Protecting the Alligator.
The increased use of alligators’ skins I for bags, .shoes and purses has made j the killing of alligators a very busy industry, especially in Florida and Lousiana, where some of the best skins are obtained. It is estimated that the number of these reptiles left in these two States is 20 per cent less than it was twenty years ago. One curious result of this interference with the order of Nature is that the cane rat—one of the items in an alligator's diet—so rapidly multiplied that its increased ravages threatened the destruction of many valuable harvests. To remedv this serious evil, it was deemed necessary in some districts of Florida to legislate for the protection of the alligator, as the farmer's friend.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20509, 10 January 1935, Page 10
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