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Show WEASEL SUBSISTS LARGELY ON MICE If weasels are seen about the farm, it is time to hunt rats, not weasels, according to an authority. It is only on rare occasions that a weasel makes his home in the poultry poul-try house and plays havoc with the flock. The cause of disappearing chicks is far oftener due to the rat than to his mortal enemy, the weasel. Contrary to common belief, weasels weas-els do not subsist entirely on blood, but actually devour the flesh of their kill. Perhaps the most important food item on their menu is mice, and like the fox, they eat numbers of these small animals. One authority, in examining the stomachs of thirty weasels, found that all of the specimens spe-cimens examined had recently eaten eat-en mice, rats, or ground squirrels. Weasels sometimes eat birds, but this authority is of the belief that the weasels would be missed more, if they were to disappear completely, then would the few birds they eat. |