Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1904 — Muskrata Injuring Levees. [ARTICLE]

Muskrata Injuring Levees.

Engineers are alarmed at the inroads that crawfish and muskrat* are making In the Isvees along the Mississippi river. The crawfish burrow Into the levee and the mnskrats follow to catch and eat them. Then the muskrats burrow right through th* bank and make so many holes of this kind that In time of flood a break la likely to occur.