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Carbonate of baryta for rats and mice, continued. 



X lb.; oil of anise seed, enough to give the mixture a pretty 

 strong odor. 



Tartar emetic for rats and mice. Tartar emetic, i part 

 oatmeal or flour, 4 parts ; beef or mutton suet enough to 

 make all into a paste. 



Camphor for rats and mice. Mix a few pieces of camphor 

 with vegetable seeds, to preserve them. 



French paste for rats and mice. Oatmeal or wheat flour, 

 3 Ib. ; powdered indigo, YZ oz. ; finely powdered white 

 arsenic, 4 ozs. ; oil of anise seed, ^ drachm. Mix, and 

 add of melted beef suet or mutton tallow 2^ Ibs., and 

 work the whole up into a paste. 



Wash for keeping rabbits, sheep and mice away from trees. 

 Fresh lime, slaked with soft water (old soap suds are 

 best) ; make the wash the thickness of fence or house wash. 

 When i peck of lime is used, when hot add J^ gallon crude 

 carbolic acid, ^ gallon gas-tar and 4 pounds of sulphur. 

 Stir well. For summer wash leave gas-tar out, and add 

 in place of it i gallon of soft soap. To keep rabbits and 

 sheep from girdling, wash late in fall, or about the time of 

 frost, as high as one can reach. 



To remedy the injury done by mice and rabbits. 



1. Pare and clean the wound, and cover it thickly with 

 fresh cow-dung, or soft clay, and bind it up thoroughly 

 with a cloth. Grafting wax bound on is also good. Com- 

 plete girdling, when done late in spring when settled 

 weather is approaching can be remedied in this manner. 



2. Insert long scions over the wound, by paring them 

 thin on both ends and placing one end under the bark on 

 the upper edge of the wound and the other under the bark 

 on the lower edge. Wax thoroughly the points of union, 

 and tie a cloth band about the trees over both extremities 

 of the scions. 



