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Show f ' f UTAH SHOULD IMPORT HAWKS FOR RABBITS A member of the American Game Protective Association recently re-cently told us of exciting chases he had witnessed between hawks and Jackrabblts on the plains of Western Kansas A, emck-rabblt is I a true hare and does not burrow; therefore, when a hawk decides that he wishes to vary his diet by I i a little jaek-rabbit meat, the chase is on, with the assurance that this big hare will not elude his pursuer by goin? Into the ground- By dodging and darting and stralght-away speed the jack is ablr t,, keep from the clutches of j his pursuer for a considerable lcm.'th of time. However, the per-m per-m rerance of the hawk soon wears ! him down to a point where he looks for a place to hide. Finding 1 ' ' i lump uf dirt that he I I can put his head under after the manner of an ostrich, ho thinks he j . i-. hidden 01 course, the hawk i pouriccs down upon him and feasts I until his hunger is satisfied. . Our informtant tells us that hawks are often shot when feasting feast-ing In this manner on jack -rabbits ; and that he has picked ap jacks I ."till alive, although their hind legs! have been stripped of fh-ah -4- |