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Natural History Notes 
Rabbit Fighting a Weasel 
On page 248 C. O. Ormsbee states that 
a jack rabbit can whip a weasel by jump¬ 
ing' up and hitting with its front feet. 
Is he right? Fully three-fourths of a 
rabbit’s weight is back of his fore shoul¬ 
ders. Doubtless seven-eighths of his 
strength is in his hind legs. Rabbits 
fight largely by giving a quick whirl and 
kicking violently. A rabbit can kick a 
eat of equal weight some distance, also 
stamp the earth so as to he heard for at 
least 150 ft. or more. If a jack rabbit 
could get in a kick at the psychological 
moment the weasel would be sent whirl¬ 
ing for the count doubtless. The ferret, 
a tamed or semi-tamed creature, clearly 
akin to the weasel, must often he muz¬ 
zled, else it will kill a rabbit in a hole 
and fail to come out. Did anyone ever 
hear of a rabbit driving a weasel out of 
a hole, and by jumping on it with its 
front feet? 
The writer knows of no zoological rule 
for determining how all animals fight, 
though it is easy to discern that a rabbit 
could hardly fight with his weak fore 
feet. Were he to jump high in the ah* 
he would naturally land fore feet first, 
since that is his natural running gait. 
The fore feet serve mainly as a fulcrum 
to carry the body forward to a point 
where the hind feet exert sufficient trac¬ 
tion to afford another leap, after which 
the fore feet again touch first. H. c. S. 
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House Flies in Winter 
I have never made any special study of 
house flies, except to study the best way 
to get rid of them, but in my home in 
Allegany Co., N. Y., where the tempera¬ 
ture often goes many degrees below zero 
in Winter, there is an unfinished, un- 
heated attic, with never a thing for a 
maggot or a fly to subsist upon. There 
are windows in east and west ends, and 
every year, toward Spring, during warm, 
sunny days, many full-grown lusty house 
flies come out to buzz upon the glass. If 
I am not on hand to massacre them they 
all disappear at night, or when the weath¬ 
er turns cold, to come out again when it 
warms up. These are positive facts, and 
lead me to believe that they crawl in in 
Autumn and hibernate, like a hear or 
woodchuck or fly, and they may convince 
Glenn W. Herrick that flies can exist 
without the comfort of a bakery or res¬ 
taurant. MRS. FRANK M. BEYER. 
Ohio. 
On page 270 you print a discussion of 
“What Becomes of the House Fly in Win¬ 
ter.” Prof. Herrick seems to be uncer¬ 
tain as to whether mature or adult flies 
survive in a dormant or hibernating state 
throughout the Winter in northern sec¬ 
tions. This is Northeast Ohio. I can 
state positively that several varieties of 
so-called house flies do survive the Win¬ 
ter in dormant state, with no more pro¬ 
tection than a roost on the lath in a par¬ 
tition where broken plaster gives access 
to (he inside wall. The proof? On my 
farm I have a once-npon-a-time dwelling, 
more recently used as a fruit and vegeta¬ 
ble packing and storehouse. Last Fall 
this old house was used until November 
15 as a storage and salesroom, having 
been largely gutted of partitions for 
greater convenience, thereby leaving plen¬ 
ty of hiding places foi flies in the broken 
walls. My residence being closed for the 
Winter, and desiring to make plumbing 
repairs before starting my liot-water sys¬ 
tem. I decided to put in a few days in the 
old fruit house, where I have a bed and 
a good heating stove. I started a roaring 
fire February 23 and kept it going strong 
all day. About 8 p. m. I sat down to 
read, and as my II. N.-Y. had come that 
day I was perusing it, and by chance, had 
got as far as that article on flies, when 
smack against the lamp at my elbow 
came a big black house fly. Soon they 
were buzzing about my head. Many fell 
into the lamp chimney from the top, over 
100 by actual count, that night. They 
came swarming out from the broken walls, 
literally by the thousand. I folded up the 
good old It. N.-Y., the best substitute I 
could find for a swatter, and started the 
battle. Many of these flies could barely 
crawl, and often would lose their hold, 
dropping to the floor, only to climb again. 
Well, how many flies can a body kill, get¬ 
ting from one to 10 at a swat, working 
faithfully for five hours? Not millions, 
may he, but many thousands. I have been 
here five days, and I am still getting hun¬ 
dreds, hut they are thinning rapidly. I 
im keeping things hot so as to thaw them 
all out, and I hope to get the last one 
soon. There is nothing a fly likes better 
than fruit juices. They lived high all the 
Fall, and I think no less than 100,000 of 
them crawled inside the walls and went 
to sleep. Many of them are full of eggs, 
and all active as soon as good and warm. 
Yes, house flies and barn flies Survive the 
Winter all right, and if the eggs deposited 
in filth in the Fall all perished plenty 
would survive in the parent’s body to 
furnish an ample supply when the hiber- 
nators crawl forth in the Spring. 
Ohio. L. V. AXTELL. 
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