Killing Rats

The premises of a good ïnany farmers iré infestad with rats, and we are often askod for modes of destruction. A resident of Brooklyn is vexed with on increasing faraily of rats tbat seem to grow fat on arsenic aud rat cxteriuinators. - He doesn't like rats, and refcrs his case to the Sundau Times. Tbat iourual commcTids a trap made as follows : " Take a mackerel barrel, for instance, and fill it to about ano-third ita hcight with water. ïhen place a log endwise in the water, so that one end of it will just reraain above the surfaco. Make the head of tfeö barrel a little too sinall to fit, and sustain it by tvvo pins to the inside of the top of the barrel, so that it will hang as if on a pivot aud easily tip by touehing either side. Oa this head thus suspended, secure a pieco o] savory meat. Tlie first rat that seents it will, to get the meat, leap on the barre head. The head will tip, or tilt, precipítate liim into the water, and resume its position. The rat n the water vvill swim to the log, get on the end of it. and squeal vociferously, His cries will briiig othcr rats, all of whom will be tilted into tlio water, and all of whom wiil iiglit for the only dry spot in it - viz, the end of the log. As only ouo rat can i huid it, the victor will drown all the rest, and can, in the morning bo drowncd himself. We have Been twunty rats I caught in oue night by 6ucli a trick.''