The Most Effective Rabbit Poison in Australia.
Writing upon effective rabbit poison, a correspondent to the Riverine Grazitr says: I give below the niixtnro 1 nni using (it present, and which 1 find to be tlio most effectual I have yet tried, oxcepting poisoned water, nnd tlmt is useless after rain. The rabbits appear to prefer this mixture to the best of 1 grass. Dissolve one stick of phosphorus in an eartltcm vessel with \ pint (or less) of water, mid 1 desort-spoonful of bisulphide of | carbon ; mix 3 pints of water and \ pint molasses (or 31b to 41b sugar) in a bucket; put 101b pollard on a| sheet of iron (a side of an old 400 gal tank is host), form the pollard into a ring; stir the phosphorus in-1 to the other mixture, and pour the lqt into the pollard ring, mix iutoj dough with a spade, and then knead' well with aaummor, By ramming out thin, dusting with dry pollard,, folding up into a lump and ramming! again, the dough ean bo worked into Hakes. Then chop it with a sharp spf'dc in pieces thesizo of a pea and bean. Don't handle "it. Distribute pieces, one to. thrco yards apart, in a scratch, like grain, wboreveqiui'ecl,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4768, 9 July 1894, Page 3
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208The Most Effective Rabbit Poison in Australia. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4768, 9 July 1894, Page 3
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