causing your chick 
losses. The sure-fire rat exterminator 
All set for Mr. Rat. He meets his end in the bag at the 'left. 
Be sure the upraised cover is heavy 
enough to drop instantly. You^ have 
the choice of putting chloroform in the 
box to kill the rats, or you may make 
it with a spout on one end and set it 
up off the floor like the trap pictured. 
In this case an open dry-mash hop¬ 
per was the trap. The hopper had a 
high board in back, a low board in 
front and slats from one to the other 
through which the hens put their heads 
to eat. A hinged top was fastened to 
it, and a small prop with a string- 
attached was used to spring it. But to 
get the rats out, a hole was cut in one 
end of the hopper and a four-inch 
stovepipe nailed to it with a good down 
pitch. Over the lower end of this a 
good, stout bag was fastened. When 
the trap was sprung, by beating on the 
hopper, the rats were driven into the 
bag, where it was easy to club them 
to death. 
The beauty of these devices is that 
no rat is ever killed in the hopper, a 
thing which generally puts other rats 
wise. The man scent, caused by hand¬ 
ling traps, is entirely lacking. The 
very fact that the hens eat from the 
hopper is enough to make the rats keep 
coming. The hopper as a sole soui’ce 
of feed brings the rats which never 
detect dangei^ as long as no rats are 
killed in it. 
HOW TO TRAP ANOTHER HEN¬ 
HOUSE PEST, THE WEASEL 
C. H. CHESLEY 
Every time the trapper captures a 
weasel he has the satisfaction of know¬ 
ing that he has rid the earth of one of 
its most bloodthirsty creatures, one 
that kills great numbers of chickens, 
birds, squirrels and rabbits. 
The weasel hunts about old stone 
walls and fences and it is in such places 
that we should set our traps. Small 
size traps should be used _nrid a number 
of them should be placed in likely local¬ 
ities. Take the carcass' of a muskrat 
or rabbit, after the animal has been 
skinned, hitch a string to it and drag 
it along the gt’ound for a considerable 
put forth by the college is safe, there 
being no likelihood of causing a confla¬ 
gration or endangering anything other 
than the game sought. The method is 
described as follows; 
Back your car up to the infested area, 
leave the motor running and attach a 
piece of hose to the exhaust pipe, then 
place the other end of the hose in the 
rat hole. Catch the rats when they 
try to escape from other holes or open¬ 
ings. Young rats will be killed by the 
exhaust fumes before they are able to 
escape and the older ones will make a 
hasty exit._ 
MORE ABOUT GIVING THE HEN 
A REST 
A. D. BURNT 
I read with intei'est the article by 
Mr. Mapes in the March Iflth issue 
and feel impelled to make a few com¬ 
ments. Right here let me beg friend 
Mapes to take these remarks in the 
kindly interested spirit in which they 
are meant. 
It is my experience that breeding 
and feeding go hand in hand. Neither 
the one or the other may be slighted 
except at the cost of production. R 
would seem, however, that the problem 
of feeding ha.s been better worked out 
than that of breeding. Take, for in¬ 
stance the world’s record pen of Leg¬ 
horns at the Western Washington Con¬ 
test, which averaged over 284 eggs for 
each hen. It seems to me these birds 
started to lay and kept it up with u 
vengeance. Several birds in this con¬ 
test, ten to be exact, went well over the 
300 mark. Could they have done it u 
poorly fed? Would it have been possi¬ 
ble without breeding? 
Of course lighting brings its own 
problems, but I doubt the wisdom 
starving or under feeding a hen simph 
because she has stopped laying. R 
might be well to vary the rations some¬ 
what, feeding more largely on whole 
grains and reducing the protein content, 
but in every case the hens should be 
well and abundantly fed. They have a 
hard year’s work before them and they 
must store in their bodies, to the great- 
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