Show A ri A CURE 1 FOR 1 ul zv z EVIL 7 te V birti IL hawks 2 Snakes and other enemies farmers are amused as to the natural Enc uries of the mice lit list ear me idi N mice in sevier county old did much h b lr ir n tu to grui Mii ili it till I 1 and gram grain ropa se little tol waded heln i and took eer thing thit looked lie e vegetation mil ind the then become i I 1 real to the farms of the county cliel 1 I battles barncs I 1 nat bralit of utah tells something about thi altti little 0 pests in a lengthy com to the deseret acs in it which he tells of 01 the natural enemy to the mice cart tin kinds of it lowks that should br be taken cire ire of in order that they rna deatron the mice harl is part of the 11 iacre 1 fir re ire 70 irie nineties of meadow mice on oil tills LOntin continent ent they being v vinous li 13 called drummond Drum oles olei march arch m mice ice ind brown noles bolcs the utah specimen pec imen is of the vinet mode modestus mo deitus they prefer the coarse rank griss of the in imreh arsh edge or me meadow adov thea the often enter L rain cram fields when the crops are ripe ordinarily nanh hn however ever each mouse lives ties its whole life on one piece of ground not oer SO 30 feet across ft inter nests of chewed crass and straw very and cosy aru ara made under the snow now where the late young find ample comfort st six broods of from four tu to eight each are raised raided by each pair be between teen april and nov embe r animals like the meadow mice which multiply b bl six caery six would soon devastate the airth unless checked therefore we must believe I 1 that the real cause of the trouble in utah is the wanton destruction ot of the meadow mcadod mouses enemies skunks weasels coyotes badgers and garter snakes kill them by the thousands even the sandhill biane grus dna dies them out with his us long bill and swallows them whole the rattlesnake enters their burrows killing them in their heir darkest retreats even the poor bor creatures themselves them seles eeles in of f cannibalistic fury debour each other ather asi the real difficulty is that because ertain certain hawks like the sharp shinned chinned A lipit ir velox eat so many sone birds and boung poultry the ant farmer shoots all ha hawks ks with equa equal I 1 vengeance renge ance without doubt the most useful hawk in utah it i the swainson Sn ainson iwin soni it feeds exclusively on nn small rodents principally striped go ini ind mice together with grasshopper ird crickets rh fh t t firmer elio sees this bird tid ma be bc unwise as to shoot it I 1 sha shall 11 give ive 1 I 1 rt description of it it is a large me bird its wings nning when een ten I 1 ing four feet or more across re abe male has a white ti 1 belh the white of the irel contrasted ont NN eiith ith I 1 i S red n chest band ili 1 he upper lipper r n uniform gra olai lh brown I 1 and I 1 I 1 19 S cro crossed wd ill b nine or ten tini 11 lick ek bands Melain sp ci 1 ire are ien hae if t hole boot booti bron broin under blath in nine binl out of ten tell L ses tile h annl I 1 I 1 rf cf more than four felt feet it ing g spread pred seen in tile the utah fields field is 13 i member of this useful specie si another large hai davk thit lives ln n tired on oil meadow mice boung drefs refs N halh ba b the wi ire causing g greit rett trouble in foole county I 1 abbit pruned squirrels lizard frogs hird birds an cina insects is tile marsh lith cirbes it is almost as is large lare js is the Swain swainson bon and is blush bluh h slate strailo str cilo d with chite ditc abone I 1 nd pure white on thi rump and A number of the farmers of laid field mho ho lj erien ced trout I 1 from ilia held mice lift 1 3 11 jr ir anted with an aej thel foun faunl I 1 ili it gr arnn tin soaked baked in I 1 lui oRol led i ater killed the mice ice b the hundreds |