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spreading from vdld animals to different forms of domestic stock and, 



of course, from domestic to vrild. Even human beings are often endangered 



by diseased aaimals. Those relationships mst be looked into more. 



Of course, predatory animals are just one group: Rodents are 

 another. There is a long list of things we need to know about rodents, 

 from their breeding and feeding habits to their relation to grazing, 

 erosion, and soil working. A wide variety of problems concerned vith 

 gajne and fur animals also is pressing for a better solution. How to keep 

 up the game and fur supply and still be able to hunt and trap, and what 

 places to be restocked, are big problems. And remember wild life does 

 not grow in species-tight compartments. And of course, no one agency 

 could run down all the ramifications. 



For the first time, though, we now have a conprehensive program 

 by which the work of the Biological Survey and other branches of the 

 Department, as well as other institutions j, throughout the country will 

 be coordinated. Experienced field naturalists and trained biologists 

 are at work to find the answer to these many baffling questions in 

 forest-biology. The solution of these problems, as well as of new ones 

 that are constantly arising, should benefit not only man in his in- 

 dustrial operations, but should aid him in conserving valuable forms of 

 wild life and in controlling species having injurious tendencies. 



A^'ITOUITCSIJENT : The program you have just heard has come to you from the 



United States Department of Agriculture and Station . Two weeks 



from today we will have another visit with Uncle Sam's naturalists. 



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