Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1889 — Hom to Get Rid of Gophers. [ARTICLE]

Hom to Get Rid of Gophers.

Gophers are so numerous in Dakota that they are a great nuisance to farmers. Frequently the little animals get into a field and spoil a day’s labor of the husbandman by digging up the corn which he has just planted. A South Dakota man has hit upon the expedient of smoking his seed com, and he says the gophers won’t touch it. He puts it in a sack, hangs the sack in the upper part of a barrel, then builds a smudge in the barrel and smokes it just as he would a ham.