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I have always had my share of woodchucks, and I never 
could get rid of them until last season. I got an ounce of 
Bisulfide of Carbon, used one-half on three burrows and, in 
about three hours, all three had been dug out. I used the 
other half where an old one had young; the next morning I 
dug out the hole and found them dead. A neighbor joined with 
me and we got 20 pounds from Cleveland, at 12 cents per pound; 
one pound is enough for fifty, and not one has ever dug out of 
the hundreds that we have treated, unless there was some open- 
ing that we missed. Pour from one to two spoonfuls on anything 
that will absorb the stuff, push it into the hole three feet, push 
down a sod nearly to It, hoe on earth and tramp down. Treat 
all main outlets the same, and next summer one will be puzzled 
to find the place. — A. B. J., The Rural New Yorker, Aug. 15, 1896. 
FUMA CARBON BISULPHIDE. 
A word in regard to Puma Carbon Bisulphide. In the 
early summer of 1887, I first sent this grade to Isaiah Lightner 
for killing prairie dogs; he was greatly delighted with his 
success, and, though not knowing why, found it superior for 
this purpose to that he had bought before he knew of my article. 
Since that time I have had numerous opportunities of knowing 
that this grade is many times better than I had supposed. 
The first order I had from the Michigan miller referred to 
by Prof. Cooke in bulletin 58, I sent part of his order of “Fuma” 
and part the commercial grade. I did this with considerable 
hesitation, as I feared it might taint his goods. But his next 
and all subsequent orders were for the strongest goods I could 
send, and you notice he said, “You can throw it right on to flour 
and it soon will vaporize and the flour Is in no wise injured.” 
Other millers have testified to the same fact and not a single 
one has ever advised me of any injury to any mill product. So 
I think millers can assuredly rest upon that as a settled question. 
Provincial Fruit Inspector’s Office, 
Vancouver, B. C., Aug. 28, 1906. 
* * * We are likely to use a great deal of this most 
valuable insecticide; at present are using it for fumigating 
Japanese infected rice, and we are succeeding beyond my highest 
expectation * * *. 
Sept. 16, 1906. * * * We are having uninterrupted success 
with the Fuma * * *. 
Aug. 26, 1907. * * * We are now fumigating two hundred 
tons of Japanese rice at Victoria * * *. * * * Please send for- 
ward ten fifty-pound drums of Fuma * * *. 
THOMAS CUNNINGHAM, 
Provincial Fruit Inspector. 
