Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 May 1886 — A Prairie Dog Trap. [ARTICLE]

A Prairie Dog Trap.

A prairie dog trap is ingenious. Place a headless barrel over the prairie dog’s hole and half fill it with fine sand. The little borrower will soon scratcl his way to the top of the same. But the sand falls into the hole and fills it 1 up, and he cannot dig another through the half fluid particles, neither can he climb up the sides of the barrel.