Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1891 — A Rat Destroyer. [ARTICLE]

A Rat Destroyer.

I see that James C. Jones, of Indiana, wishes to buy a ferret, writes an experienced farmer correspondent- I have had same experience with ferrets, and I will tell him of something better. First, hunt up all the old horseshoes on the farm; if there are not enough of them go to the junk shop and buy about fifty of the poorest horseshoes you can pick out. Place them at the rat hole? and runways so that the rats can not avoid going over them. A ter they have laid around for two or -three days get a dozen or two of good steel traps and set them in place of the horseshoes and whenever you catch a rut move the trap to another place. The rats will soon become disgusted and leave. A week or so will clean them all out, and then you can/hang up your traps till the\ come again.