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A NIIGIIBOIJNJMPLAIN! -Q_-n The prejudiced are always blind, And so the truth theyseldom llnd. -Old Mother Nature. Neighbor Jones had stopped at Farmer Brown's a few minutes on his way to the village. "It was a hard winter; too much snow.‘ said he. "Mice and Rabbits did s lot of damage. Girdled and killed some of my best young fruit trees. The Mice worked under the anow where they couldn't be seen." "Well, the snow has gone now.’ said Farmer Brown. "But the Mice haven't. 1 believe there are more than ever, and Rats too. I've never seen so many, or known them to be so bold. Rail have killed a lot of my Chickens and have even attacked some o! the Hens. And there doesn't reel to be much I can do about it. I have trapped a few, bug not for some time. They are too smart for that. I was over in my hayfleld at day or two ago and.if I have halfl a crop this year I‘l1 be lucky. That ; field Ls alive with Meadow Mice.~ I've never seen anything like it.| And as if the Rats and the Mice ‘are not enough I believe Hawks

and Foxes and Skunks are on the. increase‘ I keep a gun handy. I} guess they have found it out. for they hallo kept away from my‘ place 1stely. By the way, I have‘ seen a. pair of Marsh Hawks two. or three times lately over your} Meadows. They acted as if they may be nesting or getting ready to. If they are you ought to do some-i thing about it." said Neighbor"

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' “And you will pay for it by los- ing some Chickens. You mark my words." retorted Neighbor Jones.

"Have you ever seen a Marsh Hawk take any of your Chickens?" asked Farmer Brown quietly.

Somewhat reluctantly his neigh- bor admitted that he never had actually seen a Marsh Hawk take a Ohicken. “All Hawks as big as those Marsh Hawks will take Chickens every chance they get. You can't have Hawks around and have Chickens too. You ought to shoot those irwo nesting on your . meadow. instead. of protecting them.” he added.

"You say you never have seen a Marsh Hawk take a Chicken. I doubt if you ever will. I don't say they never do. I guess they may once in a wihlle, but it isn't often. And when they do it is because food is scarce. And if they do they Ply. and pay high. for ever!’ Chicken they take." spoke up Ihrmer Brown's boy.

“You don't say! Do they pay cash?" replied Neighbor Jones laughing at his own joke. ,

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that 100 Meadow Mice on an acre of good hay land will in a sinﬂ season eat one ton of green zrasa ‘Ilhat is equal to one halt ton of cured hay. With 100 Mice on an acre of good grassland, and at times like the present there may be three of four times that many. figure what the loss may be on a ten-acre field with hay the price it is now.

“We could afford several times over to give that Hawk and his mate a Chicken now and then for what they save us in hay by the number of Mice they catch while they are with us. But we don't have to do even that. They would rather have Mice then Chicken any tlnne. You say you won't have half a crop this year. We will We'll have pretty near if not quite a full crop. But we wouldn't be any better off than you if it were not for those Hawks and some of our other helpers.

“Other helpers? What other helpers?" asked Neighbor Jones.

"Some you complain about and have." replied Farmer

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