March 24, 1944 
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Memorandum for Dr, Wet more * Assistant Secretary. 
In accordance with your request, I have consulted with Major Goldman 
in regard to the type of bait which he found satisfactory during his field 
work in Panama. 
He has advised that a mixture of about one-half flour and one-half 
cornmeal should be cooked a little, that is about half-cooked. Small balls 
of this can be placed on the trigger of traps. It may be desirable to mix 
a little peanut butter with the above combination. 
Corn tortillas made an excellent bait in Mexico. The flour-corn mixture 
and the corn tortillas are not especially attractive to ants and the like. 
Rice cooked until it acquired the consistency of dough was also used. In Panama 
he found mice sought after pieces of acorns used for bait. 
The flour-corn bait can be placed on the trigger of a Schuyler and a pinch 
of a mixture of corn-meal,bird seed and oat-meal placed in center of metal base 
of the Schuyler trap. Ants will frequently carry away the oat-meal, and bacon 
is very attarctive to ants# 
Remi ng ton Mel I ogg J 
Curator, Division of Mammals 
