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[[underline]] Rogers Ranch [[/underline]]. 

[[underline]] Nov. 13. [[/underline]]   The mice had not touched the onions or cabbage put out yesterday but had eaten some potato & apple poisoned with arsenic & one dead mouse was found close beside the potato he had been eating.

The line of sugar beets rolled in arsenic & put out 2 days ago were not touched. They were heavily coated with dry arsenic.

The wheat poisoned with Barium carbonate 2 days ago had been largely eaten but no dead mice or scarcity of mice could be discovered.

On the area where wheat poisoned with arsenic was put out on the ninth one dead mouse was found and the burrows freshly used are scarce. Much of the wheat has been eaten.

On the area where arsenic poisoned cracked barley was put out the 9th 7 dead mice were picked up & most of the grain had disappeared. The freshly used burrows were scarce, compared with those before the poison was put out.

Went to town but the 8:20 train was 7 hours late so staid over for morning train.

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Reviewed. Corrected markup & typos. -@siobhanleachman