Show THE OGDEN (UTAH) s STANDARD-EXAMINE- R SATURDAY EVENING JANUARY 19 1952 Rn rrrpce U ?mi C?U 11 ill C? O I UllGS yWO Rjarfffmo The Foolish Uncle Ray's Corner A Little Saturday Talk: More About Gophers When I Started out to write about I meant to cover pocket gophers the subject m two aays out at tne end of the second article 1 found that several interesting facts were left to be told Take for example the ways of many of the gophers in parts of Texas and Lousiana Those gophers live in the midst of low flat land which sometimes is flooded to a small extent the surface water may have a depth of several inches Not caring to be drowned the gopher in those areas have worked out a plan to save themselves They dig long tunnels as they do elsewhere but they use the loose dirt from the tunnels to build up fairly high mounds neat the entrances A mound may rise to a height of two or three feet inside it may be found several storerooms for food along with a sleeping room The pocket gopher is a North American animal It is found from British Columbia down to California Texas and Mexico from Ontario to Florida Some other types of animals — chiefly the chipmunk and the striped ground squirrel — re called gophers at times but they differ in several waya: For one thing they have thick somewhat fluffy tails which contrast with the ratlike tails of the true gophers We might expect a whole colony of gophers to live in one of the large underground tunnels 1 have 4-- - Cat Gets His Tongue LIVERPOOL 19 (API Eng Jan bear named Teddy stuck out its tongue at a lion in the next A circus cage today The lion bit off four inches of the protruding tidbit and ate it "Yes the cat's got Teddy's tongue" trainer Bailey Fossett told an inquiring reporter Wish foolish wish thought A arson oca mo tact is tnat sucn a tunnel rarely is Occupied by more than one gopher family and sometimes it is the home of only a single adult gopher Gophers fail to get along well to- gether Let two adult males meet and a fight is likely to take place Each tries to catch the head or at least the nose of the other in its jaws The outcome is likely to be death for one of the fighters Badgers help to keep down the number of gophers Other gopher enemies are foxes coyotes weasels hawks and owls Some farmers take gopher snakes to the openings of tunnels? these snakes make short work of any of the little animals they are able to seize For nature section of your scrap-boo- k far The two fouai Sear had learned this when they had tried to go off by themselves and find a better place When they finally got back to the yard they were almost too tired to move At this time of year the tender twigs with next year's leaf-buon trees and bushes were about the only food the Deer could find This sort of food Is called browse and those who live on it are called browsers A deer is made Where there is good yard Of course if a winter browsing is mild and there is little snow a yard Is not needed But if a winter is hard and the snow piles deeper and deeper so that the Deer folk can no longer Wade through it they would starve to death if they bad no yard of their own making If the is too small to supply enough yard food to last until the Deer can once is wasted And oft with discontent is ' fraught —Qld Mother Nature Lightfoot the Deer Mrs Lightfoot and the twins now well grown were in their winter yard in the Green Forest Hod you seen it and never before seen a Deer yard you probably wouldn't have called it a yard at all It was simply a big place trampled out in the deep snow that made It possible for the Deer to move about and get the food they must have Outside that yard the snow was too deep for even big Lightfoot to get about much There the only way of getting around at all was by plunging through the snow by jumping instead of walking That was very tiresome too tiresome for one to go UNCLE BAT Use This Coupon to JoUi the New Scrapbook Club! To Uncle Ray Publishers Syndicate 30 North LaSalle Chicago IJL Dear Uncle Ray: I want to join the 1951 Uncle Ray Scrapbook Club and I enclose a stamped envelope carefully addressed to myself Please send me a Mema leaflet bership Certificate telling how to make a Corner Scrapbook of my own and a printed design to paste on the cover of my scrapbook J Name raov tmor f ds fwdy' ebout m the °f ©'t1 lotk tree Now she n wared wings and had it eesy as Blacky the Crow? That Is a foolish wish I cannot think of a more foolish old paths At first they didn't have to even reach to et th fpjaaa jSas 0? browse they needed therewaa plenty of it low enough for them to get easily without reaching But after a while all this was eaten They had to reach higher and higher It wasn't as easy to get enough to eat as it had been One morning Blacky the Crow flew over He was on his to look for breakfast The twoway Deer watched him out of sightyoung One of the Deer sighed heavily "It must be wonderful to said he ' "I wish I had wings fir" Yes sir I wiih I had wings That fellow doesn't have to worry about deep snow He can go where he wants to when he wants to The snow doesn't bother him Yes sir 1 wish I had 1 wouldn t One morning Blacky the Crow wings lest stay here a minute That Blacky flew evetV AUfirst the young Deer had not has it pretty easy these days I minded staying in that yard But wish we had it as very near but hidden from the two as the days went by they grew Mother happened easy" to be standing young Deer by a hem- HOW ABOUT trSHERtFF I'M AFRAID ' YK2IROOP:MOW l 1 What would you say if I should tell you that probably Blacky often wishes he could get a meal as easily as you do it is true he doesn't have to worry about around but getting asjMjg as bad for him as it deep is for us and sometimes worse He cannot live en tender twigs and buds - we can The food he must have usually i s on the ground and snow covers it Watch for himdeep when he comes back tonight You'll see a tired Crow and very likely a still hungry one or my name isn't Mrs Lightfoot Never wish for things you know nothing about No one ever yet has felt better for foolish wishing" said mother The next story: No so Bad Copyright 1952 bv Thornton W Burgess) wisrh a- low-growi- rf Funny Business F5 fcbout them are likely to starve to death or to become so weak that they cannot escape from hungry enemies So it is very very necessary that the yard shall be big enough No one knew this better than Ud Mrs Lightfoot She had once wintered tn a yard that was riot big enough and the lesson she had learned she would never forget So Mrs Lightfood had this year looked far and wide to find a place where the browse was good and where there was sure to be enough of it Then when the snow came and they started to trample paths thin U'av anri that wiv in maka tha yard she made sure that that yard should be big enough for the browse to last however long the winter might be and the deep snow SHOULDN'T WF GFT DM WJTH OUR INVESTIGAr ( TTON OJ9 OF THAT I ATC IN THE DAY 1 WE'LL MYSTER-)NO- EXPLOSION FT! 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II L P£h a'7c HELLO TO YOU RIGHT HERE r iGULSO YOU Poor Pa Aunt Het i "i 3 sr T M tUt U S U OH f' "There must be an easier way to keep week-en- d HUH — guests I CAN'T WAIT mtW Side Glances 3TAfcTT ANPWCHC T GET I J HOME CHEE9E MY &TCWSACH''& PO 50METHIN' GOTTA I'M GET TIN' WEAK FROM LSVHEKE'4 YOUR Ewuoi-i- i r OUT JOINT Tt-- T I'll never go to my brother Bob's home again I don't want to be near a woman like Nora who talks as insultin' to me as she does to her own husband t These Women l&'-cBf- 7- A- - o W A AJM' l rwrrf 1 NEVER MINP POC J TAXE JUT OUT FEftT LOAF O1 BMZEAP A HALF w V J Pa has got so desperate about his stomach trouble that he is willing to do anything to get well except quit the things that hurt him T iWc OZDEX Tb UNH& rue basketball Tam LARD MUST FIND THE ORIGIN L OF HIS DfXAM-OOA- TOO BUT HOW? 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