Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1908 — Gophers Good Eating. [ARTICLE]

Gophers Good Eating.

Experts of the Department of Agriculture have discovered that tie pocket gopher, the depredations cf which cost the farmers and fruit growers of this country $12,000,000 annually, is good eating. The flesh, when properly prepared for the table, is said to be delicious, rivaling quail in flavor. With the price of beef and all foodstuffs balconing in value, there is a fortune in store for the man who converts the Americans lpto a nation of gopher eaters. .The opportunity is ripe, and gopher s'eaks, cutlets and spare ribs may yet solve the housekeeper’s problem.