Show L S LITTLE RODENTS DO MUCH l UCH INJURY Mountain Beaver or and 1 SI Cotton Rat Gain Prominence as Crop Destroyers CONTROL MEASURES DEVISED S Small Fruits and Market Produce Damaged In Humid Regions of Northwest Coast Sugar Coast Sugar Cane 1695 Industry Is Menaced teed b. b Prepared by the United States ment meat of ot Agriculture Two animals not much spoken of previously have gained prominence as asS S destructive rodents during the past pastS S year reports the chief of the biological S cal survey One Is the mountain beaver or s a curious rodent livIng liv- liv S Ing lag In the humid regions of th the northwest northwest northwest north north- west coast It was forn formerly erly considered consid- consid ered red harmless but with ith the development development develop develop- ment meat of agriculture In It Its region it lt aisy has become Increasingly Injurious us to av crops particularly small fruits and andi i market produce Control Measures Devised Control measures have been devised de ek and representatives of tl tIe the e department department depart depart- ment meat have hae given demons demonstrations In Oregon and Washington where active 5 measures were needed c The other other- animal that has come Into lla prominence as a destroyer Is the tile coti cotton cot cot- cotton i ton rat a small rat like rodent limited to the South Atlantic and Gulf state states re Its depredations are re principally In oon oon- s. s with sugar cane can In Florida Ln where experimental plantings within the past two years gave promise of tel very profitable development Serious Damage by Rats So serious has been the tile damage by byS S cotton rats however that the prinS principal principal prin prin- S cipal company Interested in the development de do- of ot the tile sugar cane industry S in Florida has written the department 5 that the success of ot the industry will S I t S L. L S j 3 S I 5 5 5 5 Mountain Beaver or a Curious Rodent Living in Humid Regions of the Northwest Coast Which Is Attacking At At- I tacking Small Fruits and Market Produce be Impossible unless some method can be found for tor successfully controlling the she cotton rats Losses of from 40 to toGO toS toper S GO 60 per cent of ot the tile growing cane have been reported The bureau of biological I ca cal survey however announces the tile determination of successful poisoning methods and it is believed that through demonstrations and advice e the growers will wUI be able to control the be rats and reduce the losses tl to a negligible ble amount f S |