Walking the Bottle.
A novel method of catching rats is successfully used by a. Masterton business man. A suitable bait is tied on the mouth of a bottle, which is left projecting- from a table. It is an open invitation for a rat or mouse to walk along the bottle to reach the bait. The far half of the bottle is greased and the rat trying to cross it slips off and falls into a kerosene tin of water. This morning a drowned rat found in the kerosene tin, indicated the effectiveness of this simple yet ingenious device.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 June 1943, Page 2
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98Walking the Bottle. Wairarapa Times-Age, 3 June 1943, Page 2
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