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is absorbed during the periods of hiberna¬ 
tion or migration. 
The enemies of bats are believed to be 
comparatively few. They are night-flying 
creatures and so are likely to escape obser¬ 
vation ; besides they are thought to be un¬ 
palatable to predatory birds and mammals. 
Nevertheless, their remains have been found 
in the pellets of owls and hawks and in 
the stomach of large trout. Though bats 
have few enemies they do not tend to in¬ 
crease rapidly, for their rate of reproduc¬ 
tion is slow. 
An early reference to the recognition of 
the useful service performed by bats is 
found in the writings of J. K. Towsend, 
1838, who said that a species of bat which 
is numerous on the Columbia River was 
protected by the officers of the Hudson Bay 
Company because of its services in destroy¬ 
ing skin-eating beetles which abounded in 
the fur establishments. 
Dr. C. A. R. Campbell has estimated that 
at Mitchell’s Lake, Texas, ninety per cent, 
of the food of bats consists of malaria-car¬ 
rying mosquitoes. At this place he took 
measures to attract bats in greater numbers, 
and when their numbers increased he found 
that the number of mosquitoes decreased, 
and that malaria became much less preva¬ 
lent. He suggested that measures should be 
taken to foster and increase the bats, and 
believes that the cost of this action might 
be defrayed by the sale of the guano to be 
used as a fertilizer. 
Bats are protected by law in one city of 
the United States—San Antonio, Texas— 
and anyone there violating the ordinance 
may be fined not less than $5 nor more than 
$200 for each bat so killed. G. B. G. 
LAKE ANDES 
(continued from page 345) 
from the cheek of a drowsy maiden. A 
gorgeously sun-burnished thunderhead, its 
dome majestically towering miles above 
all living things, grew to awesome splen¬ 
dor in the southwestern sky and a party of 
Yankton Sioux bedecked in brilliant toned 
raiment came tearing down a wagon lane 
in a prairie schooner, the snow white roof 
and walls of which were neatly peeled and 
hung so the great outdoors might be seen 
unhampered. The view up and down the 
lake was incomparable. The great length 
of the sheet of water made ranch buildings 
appear to be built on the surface of Andes. 
A thousand bass shot from the liquid in 
an unbroken processional and the dying sun 
sent scintillations of silvery hue from their 
steel gray scales. 
Besides being the quintessence of fish¬ 
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