The Archive · 1939

Chicken Slaughter

How to Catch Weasels To the Eaitor of the "Nonrit-CutNa Dany News"

Sin—Could you be so kind as to in clude this loller in your correspon ence columns, as I deliove some of your nature-loving readers will be Able to help me in trapping weasels which have been the cause of dally chicken losses for the past week.

Thave used the large rat traps and for bait have used the chicks killed the weasels, but up to the moment these traps have not worked.

Furthermore, I have gone to the expense of raising the wire netting] enclosures, with on additional protrading top, but the weasels still manage to get into the chicken runs, broad daylight, killing a few chicks each time.

Thanking you in anticipation, and trusting some of your readers will be so Kind as to give me some sound advice in ridding the farm of the weasel menace.

Shanghai, July 17

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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