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were eeen frequently as I worked through the cane. 
They are mere or leae carnivorous apparently as many of the 
specimens caught in traps htd been r-rtly eaten. 
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Ex per latent a with Poisoned Bolts. 
Three quarts of sweet potato halts out into half inch cubes were 
poisoned with > mixture of powdered strychnine and sodium bicarbonate 
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sifted over them. These belts were distributed singly in holes and 
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along the rune in the ditoh banks at distances of 6 or 10 feet. On the 
following morning examination showed that 50 per cent or more of the 
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baite had been nibbled and eon.e nearly consumed. Hatted vegetationfdomm- 
abundant cover and holes were frequent, but in a search made twelve 
dead Sigmodon were discovered. It was significant that these had not 
been eaten ae had been the case -V. v - i - r. 
In trapped specimene. On the follow* 
ing morning 8 sore all of them young were found on the same area. This 
bait would have been improved by the uee of 8aeeh&rln. »J 1— 
A second bait rne made with ortmeal poisoned in hot water. This 
bait *m spread in little hears containing approximately a tsaspo on- 
full plaeed in the rime and It the entraneee of holes. It was used 
on an area contiguous to that poisoned by the othor method. On the 
following morning twelve dead animals were picked up. Time did not 
permit intensive trapping as a cheek on the effloecgr of these polsone 
but from observation it was believed that their use was very success- 
ful. The area covered comprised teo acres in each ease and In both 
cover was so abundant that it was dlfficu^l, to find dead animals* 
The i^re&e given to the culture of cane will undoubtedly be in- 
creased ntffct year end it le thought that there may be considerable 
dama&e to it by the Cotton Rats. It is tho beliof of the writer that 
