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Show FOOD DESTROYERS ARE ' SHOWN IN EXHIBITS OF THE GOVERNMENT Predatory animals and rodents that annually destroy millions of dollars worth of meat and food crops will be shown by the Bureau of Biological Survey, U. S. Department of Agriculture Agricul-ture in the combined government exhibits ex-hibits at the Utah State Fair, and public cooperation in campaigns to eradicate these animals will be urg-I urg-I ed in order to save food for war uses. I The features include four large groups of birds or mammals in glass I cases. The, first is" of. prairie dogs j "at home" In their own environment; the second is of a similar group of pocket gophers; the third illustrates the 'destructlveness of predatory animals ani-mals by exhibiting a coyote eating a sheep it had killed; and the fourth is an exhibit of stuffed birds with full explanations showing their records as destroyers of the alfalfa weevil, an insect seriously injurious to the alfalfa al-falfa crops in parts of the West. A fifth case consists of 24 study maps showing the migration and geographic distribution of many economically important-species of wild birds and mammals. iMore detailed exhibits of the Bureau's Bu-reau's work are contained in pictures hung from the tops of the glass cases to show the damage wrought to the crops and forage by prairie dogs, ground squirrels, pocket gophers, and' Jack rabbits and by the common house rat to food and stored products. Methods Meth-ods of . combating all these pestiferous pestifer-ous rodents are outlined. - Other pictures similarly hung show methods of conserving the valuable forms of wild life, as the elk and bison bi-son in big game preserves and the smaller fur bearing animals under domestic Conditions. One chart with a particular Interest Inter-est to western people pictures and explains a recent investigation of the Bureau into a disease of wild ducks on Great Salt Lake, Utah, and on other oth-er lakes in alkaline regions, with a view of conserving these valuable game birds. |