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Show s) : Hungry Rabbits Raid Kansas Crops MANHATTAN, Kan., July i 17 u.R Statisticians at the 1 Kansas State Agricultural college today turned their attention at-tention to a menace arising from the drouth an invasion of ravenous jack rabbits. In one 200 acre field, the pack rabbits have destroyed 12 acres. One five acre field of alfalfa was mowed to the roots by the hungry animals. Economists figured that it cost $1 to let a jack rabbit live, 20 cents to shoot him but less than one-half a cent to poison him with strychnine. strych-nine. So they have started a program of furnishing farmers farm-ers with poisoned salt to be placed at the salt-licks frequented fre-quented by the long-cared rabbits. |