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A STRONG ENDORSEMENT. 
Edward R. Taylor , Esq.; Cleveland , O. 
Dear Sir : — I have seen an article in regard to destroying 
prairie dogs, etc., with your "Fuma.” I can testify to its good quali- 
ties, having used it myself with some neighbors during the summer 
of 1890, most effectually in exterminating tV.em from at least 800 
acres. I used cotton batting, making a piece not larger than an egg. 
Mv experience has been that it is death to all the dogs in the hole, 
whether one or a dozen. Yours truly, 
JOHN B. T., Helena, Mont. 
Mof.ES Marsh A,. I,, Ames, Kans., writes: — “Your Bisulfide of 
Carbon killed all the Prairie Dogs on my farm;” and Isaiah 
L lGHTNER says : — “I have destroyed all my dogs on eighty acres at 
a cost of thirty dollars, and increased the value of the land five 
hundred dollars. No humbug about it.” 
TREATING BUSHES AND TREES. 
In treating currant bushes, gooseberry trees, raspberries, 
strawberries, tomatoes and other growing plants: Constuct a 
small bell-shaped tent, with iron hoops or canes, and upon 
this frame fasten oiled canvas or thick paper; fix a wire hook 
to hang from the top of the frame inside, pouring a small 
quantity of the bisulphide into a little toy bucket hung from 
this. With the handles at each side the tent can be carried 
along and placed over the bushes or plants. The tent should 
be made so it will fit close to the ground, and if carefully lifted 
from plant to plant there need be but little waste of liquid. The 
tent should remain over the trees for five, ten or fifteen minutes; 
a great many subjects can be treated in a short time, and all 
insects, caterpillars, grubs, worms, larvae, etc., destroyed. 
G. M. S. 
KEEPING RATS OUT OF SEED POTATO CELLARS. 
To protect our stock from rats we use in our cellars Tay- 
lor's Bisulfide of Carbon, furnished, by Edward R. Taylor, Cleve- 
land. O. No vermin can live where its fumes penetrate, and as 
the vapor is much heavier than air it follows the runways and 
drives the rats away. 
From Farmer's Bulletin, £97. 
FUMIGATION. 
Rats may be destroyed in their burrows in the fields, and, 
still more important, in levees and rice-field dikes, by the use 
of carbon bisulphid. A wad of cotton or other absorbent 
material is saturated with the liquid and pushed into the bur- 
row, the opening being packed with soil to prevent escape of 
the gas. All animals in the burrow are asphyxiated. Fumiga- 
tion about buildings is not so effective, as the gas cannot readily 
be confined. 
