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Do not think when you start in that this mixture will 

 not go over a bushel, for you will find it ample. An iron 

 tub to mix the wheat in or a box such as plasterers use 

 in which to mix plaster is most satisfactory. Stir it 

 with a shovel, mixing it carefully through and through, 

 as you pour in the mixture. Be careful where you put 



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the wheat after this. Pet horses, pigs and any number 

 of chickens have been killed by leaving the tub exposed 

 with the wheat in it. After you are all through, take an 

 ax and chop up every utensil used excepting the shovel 

 and burn them, so as to make sure they will never be 

 used again for other purposes. 



