The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-01-01
RAPID RAT CATCHING
HUNDREDS OF RODENTS DISPOSED
OF IN SHORT ORDER.

How Houses Are Cleared of a Trouble
some Pest-Traps Which Charm Their
victIms-DeadIy Foes whose Work Is
Swift and siIent-A Rat business.
The man who took the contract for the
determination of the Stats Zeitung rats
was "born into the business" and for the
last thirty-five years he has kept quaint
little place in Fulton street. Adolph Isaac
sen is his name, and he is still TO be found
In his store daily, though his son Charles
has succeeded him in active business. Sur
rounded by his traps, ferrets and fox ter
riers, the old man is full Of interesting
"reminiscences, and is always happy when
he can tell of some Of his experiences in his
rat catching trips, which have taken him
all over the country from coast to coast.
What is the first thing you dowhen you
60 to place TO kill of the ratsf" he was
asked the other day. "Ah, that is a good
question. / see l must begin at the begin
ming. Well, we ask Kate where the rats
are. You know who Kate lisp Well. Kate
is the finest fox terrier for that purpose in
the whole country. I've owned her for ten
years. and she is II years old, and what she
ing. As soon as she gets in the place she
shifts around. When she locates a plac-
where the rats have come out she just
turns her head to me and wags her tail
Then know she has found the place. She
doesn't bark or grovl, for she knows a.
well as i do that we mustn't make bit Of
noise or get excited. We want 10 kill the
rats, not scare them.
USE or RAT OIL.
"Then when We locate all tho holes we
set traps TO catch one, il there are many
rats. If there are not so very many rats
we nse a different method, which 1 viii
explain later. The trap we use is the dou-
bic jaw game trap which Is used for small
game. As soon as q rat is caught we kill
it and take it out and set the trap for an
other, for We watch the place all through
the night I'VE always work at night when
We catch rats.
But how do you bait the traps"
eve don't Now I'll tell you a secret of
the trade. We use rat oil, which We make
as follows: We boil about 100 rats in "A
large kettle, and skim of the oil which
rises TO the top. This oil is very pungent,
and proves a great attraction We oil each
trap with Just few drops q 81. and that
Is quite enough 70 lure them or"
And then this modern pied piper said:
f'Do You know that we can make the rats
20 to the traps Well, we can. We walk
across the room. ard after awhile the rats
follow IN our footsteps. But il isn't 80
wonderful when yOu know the trick. We
simply rub few drops Of the oil on the soles
OF our shoes and drag our feet az we walk
toward the traps See"
Tell ne what you % when there aren't
many rata"
well. xe take fsrrsts along in case
Ike that Aver Kate finds the holes re
stop mp all but tgo. Kate. she watches
one. she's a. eosa - = man. she - And
one Of rgy r1en watches The other Then
the ferrets are put IL, and pretty soon the
rats begin 70 move cut
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