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So, in that sectioh of cbiiiiti'y when soraetody act-ually male a st-udy he 

 found the charges against our furred and feathered friends dropping away one "by 

 one. There are some sections, of course, where some animals are injurious, and 

 in these sections control measures are sometimes necessary. But local conditions 

 sho"ald always detemine whether or not you should drive out the animal. Don't 

 think that any one animal should "be killed "because of its name. Find out all 

 you can a"bout what it does . 



McAtee and Dear'bom ask us to reconsider some of our old notions about the 

 herons, and foxes, and other wild life for still other reasons. 



?oxes, and muskrats, and raccoons, and other fur "bearers "bring millions of 

 dollars every year to farmers, and trappers, and others. That's one reason. 



Hikers and vacationists get just as much enjoyment from seeing a great "blue 

 heron waaing in a pond or a "ball of fur sc^'orrying through the xinderlDrush as the 

 angler does from the pull of a trout on his line, or the sportsmen in hianting 

 quail. There's a second reason. 



But v/e have a. third and still more important reason. Old Mother Nature has 

 worked out a neat little scheme for the furred and feathered folk to live along- 

 side each other quite successfully. One memher of the family preys on another 

 and kills off the weak and diseased, and keeps any one kind of wild life from 

 getting too ntmierous. TThen we "begin to tinker with Nature's plan, and kill off 

 all of any one kind of wild life and protect all of another, we cause all kinds of 

 trou"ble. 'Je've fouad th-at out from experience. 



ANNOTJNCMENT ; And that concltides today's visit with Uncle Sam's Naturalists. 

 T7e will hear another story from the United States Biological Survey ahout our 

 wild life at this same time two weeks from today. 



