GENERAL REMARKS 159 
cannot be here, because you are as likely to 
get chickens as to capture rats. There are 
poisons or fluids that act the same as poison 
to rats but are said not to affect chickens. 
I used one of these last fall with good results, 
cleaning out a family of rats in my cellar. 
This exterminator causes the rat eating it to 
contract a disease peculiar to rats, the disease 
being passed along to all the other rats with 
which he comes in contact, resulting in their 
death. If all houses are raised off the ground 
as mentioned under “colony house,” and all 
houses floored, and then properly closed at 
night, rats will not bother you. The only 
rats that bothered me were under houses 
built with raised floors, but enclosed all 
around to the ground. 
GOOD METHOD OF FENCE SETTING 
The best way to put up a 6 foot wire fence 
so it is practically free from “bags” is to set 
the posts, allowing them to project 6 feet 6 
inches above ground. Then unroll the wire 
the full distance to be fenced, even to the 150 
feet in the roll, letting the edge that will be 
the bottom be against the posts. Hang one 
end up on a nail at the top of the post, then 
continue on down the line of posts hanging 
