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Show I POCKET GOPHERS. I havo been over my fields this : spring with n suppl) of poisoned par-, par-, snips, to kill those posts, tho pocket gophers. I used strychnine In small pieces of parsnip, Just about enough to make, a good mouthful for the gopher With a spado nn oponlng Is mado In their run-ways, Into which a bit of tho poison Is plnccd and the hole Is then covered. In a day ono can lay nut a good deal of poison and a great many gophers, which aro very destructive In tho orchards, meadows and all cultivated cul-tivated fields. |