Plagues of Mice
USE OF SKUNKS SUGGESTED
NEW YORK, April 14. If Victorian farmers want to get rid of the mice which arc destroying their crops and worrying their livestock, they should import weasels and 'skunks — from America, says Mr. Robert Hatt, Curator of the New York Museum of Natural History. Australia, Mr. Hatt explains, lacks those natural enemies of the mouse which, in the United States, prevent them from overrunning the country when traps and poison fail to check them from multiplying.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LV, Issue 6841, 23 April 1932, Page 5
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