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Show SUCCESSFUL REMEDY FOR PRAIRIE DOC EVIL Some of our farmers mav think the war against the prairie dog is hopeless, because they seem, in some instances, to multiply the faster because of the attention given them. If. however, the farmer will study their character and wage an intelligent war against tbem tbey can be exterminated at but a email cost. Kansas proclaimed war on the prairie dog in 1904 end practically exterminated them over 700,000 acres at u. cost of Sl.000. At this rate any of our farmers can well afford to experiment on them for their savings in one year will more than yield the price invested. The following fol-lowing is the most successful method used and it iR very highly recommended recommend-ed hy Pres. Paxman of the Agricultural College: Dissolve one and one-half ounces of strychnine sulphate (powdered or soluble) sol-uble) in a quart of hot water. Add a quart of syrup-molasses, sorgum or brown sugar syrup, and a teaspoonful of oil of anise. Thoroughly heat and mix the liquid. While hot, pour it over a bushel of wheat and mix completely, j Then stir in two or more pounds- of fine j cornmeal, just cnought to take up the I extra moisture. There should be enough j moisture only to completely wet every kernel of grain and no more. Care should be taken that there is no leakage leak-age from the vessel in which the wheat j is mixed. Let the poisoned grain stand a day or more. It will not hurt it to I keep it for some time. I The best time to apply it or feed it to the dogs is early in the morning of a I bright, warm day, immediately after a j cold or stormy day, the object being to catch them when hungry, and early enough in the year that they cannot get much vegetation. Use a teaspoonful of the wheat to each hole occupied by the prairie dogs, putting it near the mouth of the burrow, in two or three little bunches. j No good to put out the poison in very cold or wet weather. A bushel of wheat will poison 1000 to 1200 holes. Will some one call the farmers together to-gether that a concerted campaign may be instituted? Now is the time to act. |