Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 188, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1917 — SQUIRRELS HOARD POTATOES [ARTICLE]

SQUIRRELS HOARD POTATOES

Rodents In Oregon Stole Them First and Then Hid Them InThelr Holes. Hood River, Ore.—Luhr Jensen will increase his plantings of potatoes by three pecks. Recently Mr. Jensen scattered poisoned wheat around the burrows and runways of a colony of troublesome digger squirrels near his barn. The poison was apparently fatal, for all of the squirrels disappeared. Recently Mr. Jensen out of curiosity decided to Investigate the underground tunnels of the rodents. As his excavations progressed he unearthed seven dead diggers and three pecks of fine seed potatoes that the squirrels had stolen from the rancher’s granary and had hoarded In the storage retreats of their underground home. 4