1906.] QUESTION BOX. 203 



MORNING SESSION. 



December 14, 1905. 



Music. 



Convention called to order at 10 a. m., Vice-President 

 Seeley in the Chair. 



The President. W'e have a few questions that I will ask 

 the Secretary to read. 



Secretary Brown. You remember that poultry was the 

 prominent subject discussed yesterday. In the box I find this 

 question, " Do rats trouble when self-feeders are used? And 

 if so, what can be done to get rid of them?" Is there any 

 poultryman here who can answer that question? 



The President. Is there any other man that knows what 

 to do with rats when they get to eating up grain and doing 

 mischief, and all that sort of thing? 



Secretan,^ Brown. Mr. President, I know^ what I do. 

 I get some arsenic and mix it with grated cheese and a little 

 flour. I put it where nothing else can get it, in one of the 

 buildings outside, and then I put some water near so as to 

 accommodate the rats. They like the cheese and they do not 

 feel the arsenic until it is too late. They naturally go to the 

 water, and the water gives them a comfortable exit. 



Secretary Brown. There is one other question that in- 

 terests truckmen : " Has anyone had experience in using a 

 tobacco setter for settling cabbages and other plants ? " 



]\Ir. Mitchell. In the next place to where I am now liv- 

 ing is a large cabbage shipping station, and they are using 

 the setter entirely for setting cabbage plants. I have asked 

 what kind of service they gave, and am told that the plants 

 live even better when set by the machine than you can make 

 them live when set by hand. 



Secretary Brown. Here is a question for stockmen, or 

 those w^ho own large barns : " Is it wise to have all of your 

 barn buildings under one roof ? " Those that have encountered 



