SPORTSMEN, FARMERS, 8CC. 8$ 



to all sorts of game than a cat, which deserts 

 the farm-yard, and lives in the fields and 

 woods. There they breed, and produce a 

 race of real wild animals, in that case more 

 destructive than any other vermin. To 

 poison the above-named vermin, you need 

 only prepare small birds, as I have directed, 

 so as to draw the vermin to the bait from a 

 distance off. Cut the breast of the bird 

 open on both sides/ and rub in five grains, 

 not more, of arsenic*. Stick the bird about 

 six inches fi'om the ground, on a stick, in 

 the paths where you observe the vermin 

 run. Dogs wont eat the small bird, nor 

 indeed any bird, especially when it be 

 anointed with so strong a perfume. When 

 you observe a bird taken away, you may 

 be sure you have destroyed some one of 

 those animals so destructive to game. 



* If you give any considerable quantity of arsenic, 

 it will make the animal sick, and he will! throw it up; 

 five grains, or as much as will lie on the point of a 

 sharp penknife, is enough ; that will stay with him, 

 and kill him. 



