Show TRAPPING HARMFUL LITTLE PINE MICE Ro Rodents Usually Follow Moles in Their Burrowing Co Considerable Damage Done to Vegetables Vegetables Vege Vego- tables Stored In Ground in Eastern East East- Eastern ern States States Pests Pests Can Be Destroyed By Trapping Prepared by the United States Depart Depart- Department Department ment of Agriculture Pine mice which usually follow moles In their tunneling and burrowIng burrowing burrow burrow- ing lag through the soil soli have Inflicted considerable considerable considerable con con- damage recently In hi Virginia Maryland and other eastern stat states s especially especially es es- to vegetables stored In the ground and to early sown garden seed The mole often gets the blame for rascality rascality ras ras- cauty which Is wrought by the field mouse Moles live chiefly on worms and insects and do not destroy seeds seeds' of vegetables while field mice gain gaina a living from stealing seed and root crops These pests can be destroyed by trapping on small areas areal where the in infestation infestation Infestation In in- is not extensive and where it itIs itIs itis is undesirable to put out poison polson Twelve to 20 traps trap's an acre may be used The tunnels of the pine mouse should be bo excavated sufficiently to admit the trap on a level with the bot bottom tom a garden trowel being used for digging Where mice jire are abundant on large areas poisoned bait should be distributed distributed distributed dis dis- dis- dis In teaspoonful quantities In Inthe Inthe inthe the mouse runs and at the entrance of burrows A mixture containing one ounce of powdered strychnine one once of powdered bicarbonate of soda and one-eighth one ounce of saccharine should be sifted from a perforated tin box over 50 pounds of crushed wheat wheat- or 40 pounds of crushed oats mixing the grain constantly so that the poison will be uniformly distributed This dry mixture may be kept Indefinitely without danger of fermentation Where It is necessary to use whole oats the poison polson must penetrate the kernels because ml mice e hull the oats before eating them Hence it Is essential essential essential es es- es- es to dissolve e one ounce of nia sulphate In two quarts of boiling wa water tel |