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Cat Trap 
VERY satisfactory cat-trap may be made with two ordinary 
A boards, eight inches wide and thirty-six inches long, to be used 
for the sides; and two more, ten inches wide and thirty-six inches 
long, to be used for the top and bottom. 
Saw off about four inches of the rear end of the top board and make a 
wire compartment, four inches wide with some sort of a cover for a top. 
This makes the bait chamber. You will need a guide of some kind on 
the front, and a board to drop for a door. If you make a triangle for a 
tripping arrangement, like the one in the picture, you will find that it 

THe Cat Trap 
will work very much easier. This works on a leverage principle. A pall 
of one ounce on the outer end of the triangle makes a four-ounce pull on 
the shorter part. Inside of the trap is a very thin piece of board about 
eight inches long and eight inches wide. This has a thin strip of wood 
about a half-inch wide tacked across the center so it acts like a teeter- 
board. The string from the center of one side of the teeter-board is 
tied to the outer end of the triangle. 
Put a fish head in the bait-chamber and when Kitty steps upon the 
teeter-board, down goes the board door and you have the intruder 
nicely confined in a dark box where nobody can tell what it contains. 
Now, how are you going to get rid of the contents? If all of the stories 
were told of how different persons had tried to get rid of a cat, they would 
fill a very large book. Dispose of this predatory enemy of the birds in 
the manner you deem best, but by all means be sure to do it. 
Wic.iam I. Lyon, 
Waukegan, Illinois 
