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Show PLANT SURE DEATH TO RATS Would Seem It Might Be Utilized to Rid the World of a Most Deadly Enemy. "Why not raise yonr own rat poison?" the Philippine , bureau of etence Is usklng the people. Its name Is "dloscori hlrsuta blume." and It crows wild throughout the Inland lowlands. The polsun content Is illoscorlne, an alkaloid which prinluccs rralT"1 of the central nervous system. The din-era Is a tuber; looki Ilk t potato and grows like one. It nVic tastes enough like the old-fatloned "spud" to fool Mr. Itat for a tmunent. Hut It has a little reaction all of Its own. The government scientists taj that one nibble Is enough to kill a large rut. A slice, without proper preparation, prepara-tion, would kill a luininn, being. On the other hand It lias been determined de-termined that by peeling the tuber and allowing It to stnnd in running water for t period of 2 1 hours the dtosoorlne content Is wustiecl out and the vegetable may be prepnred for humnn consumption In the same man-nor man-nor as la a potato. When thus prepared It hn a slightly sweet taste and Is said to have a most agreeable effect upon the palate. At present o of the largest of the government agricultural scriools In the Philippine Is muklng use of the tuber , to kill rats and fleUl mice, which are proving tin Increasing nienac to growing crops. |