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dug out the hole and found them dead. A neighbor 
joined with me and we got twenty pounds of carbon 
bisulphid. One pound is enough for fifty, and notone 
has ever dug out of the hundreds that we have treated, 
unless there was some opening that we missed. Pour 
from one to two spoonfuls on anything that will absorb 
the stuff, push it into the hole three feet, push down a 
sod nearly to it, hoe on earth and tramp down. ‘Treat 
all main outlets the same, and next summer one will 
be puzzled to find the place.—A. B. JoHnson, Vew 
York. 
Destruction to pratrie-dogs.—I cleared a pasture of 
eighty acres with fifty pounds of carbon bisulphid and 
not a dog showed up all summer. Five or six came 
from another town late in the fall, but I soon put them 
to sleep and they have not waked up yet. It is the 
cheapest means by which prairie dogs can be destroyed. 
—THOMAS SHEFFRAY, /Vebraska. 
I have destroyed the prairie-dogs on about eighty 
acres ata cost of $30. ‘This one operation increased 
the value of the land $500. One pound of of carbon 
bisulphid will treat twenty-five holes.—Isarau LIGHT- 
NER, Platte County, Nebraska. 
We killed the prairie-dogs on about a hundred 
acres with five gallons of carbon bisulphid. It is 
the best, as well as the cheapest, way of getting rid of 
them.—Kansas Farmer. 
Rats and mice easily destroyed.—Some years ago the 
writer’s attention was called toa granery in Maryland, 
under which a large number of rats had burrowed into 
the ground. The building was double, set on posts 
