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Show Succumb to Catnip Lure Mountain lions a great nuisance in the grazing lands of the Far West, and Uncle Sam is anxious to get rid of them, particularly on the forest reserves. re-serves. So rangers and aids make a business of trapping and killing the pests, and their chief bait is catnip. It is one more illustration of the marvelous unity of the eat tribe. The felidae, to use their Latin name, are "the most carnivorous of carnivora," as a great French naturalist remarked long ago. They are killers par excellence, excel-lence, and from house tabby to lion and tiger, they are built on the same type. |