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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 not one 

 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, New 



York. 



Destruction to prairie- 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, Nebraska. 



I have destroyed the prairie-dogs on about eighty 

 acres at a cost of $30. This one operation increased 

 the value of the land $500. One pound of of carbon 

 bisulphid will treat twenty-five holes. ISAIAH L,IGHT- 

 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 to a granery in Maryland, 

 under which a large number of rats had burrowed into 

 the ground. The building was double, set on posts 



