Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1875 — Remedy for Moles. [ARTICLE]

Remedy for Moles.

Allow me for the benefit of those troubled with moles to state how I keep my premises entirely free from, them ,at an expenditure of about ten cents >p money and less than two hours of time per annum. My lot is 150 by 140 feet, and for a time the moles had almost entire possesi sion. I adopt the following method; I take a grain of corn, and with a sharp penknife split open the small end of the grain and open it as much as I can without breaking off either side; thfen I take on the point of my knife a little strychnine and insert it into the opening in the iOoVn, and press the grain tightly against the blade of the knife so as to wipe off all the poison; then press together as closely as possible the separated parts of the grain. After preparing a sufficient amount of corn in this way I take a small, round stick and make a hole into the track of the mole, and drop a grain of the poisoned corn into the opening, and cover up the opening made by the stick with dirt, so as to exclude the light. I drop a grain here and there in their tracks all over the premises, and that is the last'of the moles for six months; and whenever one appears the same process immediately stops the evil. Strychnine being a deadly poison, the greatest edre is necessary in handling it, and none should ever be allowed to remain in the house after the com has been prepared. By soaking the com in water for twenty-four hours before preparing it makes it less liable to break in opening the end of the grain. A friend of mine says he uses arsenic in dough, made up in small balls, with good effect. If moles in other parts of the countiy are the same as in Arkansas, the above is a sovereign remedy.— Charles ,F. Harney, in New York Tribune. / ■ : A writer in the Meriden (Miss.) Mcrcuryjexpects the readers of that paper to believe the following: “ I have a cat that will occupy my seat at the table until I come, ana will not willingly give it up. J was sick a short time ago and unable to occupy it, and the cat would come from the table to the bed frequently. She finally caught a mouse and brought it to the bed, laying it down by me. I threw it off, but as often as I did so the cat would bring it back, until I thought she wanted me to eat it; so I made believe I ate it, and the cat went away apparently satisfied. And before night the same day she brought me a striped squirrel, and each day for three days I was in bed she brought game with the same result—she would never leave until I had pretended to eat i#” The Rochester Expretw predicts a good canal business in the fall, and says business on the canals is reviving.