FOOD WASTAGE
Sta,—I should like to thank Lord Northbrook for his interesting reply and I agree that his argument about fats and mice living together is probably right. He can, however, get his stacks dressed against mice in tne follow- ing way. Mix up a poison bait, made up of rea squills and meal, into a stiff paste. The bait is then inserted into the stacks by means of a " Rodding Iron." This is an iron tube about 6 feet long with a plunger or piston running through the centre. The baits are put in the tube, the iron is pushed into the stack with the plunger extended, the plunger is then forced home and as the iron is withdrawn the baits remain in the stack.
The stacks should be dressed at various levels, working the bait in at intervals round and round the stack. They should be done about Christ- mas time if they are to stand until late spring or summer. In days gone by stack-poisoning combined with rat catching was a recognised country trade in Lincolnshire, but of late, probably owing to low corn prices, little has been heard of it. The war has once more emphasised its importance. The "old hands" used a secret bait but the prescription seems to have died with them. The Lindsey W.A.E.C. recognises the importance of stack-dressing and hopes this autumn to stage a demonstration of the
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