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THE RURAL NEW-YORKER. 
June 23 
“TO SICKEN MOLES.” 
Last winter the following questions 
were asked in Thk R. N.-Y. : 
I am pestered with moles, acd would be Klad to 
have HOmethliiK to kill them. One writer recom¬ 
mended Castor Oil beans put In their runs, but they 
ate all the beans 1 could give them, and I found no 
dead moles. If any one has tried the Mole plant or 
any other exterminator. 1 hope he will let us know. 
Coal Valley, Ill. w. w. 
The following comments have come to 
hand: 
Put Tar on Their Heels. 
When those troublesome pests get into 
my garden or around my young fruit 
trees, I put about a teaspoonful of tar 
into their runs, and cover it. When they 
run their noses against that, they will 
not travel that road again. If this be 
properly done, the moles will soon have 
business elsewhere. The so-called mole 
plant is a humbug. w. H. s. 
Rocky Hill, N. Y. 
Carbolic Acid Too Much for Them. 
I was formerly much bothered with 
moles, and had tried everything I had 
ever heard or read of to destroy them, 
but in vain. One morning, I picked up a 
bottle containing one-half pint of water 
and one teaspoonful of carbolic acid, took 
a sharp stick, dug into the mole runs 
about every seven feet, and poured about 
a teaspoonful of the solution into the 
holes. It proved effectual, and one appli¬ 
cation during the season I have found 
sutlicient to exterminate them. c. m p. 
Lowville, N. Y. 
Nothing Beats a Good Trap. 
There is nothing so sickening to moles 
as a good mole trap. It is like the old 
darkey’s coon trap, it catches them 
“ a-goin’ as well as a-comin.” It is as 
sure as lightning, and never misses fire. 
A neighbor caught upwards of 30 in his 
garden in one season. If W. W. gets one 
of these, he will never live to wear it out. 
Coulterville, Ill. a. w p. 
Go Hunting for Them. 
I have been very much troubled with 
moles, but coneluded to get rid of them. 
Dating last year, I caught and killed (57 
on my little farm of 40 acres. The plan 
cost no money. I go to the infested field 
or garden at least by five o’clock in the 
xnorning, at 11 A. m. and 5 p. m., and 
watch for them to work ; for they 
almost invariably do their work between 
five and six in the morning, five and six 
in the evening, and between 11 and 12 in 
the forenoon. Several times I have 
caught as many as six before breakfast. 
I have tried strychnine without any 
good results. Just after a rain is the 
best time. One must walk very carefully 
as they will stop work at the least alarm. 
Farmington, Mo. t. b. c. 
An Old Mole Question. 
I believe as fully as I believe anything 
that moles eat peas and sweet corn and 
potatoes and tulip bulbs at eertain times 
and under certain conditions, and that 
the time when they do it is such as to 
make them great pests. They eat the 
peas and sweet corn after planting when 
the seeds have swelled enough to make 
them soft, and before the sprouts have 
grown much, if any. I have seen it 
stated that a Western professor had ex¬ 
amined many hundred mole stomachs 
without finding a trace of vegetable mat¬ 
ter. Very likely. It is easily possible 
that the examination of many thousand 
buman stomachs would not disclose a 
trace of an oyster, but it would not prove 
that men never eat oysters. I was once 
discussing the question with a distin¬ 
guished professor of Natural Sciences 
who knocked me out by stating that the 
structure of the mole’s teeth was such 
that they were totally unfitted for eating 
vegetable matter and of course could rwt 
do it. I bad no male at hand and never 
had looked at one’s teeth, and so had no 
answer to make. The next time I got a 
chance I examined a mole’s teeth and 
found them quite as well fitted to eat 
peas as my own were. Except for size, 
it requires an expert to tell the differ¬ 
ence between mole’s teeth and human 
teeth. I also read a year or so ago that 
a lady in Oregon had caught a mole, shut 
him up and fed him on a vegetable diet 
and that the mole took kindly to it and 
throve on it. Whether it is true or not, 
it is an experiment that is easily tried 
and I propose that a lot of us try it and 
report the result to The Ruka.l. We can 
easily demonstrate whether moles will 
eat peas and sweet corn or not, and 
whether they will do it when they have 
insects and worms at hand. f. hodoman 
Dug Them Out. 
