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Toads, frogs, lizards and snakes (except the 

 rattler) are friends, and we would class as doing 

 more good than harm, skunks, weasels and badg- 

 ers, if they can be kept away from the poultry 

 yard. Toads and frogs catch insects; snakes 

 destroy numerous insects and mice ; skunks, wea- 

 sels and badgers destroy insects and great num- 

 bers of undesirable rodents. 



Plate XLIV. 



The Wyoming Ground-Squirrel. 



By Permission of the Wyo. Exp. Station. 



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The damage done to field crops and stored 

 grains by rodents is beyond computation. In 

 some sections of the country one rodent will be 

 numerous and in another some other kind will 

 leave his mark on the farmer's profits. Like 

 many other things which are met Avith on new 



