Show Eradication of Rodents on W Western estern Range Rang Land During a n recent conference of Western West Vest em ern live stock specialists at th the United States Range flange Live Stock exper exper- went station Miles City Mont op opportunity was afforded to measure th the results IlItS of modern methods of freeing range lands lunds of or rodent destruction rec ree by hy the bureau of ot biological survey urvey of ot the United States Depart Department Department ment meat of ot Agriculture Three years ago some acres of the range was wa Infested with prairie dogs dog on and i pocket gophers It was estimated at al that time that more mote than lIlUn 2000 acre acreS tf t f It was totally ruined for grazing by bv either I tiler cattle or sheep Those In charge shipped tJ In some orae oats poisoned It and distributed It over thIs section of th the rang Today t there lere Is an abundance of ot range grasses with Ith scarcely y any evidence of or the former presence of th rodents The forester for tor or that district estimated that the vegetation nine or ten times limes more valuable over the entire region than before the t eradication campaign began |