The universal directory for taking alive and destroying rats, and all other kinds of four-footed and winged vermin / By Robert Smith, rat-catcher to the Princess Amelia.

  • Smith, Robert (Rat-catcher)
Date:
1768
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Credit: The universal directory for taking alive and destroying rats, and all other kinds of four-footed and winged vermin / By Robert Smith, rat-catcher to the Princess Amelia. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tinguifh that the mifchief has been done by thefe vermin. Iw order the better to deftroy them I would recommend this method; at night after your fowls are gone to rooft, mind to fift fome fand before every little hole you fufpeét he may come inat, and look at them again in the morning early before the fowls are moving, and you will foon difcern the prints of their feet by their trampling about; then fet acom- mon hutch trap, fuch as are ufed in war- rens [pl. II. fig. 1.] and bait it with a piece the bait on the nail over the bridge, as has been obferved before, and if you make the print of his feet in the fand, F 4 which 4