18 JUNE 1927, Page 12

If the thing is to be stopped—and it is difficult

to imagine a humane community allowing it to continue—I see no solution except the prohibition of the steel trap. Less cruel traps exist, though inventors have not been conspicuously successful in answering to the call for a practical instrument that shall catch or kill without inflicting pain. But even the professional could continue to flourish if every steel trap were confiscated and the law of visiting traps within twelve hours faithfully observed.

W. BEACH THOMAS.