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"The glycerine keeps the paste moist and in a fresh condition 

 practically indefinitely, and it was not unusual to learn of dead 

 rats being found in a vicinity where poison had been placed three 

 or four weeks prior to the discovery of the dead animals. 



"Probably this is one of the most deadly arsenical mixtures 

 ever invented, but if rats do not take it one of the others least 

 resembling it should be tried. Where they will take no arsenical 

 mixture, as is sometimes the case, other poisons may be resorted 

 to. My opinion is that the quantity of arsenic should not be less 

 than 8 or 10 per cent, of the whole." 



WALLACE EVANS ON RATS.— Replying to a query sent him re- 

 cently as to his methods for combatting rats, Mr. Wallace Evans of St. 

 Charles, Illinois, the largest commercial breeder of pheasants in the coun- 

 try, wrote me as follows: 



"I find it a hard battle to keep down the rats on my farm. 

 Where there is so much feed around for them, it means one continu- 

 ous fight from year end to year end to keep them within bounds. 

 I have a number of Airedale dogs trained especially for this pur- 

 pose, and also keep several ferrets; with the additional aid of steel 

 traps and various forms of automatic traps and various kinds of 

 poisons, I am just able to hold my own against them and prevent 

 them from doing any serious damage. No one method alone is 

 effective where rats are necessarily so numerous; every possible 

 scheme should be tried and a continuous fight kept up if you want 

 to keep them under control." 



THE AIREDALE. — A well-trained Airedale is indeed a valuable 

 asset to a game farm. Mr. Harry T. Rogers' splendid dog, "Liz" is of 

 this breed. She hunts his rearing fields day and night for vermin and woe 

 to the cat, skunk or rat that she gets within striking distance of. As a 

 young dog, "Liz" killed a cock pheasant. Seizing the bird by the legs, 

 Mr. Rogers struck her w'ith it a few times, and from that day this splendidly 

 intelligent dog has never harmed a bird. 



FUMIGATION. — Rats and other vermin that burrow in the earth 

 can be effectively dealt with through the medium of carbon bi-sulphide. 

 Having located a single hole, puff smoke into it with the ordinary bee 

 smoker, using cotton waste to produce the smoke, and soon it will be seen 

 issuing from the holes round about. These should be plugged at once 

 with mud. Saturate a bunch of cotton with one and one-half to two 

 ounces of carbon bi-sulphide and push well into the open hole. Next 

 plug the hole, placing stones or brickbats in first and then seal it with mud. 

 The stones will keep any loose earth from rolling down on the waste. 



