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Show RATS IN THE CHICKEN YARD No Trouble in Getting Rid of Them by Poisoning with Cornmeal and Sugar of Lead. Eats cause great losses In many poultry yards. There Is no trouble In getting rid of them by poisoning with a mixture of two parts cornmeal and one part sugar of lead. The hand should not come in contact with the poison feed, and all other feeds should be removed so the rats cannot get them. The poisoned feed may be kept away from the chickens by putting it in a tray, nailed to the middle of the bottom bot-tom of a box at least a foot square and six inches high. The box should be closed on all sides except for a number of inch and a half holes bored through the sides near the bottom. Burn or bury the dead rats so that chickens cannot eat them. The decayed de-cayed flesh of even nnpoisoned rats is likely to cause limber neck, as ptomaine pto-maine poison is called in chickens. |