62 The Horticulturist' s Rule- Book. 



Camphor for rats and mice. — Mix a few pieces of camphor with 



vegetable seeds, to preserve them. 

 French paste for rats and mice.— Oatmeal or wheat flour. 3 lb. ; 

 powdered indigo, % oz. ; finely powdered white arsenic. 4 

 ozs. ; oil of anise-seed, drachni. Mix, and add of melted 

 beef suet or mutton tallow 2)4 lbs., and work the whole up 

 into a paste. 



Wash for keeping rabbits, sheep and mice away from trees. — 



Fresh lime, slaked with soft water (old soap-suds are best) ; 

 make the wash the thickness of fence or house wash. When 

 1 peck of lime is used, add when hot gallon crude carbolic 

 acid, 3^ gallon gas-tar and 4 pounds of sulphur. Stir well. 

 For summer wash leave gas-tar out, and add in place of it 1 

 gallon of soft soap. To keep rabbits and sheep from gird- 

 ling, wash late in fall, or about the time of frost, as high as 

 one can reach. 

 To remedy the injury done by mice and rabbits. — 



1. Pare and clean the wound, and cover it thickly with 

 fresh cow-dung, or soft clay, and bind it up thoroughly with 

 a cloth. Grafting-wax bound on is also good. Complete 

 girdling, when done late in spring — when settled weather is 

 approaching — can be remedied in this manner. 



2. Insert long scions over the wound, by paring them thin 

 on both ends and placing one end under the bark on the upper 

 edge of the wound and the other under the bark on the lower 

 edge. Wax thoroughly the points of union, and tie a cloth 

 band about the trees over both extremities of the scions. 



Blood for rabbits. — Blood smeared upon trees, as high up as rab- 

 bits can reach, will keep them away. 



To drive rabbits from orchards. — Dip rags in melted sulphur and 

 then secure them to sticks which are stuck promiscuously 

 through the orchard. 



It should be an imperative rule with all orchardists not to 

 allow brush heaps or piles of poles and rails to remain upon 

 their premises if rabbits are troublesome in the neighbor- 

 hood, for it is in such places that the animals live. 



Wash to protect trees from rabbits. — Fresh cow-dung. 1 peck; 

 quick-lime, % peck; flowers of sulphur. % pound: lamp- 

 black. % pound. Mix the whole into a thick paint with urine 

 and soap-suds. 



