Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, November 9, 1907, Page 8

“MEADOW MICE ONE 0! MENACES TO AGI Their Destructive Habits.and Their Natural Enemies.—By D. E. Lantz, Asst. Biologist, Biological Survey. “Cure That Has Held Good Four Years. Mrs. Mary Crumlish of 1130 West}. Third Street, Wilmington, Del., says: “Some years ago I began to feel weak and miserable and one day awoke from a nap with a pierc- ing pain in my back that made me scream. For two os wir Senna Cleanses the Sys em E ‘ect- x uall ; Dispels ol San ad NEEDS MUCH CARE: Bach Fone CPE aches due to Consti sien Useful Article That Can Be Eaally ts satura acts uy os In recent years the department of | parks and preserves. If Anierica the agriculture has frequently received |same opinion is widespread, and has complaints of damages to meadows | led to some unfortunate législation and pastures by field mice. The com- | 48ainst species that are wholly bene- aaa eames) slits (M. pennsylvani- | ficial to agriculture. In the« intesti- days I ae not a Nien Made in Thin Wood. a Lixative. gations beforé the British board move and after that! pRESSMAKING AT HOME BY NO —— Best forMenWomen ond Child. I had backache and A useful little rack for letters is dizzy spells all the time. My ankles MEANS A “SNAP.” shown in the accompanying sketch, | ren— Lite an swelled and I ran down dreadfully. I a and it is one that may be easily cut To et its engficial Effects oo ae ptelesigs rete” sf ¥ ne agriculture relative to the vole plague ally the offender In these cases, a” |in Scotland in 1892, the . testimony though the prairie meadow mouse (M. as to a previous scarcity “of carnivor- austerus) also causes considerable} oyg mammals and birds, in the dis-|¥aS nervous and had awful headaches.{Qnly Thorough Practice Will Glve| Out and made in thin wood. It should loss in the west. Both these mice work | tricts affected, was almost unanimous. |! wonder that any medicine could do roper Results—One Fault Par. be about 12 inches in length and 5% wa fall na muime whic! under the snow in winter, burrowing | While the committee in its report re-]What Doan’s Kidney Pills have done} »*. ticularly Common with the inches wide. Its chiefyfeature is that as fall name of e Lom- for me. They cured me four years the slanting pieces of Wood that hold along the tops of the succulent roots | garded climatic “conditions, not the of clover and other plants, and some-!gsearcity of carnivorous birds and times destroy entire meadows, which | mammals, as the primary cause of have to be plowed up and resowed. | the outbreak, they considered the lat- Such damage usually occurs where @]/ter as the most important contribu- thick growth of grass is left in the | tory factor. field in fall, Closely mowed or closely Among the wild mammals of the pastured fields are not usually badly | United States that are known to prey injured by mice. upon meadow mice are wolves, lynxes, The meadow mice are destructive to | foxes, badgers, raccoons, opossums, market gardens. Strawberry fields are | skunks, minks, weasels and shrews. especially liable to attack, because of | The majority of these animals destroy the mulch used to protect the plants / mice habitually; and this service, to- and because of the animal’s fondness | gether with their*well-known habit of for the succulent crowns of the! destroying noxious insects, goes far plants themselves. These mice de- | to compensate for the damage they do stroy seeds in the garden, hotbed, or] in other directions. eold-frame, potatoes in the ground, Among birds that feed on meadow end many other growing vegetables. | mice are hawks, owls, crows, shrikes, In the fall they destroy beets,|cranes, herons and _bitterns. ot turnips, carrots, parsnips, celery, ap-} hawks, the kites and the marsh, red- ples and potatoes, when piled on the| tailed, red-shouldered, broad-winged, ground or stored in pits. The depre-|rough-leggéd, pigeon and sparrow dations may to a great extent be pre-| hawks feed upon them, some destroy- vented by the careful burning of|ing large numbers of the two most weeds and other trash which harbor | destructive species, M. pennsylvani- the pests. cus and M. austerus. Pine mice live The destruction of corn and wheat} mostly below the ground and are less in the shock by meadow mice. is | frequently caught by birds of prey. common, and growing crops—-wheat, The habit of shrikes* of catching Beginner. : the letters are decorated in front with | PORY The proper cutting, fitting and fin-| Picture post cards glued ear spnane CALIFORNIA ishing of a dress can be done only cG Srrup Co. after thorough practice. 