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tural hiding-places, and baited withthefefubr 

 ftanees. 1 he fuccefs was every thing to be 

 defired ; for although a total extirpation has 

 not taken place, an annual faving of fome 

 quarters of corn has been the confequence. 



Under an idea that it was a change of 

 FOOD which in the barn conftituted the bait, 

 the fame principle was applied in the cheefe- 

 ghamber, and with the fame fuccefs. Here, 

 traps baited with corn were taken with avi- 

 dity. 



In the garden it was obfcrved, that much 

 depended on the feafon of the year : there- 

 fore, here, natural hiding-places were fought 

 ior ; and if convenient ones could not be 

 i:ound, artificial ones were made, in diiTerent 

 parts of the garden, with logs, ftones fet hol- 

 low on-edge, boards, &c. In thefe hiding- 

 places a variety of food is laid for feveral 

 days, whenever mice become troublefome* 

 and whatever food is preferred, with that 

 traps are baited. 



By thefe means the entire prtmifes have 

 been kept in a n:ianner wholly free frcrt^ 

 qiicc. 



While 



