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Show ALLIGATOR HAS GOOD POINTS South Carolina Newspaper Gives Soma Reasons Why Indiscriminate Killing Kill-ing Should Be Stopped. The alligator Is another good citizen citi-zen whose usefulness is overlooked, for killing alligators has been from time immemorial a popular pastime. In Louisiana it was found that when the alligators were killed olT the muskrats multiplied and destroyed the levees; also the cotton-mnul h moccasin, moc-casin, the garfish and (lie carp increased in-creased wonderfully. Whereupon protection pro-tection was given to. the alligators. This lacertilian, to give him his correct cor-rect family name, has probably kept the mnskrat away from the South Carolina Car-olina coast, for the muskrat is unknown un-known on the coast. If allowed to mlutiply the alligator will make inroads in-roads on the carp, the garfish and the cotton-mouth, all undesirable members mem-bers of our fauna. The sum total of the alligator's evil doing amounts to this: Tie catches a dog now and then; once in a long while pulls a hog or bites the tail off a cow, for sundry stump-tailed cows along the Atlantic Coast Line right of way have met misfortune in this way. The cow, the dog and the hog are out of place when the alligator can get at them ; but at best very little of this happens. Charleston Xews and Courier. |