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added to a bushel of soaked wheat and distributed while wet. It seems safe and simple to handle in this way and was being distributed by 3 dull looking Scandinavian workmen. Two or three bushels of the wet and poisoned grain were placed in a big box on a low sled and a boy drove the horse slowly while the 2 men scatttered the grain. Each had a large tin pail. These were filled with a shovel and carried on the left arm while with a big spoon the grain was scattered as the men walked. It was not intelligently done and as much was scattered over salt grass ground where were no mice as in the worst infested spots. It would take 2 or 3 times as long to put the grain down the burrows but this would prevent much of the danger of poisoning stock & birds. I am told that the magpies die of eating poisoned mice but suspect they eat the grain as well.