Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1907 — Uncle Sim’s Rough on Rodents. [ARTICLE]

Uncle Sim’s Rough on Rodents.

Here is the poison method that the United States Department of Agriculture recommends for the extinction of rats and all small rodents, and this article should be clipped out and preserved by those that are'bothered with the pests. ‘ One of the cheapest and most effective poisons for rats and mice is barium carbonate, or barytes. This mineral has the advantage of being without taste or smell; and, in the small quantities used in poisoning rats and mice, is harmless to large animals. Its action on all rodents is slow but’sure, and has the further advantage that the animals before dying, if exit be possible, usually leave the premises in search of wa-_ ter. Its employment in houses, therefore, is rarely followed by the annoying odor which attends the u*e of mor*. virulent poisons. The poison may be led in the form of a dough made of one-fifth barytes four-fifths meal, but a more convenient bait is ordinary ( oatmeal, with one-eighth of its bulk of barytes, mixed with water into a stiff dough; or the barytes may be spread upon bread and butter or moistened toast The prepared bait should be placed in rat runs; a small quantity at a place. If a single application of the poison fails to drive all rats from the premises, it should be repeated frith a change of bait.”

Grandfather J. M. Gwin was np from McCoysborg Saturday. He is nearing his 88th birthday and is in fine health and spirits.