. Death to the rodents. 425. B20730; B20T2 9 Destructive Activity of Prairie Do^s on Cultivated Crops. At left, field of oats, showing normal production at harvest time ; at right, a contrasting view of a portion of the same field invaded by prairie dogs. Where the prairie dogs have attacked the crop, nothing is left to harvest. Corn, wheat, oats, rye, barley, feterita, and alfalfa are among the valuable grain and hay crops of the United States which prairie dogs, ground squirrels, pocket gophers, jack rabbits, and similar rodent pests destroy to the extent of $150,000,000 annually. As long as
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. Death to the rodents. 425. B20730; B20T2 9 Destructive Activity of Prairie Do^s on Cultivated Crops. At left, field of oats, showing normal production at harvest time ; at right, a contrasting view of a portion of the same field invaded by prairie dogs. Where the prairie dogs have attacked the crop, nothing is left to harvest. Corn, wheat, oats, rye, barley, feterita, and alfalfa are among the valuable grain and hay crops of the United States which prairie dogs, ground squirrels, pocket gophers, jack rabbits, and similar rodent pests destroy to the extent of $150, 000, 000 annually. As long as stockmen could merely move on to fresh pas- tures with their flocks and herds and there was abundance for all comers, there was little concern over the great stretches of fertile range lands denuded and made unpro- ductive by the hosts of rodents feeding undisturbed upon them. With increasing settlement of the country, larger numbers of live stock, keener competition for the more pro- ductive ranges, and reduced areas of free Government pasture lands, stockmen began to cast about for means of maintaining their live-stock production. When it became apparent that the carrying capacity of their pasture ranges. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original work.. Bell, W. B. (William Bonar), 1877-1949.