1 Sepr., 1899.] QUEENSLAND AGRICULTURAL JOURNAL, 815 
The trap is made of ordinary rabbit-proof wire netting. Itis 8 feet long, 
about 74 alee diameter (or 1 foot 9 rates circumference), and the trapdoor 
is placed 9 inches from the mouth or entrance. ‘This is simply a ring of 
common fencing wire crossed with wire and slung with wire loops, and a piece of 
wire is stretched between it and the entrance, so that the rabbits can pass 
through readily, but cannot get the trapdoor back towards the mouth. 1¢ 
must be rather less in diameter than the inside of the cylinder. 
To use these traps, provide, say, twenty for each large burrow; place one in 
the entrance of each ll and fill up around the mouth of the trap by aid of a 
spade. It is important to make the hole fit the entrance to the trap, else the 
rabbits will escape through the gap. Fill up any apertures where traps are not 
set. Do not remove the traps for three or four days, and if any fresh holes are 
opened place another trap there. 
Mr. Sears states that it is usual to take two or three rabbits from each trap, 
and he has taken five from a single trap. He suggests that it would be possible 
to send rabbits alive to Adelaide, and has ensure that they arrive in afresh and 
sweet condition, which cannot always be the case where the animals are taken 
with steel traps and are killed before being sent to the freezing works or to 
market. 
SPECIFICATION AND PLAN OF CHEAP CATTLE DIP. 
By H. A. MACLEAN, 
Inspector of Stock, Maryborough, 
Length of dip—Top, 36 feet. 
rm Bottom, 12 feet. 
Width of dip—Top, 3 feet 6 inches. 
ae Bottom, 8 feet. 
Depth of dip—s feet. 
Srpes of dip made of 6 x 14 or 12 x 13 T. and G. pine, nailed to posts and 
studs. Posts, faced round stuff, 13 feet long, 6 feet apart, with two 8 x 2 h. 
wood studs between each post. Posts and studs let into morticed sleeper at 
bottom. Studs capped with 4 x 4h. wood caps. Cap flushed into posts. 
Back of dip made of 6 x 13 or 12 x 13 T. and G. pine, nailed to three stout 
posts of faced round stuff. 
Bottom and lower part of exit made of 6 x 14 or 12 x 13 T. and G. pine, 
nailed across to three longitudinal sleepers. 
Entrance, and last 13 feet of exit, made of 'T. 
pine, and both well battened to give foothold. 
Posts 2, 3, and 4: capped across dip to opposite posts. 
Woodwork of dip to be well dressed, inside and out, with tar 
boiled together. 
When dip is not in use, it should be covered with iron, 
altering the strength of the dipping mixture; or the splashb 
in sections with hinges, and, when not in use, can be made to meet across the 
dip to form a cover; but, unless very carefully fitted, the mixture would splash 
through at the joint between the splashboards and the dip. 
Por dairy herds a smaller dip would serve, say 2 feet 8 inches at bottom 
and 2 feet 9 inches on top, and 7 feet in depth. But where large bullocks have 
to be dipped, the larger dip is better. 
Where good clay is obtainable, the dip could be made of plain 6 x 1 h. wood, 
instead of I’. and G. pine, well puddled at back. 
and G. h. wood instead of 
and bitumen 
to prevent the rain 
oards can be put on 
LEADING A VICIOUS BULL. 
Ty the old country scarcely a day passes that the rural papers do not record 
some accident or death from goring by a vicious bull. When a bull is con- 
sidered unsafe to lead, there is a very simple way of rendering him harmless.- 
That way is to blindfold him. “If a bull has once shown an inclination to be 
