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is wet with. it. Mix in the dry corn meal to take 

 up any excess of moisture and spread out or set 

 away to dry. This poisoned grain may be kept 

 an indefinite length of time in tight boxes or 

 buckets or sacks. 



HOW TO USE Prairie-dog? and other squirrels should be 



POISONED , . _ & . ,, 



GRAIN poisoned in the spring when they first come out 



of their burrows. They are then hungry and 

 there is little food supply. The poison is often 

 spread by a man on horseback. He carries a 

 bucket or sack of poisoned grain and drops a 

 good spoonful at or near the mouth of each hole. 

 In a few days or a week the treatment may be 

 repeated to get the few that may remain alive. 



This poison is most deadly. It will destroy 

 the life of anything that eats it. This is its one 

 objectionable feature. Great care must be used 

 not to make or put it in vessels that are used for 

 any other purpose and not to leave it where chil- 

 dren can get it or where the unsuspecting may 

 feed it to chickens or other stock. Label plainly 

 with skull and cross-bones. It must not be used 

 in fields where hogs, sheep, chickens or larger 

 stock are running at large. In all such places, 

 unless stock can be kept away, use the safer gas 

 method. 



THE POCKET This little beast is destructive and bother- 



some. He lives entirely underground and does 

 three kinds of damage. He eats the roots of al- 



