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Cats,  Rats  and  Birds 
On  page  583  O.  W.  of  New  York  said 
the  cat  was  no  coward.  I  cannot  blame 
her  for  not  wanting  to  be  in  such  close 
quarters.  But  we  have  caught  rats  and 
mice  in  the  small  spring  traps,  and  our 
cat  always  kills  the  mouse,  but  will  run 
away  from  the  rats.  The  cat  knows  the 
rat  is  fast,  is  not  afraid  of  the  trap,  be¬ 
cause  he  will  kill  a  mouse  in  the  same 
trap,  and  has  all  the  space  to  get  at  the 
rat  that  there  is  out  doors.  Now.  is  the 
cat  a  coward?  This  same  cat  will  catch 
and  kill  a  full-grown  red  squirrel,  which 
I  think  will  put  up  as  hard  a  fight  as  a 
rat.  But  a  cat  does  not  care  for  rat 
meat.  I  think  that  is  the  main  reason 
there  are  no  more  rat-killing  cats. 
S.  W.  K.  of  New  Jersey  has  a  splendid 
way  of  going  after  the  rats ;  wish  more 
people  were  like  him.  What  is  the  matter 
with  putting  a  small  steel  ear  tag  on  the 
cat?  It  would  be  a  mighty  mean  boy  that 
would  steal  a  cat’s  collar  to  sell,  and', 
besides,  if  the  cat  was  where  it  belonged 
it  wouldn’t  be  roaming  the  fields.  God 
put  the  hawk  and  the  owls  here  to  tend 
to  the  rats  and  mice  out  there. 
As  for  the  auto  traffic  being  responsible 
for  the  decrease  in  birds,  I  do  not  believe 
it.  We  always  had  roads,  and  the  birds 
never  did  build  in  them  and  probably 
never  will.  I  do  believe  that  the  cat  and 
its  owner,  man,  are  exterminating  all 
birds.  Why  don’t  people  put  up  bird- 
houses  for  birds?  I  don’t  like  to  see  a 
hedge  fence,  but  when  they  are  cleaned 
up  it  destroys  the  natural  home  of 
birds.  Fields  that  are  cultivated  cannot 
be  used  as  nesting  places,  so  where  will 
the  birds  nest  if  not  in  the  house  which 
we  must  build  and  keep  clean  for  them? 
Charles  P.  Shoffner  wrote  a  few  facts 
and  called  it  “Birds  or  Starvation.”  I 
wish  every  one  would  read  it.  Then  if 
you  are  in  favor  of  keeping  from  two  to 
40  cats,  I  hope  the  State  will  make  you 
pay  a  tax  on  every  one.  If  anyone  has 
a  good  cat,  he  should  be  willing  to  feed 
it  well  and  pay  a  tax  on  it.  If  the  cat 
isn’t  worth  a  tax,  kill  it.  . 
New  York.  •  sirs,  claude  hughes. 
“The  Outlaw  Cat” 
On  page  547  S.  P.  writes  of  “the  out¬ 
law  cat”  being  one  of  the  worst  enemies 
of  birds.  This  is  all  very  true,  as  far 
as  it  goes,  but  who  is  to  blame  for  the 
outlaw  cat?  The  outlaw  cat  is  in  nearly 
every  instance  the  abandoned  cat,  and 
those  directly  to  blame  for  it  are  the  cruel 
or  thoughtless  humans  who  move  away 
and  leave  it,  or  carry  and  “drop”  it  some¬ 
where  to  get  rid  of  it.  instead  of  having 
it  humanely  put  to  death,  and  thereby 
saved  a  usually  far  worse  fate. 
People  come  to  the  country  for  the 
Summer,  and  say  :  “Oh,  let’s  get  a  kitten 
for  the  children.”  Then  in  the  Fall 
camps  and  cottages  are  closed,  and  the 
pet  of  a  few  weeks  is  left,  its  owners 
stifling  their  consciences  with  the  excuse : 
“Oh,  well,  it  will  shift  for  itself.”  Then 
if  it  does  shift  for  itself,  who  is  the  one 
most  to  blame  for  the  birds  it  catches? 
