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INDEX 



poisoning pocket-gophers, 

 302; poisoning wolves, 303. 



Porcupine, 161. 



Prairie-dog, 153; dwellings, 

 156; a serious pest prob- 

 lem, 157; poison for, 299. 



Prairie-mouse, 51, 53. 



Preparation of fox skins, 230. 



Rabbit, 164 et seq.; excellence 

 of flesh, 164; breeding hab- 

 its, 166; injurious to gar- 

 dens, 168; laws protecting, 

 169; bounty on, 170; 

 hunting, 171; protections 

 against, 173; as pets, 177; 

 hutches, 179; feeding, 181; 

 directions for breeding, 183 ; 

 traps for, 301. 



Rat, 3 et seq.; brown house- 

 rat, 3; black rat, 4; habits, 

 5; history, 6; fecundity, 8; 

 cost, 10; destructiveness in 

 fields, 12 ; destructiveness 

 to poultry, 15; damage to 

 buildings and stored goods, 

 17; carriers of disease, 19; 

 responsible for the plague, 

 21; methods of suppression, 

 26 ; rat-proof construction, 

 28; keeping food from, 30; 

 disposal of dead, 31; four- 

 footed enemies, 31; co-oper- 

 ation in subduing, 34; traps 

 for, 303. 



Rat, cotton, 68. 



Recipe for cooking muskrat, 

 82. 



Red-backed mouse, 53. 



Red squirrel, 126; home of, 

 127; food of, 128; prepara- 

 tions for winter, 131. 



Remedies for injured trees, 

 175. 



Rodents, suppression of as 

 pests, 184; foolish destruc- 

 tion of their enemies, 184; 

 weasel tribe best police, 

 185; useful aid by birds, 

 187; aid from serpents, 

 188; poisoning and fumiga- 

 tion, 189; flooding burrows, 

 191; difficulty of extermina- 

 tion, 191. 



Sable, 242. 



Salamander, 112. 



Serpents as destroyers of ro- 

 dents, 188. 



Seton, Ernest Thompson, 47, 

 110, 122, 253, 262. 



Shrews, 199. 



Skunks, 270; skunk farming, 

 271. 



Squirrel, 125 et seq.; tree- 

 squirrel, 125; red-squirrel, 

 126; gray and fox squir- 

 rels, 133; flying squirrel, 

 138; ground squirrel, 144; 

 squirrels and bubonic 

 plague, 151. 



Spermophile, 148. 



Star-nosed mole, 198, 



