Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1916 — Rabbits Eat Haystacks. [ARTICLE]

Rabbits Eat Haystacks.

So hungry did rabbits become during llie week or 1 0 days that the ice and snow covered the ground here, preventing them from obtaining their usual food- from wheat, fields, that they could be shot by the dozens as they gathered around alfalfa stacks at night time to eat the alfalfa. During one moonlight night Tom Mercer, a bomstead farmer, shot 12 large jack rabbits in less than half an hour as they came from all directions to an alfalfa stack close to his barnyard. lie says that, with the moonlight shining on the snow covered ground it was possible to see the rabbits as they came for the alfalfa while they were still a long distance away. Many farmers found great, holes eaten in the sides and tops of tlieir alfalfa stacks where the starving rabbits fed nightly. The alfalfa stacks were about the only food supply the rabbits could find uncovered by the thick coating of ice and snow. —Cottonwood Falls (Kans.) Cor. New York Sun.