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Every piece of figured ma- terial must be cut out separately, and not on the double, even though the | pieces be identical in shape, for this material seldom folds quite evenly. Velvet and all such pile materials should appear dark when held against the wearer, and checks and plaids match both lengthwise and widthwise in every piece. Stripes may either ‘be It is a real shy man’s secret belief ‘cut on the straight and treated the | them, so that they can easily be re-|that nothing worse can happen to a same as plaids, or cut on the cross | moved and changed if they should |™man than to have a baby left on his .and the lines made to fit with each | fade or become soiled. The little dia- | porch. other. |gram at the right hand side shows Si ae cae ae It always pays to shrink cloth be-| how the slanting pieces of wood |, Drink Palace No. 4 peg ae haar fore making it up, for by this, later | should be screwed on to. the back. | your grocer. A. F. 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That the re- gion was later a tropical country has of the beautiful weaves offered in the HIGHER CREAM PRICES. Write us to-day for particulars and tags been equally well establisehd. has to be refitted. shops to-day. All the soft silks, crepes, “'"\iproN DAIRY CO.. St. Paul. Minn. Numerous .discoveries of the bones ae | lansdownes and the chiffon broad- ee of these animals, and rocks coniainng MODEL OF NY USES. | cloths come in a bewildering range of| The man who is paying for a house on: the installment plan has a castle in 7 | colors’and shades and there are easily i Costume That May Be Made Available | matched at the trimming counter in the air. for Numerous Occasions. braids and handsome ornaments. The “Carp amie GYMESOES crepes de chine and lansdownes are! ,.. warmest, wear longest. If your dealer also attractively employed in dainty does not have them, apply to Goodyear house gowns made up on simple em- Rubber Co., St. Paul. Minn. rs pire and princess lines and trimmed] [nyestigatin, committees cannot fal palm leaves have been found in| ings for calling or church, in soft | 5, the simplest way with fine lace, rib-| harm Sat aan Eastern Oregon. .| Challis or cashmere for house wear or | bon and hand embroideries. Hand ih) Devel ener nears Sls The Cascade Hills, eae Mountains erage oe as | embroideries, by the way, are highly we PAY TOP PRICES FOR CREAM. and Owyhees, once islands surround- rized in this season’s fashions, and| Cash every day. Write for prices and tags. éd by. tropical lakes, were covered P MILLER & HOLMES. St. Paul. Minn. with luxuriant growth, forests and flowering shrubs, for Knowlton tell& us the magnolia and cinnamon and fig trees we there. To-day the soil presents a finely ground mixture of basalt and volcanic ash, containing the elements of most fertile soil, and when properly watered producing enormous cops of vegeta- bles, fruits and grains common to em- perate zones. The climate has been changed, says Prof. Condon, by the upfolding of the Cascade range, shut- ting off from the interior the softening influence of the Japan current and the drift of ocean fogs and clouds. the perfect imprint of the plants cot the tropics, have been made, and it is no longer an occasion for surprise when well diggers or irrigation exca- yators unearth the fossil remains of a camel or a broad-faced ox. Within re- cent years many fossil begs of beauti- Apple Tree Killed by Prairie Meadow Mice. The costume shown is'a generally useful model that could be made up in soft broadcloth with handsome trim- oats, barley, rye, and bucky nee on meadow mice is well known, and often cut down and eaten. The da most farmers have seen these birds age to standing grain is most notice-|in the corn fields at husking time, as able when it is nearly ripe, but fully| they hover in the air or sit poised matured grain also is eaten. Short} upon a fence or hedge ready to pounce pieees of the stems of grains and! upon every mouse that escapes from grasses scattered along the runways | the shocks, of the animals are conclusive evi- Crows destroy many young mice in dences of the nature of their diet. In|the nests and sometimes kill the alfalfa and clover fields considerable | adults, and, no doubt, investigations loss is frequently caused by meadow } will show that meadow mice form a mice. The ground is often littered} considerable part of the diet of bit- with leaves cut from the plants. | terns and herons. Stomach examinations of a dozen Owls are especially efficient as de- specimens of Microtus austerus cap-| stroyers of field mice, and all the spe- tured in alfalfa fields during the sum-| cjes whose food habits have been in- mer of 1905 showed that their diet | vestigated by the biological survey was almost exclusively leaves of al-| were found to feed upon