liS Method for de/lroying Rats and HHSce-. 



feet ; it ferves alfo as a fupport for my barometer, and rriaftes 

 an exrv'lent walking-Rick when the three branches are 

 ifbldcd together. Though the whole of thefe inftruments, 

 added to the ufual quantity of Rones collefted during an 

 excurfion of this kind, amount in weight to more than 

 twenty pounds, I am not much incommoded by the burden, 

 on account of it's being equally diftributed; and in my laffc 

 Alpine journey, which I undertook with the unfortunate 

 Dolomieu, he envied my lot, though, inftead of being 

 accoutred as I was, he carried only his hammer and his 

 fpecimens, 



IV. A cheap- and efficacious "Method for dfroying Bats and 

 Mice; recommended to the Agriculture Society of Man- 

 chefler* by Mr. C. TAYLOR, Secretary to the Society for 

 the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures, and Commerce, 



N or near the places frequented by thefe vermin, place 

 upon a (late or tile one or two meat fpoonfuls of dry oat- 

 meal ; lav it thin, and prefs it fiat, that you may more eatilv 

 know what is taken away. The rats, if not interrupted, will 

 ■come regularly to feed there; fupply them thus with frefii 

 oatmeal for two or three days ; then to about fix fpoonfuls of 

 dry oatmeal add three drops of oil of anifeeds; and having 

 itirred the mixture well together, feed them with this for 

 t.vo or three days more; then for one day give them only 

 half the quantity they have ufually eaten of this fcented oat- 

 ■real, and on the following day place the following mixture: 



To four ounces of dry oatmeal, fcented with fix drops of 

 oil of anifeeds, add half an ounce of earbonat of.barytes, 

 previoufly pounded very fine in a mortar, and lifted through 

 ^ little tine muflin or cambric: mix this intimately with 

 the fcented oatmeal, and lay this mixture of oatmeal and 

 harytes upon the tile or flate, as the oatmeal had been ufuallv 

 placed, and allow the rats to come and eat of it for twenty- 

 four hours without interruption, 



- For this ctfromunicati i Mr. Taylor received the thanks of fhe 

 Society. As that Socitty has not vet publilhed anv of its tranfaftionsj 

 irticle cannfJt fail to prove highly uleful. 



