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Show ALLIGATOR HAS GOOD POINTS South Carolina Newspaper Dives Some Reasons Why Indiscriminate Killing Kill-ing Should Be Stopped. Tho alligator Is another good cltt-rcn cltt-rcn whoso usefulness Is overlooked, for killing alligators hns been from time Immemorial n popular pastime. In Louisiana It was found that when tho nlllgntors were killed oft the muskrats multiplied and destroyed tho levees; nlso the cottoiwnoulh moccasin, moc-casin, the gnrflsli and tho curp Increased In-creased wonderfully. Whereupon protection pro-tection was given to the alligators. This Inccrtlllnn, to gtvo him his correct cor-rect family name, hns probably kept the muskrat away from tho South Carolina Car-olina coast, for the muskrat Is unknown un-known on the const. If allowed to mlutln'ly (ho alligator will makn Inroads In-roads on (ho 'carp, tho garfish and tho cotton-mouth, nil undesirable members mem-bers of our fniinn. The sum total of tho rilllgntor's evil doing amounts to (Ills: IIo ciltchcs a dog now and then; once In n long whllo pulls n hog or bites (ho tall olT n cow, for sundry stump-tnllcd cows along the Atlantic 'Coast Mno right of way havo met mlsfortuno In this way. The cow, tho dog nnd the hog nrc out of plncc when (ho nlllgntor con get at them; but nt best very llttlo of this happens. Charleston News nnd Courier. |