Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 118
stacked in bags, await-ing shipment, alone threaten loss to the extent ofmillions of dollars. To save this wheat all thestacks are being surrounded with mouse-proof I9I7-] NATURE AND SCIENCE FOR YOUNG FOLKS 81 sun melts the snow masses on the arched back-bone of Lebanons heights, the Fountain of… … fences of galvanized iron, with openings left every16 feet, in which are placed kerosene tins, sunkin the ground with six inches of water in the bot-tom. The mice already in the stacks when thisminiature fortification is put in place must go outfor water, and when they try to do so they fallinto…
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