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Y H; 410 On Catching Moles,&e.[June | 0 Fig. 5.—Shewing a Mole-trap ſet in the ſide of a ditch. MA: à E=S M M M- di HERAS A EN I E E“utid M i

|| Method of finding the Runs or(as Ur. Dralet calls them, and nat A improperly,) Tunnels, and ſetting the- Traps.

[4| The Farmer, or his ſervant, muſt carefully examine the ditches

BN| of each field; in order to. diſcover where the Moles have made

BY their main Runs, or Tunnels; which baving once found, and the

$| trap ſ鯓thereon, he may reft aſſured that every one pafling

| through if will be inevitably deſtroyed; neither are their runs at

M all difficult to be found, as the only thing neceſſary to obſerve

UN) 1s, whereabouts they have broken out moft on that part of the

| field’ the nêazreſt to the ditch, in the ſide of which he muſt then

| make an opening with a ſmall common ſpade, oppoſite to the

1 HRR neareſt place where they are obſerved to work molt, in order-to

O open the run, Should the firſt endeavour to ſtrike üpon it prove

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