SURE DEATH TO WOODCHUCKS. 
E. R. Taylor's “Fuma," that is, his “Bisulfide of Carbon.” 
does kill woodchucks, for I have tried it twice to my satisfaction. 
I knew the animal was in the hole as I saw him go in. 1 took a 
round stone, nearly as large as a hen’s egg, and rolled cotton 
batting around it, and turned into the batting about a tablespoon- 
ful of the liquid, and rolled that into the holes as far as I could. 
Then I stopped up all his holes perfectly tight, and left it for a 
day. Then I dug in to see if he was alive, and I found him 
dead as a stone. If you want to help farmers get rid of these 
pests, you can publish the above trials and proofs. 
REV. WM. L. PALMER. 
Jackson Co., Mich. 
WOODCHUCKS OR GROUND HOGS, SHOULD THEY BE DES- 
TROYED, AND HOW? 
Yes, to be sure, kill the woodchucks. How? Use carbon 
bisulfide. My small farm was overrun with them, so I procured 
a can of the article, costing 45 cents for the pound, made balls 
of rags, of a size to go down into the holes, and after stopping 
all but one outlet, 1 saturated a ball and put it into the hole as 
far as I could reach and closed (he hole airtight. The pound can 
made fifteen doses, and no woodchuck ever came out of his hole, 
if used after they have gone into winter quarters, a clean sweep 
can be made. l. T. HADLEY, 
So. Franklin, Mass. 
Woodchucks are a great pest when allowed to multiply 
undisturbed. They destroy much grain by digging holes in the 
fields and throwing up mounds of earth, which are very annoying 
when working the land. They can be shot and trapped to some 
extent but there is a better way. Go to the druggist and get 
for 40 cents a pound bottle of bisulfide of carbon. Saturate a rag 
about six inches square with a tablespoonful of it, and with a 
stick shove the rag several feet into the hole. Then fill the 
mouth of the hole with earth. The inhabitants of each hole 
treated in this way will be destroyed. 
R. C. TROWBRIDGE. 
Tully, N. Y. 
SQUIRRELS. 
„ „ Pullman, Washington, May 25, 1895. 
Mr. Edward R. Taylor. Cleveland. O., 
Dear Sir: I have found the carbon bisulfide sent this station 
by you to be highly effective in killing burrowing animals. Its 
advantages are that there Is no danger of killing other animals 
as there as in the use of strychnine, or of setting fields on fire, as 
m the case in using phosphorus. It is also a positive remedy 
not depending on the squirrels. It seems to be a certain death 
to the squirrels, which are such a nuisance in this region I 
am anxious to learn what the material can be sold for here at 
retail, as its advantages constrain me to recommend it above 
other methods in use. here for exterminating squirrels. 
Yours very truly, 
W. J. SPEILMAN, 
Agriculturist, State Experiment Station. 
