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MOLES AND GOPHERS.
SOME OF THE HABITS OF BUR
ROWING ANIMALS.
Means of Destroying Them Reviewed.
Moles Declared Harmless, lint Annoy
- ln Gophers Ar. I'lcceedingiy Fond
of Roots of Fruit Treea.
The subject of this article is of inter
est to farmers and fruit growers, who
are only too conveifti:it with the de
struction caused by the pocket gopher.
Moles, though useful in their way, are
constantly irritating the owners of lawns
and flower gardens by-filing up uiounds
or digging tinder choiro plants.
The ordar Rodeuti contains mam
mals which hiive the front or incisor
teeth remarkably deyrjoped for gnaw
ing, while the canine lueth are absent.
In this order occur the rats, mice, squir
rels, porcupines, rabbit, hares, etc., and
last but by no means least, the gopher.
Of the gopher family there are several
genera and species. We have in the
Middle states a little one called the thir
teen lined gopher (Spermophilus tride-cem-lineatns)
and also the gray gopher
(S. beecheyi), which is so common on
this Coast, called "ground squirrel. " In
California this gopher annually destroy,
thousands of bushels of wheat.
The pocket gopher is represented by
several species in North America but the
one we have especially to consider is
Thomomys bulbivorous. It is common
in many parts of Oregon and California.
Its front teeth are strong and clusel-like,
adapted for gnawing. On the sides
of the face are capacious cheek pouches
which give the animal its name. These
pouches undoubtedly afford a means of
transporting its food, I have never found
absolute proof that earth is placed in
them though this is a1 41 by some to be
the case. "ffi
The depredations fe'S pest are very
eA.eusie. lhey ale J3pKCiaViy partiai
to the tender roots of fruit trees and
when carrots, potatoes and other vege
tables are in the ground it is impossible
to kill them with poisoned tidbits, as
they can find food in varied abundance.
Rodents always leave the imprint of
their chisel like teeth upon anything
they have been eating.
MEANS OF KILLING l'OCKET GOPHERS.
I am convinced from experiments that
in the winter season when the root crops
are out of the way, a small piece of po
tato with powdered strychnine in it put
down the hole will kill many. Fre
quently the potato will be thrown out
with the dirt but more often it does the
desired work.
I have saturated a wad of cotton, half
the size of one's fist, with bisulphide of
carbon and put it in the hole and then
closed the aperture. This remedy is ex
tensively advertised for the gray gopher
or ground squirrel. I have not tested it
upon the latter and lack absolute proof
of its efficiency in the case of either pest
This agent is extremely volatile and if
used in porous and comparatively dry
Boil a large portion of gas would escape,
I have tried the sulphur gun, a mechani
cal device for forcing sulphur fumes into
the burrow and although I cannot posi
tively assert that it killed a Binle
gopher it has certainly stopped their dig
ging. We have specimens of all the gopher
traps sent to the experiment station to
be tested. All are highly spoken of (by
the manufacturers) and many are in
dorsed by liyh authorities. These I
have tried p'dently and carefully and
have to report failure, although a few
gophers were caught. I often have
found the trap covered with diggings,
or perchance showing on their points a
few hairs left by the vigorous Oregon
pest. Traps may do Ijetter in Califor
nia but if so the Oregon gopher is made
of sterner stuff.
Recently a gentleman loaned me a so-
called gopher gun of simple and cheap
construction. It has Killed every time
it has been properly set. Certain im
portant points are to be observed in its
use. The wire or trigger should have
the point covered with a small cork or
bit of wood which will receive the pres
sure of the earth when pushed ahead by
the gopher. The covered point of the
wire should be in the centre of the hole,
near but not on the bottom, that it may
be free to slip backward. The gun is
discharged by a percussion cap. Two
drachms of powder and one-half ounce
of shot (No. i!) is sufficient. Leave the
holeopen. The gopher literally commits
suicide by shooting itself. I have re
cently purchased a new gopher and mole
trap which is said to lie well adapted to
the purpose. One man reports having
killed 114 guphers with one trap iu a few
months.
moi.es and shews.
