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...Hudson's Biography of the Vizcacha, an Argentine burrowing rodent, from his Naturalist in La Plata...
Each of the pea-sized pellets contains in a clay matrix a few husked germs of Lehmann's Lovegrass (a hardy, dry-weather forage crop), a dash of fertilizer and a pinch of insect-&-rodent repellent. Scattered from a "centrifugal planter" (a rimless wheel with spokes of finch pipe), they will seed a swath about 1,000 ft. wide, at the rate of one pellet per square foot. If moisture, sun and temperature conditions are right, the seeds should germinate in the double-quick time of 48 hours, and each will start life with a helpful inheritance of rich...
...rodent poisons 1080 and ANTU...
...laymen have ever heard of the golden hamster-but they are likely to hear of it from now on. Thousands of hamsters are being raised in U.S., British and Canadian laboratories. The furry, golden-brown, short-tailed rodent is a serious rival to the guinea...
Unrelated to the rodent family and far from mouselike in its habits, the shrew is properly an insect eater. But, declared Eadie, the shrew rarely behaves properly: in 56% of shrews' nests he examined there was direct evidence that the occupants had been feeding largely on field mice. "Circumstantial evidence," he added darkly, "points to a higher figure." Field mouse population of meadows near the experiment dropped from 80 to twelve mice per acre...