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BISULFIDE FOR MOLES. 
Richmond Hill, L. I., July 9, 189C. 
Edward R. Taylor. 
Dear Sir: — Will you please send me the little pamphlet and 
slips regarding the liquid "Puma?” We have used it for moles 
and found it excellent. 
Richmond Hill, Aug. 3, 1896. 
Mr. Taylor. 
Dear Sir: — In answer to yours of July 29, asking how I used 
the Bisulfide of Carbon for moles, would say that I followed 
your directions; that is, when there were isdications of moles 
to be seen, would dig until 1 found the run, then insert a ball 
of cotton thoroughly saturated with the “Puma” in each opening, 
then pack the earth firmly over the opening I had made. As 
these little animals have so many turns to their paths, I was 
not satisfied by putting the first balls of cotton in. I would 
follow the run and put some more well saturated cotton in the 
same as the first, always being careful to pack the earth firiply 
over the opening when I had placed the “Fuma.” I followed 
one run until I had put in eight balls of saturated cotton, 
which means that I opened the run in four places and put in a 
ball of cotton in each side of the opening. I always think that 
anything that is worth doing at all is worth doing well, and we 
were about discouraged, as the moles were fast destroying a 
lawn we were anxious to save. When I saw in a paper (I 
cannot name the paper) mention of Bisulfide of Carbon, I 
immediately wrote you and was determined to give your “Fuma” 
a good trial, and am very glad I did. We have found that borers 
in trees that are too far in to be cut out. can be killed by the 
"Fuma,” using a squirt can. then filling the hole with putty or 
a little mud. Yours truly, A. B. SWAN. 
DEATH TO OUR FOES. 
A. B. Johnson, of Cottage, N. Y., asks us to publish the 
following as an answer to numerous inquiries he has received 
in regard to the use of Bisulfide of Carbon. He says: “It is as 
safe to handle as coal oil, excepting when too near a fire: it 
is sure death to all kinds of pests, from smallest to the largest. 
To destroy woodchucks, hold a ball of cotton batting or anything 
dry that will absorb the fluid quickly, over the entrance of the 
animal’s den and pour one or two tablespoonfuls of the Bisulfide 
of Carbon on it. Put it in the den two or three feet, then fill 
the hole wilh a piece of turf, 18 inches down, «nd hoe on dirt 
and tramp it down; if it is a very complicated den. or there Is 
a large family, use more on other outlets and close them all; 
from two to three pounds will kill 100 woodchucks, and is an 
easy day’s work for a part-grown boy. I used it last summer 
freely; it cost me 12 cents per pound. I had to send to Edward 
R. Taylor, Manufacturing Chemist, Cleveland. Ohio, to get it, 
but its value to me was more than five dollars per pound.” — 
Grape Belt, Dunkirk, New York. 
