Show PLANT SURE DEATH TO RATS would seem it might bo be to rid the world of a mot most deadly enemy why awby not cot raise your own rat poison polso nl 1 the philippine j bureau buran of science to Is asking the people its name came to Is dioscora dlo dio scora hirsute blume and it grows wild throughout the island lowlands lowland the poison content Is dlos corine an alkaloid which produces produce par albal of the central nervous system the dioscora to Is a tuber looks look like t i potato and grows like one it allo tastes enough like the old fashioned spud to fool mr rat tor for a a ift ment but it has a little reaction all of its own the government scientists say ay that one nibble Is enough to kill a large rat A slice without proper preparation would kill a human being on the other nand fiand it has been determined doter ter mined that by peeling the tuber and allowing it to stand la in running water tor for a period of 24 hours the dlos corine content Is washed out and the vegetable way may be prepared tor for human consumption in the tb same manner as Is a potato when thus prepared it has a slightly sweet taste and Is said to have a most moat agreeable effect upon the palate at present one of the largest of the government agricultural schools in the philippines Is making use of 0 the tuber to kill rats and field mice which are proving on an increasing menace to growing crops |