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idly becoming as. great a pest in America as the rabbits are in Australia. 

 It is by their vast numbers and their capacity for devouring pretty much 

 every thing which they ought not to touch, they become so formidable. 

 The United States Department of Agriculture in answer to an inquiry 

 to that end, recommends the following method of poisoning them as the 

 most effective yet employed: 



Dissolve arseniate of soda in warm water, at the rate of an ounce to 

 a pint; pour this upon as much wheat as it will cover (in a vessel which 

 can be) closed so as to prevent evaporation, and allow it to soak at least 

 twenty-four hours. Dry the wheat so prepared and it is ready for use. 

 Three kernels of this will kill. Winter is the best time for operations, 

 other birds are then absent and sparrows are hungry, alighting in flocks 

 in the streets after passing teams and along railroad tracks, where grain 

 is scattered from wagons and cars. Here poisoned wheat may be ad- 

 ministered with wholesale destruction to them and little danger of harm 

 to anything else. If an occasional pigeon or chicken that has no busi- 

 ness abroad should suffer, it is comparatively of little consequence. If 

 the great evil is to be abated at all, it must only be required that it be 

 done with the least practicable injury and inconvenience. 



GRAPES. 



THE WORDEN GRAPE. 



Eds. Country Gentleman: 



In fruits, vegetables, grains and animal products both producer and 

 consumer seem to unite in demanding varieties that combine size beauty, 

 hardiness and productiveness with reasonably good quality. In other 

 words the varieties that have been the most successful, commercially, 

 in the past, have been those that would produce largely under the ordi- 

 nary care of average intelligence and environment, and that had good 



