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Vlend<>\> mlee nttack almost everj tree and shrub Thej girdle about everj 
thing, eve selnishes. I»hit*kt>erry, iind raspberrj bushes, I bsm b wlllon 
t> yesterday (April s. Isnjm, _' years old, with nearlj everj stalk girdled to 
m or S iurhi'v uliove the ground, Thej Injure [Mistures and meadows and 
■est no rool crops placed In heap*. Rochester, Mich., Ipr., 1880. 
Meadow mice destroy manj trees and vines. The natural enemies of these 
price nre an much of ii nuisance iih the mice themselves 
Fraukfort, Midi.. 1888. 
Orchards bere have suffered this winter from the depred itlons of the meadow 
mouse, l presume thousands of trees have l u badly gnawed In thin town 
Hone still the war of extermination goes on against hawks and owls 
BantmondvlUe, x. X"., Apr., 1887. 
Thej eat potatoes In the ground and corn In the shock. Do considerable 
damage to |k>tatoes. sweet potatoes, and |>eanuts. Eubank, Ky.. 1887. 
Field mice destroy wheal bj cutting off the stalks. Sometimes the I"-- la 
serious. They are also injurious to pastures and meadows. 
French Creek, w. y.i.. July, 1S88. 
Meadow mice sometimes injure meadows They often do serious damage 
to trees and shrubs. Some seasons acres of young forest trees are harked. 
Maple ami apple suffer the oftenest. La Crescent. Minn.. Nov.. 1886. 
MtM.iou moles (voles) are present in greater numbers than ever observed 
before. These voles have totally ruined a great many clover meadows, straw- 
berry patches, and pastures thai were not eaten close. They have girdled hedges 
until they can not live, and I noticed one place where a white ash tree, 4 inches 
in diameter, was stripped of hark for <"> inches above the ground. They have 
dug into pits containing turnips and beets and devoured them completely. They 
promise to be with us next season in untold millions. Their presence is the 
more noticeable as eighteen months ago I tried to gel a single specimen to 
send to the Department of Agriculture for Identification and could not 
— Cardington, Ohio, Feb., 1890. 
Field mice injure pastures and meadows by eating off the roots during wilder. 
We are now suffering, and have been for two years, from invasions of held mice. 
We suffer a material loss by having the hark gnawed from most kinds of fruit 
ire- by them during the winter. — (Jansevoort. X. Y.. Feb., 1888. 
Our country place in Maine is being overrun with mice, which nest in the 
ground and destroy all the plants by eating the roots or tops of the plants as 
soon as they appear. — Letter from Baltimore, Md.. May 1«;. 1904. 
The summer and winter of 1883 this county was overrun with meadow mice. 
They destroyed thousands of apple trees, besides lots of young foresl trees. 
Besides girdling trees, voles do meadow lands a good deal of injury by eating 
off the crowns of the clover plants. Three hundred dollars would not repair 
the damage done to an orchard near the station. In 1863 trees •'» inches in 
diameter were stripped of hark clear up to the limbs 4 or 5 feet from the roots. 
—Huron County. Mich.. Oct., 1886. 
The meadow mouse is very prolific. Its presence varies at periods from a 
few to countless numbers. Long droughts and inclement winters as well as 
natural enemies probably affect their numbers. 
— Kansasville. Wis.. Sept., 1888. 
They damage hay by cutting the grass into lengths the size of toothpicks. 
— Tower. Minn.. June. 1895. 
