Arsenical Paste. From oatmeal or wheaten flour, 3 lbs.; powdered indigo, 1⁄2 oz.; finely powdered white arsenic, 1⁄4 lb.; oil of aniseed, 1⁄2 dr.; mix, add of melted suet, 21⁄2 lbs.; and beat the whole into a paste. A similar compound has the sanction of the French Government.
Arsenical Powder. From oatmeal, 1 lb.; moist sugar, 1⁄4 lb.; white arsenic and rotten cheese, of each 1 oz.; rat-scent, a few drops.
Millers’ Rat Powder. From fresh oatmeal, 1 lb.; nux vomica (in very fine powder), 1 oz.; rat-scent, 5 or 6 drops. This is highly spoken of by those who have used it.
Mineral Rat-poison. From carbonate of baryta, 1⁄4 lb.; sugar and oatmeal, of each 6 oz.; oils of aniseed and caraway, of each a few drops.
Philantrope Muophobon. A French preparation, which, according to Mr Beasley, consists of tartar emetic, 1 part, with farinaceous matter, 4 parts, and some other (unimportant) ingredients.
Phosphor Paste.
Rat-scents. The following are said to be the most attractive:
a. Powdered cantharides steeped in French brandy. For traps. It is said that rats are so fond of this, that if a little be rubbed about the hands they may be handled with impunity.
b. From powdered assafœtida, 8 gr.; oil of rhodium, 2 dr.; oil of aniseed, 1 dr.; oil of lavender, 1⁄2 dr.; mix by agitation.
c. From oil of aniseed, 1⁄2 oz.; tincture of assafœtida, 1⁄4 oz.