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[[underline]] P.S. Nov. 13 [[/underline]]. The sugar beets were not touched tho they have been out 2 nights. The coating of arsenic was very thick on them & may have prevented the mice from eating any.

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found by digging out several burrows.

Where the arsenic poisoned wheat was put out day before yesterday we dug out several burrows and found in one nest at the bottom of a deep cavity 2 dead Microtus. Their stomachs were full, mainly of green alfalfa, but in each was the ground up remains of wheat to the amount of about 2 kernels. Possibly only one. Evidently the mice poisoned with arsenic go into the burrows to die. A few live mice were seen running about on the area where the poisoned wheat & beets had been put out but not half so many as on the next block were none had been distributed. There are not so many freshly used burrows either on the poisoned area.

A new line of poisoned beets [[strikethrough]] roll [[/strikethrough]] sliced long and rolled in dry arsenic were distributed along a populous ditch bank. These pieces are too large to be eaten at once & the amount gnawed out of them can be seen each day.