Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 September 1892 — To Keep Away Moles. [ARTICLE]

To Keep Away Moles.

A simple and cheap way to keep moles out of a yard is to plant a few castor beans, says a St. Louis paper. These are quite ornamental in appearance and seem to have the power of keeping moles at a distance. This naturally sounds like a superstition, but hundreds of suburban owners and renters will confirm the statement that the remedy, or rather the preventive, is most effective. It often happens in a new subdivision that yards are cut all to pieces by moles, with the exception of those in which castor beans are ng, these escaping every time, wie only inference that there is something in the smell of plant or the root which keeps away the burrowing pests.