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 Rats and Mice. 



Take honey or mead, and make a stiff paste 

 with wheat or barley -meal; then mix the filings 

 of iron or steel with it, and throw it where they 

 come, they will eat it, and it kills them. 

 Rats and Mice. 



Chips of cork fried in suet, and laid where they 

 come, kills them. 



Field Rats and Mice. 



In the dog days the fields are generally bare: 

 then find out their holes or nests, which are little 

 and round, like an auger-hole, and put hemlock 

 seed thereinto, or hellebore mixed with barleyj 

 they eat it greedily, so it kills them. 



Bats or Rear Alice to drive away. 



The smoke of ivy burned does it. 

 MOLES. 



Take a head or two of garlick, onion, or leek, 

 and put it into their holes, and they will run out 

 as if amazed, and so you may with a spear of dog 

 take them. 



Moles. 



Beat hellebore, white or black, and with wheat 

 flour, the white of an egg, milk and sweet wine 

 or metheglin, make it into paste, and put small 

 pellets as big as a small nut into their holes, and 

 they eat it with pleasure, and it kills them. 



Moles: Take the bark of dogs cole, powder it, 

 and mix it with wheat flour, or barley meal, or 

 rye flour, and with milk and wine make a paste, 

 put some of these pellets into their holes, and 

 they will eat it, and it kills them. 



Moles. Take marking stone and wild cucum- 

 ber juice, and pour it into their holes. Some set 

 traps at the mouth of their holes. 



