| Show kill them off the hare so numerous in ashley valley is rapidly increasing in number and destructiveness during the past winter they entirely destroyed thousands of dollars worth of fruit trees gargiu trees as well as small v w ero ere attacked the writer lost about one half the trees in his orchard ranging from three to seven years yeara old and in some orchards in the same locality nearly every tree was destroyed did it ever occur to you that the hare la is as expensive to support as the coyote not only do we have to furnish his delicate appetite with fruit tree bark in the winter but ho he feeds upon the beat of the field crops during the summer the cottontail cotton tail feeds largely on brush and weeds weeda and furnishes sport for the hunter and meat for the table while his hia larger brother is found in the grain and alfalfa field where the hunter eel dom goes and if killed is worthless not even his hide is of any use ai d no bounty on his scalp considering that the hare is confined to ashley valley and the immediate surroundings almost exclusively why would it not be money well spent if our county paid a small bounty on him to encourage his dist distraction ruction bounty or no bounty every body should try to exterminate the hare he is a parasite to the husbandman and an enemy to prosperity GEO A |
