The universal directory for taking alive and destroying rats, and all other kinds of four-footed and winged vermin / [Robert Smith].

  • Smith, Robert (Rat-catcher)
Date:
1772
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The universal directory for taking alive and destroying rats, and all other kinds of four-footed and winged vermin / [Robert Smith]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In 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 over eve- ry little hole you fufpe& he may come in at, 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 a common hutch trap, fuch as are ufed in warrens [pl. Il. fig. z.] and bait it with a piece of fowl or {mall bird of any kind; hang the bait on the nail over the bridge, as has been obferved before, and if you fhould catch one of them remember to make the print of his feet in the fand, which will enable you the better to know it - another time, which has been my own conftant practice, to difcover what cae kind.
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