these ani- falfa. When field mice occur in| mals. In bulletin No. 3 of the survey normal numbers, the losses are not] it. is Tecorded that of 39 barn-owl serious; but when local conditions | stomachs examined, 7 contained have favored an abnormal increase meadow mice; of 107 long-eared owl of the animals, the loss of crops is) stomachs, 59 contained them; of 101 enormous. stomachs of. the short-eared owl, 52 Meadow mice have been known to| had meadow mice; 31 out of 109 stom- almost wholly destroy large nurseries} achs of the barred owl, 6 out of 9 of »f young apple trees. It was estimat-| the great grey owl, 4 out of 22 of the ed that the losses sustained by nur-| saw-whet owl, 18 out of 254 of the serymen near Rochester, N. Y., during | screech owl, 12 out of 127 of the great- the winter of 1902 amounted to $100,-| horned owl, 10 out of 88 of the snowy 000. The animals usually inflict the! owl, and the stomach of the single damage by burrowing under the snow | hawk owl, contained meadow mice. and girdling the tree just at the|They were mostly the. common " e of the ground. Some species |meadow mouse (Microtus pennsylva- burrow below ground, and, like the] nicus), as the birds were collected for pocket gopher, eat’ the roots of trees, | the most part where this species is, | the girl who can elaborate her frocks salad cacirn ects oS | with her own handwork is indeed for- It is unfortunate when a busy man | tunate, for the dressmaker made em-| has a loafer for a friend. | proidered frock is quite out of the aore woun GAGA | question with the average girl, so ex- AN | cessive are the prices asked for such to. Proscar Creamery Con oe peut Minn. | creations. On the other hand, one can ———$$ have the dress made by some repu- No matter how good your credit | table establishment and supply one’s | may be, your cash is better. own handwork as the design of the costume demands or add such finish-, CASH FOR CREAM AND POULTRY. bs gow Top prices, quick_returns, square deal. ing touches after the gown has left; Ship tous to-day.” Write for tags & prices the costumer’s hand ‘R. B. COBB, St Paul, Minn. praeees E | Velvet Will | ave Vogue. | Better a young girl with old ways | Importers and miodistes are of the | than an old girl with young ways. | unanimous opinion that velvet is to | have a great vogue, and several tail- |ored .models have already arrived from abroad. The colorings are ex- | quisite and reveal many new and | lovely tones, says the Delineator for | | September. | Checked and striped velvets are | shown made up into gowns intended for use at morning lectures and at |luneheons. They are light of weight, | supple in quality and show both close | and open designs. The hair-line vel- vets: have all the attractiveness of a etete Ha HER “BEST FRIEND.” Pe NNN x Ty A Woman Thus Speaks of Postum. ‘We usually consider our best friends those who treat us best. Some persons think coffee a ‘real friend, but watch it. carefully awhile! and observe that it is one of the meanest of all enemies for it*stabs one while professing friendship. Coffee* contains ‘a poisonous drig— thus completing their destruction. common. s Rn i In some cases older trees are at- The examination of owls’ nests and eee ee See ad mae an | corded bane yt none: of ats cover | CEUMATS tacked and ruined. The writer has | of the curious pellets cast up by. owls| ZCTVOUS System an requentty pate Ue While it is quite true that velyets Np» 0} ES. | showing stripes and checks are no in handsome silks for evening, with a | novelty, having been used last season, vest of handsome lace. . The surplice | the beautiful color tones which the effect of the blouse is always beaom-| new ones possess promise to make ing and this season almost all blouses | them desirable. Where the hair lines . are made with a vest effect. Some of | are of contrasting color, such as A Horse and Rig, the extra blouses are almost garish | black on sandstone, or white on the disease in one or more organs of the body; if its use is persisted in. “I had heart palpitation and nerv- oushess for four years and the doctor told me the trouble was caused by seen many apple trees, eight to ten} reveals much as to the nature of their years transplanted, and 4 to 6 inches|food. Dr. Fisher has recordéd the re- in diameter, completely girdled by | sults of the examination of many pel- the prairie meadow mouse (M. aus-| lets of the barn owl, and a few © of terus), sometimes to the height of a} those of the long-eared owl, with the , foot or more above the ground. following result: Six hundred and cee eee reniee nat writes 3 sp The list, of culttvated trees sai mshigacpen aye aes kat 1 Wigtes lady. in thelr many materials and fancy | sapphire blue, they produce a