Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1893 — What Squirrels Can Do. [ARTICLE]

What Squirrels Can Do.

The general impression that squirrels •live altogether on grains, acorns and nuts is not altogether correct. Squirrels will suck eggs and kill young chickens and small birds with as much ferocity as a weasel. These peculiarities are not often noticed in the squirrel, because the animal is not bold enough to venture on extensive depredations in the day time, but farmers' wives who find egg shells in the nest instead of eggs, or discover half a dozen young chickens with their heads bitten off, should not always lay their crime at the door of the weasel. —[Chicago Mail.