Show Moles Friends of the Farmer A distinguished naturalist carefully careful-ly examined the stomachs of 15 moles caught in different localities but failed to discover therein the slightest slight-est vestige of plants or loots on the contrary they wero filled with the remains of earth worms Not satis fled by this fact ho shut oil several moles In a box containing sods of earth on which fresh grass was growing and a smaller cage of grubs and earth worms In nine days two moles devoured 349 white worms 193 earth worms 25 caterpillars and n I mouse bkln and bones which had i I been alive In the box He next gave thorn nothing but vegetables In 21 hours two moles died of starvation Another naturalist calculated that two moles destroyed 20000 white worms or grubs in a slngld year If this is correct It Is a strong argument In favor of multiplying rather than destroying tho moles |