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Moles: I regard moles as more beneficial than injurious, and 

 dislike to offer any means of killing them. At the same time they 



Fig. 155. — A Mole. From Miiller. 



are sometimes so aggravating in mining lawns that some remedy 

 is called for. In some parts of the country moles have certain 

 times of the da)'' when they work. Knowing this and seeing their 

 mounds move at such times, we may, as has the writer, stand with 

 a many-tined fork over a mound, and when the movement is re- 

 peated plunge the fork as accurately as possible into the middle 



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Figs. 156 and 137. — o and b. Feet of Gopher; c and d. Feet of Mole, from above and 



below. Lugger. 



