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Show SOLUTION KEEPS MICE AT DISTANCE SYDNEY. N. R. W .Tuy 1 Hope-that Hope-that one of the Australian farmer's greatest problems protecting wheat against the attacks of mice Is near solution has risen from successful tests conducted by a Sydney doctor of a protective preparation ho had evolved. miffM The value of the discovery may be gauged from the fact that the records of the wheat board show losses of 500,000 pounds In New South Wales alone directly attributed to the ravages rav-ages of mice. The final test was cpnducied by the inventor, Dr. Henry Dot troll, in the presence of representatives of the wheat board, primary producers and the press- Mice were scaled in an Iron tank with lare supplies of bread j :ind wheat, which were enclosed in i sacks and cardboard boxes which hadj fxsen sprayed with the solution Invent led by the doctor, some as long ago as 15 months. When the seal of the tank was broken after two days it j was found that the mice had made no attempts to eat either the wheat or the bn ad no trace of teeth or claws being found on the hoxes or bags. All of the mice were dead, apparently preferring pre-ferring to starve rather than approach the solution. |