Show California Cats Cat's Beat Retreat In Fe r as Mice Hordes Advance jD Cal Jan 20 o The AP-The c Of f Kern county's 10 lowland land area je haVing experiences whiCh rarely i never come into the feline c. c i. i They are retreatIng retreatIng retreat retreat- Ing In fear euL an J. J before the thet t tumbling m herds herds' or of h Ich ha have vo infested an an area of six ninety square round Taft Maricopa F Fellows and Ford City Merced lus thrown a small army of cats tron its Us oUy pound Into the area to reIn the local felines The Invading Invading- hordes were reported diminishing but not from the efforts ot of the cats Poisoned grain sprinkled it Ir newy plowed furrows across the path of the rodent 1111 STation gration Is killing them by the tens of thousands The cats cats cats' run away when the thy lee ee a drove ot of mice coming said siam am Whitmore a resident In the i 1 t- t valley who Is taking a part partIn In putting down the mice The cats also refuse to eat them The tabbies seem to be nauseated at the sIght of a mouse Polson loison barrages of grain arc maintained constantly by Whitmore His home is in the direct line ot of the migration and one ot of the big big- jobs has been to bury the rodents killed by the tens of thousands with the poisoned grain Each morning the first job Is to clear the house houe and outbuildings of dead and then the yard ard and surroundIngs and the task i is a tre- tre one he be said He declared the mice become playful plaY after eatIng eat eat- irig Ing one or 01 two poIsoned grains and as each grain following is If intoxicated taken they stagger as After eating the sixth kernel they ci die IC |