Show r ormula FOE DE DR BALL GIVE SOME EXPERT ADVICE URGES WORK BE DONE short tailed squirrels do great damose barnao e to crops crop and spring is time to kill them E D bill director of the apri ri ment station at logan his aued i circular giving directions on the best in 1 anar in milich aich to go about exterminating the short tailed squirrels reli ile he cilia ills attention to the need of early action ind and shows how these th c animals arc a menace to the proper development ot dr firming ills his for lorm 1 ire l said to to do the work work inhere here tried ind if follower fol foll loea owea as d ed farmers cin soon qoon rid the lind of the little enemies tu to thir crops what dr ball has to isi ay on oil the sub hect folloni fol loui lovs there ia j an immense immen e amount of imga done tj gigin and crops on the dr dri farms of this state list year ear lo 10 the short t tailed ailed irrel or ground around clog at the time th tint it the dim ige was being don done numerous in juries urns cime in as to methods of tie de st stroking roNing thi pest at that season of the year hoener ho eer when food iq 1 hun dant it is 13 difficult to do 10 any an thing with nith them ind these interested etere ere edvi el to wait bait until and then tat talc c up the i against these p pests ai A sonn as the enoi is off the ground in the spring ta t e squirrel squirrels ip pear and b in to their rie nets ts for the riis raisins iriz of a large brool ot of i gung cung at this t me foo fool I 1 is scirce and poisoned ned gran graig is beadil ian there is 13 no time to hi bl lost nov however hoever and intone who has suffered offered any lobs lom in th ant pi st from these pests pasts should proceed it oice nice to prepare th fol folio lovin mixture rn turc and apply it thoroughly strychnine sulphate 1 ounce 3 plats pints cracked wheat or barley I 1 bushel di solie the strychnine in boiling water a ter then stir in the grain until ill of the cram arain 11 hi lq been equally dampened dimp ened and ill the amter ai ter abor absorbed bcd then prepare the follo iving matue mi tue c flour 10 pounds pound sugar 2 roandl SI fc the an dimp grain with chiq thi stirring until each kernal 13 a coated x with ith the hour flour this will eerie to hide the bitter taste of the strychnine t 1 I sugar coated pill as it were ere this mixture should be distributed tri buted in teaspoonful or more in a place pl KC in the holes and of the squirrels areat cire c ire heine beina taken to find every live hole and res ice thit the occupants get their share of the pred poisoned grain after wait waiting iniz a eik or more or until after a storm go over the ground agun and poison eich each freshly opened hole a second time thoroughness in these two applications is the of success one liole hole missed will mean a whole hole brood left to start a colony coloni for the next net 3 ear in come ML pheas tile lie dogs doa eem to cra araie c food that is salted and the best success his been obtained by b salting the poison but bia it would be well to salt i portion of the mixture and try tr it along with the other ind see which gives the best results the salt can be added to the lour flour and sugar augur and stirred in with it or I 1 i small pirt of the mixture lan can be sepa separated after the flour his been stored in ind two or three times as much silt as would be used in the kitchen stirred in do rot taste of this mixture to sic who iche ther it is salty enough IOU ou might find out but would nt live lie to tell it to intone else the best time to epli this mixture is 19 in the morning of a dry dia di ind and the grain should be placed on dry ground otherwise the will tend to remove the augir coating the lost cost of an application of thi this kind is trilling trifling compared with the results obtained Edun rela can be killed at an expense of a few cents an acre under oid inari condition ind even if it is neLl lar to arlit attral at iral acres the cot cost mill be small as compared con pared with the saving of the chopi in conclusion it should be remco here berel I 1 that there is 13 little use in uong ohp poison poi on except in the carli spring and ana an community or individual thit i ii id inning to fight the pests peats this y ear li this method sheild be reddy ready at once and poison the dols soon after the appear in the spring A pair killed it tins this time will a whole li odd of them front froni injuring crops at harvest timi the lands inadi of sevier vallie vere verc in fisted by bv these pests I 1 list abt ir ar and the farmer should get bet to work ork early an aal destroy demitro dei itro them before tile the this i 5 ar |