Show NATURE HOLDS BALANCE EVEN creatures creature that prey and nd those that are preyed upon H have a ve natural eted increase lim limited Iro however wever smart and awake to the frequent el dangers angers that may at any time assail them the creatures that are preyed upon are often caught the preying ones get them from time to time and it if this were not so they would increase beyond all bounds it is true also that those that prey often go EO hungry and they too have enet enemies nies or diseases which later amount to the rame came thing la in the struggle for existence and the limiting of numbers so nicely Is nature balanced as a general thing between the tillers killers and the killed that it if but an unusual influence enters eaters in as nn an additional number of carnivorous creatures in any neighborhood or the growing up of an additional amount of cover there will be a falling off on the one hand band or a considerable sid erable increase on the other of those animals that are preyed upon thus Is seen the influence both ways of mans maes part in natures complicated contest the gunners and trappers weigh heavily in overbalance ing ng the otherwise normal balance against both flesh and vegetable eaters and where in the unusual goodness of his heart man has endeavored over ever considerable areas to protect nearly all wild life the result la Is shown by a rapid increase among the protected animals |