Show MOLE WORKS IN WINTER shallow runways are rapidly extended in all directions during the moist and rainy rain y seasons the mole like the pocket gopher Is more or less active at all seasons of the ear car but it is during the rainy period when the soil Is moist that hla his work is pushed most vigorously shallow runways are then rapidly ex tended in all directions and old run was repaired NN hen a mole makes up hla his mind to go in a certain direction nothing but concrete or stone will stop him the tha strength of these little animals is mar I 1 lelous elous they m will ill heave up the sur eur taco face of a path trodden so hard that repeated blows ot of a pick NN will ill be need ed to break the crust Ordin aril arill the mole makes his wa through the soil as a root does or a stake when driven by the blows ot of a sledge the earth is not excavated but simply crowded aside when the round around becomes er eri hard of 0 course the mole is obliged to excavate e the passageway passageways eways ewas and push tho the loose dirt out through the opening of 0 the root of his tunnel the mole keeps at work mork all through the winter in places where the ground Is not frozen too hard ile he works more frequently in the morning and enen een ing moles do lery iea little harm to the roots 0 of grain brasses or vegetables except in pushing the soil aside and rue fuei live lice principally on the white grub earth worms and beetles lie he thus proves himself to be a friend to mankind because grubs are the greatest scourge of griss grass and oth er e plant roots |