McRussell M.Y.Z., Berkeley, Calif. Jan 19 1960 it up, just as mole was working. Dug it up. Then dug up one I just found working. And there by stumbled on to a better method for digging a mole out when it is working. This concern deep runs where the mole is making mounds. Not the shallow run types. Now when a mole is pushing up a mound and one tries to throw it out with a shovel he has a 33% chance of success. One of 3 things can happen. One can miss the animal, or cut it in half or be successful in flipping it out. This is if one follows his natural inclination of ramming the shovel home at site where earth is moving. The difficulty arise from fact that one has no idea of which side the main burrow is on with relation to the mound. It suddenly came to me as I watched a mound being formed, and was wondering when to thrust the shovel. Why not dig out the next to last mound and thereby cut off the mole's escape.