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•The RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Soptcmber 9, 1922 
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Nature Notes 
The Champion Woodchuck Dog 
I have been a reader of The 11. N.-Y. 
for years, and have seen in the time 
many articles on dogs killing woodchucks. 
I have a dog 18 years old that has a bet¬ 
ter record than any I have yet seen in 
print, so I thought I would sing his 
praises through flic medium of your 
paper. Ills name is Dixie; he was raised 
on a farm and kept for a watch dog, and 
was a thorough success, us he would not 
allow the best friend of the family to re¬ 
move anything from the farm at night, 
or even in (be daytime if the family were 
away. Under ordinary conditions he was 
very good-natured and playful, never go¬ 
ing away from the farm. He, of course, 
had plenty of time to hunt, and he killed 
so many woodchucks one year that wc 
determined to keep a record the next 
year. So we did. Every woodchuck he 
killed he would bring up to the lawn, 
and woe to the cat or fowl that attempted 
to investigate too closely until after I 
had given my approval. After T had 
praised him then anyone could take it 
away. 
Une afternoon he brought in eight 
en was half eaten up; the part left was 
still warm. This I can prove, for I have 
witnesses, so J guess the jury would have 
to bring in a verdict of guilty in this 
Case, J. 8. TAYLOR & SON. 
New Jersey. 
R. N.-Y.—In the face of such uneon- 
tradieted testimony the jury would be 
obliged to find the woodchuck guilty in 
spite of his previous good conduct. 
A Bloodthirsty Belgian Hare 
I wish to explain my experience with 
vegetarian animals killing chickens. I 
see there is some debating over this ques¬ 
tion, As far as the woodchuck is con¬ 
cerned. 1 could say nothing about them, 
b\it. several yours ago. when first I began 
raising chickens, my little girl had a Bel¬ 
gian hare with some young ones which 
were running in the same lot. One day 
the little girl came in and told her mother 
“The old bunny is eating the little chick¬ 
ens.” She laughed at her, but went out 
to see. and the hare had killed several 
chicks three or four weeks old. . A day 
or two later we caught her at it again, 
and in a few days caught her when she 
had hold of an old hen’s neck. Before 
this I had noticed an unusual number of 
bloody combs, which then I was satisfied 
the hare caused. She may have killed 
them because they bothered her when she 
A Day's Work for the Woodchuck Do<j 
woodchucks, which we thought worth pho¬ 
tographing, as shown in accompanying 
illustration. The some afternoon lie 
brought in one more, making nine in one 
afternoon. During that same season he 
killed 147. 
I can imagine some of the readers say¬ 
ing “The last story teller gives the first 
one no show.” But all of the family and 
some neighbors are living and ready to 
vouch for the truth of the record. If 
there be any better we would be pleased 
to hear about them. E. i. castor. 
New York. 
Gunpowder for Woodchucks 
I have been reading various methods of 
exterminating the woodchuck in The II. 
N.-Y. Allow roe to describe a method I 
have used with considerable success. Pour 
a tablespoonful of old-fashioned smoky 
gunpowder into a piece of newspaper 
about I* or 8 in. square, gather up the 
corner* of the paper, making a sack of it, 
and insert into the top of the sack the 
end of about 18 in. of blasting fuse, tie a 
string about the neck of the sack, holding 
the blasting fuse down close to the pow¬ 
der, push the sack of gunpowder down 
the woodchuck’s hole as far as it will go 
and light the other end of the fuse; then 
put a big piece of sod over the wood¬ 
chuck's hole and stand on it. In about a 
minute and a half or two minutes the 
fuse will burn down to the powder, the 
explosion will take place and shoot the 
smoke all through the woodchuck’s bur¬ 
row. If lie is in there at the time when 
this is done, lie will surely be suffocated. 
If lie is not there, nnd returns to find the 
hole covered up, he will seldom enter it 
again after he has dug down far enough 
to ■smell the gunpowder smoke which has 
permeated the earth all through the bur¬ 
row. A. I.. I'll I J.MltlCK. 
Massachusetts. 
Evidence Against the Woodchucks 
On page 088 George Watkins gives 
his experience about woodchucks killing 
chickens, but yon contradict his state¬ 
ment, saying the woodchuck is a vege¬ 
tarian. iWe have beard that groundhogs 
would catch chickens. A few years ago 
there was a noise at night, among the 
chickens. On going there, there was a 
groundhog, but he couldn't get any. Last 
year one afternoon we heard a young 
chicken ery out, and. running to ttie 
place, there was Mr. Groundhog eating 
u chicken. We killed him, and the chick* 
ate her mash, but we know this to b« a 
fact. I could not say that she ate any 
of them. c. J. WETMILLER. 
New York. 
CONTENTS 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER, SEPT. 9, 1922 
FARM TOPICS 
Green Penis in Madison Co., N. Y.1087, 1088 
Danger In Lute Cultivation of Corn... 1080, 1089 
Value of Unleashed Wood Ashes. 1089 
Hope Farm Notes ...1098, 1099 
LIVE STOCK AND DAIRY 
Feeding Cows on Feature. 1104 
Treatment of Family Cow,.. 1104 
Controlling Hog Worms...,. 1104 
Feeding Bern Pod*. 1106 
Barn for Cows and Calves. 1106 
Fattening Hog*. H06 
Suitable Dairy Ration. 1106 
Coughing Cow . 1106 
Trespassing Sheep . 1106 
Use of Lactometer .. nil 
Oily Butter ... 1111 
Curdled Mi.k . 1111 
THE HENYARD 
A Poultrymun’s Problems,,.... 1089 
Controlling Mites .. 1099 
A 1,400-Leghorn Plant.. 1109 
Figures from a Massachusetts Man. 1109 
Bumblefoot . 1109 
HORTICULTURE 
Notes fro-n New England . 1090 
Peach Color and Sunlight.. 1092 
Note* from a Maryland Gardon. 1096 
Liveland Raspberry Apple. 1099 
Mossy Gall of the Rose..... 1099 
Tho White Pine. Weevil... 1099 
WOMAN AND HOME 
From Day to Day. 1102 
Shoofly £io . 1102 
Embroidery Design . 1102 
Pear Recipes . 1102 
Tomato Sauce; Baked Beans with Tomatoes 1102 
The Essence of Choke Cherries. 1102 
Starting Roses . 1102 
Washington Cake and Jumbles. 1102 
When the Cream Sour*... 1103 
Homely Farm Blessings...... 1103 
The Rural Patterns. 1103 
Higdom or French Pickle. 1103 
MISCELLANEOUS 
The Great Auto Travel. 1089 
The Champion Woodchuck Dog. 1096 
Gunpowder for Woodchuck*. 1096 
Evidence Against the Woodchucks. 1098 
A Bloodthirsty Hare. 1096 
Nows from the Ox-team Express.1092, 1093 
Watermelon as Disease Carrier. 1093 
Bats Clean Out Mosquitoes. 1093 
Screech Owls and Small Birds. 1099 
The New York Senatorial Situation. 1101 
The Hoover Administration urul Farmers.. 1101 
Water Used as Fuel. 1101 
A Fuel Administrator fur New York. 1101 
The Talc of a Traveler—Part 1. 1101 
Concrete Walls For Garage... 1108 
Replacing Bali Bearings .. 1108 
Traotor lor Sawmill Power. 1108 
A Fair Chance for tho Child. 1512 
Gasoline and Farm Prices. 11)2 
A Woman's Bright Letter.... 1)12 
“Attacking tho Courts". 11)2 