Last spring I had tried various methods 
of poisoning moles, but could see little 
evidence of having accomplished my pur¬ 
pose. One day I saw where one was 
“ bunching up ” the ground, and quickly 
spaded him out; that whetted my appe¬ 
tite for the varmints, and I was never 
about the house or garden, morning, 
noon or night, without an eye out for 
’em. The record of the season was 41 
moles eaught with spade and trowel 
My wife caught about half as many as I 
did. I think we caught more than two 
thirds of them in three places where we 
diseovered they had underground high 
ways leading from under the house to 
the garden. By tramping down the soil 
here as often as we found it opened up 
and keeping a lookout, we would fre 
quently catch one opening it up again 
and throw him out. I think we got all 
of those that had their nesting places 
under the house. There are plenty more 
in the surrounding fields, but 1 don’t 
think there will be quite so many in our 
garden again. You should see how wife 
got on her mettle when one got into her 
pansy bed ; watched for him like a cat 
for a mouse, and got him, too. w. O. n. 
Belleville, Ohio. 
THE LIFE MORE THAN MEAT. 
Before I open each number of The R 
N.-Y., I say to myself: “Now for the 
atmosphere of an editor and his coad¬ 
jutors, who persistently tell the farmer 
how to make money.” This seems 
to be the settled policy ; against the 
wisdom of which I have nothing to 
say. The political and religious press 
keep this subject in a good deal 
of sand. With you the idea is in a 
soluble state, it is easily grasped by the 
farmer. Yet, with it all, I judge you 
must often get uphearted, and think of 
a higher aim. For the farmer is so 
often foiled in his efforts by bugs, 
drought, mildew, tuberculosis, scamps 
as commission men, in short, by stupidity 
and folly bred by his own eagerness to 
get gain. Other men in business, aiming 
only at making money, expect reverses, 
but they do not let all mankind know 
where they lose, why they lose and what 
they lose. They carry a calm face, are 
well-fed ; they have all that heart could 
wish; are respected, riding around in fine 
style, when, if their debts were paid, they 
would have nothing, many of them. But 
this you would not discern from their 
outward life. Nobody calls them “ Hay¬ 
seeds” or other hard names. 
Now I ask myself the question often, 
Why is it that the farmer is so ridiculed? 
Why is his occupation and the labor of his 
hands so open to law, ridicule and con¬ 
tempt? If some expert declares that there 
is danger from impure milk, a whole 
county is put under lawful espionage. I 
would quit ministering to city people be¬ 
fore I would be harassed so. Do the 
city people want to make the condition 
of the farmer as low as that of their 
coachman ? It may be that milk is a 
necessity, and pure milk a valuable prod¬ 
uct ; but cannot the farmer see that the 
city people, rich and poor alike, hold a 
rod over him and despise him? And why? 
May it not be that he has too low an 
aim—only one—to make money ? We 
would despise any man—judge, lawyer 
or preacher—whose only object was to 
make money out of his occupation. The 
farmer cannot expect a just judgment 
will escape him. If the farmer nad other 
objects in life which would appeal to and 
develop his self-respect; if _ he kept the 
love of money :n subjection, he would 
not put himself at the mercy of every hue 
and cry of city people. He would also 
find that his occupation would not be so 
bolstered up by law, or be the object of 
so much legislation. He would reduce 
some of his expenses, and go about his 
business in such a way as to get some 
enjoyment out of life. I do not see why 
he should rise at 4 o’clock in the morning 
If the following letters had been written 
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D. Foster, residing at No. 33 Chapin Street, 
Canandaigua, N. Y. She writes to Dr. R. 
V. Pierce, Chief Consulting Physician to the 
Invalids’ Hotel and,. Surgical Institute 
at Buffalo, N. Y., as follows: “I was 
troubled with eczema, or salt-rheum, seven 
years. I doctored with a number of 
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from physicians in Rochester, New York, 
Philadelphia, Jersey City, Binghamton, and 
received no benefit from them. In fact 
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doctors without benefit. My brother came 
to visit us from the West and he told me to 
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He had taken it and it had cured him. I 
have taken ten bottles of the ‘Discovery,’ 
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Mr. J. A. Buxton, a prominent merchant 
of Jackson, N. C., who says: “I had 
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