Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1920 — Poisoning Field Mice. [ARTICLE]

Poisoning Field Mice.

Field mice are very destructive to fruit trees this year and do not overlook some ornamental trees. The mice can be poisoned by cutting apples into pieces about an inch square and placing a small amount of powdered strychnine in each piece. Poisoned wheat can also be used to kill mice. Bailey gives the following formula: Scald five quarts of clean wheat and drain. Take two-thlrds of a cupful of white sugar, dissolve with sufficient water to make a syrup, add powdered strychnine, stir thoroughly until a thin paste is formed. Pour this on the damp wheat Stir thoroughly for at least fifteen minutes. Add one pint of powdered sugar, stir; add five to ten drops of rhodium, and the same quantity of oil of aniseed. Scatter where the mice are troublesome. Washing the trunks of trees in mild weather’wlth lime wash in which is placed, parts green, sulphur and tobacco dust will usually keep rabbits and mice away.