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Show I ( ANENT THE MICE ! One of our helpful readers sends tho - following: To get rid of mice. ,fir6t, put all the eatables whero the ttloo can not get to them; second, get spring traps, two for a nickle are any ood mouse trap (the little spring raj)s, two for a nickl arc fine), and batt It with any kind of food the 'mice shour a liking for; third, every time trap 1b ueed, wash and scald it in boiling water, especiallv if a mouse is caught, and wash .the floor or shelf! "where the traps waft set. Mice will seldom go into a trap where a fellow mouse has met Its fate; nor will they 1 go into a trap for food when it can j bo found In other places. I write ' from experience, as 1 have been sorely sore-ly tried by the creatures, but have . conquered them." Where houses are .' not too near together, or where foods I are not stored In nearby outhouse, , the mice can be exterminated; but a ! carelesR neighbor, or an unprotected ! store house will keep up the supply that only oternal vlgllanco on the part of tho neat housewife can overcome. |