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Fighting the Old ’Chuek 
Mobilizing Fire, Water, Poison and the Dog 
ID you ever drown a woodchuck? 
If you have some good tight 
barrels or a tank you can put on a wagon 
or slip, it is a very cheap and easy way 
of fighting these pests. 
We made a regular sport day of it one 
holiday last summer. We had a large 
tank with hose attached and, of course, 
the wagon and team was the easiest part 
of the job. 
In the field below the house there had 
long been a woodchuck, famous for size 
of body, cunning in evading traps, and 
even more famous yet for the wonderful 
assortment and collection of holes he 
could dig. So the party set out to try an 
experiment in woodchuck hunting. 
We took along a number of bags, a 
chain, some rope, and a few clubs for 
good luck, because, if that woodchuck 
came out with a rush, we figured we could 
run just about as fast as he could. With 
the bags we stopped up and filled three 
of the four holes into the den. Then we 
turned on the hose in the fourth hole, 
A Lot of Water Needed 
It is a severe nervous test to sit idly 
by waiting for the unexpected to happen, 
especially when you do not know just 
how or what it will be, a drowning way 
down in the den or one wild rush. The 
water gurgled peacefully on; the hole 
did not fill up; the season was very dry. 
Would it soak away even faster than our 
tank could supply it? Then down in the 
darkness of the open hole a little water 
began to show, the hose gave a fore¬ 
boding sigh, and the water ceased to 
flow. The tank was empty. 
So far everything seemed to favor the 
woodchuck, unless he was drowned. 
At any rate we had the worst of the 
bargain, and the team had to return 
for another tank of water. 
When we started the new tank flowing 
however, things began to happen. The 
ground was getting pretty well soaked 
and the water really began to crawl up 
rapidly. What is even more to the point, 
the old woodchuck shoved his nose up 
out of the water like a seal and glowered 
at us. In two things we were safe: he 
was not drowned and he would not leave 
the hole while there was a dry spot left 
in it. As the water rose up, he climbed, 
up and up until he was near the top of 
the hole. With a rope my brother 
snared him and with a heave we got him 
out on the ground. We replaced the 
rope with the small meshed chain and 
fastened him to the wagon. 
Others Get the Same Dose 
As the tank was still over half full, we 
tried another hole nearby and soon had 
another small woodchuck added to the 
collection. But the real problem was 
ahead of us: what were we going to do 
with them now that we had them? 
It did not seem right to kill them, they 
came up and out so helpless, and yet it 
was not exactly right to turn them loose. 
To put off the question for a day we 
made a barrel into a cage and put them 
in it with plenty to eat. Just imagine 
feeding woodchucks to keep them alive! 
We spent a good part of the remaining 
day planning other woodchuck parties 
and wondering what we could do with 
the two prize packages we had caught. 
I suggested the zoo in a nearby city. 
In the meantime, the woodchucks 
had more to say about the matter than 
might be supposed. The next day when 
I went to see them, the wire was cut and 
the woodchucks,—well, you can drown 
them out all right, but, when you see the 
head come up, have a gun 1 handy, for they 
make pretty poor pets.— L. H. Hiscock. 
Trap ’Chucks and Save Skunks 
Till Later 
ANY farmers use the sure-death or 
carbon bisulphide method of exter¬ 
mination. Some use the automobile ex¬ 
haust without ever thinking they are not 
sure what is in the hole receiving the gas 
treatment. Many old woodchuck holes 
are taken for the season by Mrs. Skunk 
and there she, if left alone, will raise a 
family of from four to ten little ones. It is 
a well-established fact that the skunk 
is one of the farmer’s best friends destroy¬ 
ing large numbers of grubs. 
Can we afford to have these helpful, if 
ill-smelling, little animals destroyed? 
Would it not be better to give the boys on 
the farm a few strong traps and let them 
catch the woodchucks? If the wood¬ 
chuck is cut in pieces the flock of hens 
like the meat. In case the boy finds he is 
trapping in a skunk den, the trap can be 
moved with care. Even a skunk may be 
released from a trap. When the lawful 
season comes for trapping skunks, the 
boys will have found some places where 
they can set traps for a profitable catch of 
furs.— Mrs. B. E. Baker, New York. 
Woodchuck Cleanup On in 
Livingston County 
HE Livingston County Farm Bureau 
has put on a woodchuck campaign. 
As an added incentive the Bureau is offer¬ 
ing a prize to the individual securing the 
most woodchuck tails, which are to be put 
on exhibit at the county picnic. 
Farmers are using all kinds of methods 
from a good dog, which is probably one of 
the most effective woodchuck extermina¬ 
tors to the use of carbon bisulphide. L. O. 
Santimier of Mount Morris has had good 
results using a mixture of Paris Green and 
salt. 
The carbon bisulphide method consists 
in saturating a wad of cotton or wool 
waste with O /2 or 2 ounces of the liquid 
which can be procured at the local drug 
store. This is placed as far down in the 
hole as possible after all other openings 
have been closed with sod, well-stamped 
down, to prevent escaping fumes. After 
an elapse of 5 or 10 minutes this gas is 
exploded by thrusting a flame down into 
the hole. A rag saturated with gasoline 
attached to the end of a long wire makes 
a good torch. Take care to keep away 
from the front of the hole when exploding 
tfce gas to avoid being burned. 
On the Charles G. Porter farm in Or¬ 
leans County 96 woodchuck holes were 
thus treated and only 6 altogether gave 
any indication that the occupants were 
still living after the first treatment. 
Many farmers have been conducting 
woodchuck campaigns on their own initia¬ 
tive but this is of little value unless every¬ 
body in the neighborhood cooperated to 
wipe the pests out of the neighborhood. 
