The gardener's magazine and register of rural & domestic improvement (1826)
Loudon, J. C. (John Claudius), 1783-1843, A. & R. Spottiswoode, printer, United States. Patent Office. Scientific Library, former owner DSI · London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green · leaf 49
blesome from Mi-chaelmas to Lady-day. The common wooden trap operating by a spring-bow which is disen-gaged by the molesburrowing, and thencatches and kills themole by constric-tion, is a very goodone; but the cast-iron trap, on theprinciple of a for-ceps, closed by aspring, as soon asthe mole… … General Notices. 37 tions of a hollow cone (a b), with a spring within (c); which being set freeby the moles entering and pushing forward the plate (d), the spring c raisesthe valvular stopper (<?), which prevents the retreat of the mole. The ringof withy (/), which might be of iron, is for…