In  many  cases  it  does  not  shift  for  itself 
successfully,  but  perishes  miserably  from 
hunger  and  exposure.  I  have  known  of 
instances  in  this  neighborhood  where  cats 
have  been  found  starving,  and  so  weak 
they  could  only  crawl  on  their  bellies,  be¬ 
seeching  food.  Just  the  other  day  a 
neighbor  across  the  street  moved  away 
and  left  a  beautiful  Angora  mother  cat 
and  two  half-grown  kittens,  without  mak¬ 
ing  any  provision  for  them  whatever, 
and  a  while  ago  one  of  our  local  phy¬ 
sicians  saw  a  boy  come  along  on  a  bicycle 
carrying  a  basket  of  kittens,  and  drop 
them  in  the  ruins  of  a  burned  building. 
Every  rural  resident  knows  how  general 
is  the  custom  of  “dropping”  unwanted 
cats  and  kittens  around,  to  find  a  home 
if  they  are  lucky  enoueh.  or  starve  to 
death  if  they  are  not.  This  is  not  only 
a  cruel  but  a  cowardly  thing  to  do.  If 
one  has  not  the  courage  to  put  an  un¬ 
wanted  animal  to  death  in  a  merciful 
way  one’s  self,  the  law  provides  that  it 
shall  be  the  duty  of  the  local  game  pro¬ 
tector  to  do  so,  if  reported  to  him,  and 
this  is  certainly  little  enough  pains  to 
take  in  the  interest  of  humanity. 
Shooting  is  the  quickest  and  most  hu¬ 
mane  way  of  putting  an  animal  to  death, 
if  aimed  so  that  death  is  instantaneous, 
chloroforming  is  too  often  done  with 
haste  and  violence,  so  that  the  animal 
struggles  and  strangles  instead  of  having 
the  easy  death  intended. 
There  is  no  more  domestic  and  comfort- 
loving  animal  than  a  cat.  and  the  common 
supposition  that  it  readily  returns  to  a 
wild  and  self-supporting  state  is  a  great 
mistake,  except  in  the  case  of  a  few  es¬ 
pecially  strong  and  hardy  individuals. 
Anyone  who  has  seen  the  pathetic  efforts 
of  a  lost  kitty  to  attach  itself  to  a  new 
home  or  owner  knows  that  it  does  not 
preferably  “return  to  the  wild.”  and  if 
this  letter  can  influence  onlv  a  few  of 
your  readers  to  give  more  thought  to  this 
much-neglected  side  of  humane  work,  it 
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“The  crows  went  across  the  line  and 
pulled  up  the  other  man’s  corn” 
writes  J.  E.  Meyers,  of  West  Salem,  Ohio.  And  from  that  day  on  Mr.  Meyer’s 
crow  troubles  were  over,  “for,”  he  said  further,  “I  tested  your  crow  repellent, 
and  found  it  to  be  just  as  you  recommended.’’ 
“Crows  will  not  pull  corn  where  it  is 
used,”  says  W.  J.  Holt,  Milan,  N.  H. 
“Would  not  plant  corn  without  it,” 
writes  G.  Page,  Gilmanton  Iron  Works, 
N.  H. 
“Only  4  or  5  hills  pulled,”  is  the  good 
word  from  E.  Elsworth,  Lake  George, 
N.  Y. 
“Crows  give  my  corn-field  a  wide 
berth,”  says  H.  Van  Onlen,  Catskill, 
N.  Y. 
“Saves  us  from  %  to  %  of  the  crop,” 
is  the  glad  news  from  Webb  A.  iBrowne 
&  Son,  Remsen,  N.  Y. 
“Crows  gave  it  up  as  a  bad  job,  and 
tackled  my  neighbor’s,”  says  Dr.  Rea, 
Harbert,  Mich. 
“Planted  80  acres,  and  they  sure  did 
leave  it  alone,”  writes  Charles  Bow¬ 
man,  Beardstown,  Ill. 
“Did  not  take  a  stalk  that  I  saw,” 
is  the  welcome  word  from  R.  O.  Miller, 
Lucas,  Iowa. 
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corn  with  it,  just  before  planting.  You  don’t  have  to  wait  for  it  to  dry,  and 
it  positively  will  not  clog  the  planter.  It  is  not  poisonous,  and  therefore  will 
not  kill  birdsi  or  animals,  but,  it  WILL  keep  your  corn-fields  free  from  damage 
that  runs  into  money  and  time,  if  you  have  to  keep  re-planting  all  the  time. 
Large  can,  enough  for  2  bu.  of  seed-corn  (8  to  10  acres),  $1.60.  Half  size 
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