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Show ! GROUND SQUIRRELS GET DEATH PENALTY During the past week V. L. Johnson, field agent for the U. S. Biological Survey, Rodent Control i Division, has been working on the Flats south of Milford with a var- iety of poisoned baits to determine determ-ine which best satisfies the dis criminating taste of Citellis Mollis Mol-lis Mollis, otherwise known as ground sqiurrels, "quimps," "diggers," "dig-gers," and "pin-tails." The squirrels known fondness for oats suggest using this cereal for a base. The choicest Idaho clean oats are stem-crushed, tastefully treated with syrup," saccharine, soda, starch, salt, glycerine, and then as a finishing finish-ing touch a bit of strychnine. This last mentioned ingredient completely satisfies. Mr. Squirrel never asks for more of the farmer's succulent alfalfa and teuder Spring wheat. Mr. Johnson has used whole and crushed oats of varying degrees oi toxicity oh a dozen plots of alfalfa and waste lands in his effort to find which mixture is most acceptable. He reports fair sucess with all of them and exceptional results with some, but recommends to the farmers that they see County Agent Lew Mar Price, who has the complete results of the experiments and is prepared to give them the assistance needed in eradicating their farms of these voracious "crop destroyers." Ground squirrels are not a necessary neces-sary evil. They can be controlled and completely eliminated if the farmers will work together cooperatively. coopera-tively. It is necessary that the campaign cam-paign of eradication be done by everyone ev-eryone at the same time, and follow-up follow-up work continued at regular intervals. inter-vals. The squirrels will take the bait, and the bait will kill the squirrels. squir-rels. It will not poison game birds. |