Poison i n< 
Amui i it • \ \ i Mm hods 
The following recipes and recommendation contain useful Uinta 
farmers who for anj reason do not wish to follow the recommenda 
>!i- already made : 
To protect trees froui mice we take blocks of u I Inches In length by 
diameter, uiul with n six-quarter auger bore a hole I Inches In depth. 
Id \ .1 dessert sixionful of arsenic with n Quart »f corn meal, or In that propor 
Don, put one sjKK)nfiil in each box prepared as above, and pu1 ii under each 
beneath the mulch. Renew the meal once or twice each year. This 
i»ss s a sure protection. Lewis 11. S|>ear. In l. S. Agricultural [lejwrl 
ISTij, p. 1:.::. 
Different poisonous preparations have 1 n used with effect on these vermin. 
'I'll.- following; are anions the best : 
Two ounces of carbonate of barytes, mixed with n pound of suel or tallow ; 
place portions of this within their burrows or about their haunts. It is 
kreedily eaten, produces greal thirst, and death ensues after drinking. This 
is an effective poison, as it Is both tasteless and odorless. Or, 
Two ounces finely powdered arsenic, 2 ounces lard, 10 drops oil of rhodium, 
mixed with flour or meal into a thick dough, and pills of it scattered about 
the orchard and nurseries.- E. A. Samuels, in I'. S. Agricultural Report, 1863, 
P. 272. 
These animals i l/. agrestis) had devoured the succulent flower stems of some 
hundred Lobelia cardinalis and the fleshy stems of Pampas grass {Arnndo 
hotispirua). After making a number of futile experiments, 1 noticed ihe ani- 
mals feeding on dandelion seeds. Securing some ripe heads of dandelions and 
hitting off the down, 1 steeped them in a solution of strychnine and laid them in 
the runs of the voles, in a few days I had exterminated all of them from the 
garden. 1 >. Melville, in Annals of Scottish Natural History, January, 1893, 
pp. n-42. 
In the month of February half a ton of one-and-a-half inch drain tiles were 
laid down separately throughout the plantations and a tea spoonful of oatmeal 
was placed in each, which was soon discovered and eaten by the mice. Phos- 
phorus paste was then added to the meal and latterly small quantities ot 
arsenic. The plan succeeded perfectly, and in a very short time they were all 
destroyed, sir Robert Menzies. Rannock, Perthshire, Scotland. 
A mixture of four-tilths Hour and one-fifth arsenic is introduced by the aid of 
a small palette knife into the middle of a drain pipe with an internal diameter 
pf aboul :'. centimeters < 1', inches), and this pipe is then put near the hole- of 
the mice. Recommended by the French Minister of Agriculture in a letter to 
the British Vole Commission of 1892. 
I shell out pumpkin seed, grind it into meal, and mix with strychnine. This 
is put into a tomato or corn can. the sides bent flat, so that no other animal 
can iret at the meal, and the can then laid on the side. It is a great succ< 
Method used hy Fred. Noerenberg, Cascade Springs, S. Dak. 
11 M tGATION. 
Generally speaking, the various method- <>1 fumigation for de- 
stroying Held mice arc unsuccessful. Nearly all the species have 
numerous burrows, and it is difficult to determine the occupied one-. 
To insure success, therefore, all the burrows must he fumigated, ami 
the amount of labor and material involved makes the methods too 
