Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1898 — Mouse Traps. [ARTICLE]

Mouse Traps.

A* cold weather approaches the mice seek shelter in the houses of men, and men buy traps to catch them. There are various kinds ol’ mouse traps, including those that require no setting and that take mice alive, and those that require to be set and that kill mice. In this last class are the familiar old-fash-ioned wood mouse traps, some made square and some round, having holes in the sides through which the mouse thrusts its head to get at the bait lived on a hook within. Traps of this kind are called chokers. Many kinds of ■mouse traps are sold by the gross or dozen. The wood chokers, varying in size, are sold at wholesale at so much a dozen holes. Taking all the kinds together, there are made In this country and sold here millions of mouse traps annually, and American mouse traps in large numbers are exported to many foreign countries.—New York Sun.