shaded | Some extra time, and business shrubs that-ar6 injured by these ‘milas mee : Say “*“On the advice of a friend I tried, vests, trimmings of buttons, etc. but | effect which is particularly pleasing. | sense—this is all you need for includes nearly all of those grown by | Mouse; 50 pellets of the Jong-eared Postum Food Coffee and it go satis-| these waists should be bought only b: a ry the horticulturist. The biological sur-| Owl contained 114. meadow. mouse fied me that I did not care for eoffee| the woman with a large desta aa To Make Fancy Guimpes. my work. No capital required, vey has received complaints of the) skulls. This is an average er almost. after afew days’ trial of Postum. be a fat purse To wear: awdlat of these In making the fancy guimpes s0]and J pay Sf. oo per aay, in destruction of apple, pear, peach, | two to each pellet. AAG stakes wort ty ‘ bright plai much worn by both adults and chil- r f p | y and I continued] bright plaids every day would be cash, to good workers. Write plum, quince, cherry, and crab-apple} ' Next to.insects, mice form the most! to nse Postum my weight increased} deadly, but if you can have many and | den, the material should first be tuck- trees; of blackberry bushes, and of /important item in thé food of shakes.| +o: 98 to 118 pounds, and the lieart| Wear the gay one once in a while all | © or spaces left for the lace in- to-day for details. grape vines; also of the injury of {Meadow mice are most easily ‘ob- trouble tett'me. 1 have used it a year| Well and good. sertion, if any be desired, beforescut- | ATKINSON, 1024 Race St., Philadelphia. sugar maple, black locust, Osage or-j tained, but other mice, and,’ indeed, now; and am stronger than I ever} oad 3 d ting out. x =. ange, sassafras, pine, alder, white | most of the small rodents, including] ¥ 3.” “r can hustle . Sains rit Seamless Sleeves. + The lace can then be basted on PATENTS rehire: inten ash, mountain ash, oak, cottonwood, | ground squirrels,. wood rats, prairie ‘any heart palpitation, ee lee dared A feature of some of the’ newest | either edge—flat on the tucked ma- free. Termslow. Highest ref. willow, wild cherry, and other forest | dogs and young pocket..gophers and of neyvousness coats is the seamless sleeves, which | terial—and the fabric cut away 4 trees. rabbits, are eaten. This important “My chi ace are'very fond of Post made {ts first appearance upon sepa- | from underneath. P Al N afflicts every one, somewhere, sometime. Its greatest One of the chief causes of the re- | service of snakes in the interest of the . rate blouses. While the fashion is tisavn | abaat- a: Guneiar 06 a tach pad ita moi bens ac Fett es very becoming to some figures it is| on each side of the lace. Turn this hous@) but not when she made it at decidedly unbecoming to others, and | back on the material and stitch on her own home. Now she has learned cannot be recommended where one | the edge of the lace. ‘to make it Hient. boil it according ta has only one small outer wrap for| Finish with feather stitching done directions, and has become very fond general wear. The long sleeve is the | with crochet or mercerized cotton, as of it. You may use my er aE wi invariable rule for motor coats, al-} preferred. wish, as I am not ashamed of pr YOu! though it has a rival in the hine-| | This makes a very pretty finish, and best friend—Postum.” » tenths length, which stops just short | enables the garment to bear repeated ne Tien vk ae of the wrist bone and is variously | launderings without the material fray- | roar. is : ts Ne co shaped according to the material and | ing away from the lace, as it is apt o se be |e general style of the garment of | to do in the case of most ready-made yen in pkgs. “There's @ Re@! which it is so important a feature. | garments. cent great increase of the smaller | farmer is not generally understood or rodent pests is the persistent de-| appreciated, but an inherent and deep- struction of the birds; mammals, and | ly rooted prejudice induces thought- reptiles that habitually prey upon | less people to destroy them. “whenever them. This-is true not only in| possible and for no other. reason than America, but also in Great Britain and | because they are snakes. on the continent, where for years The value of d ic cats and of gamekeepers and even farmers have| dogs in destroying mice is well destroyed foxes, weasels, stoats, | known, and» many .of these animals hawks and owls whenever possible on | learn from experience ‘to prefer the the plea that they prey upon and di-| large paige wo minish the supply of game i the | found in ho id which can be used both, internally and ex- ternally, and promptly removes pain. ESTABLISHED 1810. *fS'SOHNGON C0. Boston, Sass cup iis