AN IRRESISTABLE BAIT FOR RATS.
Captain Weedin, in charge of tho Zoological Gardens at Washington, has just discovered a new and tempting bait for rats. The building in which some animals were kept was infected with rats. Traps were used, but nothing would tempt the rodents to enter. In a storeroom drawer was a quantity of sunflower seed used as food for some of the birds. Into this drawer the rats gnawed their way—a fact which led tho Captain to experiment with these seeds as bait for rats. The result was that the rata could not be kept out. A trap which appeared orowded with six or eight rata was found some mornings, to hold fifteen.
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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 462, 12 April 1890, Page 2
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116AN IRRESISTABLE BAIT FOR RATS. Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 462, 12 April 1890, Page 2
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