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Poisoned Oats Used To Kill Farm Pests.

Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Published in the Waukegan Daily Sun, Waukegan, Illinois on Friday, November 3, 1922

Three Million Prairie Dogs are Wiped Out in 20 Counties in Colorado. By Michael F. Dacey, International News Service, Staff Correspondent Denver, Nov. 3-Sixty tons of poison oats, scattered over farm lands in twenty Colorado counties, has resulted in the distruction of three million prairie dogs, with a saving estimated at approximately $500,000 to farmers […]

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Ravages of Prairie Dogs.

Sunday, July 10, 2011
Published in the Lake County Independent, Libertyville, Illinois on Friday, November 22, 1901

     Statistics from official sources show that prairie dogs occupy and render worthless, or nearly so, for agricultural purposes 1,224,854 acres of land in Kansas. All efforts to exterminate the dogs have failed, even with the co-operation of the Department of Agriculture.

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