Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1892 — The Plague of Field Mice. [ARTICLE]

The Plague of Field Mice.

In Scotland, where the field itaice have become such a plague that a commission of the Department of Agriculture is investigating the matter, the increase of mice is attributed to the killing of weasels and birds of prey by hunters. The same conclusions have been reached by intelligent farmers in many parts of this country. The states of Pennsylvania and Colorado offered a bounty for the heads of hawks and other birds of prey, and in consequence most of them were killed off. Boon field mice, gophers and ground squirrel* increased so fast that the farmers would gladly pay a bou .ty to person* who would breed hawks and other large bird*.—[The Stockman.