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Jimmie Cox, Yellowstone Park 



young birds weighing an ounce each, or four ounces to the nest, one 

 pound to four acres, one ton to eight thousand acres, it would require 

 eleven thousand five hundred (11,500) tons of insects to feed our birds 

 one day, as Montana has 93,568,640 acres of land. 



May I ask you then in all kindness if the bird family, consisting 

 of game, insectivorous and singing birds, may be considered of value 

 to the agricultural interests of Montana? 



In conclusion, permit us to say that we are satisfied that a care- 

 fully arranged system can be worked out whereby the rodent family 

 may be properly cared for, but the system now in use is a bad one 

 and should be abandoned. The law should banish from the shelves of 

 the grocery stores the many formulas and the recently introduced mix- 

 tures thrown into the discard, as the loss of the greatest friend the 

 farmer has (the birds) is proceeding at an alarming rate of speed. 



Ewe Big Horns, Gardiner River 



