Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 222, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 September 1915 — Gophers in the Garden. [ARTICLE]

Gophers in the Garden.

Gophers still infest gardens except In the central portions of large cities, and are hard to exterminate where many vacant lots are found. Garden owners do not care to keep poison and traps on hand, and how easily to accomplish the death of the gopher becomes a problem. Last week one threw up a little mound in the writer’s garden, having burrowed under the fence from an adjoining vacant lot. A messenger was hastily sent to a nearby drug store for a bottle of carbon bisulphid. The hole was opened, a half cupful poured in, the hole closed and firmed with damp soil. The fiext day the soil was dug out and thaOole followed but three feet into the Bfcant lot. and there his gophership reposed, dead. ’