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HOW TO KILL RATS

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Dec 26, 1906

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 32, No. 50.

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HOW TO KILL RATS.

An Oklahoma farmer uses this method of cleaning out rats: "On each of a large number of old shingles I put about a half a teaspoonful of molasses, and on that, with my pocket-knife, I scraped a small amount of concentrated lye. I then placed the shingles around under the stable floors and under the cribs. The next morning I found forty dead rats and the rest had left for parts unknown. I have cleared my farms of the pests in the same way, and I have never known it to fail."—Selected.