| Show lION OP OF DOGS Ai A recent reent bulletin or of the ka ha AgrIcultural Experiment Station I gives Iv or of carried on Oil onI I for Cor the purpose of at learning th the best belt and nd cheapest methods or of exterminating dogs dOli which like the ground squirrels In Utah are becoming so as te be a to ture tur The methods method which proved to bl be beso so 10 in n the against prairie atop tioga would undoubtedly be as AI effective lii In waging the warfare against the squirrel pest pelt The Nebraskans have tried numerous ways to 10 exterminate the dora dop but bUl the treatment that thal h has proven most mut I effective is 18 tile the use un of strychnine and cyanide e The Tho formula ormula I ii u as i follows In three o of strychnine and pound o of potassium cy ankle In one qUArt of boiling wat water r then add adl t two 0 quarts ol of molasses and andon on teaspoonful of oil o of anise anile stir SUr Then Place one buh bushel of wheat In u a tight so 10 tM there will be no hO loss lOll from leakage and nd pour JOur the fort fOh going over oer It It should hould th then n be well stIrred while An assistant slow Ilow I sprinkles into the mIxture four of finely round ground corn meal Th The ren renders ers the liquid so 80 that It will din to th the crall of WheAt wheaL The object of the corn cornmeal cornmeal meal is II to absorb the superfluous liquid or syrup rup and thui enable the graIns of wheat to tarn a larger amount or of poison This Thill preparation has been distributed In 1 0 Very er large toWn or of between five and anul six hundred acres A teaspoonful was wal placed In anti and around every hole The results were very nry gratifying as It watt wate demonstrated that lull fully ninety per percent cent of all the dogs dura were kIlled at t the first application a lion WithIn hours hour there thre were large numbers number ot of them lying on the ground Some were found lying at l tile the opening of the burrow whIle some could he seen Hen far fardon fardown down don In the hole holl anti and no doubt many tiled at the bottom ot of their burrows burrow The results from rom the above experiment leave Ilave little room for tor doubt that the prairie do dog can oon he be exterminated In a short hort time It If the work is III done In a manner In doln doing this work the followIng Instructions should be rigidly adhered to Piret t In preparing tb the poison great t care should h be taken that Ihal the exact prop proportions UI at used that thal th the cyanide of potassium And strychnine Ire are om corn d that no more water arid syrup ar are used than the recIPE calls 1111 for tor a as one bushel o of wheat heRt will not take up and carry than this amount o of After the liquid line hAil been Into the wheat tile the whole he be WIll well stirred until all or of the wheat what has haa rom come In with the syrup and the Is squally through 1 the hI whole ma mass It t be used Ih the same lAm day that It II 1 pre prep prepared p pared In oro order to obtain the best belt re The way to APplY this is III to take o of the Ihl poisoned wheel In a tin pail and sprinkle about aboul n a tablespoonful o of it In and nd each hole Do not lents leaI it Il In lump or hunches bunch 81 a or other stock might eat 1St it II although our experience showed that the danger this I is not great RI as cattle caUl were alln Ill to 10 range e over th the that IV being treated an anti antinone 1 none non Were injured d The best lIet Um time to commence opera lions B against the prairie dogs is II duro dur big Ing a period if r warm ear clear In Inthe Inthe the winter Th Tb adv of 01 lug hug tinning Ih the winter Is tJ that t Use the gras rJ and roote which they feed tte ar ardd dead dd and and hunger them to eat t more reel o of the pits wheat The seems IHms to lu i its work wark within hours In about aboul II ft week tek or ten I days S the tl I I should 1 be gon over oer a second tim a athen there then will III or of course OU some d v left leCt of oC h about atut aft fifty per tent cent t usually be killed b by the second cation |
