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Evening Star, Volume VII, Issue 1947, 2 August 1869, Page 3

Rats,—The prodigious increase of the common English rat in the Colony is only one of many difficult es that attend the acclimatisation uf such birds as pheasants, partridges, and quails. Notwithstanding tke unremitted destruction of rats in the Acclimatisation Society’s gardens, their increa e of late has necessitated the adoption of vigorous measures for their extermination, their numbers being so soon augmented by fresh arrivals from town. A variety of ineffectual means have been fried, including poison, stopping up the holes with tar, and turning loose tarred rats. Traps of nearly every variety have been brought into requisition, with more or less success. The palm of superiority must, however, be given to two descriptions of traps. The common steel trap, covered with a piece of paper, having a hole cut in it to expose the haft; and a trap made after the model of tbe patent self : actipg mousetrap, with the addition of Ipoking-gTasses, so arranged that the rats, seeing themselves, enter without suspicion to partake of the good cheer with their fancied companions, when they arc noiselessly caught, and the trap arranges itself for other adventurers, which can he comfortably accommodated *o the extent of 50. At the Cheviot Hills station, where rats and vermin have been for years systematically kept down, fourteen hundred rats have been recently killed within three mouths— L. Times.

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