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Every two weeks at this time ovcc Wilds Man tells us 



about his visits' with Uncle Sam's Naturalists and what they say ahout 

 the wild life in the Big Outdoors. We were puzzling anly the other day 

 ahout why it is some years there is plenty of game and other seasons it 

 hard to find. Today the Wilds Man is going to give us one of the 

 reasons 



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The closer ypu get to ITat-^ore, the more you realize how close you 

 are to it already. 



Let's take this question of why there is more game at one season 

 than at another, for example. Dr. W, B. Bell, in charge of the Division 

 of Biological Investigations of the United States Biological Survey, tells 

 me that they are now on the trail of some of the reasons for the ups-and-downs 

 in wild life. 



Among the agencies investigating those matters are the Bureau of 

 Biological Survey, the Bureau of Entomology, and tlie Bureau of Animal .' 

 Industry of the Department of Agriculture; United States Puhlic Health 

 Service; and the University of Minnesota. The Biological Survey has chiefly 

 to do with wild animals and hirds. The Bureau of Entomology is organized 

 to study insects. The Bureau of Animal Industry is concerned mainly Y;ith 

 our tame or domesticated animals. The United States Puolic Health Service 

 is primarily looking after human health. And the University of Minnesota, 

 though its Medical School, is making important studies of the diseases of 

 game "birds and fur animals. In other v/ords, from the clues already ohtained, 

 it is evident that this question of up-and-downs in game may affect all of 

 us. What we call wild life and tame life and civilized life are all tied 

 up together. Wg are part and parcel of the same life* 



itthen you see a vigorous old rah^oit tearing through space hy leaps 

 and bo^ands, you would hardly think that any rabhits have any ailments to 

 speak of. But wild rabbits, and quail, and foxes, and v/olves, and motuitain 

 lions, and bears, and all other forms of wild life are subject to outbreaks 

 of disease, even as you and I. And what is worse, many of us are subject 

 to the same diseases as the animals. 



Tularemia, for instance was first discovered in ground squirrels in 

 California. Tuloremia was then found in wild rabbits in Utah. later it 

 was discovered that the sometimes fatal disease of man locally knownias 



