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New Zealand Herald, Volume IV, Issue 1053, 30 March 1867, Page 6

Eats damage done by rats in Auckland is very great. Care, however, must be employed in using the following plan for their destruction, lest children, poultry, &c., obtain access to the poison used. The following extract from a letter appears in the New York Times: —" Mix one ounce of finely-powdered arsenic and one ounce of lard with meal into a stiff dough; put it about the haunts of the rats. They will eat it greedily, and it makes them so thirsty that they will die near the water, of which they drink until they burst!" I cannot vouch for the bursting part of the above; in fact I consider it very doubtful—for I have never found any dead rats " lying around loose " " near the water," burxted or otherwise—but they do partake readily of the poison ; the arsenic being sweetish and not at all offensive, and thereby I have rid my place of them repeatedly. I placeyieces, the size of a large pea, on chips within their reach, being careful to put it out of the way of the poultry.— ET. C. Kesley, Newton, New Jersey, America."