Add tho starch, saccharine and strychnino to the 

 water, heat to boilin?, and stir constantly after tho 

 sterch begins to thicken, V/hcn tho starch is fully cooked 

 stir it into tho vrheet, ovory kernol of which ehould bo 

 coated. A gr.lvunise:? iron washtub is ca excellent raizing 

 vosael, especially cs it io easily cleaned. Zither the 

 sulphate or the tllraloid of strychniu may be used. 



If rr in ic i-.ar.inont anc t/.ic poirjoninn; cannot bo 

 delayed, raoltod teller should be substituted for the 

 starch solution as a coating medium. In this caco the 

 Wheat should first bo slightly vve.nr.ea, the saccharine and 

 strychnine adfed, and then the tallow applied, in the ratio 

 of a quart to a bushel of wheat. 



The putting out of poisoned ^rcin depends en- 

 tirely upon the nunber and distribution of the aninclo for 

 which it is intended. In that pert of the Tahoe Forest 

 near UovadM Cit7, cood-octing rodents are not numerous, 

 relatively speaking. The mice cro living chiefly about 

 logs and stumps end in old gopher holoo, and the ground 

 squirrels are easily located by their burrows, Undor 

 such circumstances as these, poison need ba put only in 

 pieces likoly to be frequented by tho pests. Wherever 

 thore is a general infestation, however, poison should be 

 dropped evory three or four feet along parallel lines 

 five yards opart. j?or mice and chipmunks 20 kernels in 

 a place are sufficient, out ground squirrels should h:i-/e 

 a tocspoonful. Poison put on grazing land ahould be 

 slightly scattered to prevent its be.tng taken by domestio 

 a-nimals. 



In deciding on the propc-r time to lay ooison 

 or t toction of seed, there are sevoral points to 



Or.e of those, 28 the date at which plcnt- 

 Jo be.g: bother, Is the habito of the anincls 

 aiaec at. Leo are active nt c] 1 seasons, but chlpnrunloa and 

 3und cquirre?o, in the Tahoa :.'or*:ot, hibernate during the 



A^ein, in vrinter, quell ani grcjso feed on buda 

 a, -e In danger cf taking bait intended for 

 ileftOM n&;mnalr. in the warm aeson this danger , lo- 



Kio vnritor, ct different tines, haa hed "under 

 nervation several hundred acres of land thorough!" treated 



oned grtin in :iay cud June; yet he never knew of 

 one grouse or quail living there to be killed by it. 



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