Show eradication of rodents on western range land during at recent conference of west ern live stock block specialists nt fit H all united states range ranee live stock exper merit ment station miles city Hont llon fop port unity was afforded to measure tin maults of modern methods of freelomg freel nt range ranee lands of rodent destruction rec nm Om mended by the bureau of biological survey of the united states depart meet inert of 0 f agriculture three years ago some acres acre of the range ranee was badly infested with prairie dogs dog arid pocket gophers eop hert it was estimated at that time that wore more than 2000 acres cf it was totally ruined tor for grazing crazing by either cither cattle or sheep those in charge shipped in some come oats poisoned it and distributed it over this section of tile the range today there la Is an abundance of range grasses with scarcely any evidence of the former presence of tin it rodents the forester tor for that district estimated that the vegetation Is today nine or ten times more valuable over the entire region than before the eradication begga |