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From: gtaylor@astroatc.UUCP (Tiotto Matte Kudasai)
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Subject: Re: Build a better mousetrap
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Date: Wed, 3-Sep-86 10:16:31 EDT
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One of the students in my Dutch class at Cornell was friends with
several members of the local Amish community (he was studying their
dialect, I believe). He got this little hint from their uh....do you
call it a community newsletter? It seems clear that the Amish didn't 
do this in house, though.

Their humane and cheap approach to rodent control involved buying a
box of Potato Buds (this is how the whole thing started, I think. My
friend asked why the PBs were the only mix in the house....) and putting
them out for the little buggers with a big bowl of water next to it.
They chowed on the Buds, drank a little water, and then uh...expired.
I guess it may not have been *that* humane, but hey.
-- 
"So the selfsame sounds on my soul make a music too..." (Wallace
Stevens "Peter Quince at the Clavier") Gregory Taylor, Astronautics