{"id":1374,"date":"2011-11-15T01:00:22","date_gmt":"2011-11-15T01:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/?p=1374"},"modified":"2011-11-15T01:01:52","modified_gmt":"2011-11-15T01:01:52","slug":"poisoned-oats-used-to-kill-farm-pests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/?p=1374","title":{"rendered":"Poisoned Oats Used To Kill Farm Pests."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"39c6668e916543b4a7bf784d6ba1971d\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-2182508389013555\";\r\n\/* Med-Banner *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"5485677463\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 468;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Three Million Prairie Dogs are Wiped Out in 20 Counties in Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>By Michael F. Dacey, International News Service, Staff Correspondent<\/p>\n<p>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 of the state, according to Joseph Keyes, director of rodent control of the United States Biological Survey.<\/p>\n<p>The work of rodent extermination will be extended into thirty counties of the state next year, and will include pocket gophers as well as prairie dogs, Keyes said.<\/p>\n<p>It is generally admitted that it costs one dollar a year to feed one prairie dog,&#8221; Keyes said, &#8220;which would make this year&#8217;s campaign represent a saving of $3,000,000 to the state of Colorado, minus the trivial cost of the poison potion. However, in our official report, which probably errs a little on the side of conservatism, it will be said that the poisoning of the 3,000,000 prairie dogs prevented destruction of crops and damage to agriculture to the extent of $5000,000.<\/p>\n<p>Retirement into hibernation this month of the prairie dog has brought about a period of inactivity in the work of extermination, during which time plans will be completed for continuing and extending the work next year.<\/p>\n<p>The war on the pocket gopher, which is active the year round, and causes much damage by tunneling the soil, will consist chiefly of placing a pipe through the soil into his tunnel and dropping a piece of poisoned vegetable into it.<\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,167],"tags":[190],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uncledicksanimaltales.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}