Show 4 4 Letter to Editor To the mean and ungrateful hunter bunter who blasts away at house cats and everything that moves on private land canal banks roadsides or anywhere else We land larid landowners owners feed these game birds for Cor the Ole int b ts then good sportsmen in our fields or along our ferice lines shoot at everything that that jumps up They also mash down or cut and sometimes shoot our livestock Now speaking of cat Fats some are gels ets and some just run tun wild ild and nd stay out in inthe th the fields C Cats ts are the f farmers most valuable rodent killers W we have bave observed that cats whether wild or pets do not get many game birds Anyway they have more right to our lands than the hunt hunters rs For a along along long time hen pheasants have hatched had And raised their brood in hI out our garden next to our house Our cats are In and out of our garden the birds stick around aU all summer eat our sweet corn and even dig and pick at our potatoes In the fall falland falland and never seem to fear the eats cats These unappreciative hunters should realize that each seed eating rodent that a cat gets rid of results In more food lood for starving birds in hard winters We now have an oversupply of mice gophers chipmunks and so on It could be because so many cats hawks and owls have been killed off off r I also Wish t to mention child chUd Tens rens loved pets My sm small grand grandchildren J ar are now grieving t i over their two pet cats one dead and one one with a shoulder and foot mangled by bird shot done b some hunter this last lastS S season L These cAts were were always close to home h me sometimes watching for gophers at the side of the road These bad h hunters are making it rough for decent hunt ers because farm people are getting so angry that ther there are less places s to hunt on each ye year r So as we cant can't tell the de- de decent decent cent hunters from the punks by just looking at them we farm farm- farmers ers will just keep kee them all oft off our lands This problem has been discussed for years by farm people so Ini also speak speak- speaking ing for Cor many others It If these certain called so-called sportsmen dont don't appreciate farmers raising the birds they cAn stay stay oft fl Our bur lands amb have no right to kill klU off farm farm- farmers ers animals of any kind Oth ers who have had the same trouble suggest that it if this does not stop we shall gather up a number ot of ranch and farm arm peo peo- peo pIe to vist aU all the people we can in the valley and post all aU our lands hereafter Mrs Alvin |