318 
poisoning pocket-gophers, 
802; 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 seg.; brown house- 
rat, 3; black rat, 4; habits, 
5; history, 6; fecundity, 8; 
eost, 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. 
INDEX . 
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 burrews, 
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 bubonie 
plague, 151. 
Spermophile, 148, 
Star-nosed mole, 198. 
