The circle banner. [volume] (Circle, Mont.) 1914-1939, 1923-06-08
HOW TO SCATTER THE
POISONED BRAN Mash
When

When
The best time to put out the poison
is from eight to eleven O'Clock in
the morning on warm, bright days.
How
Broadcasting the mash by hand
from the rear end of a light wagon
has been found to be the best method
of distributing the poison.
How Much
About 20 pounds of the prepared
bait to the acre is sufficient for or
binary infestations. One hundred
pounds of bran will make nearly 200
pounds of the poisoned bran and
should be enough for approximately
10 to IL acres.
Materials to Use
Coarse wheat bran is essential.
If any considerable proportion of
shorts is present in the bran, a good
mixture cannot be secured. The ball
ing-up of the fine stuff not ony makes
the mixing more difficult but leads
to waste in the application of the
poison, and when sucl material is
used is more of a menace to stock
and birds on account of not flying
into small flakes upon being broad
casted. In an emergency, OLD saw
dust may be used to replace half the
bulk of bran. SAWDUST is NOT AS
GOOD AS BRAN.
Crude stock molasses or sugar
beet molasses or any kind of the
cheapest blackstrap may be used.
In case no molasses can be gotten
use the formula without molasses
Most of the grasshoppers will be kill
ed and it is better to go ahead with
out molasses than to do nothing.
Caution
Grasshopper bait properly scatter
ed is not dangerous to livestock, but
when left in Jumps or small piles
which will attract stock it is danger
GUS. Read the directions and follow
them carefully.
Here are the important Points
Choose coarse bran, reasonably
free of shorts. Any flour or shorts
tend to make it pasty and to make
it fall on the ground in Jumps. The
should be flaky and fall in
fine particals.
2 Broadcast by hand. Do not use
a shovel
Mix thoroughly according to
and do not have wet Jumps
which will not scatter.
4 Bait held. over from a previous
year and wet up again is liable to
be caky and 1umpy. 1t is all right
to use if it will scatter out like so
much sand when thrown from the
land
Substitute for MoIasses
The molasses situation looks bad
When the present supply is utilized
It looks doubtful as to whether an
additional supply can be secured at
any reasonable cost. For tnat reason
We are going to use formula that
worked very successfully in Choteau
County last year and does the work
)f molasses and is cheaper than mo-
asses.
Materials:
l pound of sugar.
l pound of flour.
l gallon of water.
Stir the flour and water together
nto thin paste, taking care to have
smooth mixture free from Jumps.
Add the sugar and bring to a boil
t is necessary to boil it just slightly
n order that syrup forms. Do
lot boil long. This homemade syrup
nay be used gallon for gallon in place
# the commercial syrup.
Preparing Poisoned Bran Mash
Dry Method For Small Quantities
1 Thoroughly mix 100 pounds of
coarse wheat bran and 4 pounds of
rude white arsenic.
2 Dissolve pounds of salt in 12
'allons of water and then add 2 gal
ons of cheap molasses and stir un-
il well mixed. Into this liquid mix
ounces of amyl acetate (banana oiD
Gradually work the wet mixtore
y pouring little at time, into the
oisoned bran, and add enough water
o make a damp, crumbly mash. A
ood mixture will be uniformly wet
nd yet will scatter into small flakes
yhen being broadcasted.
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light floor, or in wagon box, grain
ank, or large galvanized watering
rough. A piece of common fly
creening will make sitter by which
be arsenic can be added TO the bran
cry evenly. Work the bran and ar
enic back and forth with scoop
howell and a rake until they are thor
ughly mixed, a point that is very
Other things required are
tub with a IL gallon mark indi-
ated, and small graduate in which
, measure the amyl acetate.
.RSENIc DUST IRRITATES THE
SkIN--BE CAREFUL