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FINDING NATURE’S TREASURES 
flour or meal, or we store them in barns. Some of these 
mice live where the ground is covered with snow all win¬ 
ter. All the seeds are covered, and the mice cannot find 
food. They gather, or harvest, the seeds of grasses and 
weeds in the fall, and put the seeds away in their nests. 
Then they eat them during the winter. That is why they 
are called Harvest Mice. Now, the mice that live where 
there is little snow do not need to put away seeds for the 
winter. They can always find them on the grasses or 
the weeds. But still they are called Harvest Mice.” 
