Muskrat Trap

Muskrat Trap FARM HOME Miscellaneous 13-1-27 "We cleaned 22 muskrats out of one farm pond, catching 3 or 4 muskrats at a time in each trap," says Harold Bally, Columbiana, Ohio, who was featured last year in FARM SHOW and is widely known as "The Friendly Trapper" because of the hundreds of innovative "home brewed" solutions he's come up with to common farm and house-hold animal and insect pest problems. Now Baily has come up with a new muskrat trap that he says works better than anything on the market, and which is also humane and safe to use. "Muskrats can ruin a farm pond by burrowing under them and draining the water out of them. This trap can be used in dens, along banks, or in shallow ditches. " The lightweight box trap is 32 to 36 in. long with an opening at each end. You simply position it in arun or by the opening to a den. Muskrats enter either end, pushing up the free-swinging slanted doors. Once inside, they can't get out and are drowned. No bait is needed. Baily sells the trap, which folds flat for mailing, for $15 (postpaid). "Once you have one of them fora pattern you can easily make as many as you need out of wire mesh," he says. Bailey also sells a book of his solutions to pest problems for $11. For more information, contact: FARM SHOW Followup, Harold Bally, "The Friendly Trapper", 3014 Middletown Rd., Columbiana, Ohio 44408 (ph 216 549-

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