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Show UNCLE SAM SWATS THE PRAIRIE DOQ "The most satisfactory method of destroying pralrlo dogs on tho Western West-ern plains Is with poisoned Brain," says Farm and Fireside. "Tho government gov-ernment now hns n process of poisoning poison-ing oatg whereby tho bitter tasto of strychnine is largely overcome, nnd with this bait nbout 95 per cent of tho pralrlo dogs In certain Western grazing districts havo been killed Most of tho work has been dono In Colorado, Arizona, Montana, and Oklahoma. Ok-lahoma. Pralrlo dog villages havoj gradually occupied vast areas of val-1 miblo grazing lands, and tho work of extermination Is largely for tho benefit ben-efit of tho stock Industry. Tho aver-ago aver-ago cost of poisoning has been about five cents per acre, and of repolson-ing repolson-ing tho samo land to keep It free from tho pests nbout threo cents per acre. "Contrary to general belief, pralrlo dogs if unmolested travel widely and sometimes start new colonies five mfes or more from tho nearest Inhabited In-habited prairie doe area. "The work of repression Is being carried on under direction of tho U. 3. Biological Survey." |