Word: excreta
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Dates: during 1931-1931
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...Experiment Station, Syracuse, N. Y. Mouse Man Hatt's brief for mice: They till the soil with their burrowings, are especially helpful in wet lowlands when their tunnels act as drains. Like the earthworm they bring subsoil to the surface, carry vegetable matter underground to enrich the soil. Excreta and dead mice are good fertilizers. the mouse furnishes carnivorous animals with a handy dinner. If the mouse supply were depleted, birds of prey, predatory mammals and reptiles would be forced to resort to other animals, might invade the farmers' stock yards more than they do now. Mice...