The order to which moles and shrews
belonf is called Insectivora, referring to
their insect eating habits. In moles the
snout projects some distance over the
mouth and the bones of the fore limbs
are very strong. The especial feature
of the skull is the very sharp uniform
teeth. They are not adapted for gnaw
ing. The mole should not be charged
with eating carrots or potatoes or the
roots of plants. In a numler of moles'
stomachs examined no vegetable food
was found and all contained worms or
grubs or other insect larva. In a few
I have peri-or.ally examined this spring
I found nothing but earthworms.
But one says "I know moles eat my
peas;" another says ""I have found
moles' burrows kau,rn through my car
rot field and have discovered pieces of
carrot in the burrows plainly gnawed.
This may be true but thero aro species
of meadow mice (genus Arvicola) which
are known to use the burrows of the mole
for an easy passage to their food and
these are probably the depredators. As
for moles eating peas I claim they are
befriending us by destroying insects or
worms near the peas, and if the peas are
eaten the charge must be laid at the door
of another, doubtless some member of
die gonna Arvicola.
It is true moles are a nuisance,
ilthough we often malign them, forget
ful that while they are burrowing in
jnr lawns they are in search of grn'oe
which injure the grass. But man hav
ing decided that moles are pests the
juestion arises, "How are we to combat
them?"
We see many ridiculous suggestions in
agricultural papers regarding the de
struction of moles. One man says poi
soned corn, another poisoned potatoes,
and another recommends the digging ol
deep holes through their burrows into
which they will fall and be unable get
out. Regarding poisoning vegetable sub
stance of any kind to kill moles, I say
It will not kill them. Further, anyone
who knows how rapidly a molo burrows
out of sight will put no faith in the post
hole theory. These mistakes have in
many instances doubtless arisen from
the fact that gophers and moles have
been confounded.
We have tried a number of remedies
for moles and only one has proved sat s
factory. The sulphur gun mentioned has
been used and it evidently drives them
away for a while and one may possibly
kill a few in this way, but their bur
rows are so extensive and offer so many
opportunities for the escape of the
fumes that t' is can hardly be classed a
remedy. Bisulphide of carbon is not
efficacious for the same reason. Moles
are very apt to work early in the morn
ing, between 5 and 7, again about noon
and again about 3 or 4 in Iho afiul'u,K;U.
We have speared numbers of them while
they were throwing up their mounds.
While this is effective the fact that they
are erratic in their hours of work makes
watching for them an irksome task. I
sunk a five gallon tin can in course of
runway, it having been highly recom
mended, and covered up the hole with a
board and sod and earth, but caught no
moles. I have used the various t nps
but with no success, with one exception.
Of the moles of the United States
there are about five species, but they do
not differ from each other particularly
in essential characteristics.
F. L. Wasiihi un.
Oregon Experiment Station, Corvaliis.
Experiment tn Reeding Oats.
Experiments in oat seeding have been
made at the Ohio station- for four ye.ir'i.
In 1888 the largest yield came from plots
seeded at the rato of five and six pecks to
the acre. In 188!) the yield from the
plots seeded at tho rnto of (ivo, six,
seven and eight pecks was practically
tho same. In 18'Ju the results wero very
irregular, owing to tho disease of oats
so prevalent that year. The plots re
ceiving five, ten and twelve pecks gave
the largest yields. In 1891 the experi
ment was duplicated, two varieties
Wideawake and Clydesdale being
used. The work was done on hind very
uniform in quality, and the season was
favorable. The results appear in the
following table:
, Yielil j r iirre.
Seed per iw-re. Wideawake. ('lydnhdalo.
I pecks 44.1 bUbli'jlH llll.l liiibiult,
5 peeks 4i.u bushels 41.1 biir.lit-l
0 puc-kn 4IJ.7 butihclt) 411.1 bulbils
J pecks IM1 bushels 4:'.2 buhbclb
H pecks WM buhhcls 4:M biihbcls
II pecks ....4,r.ll bushels 311.5 bushela
It will be seen that with both varieties
the largest yield came from seeding ut
the rate of seven and eight pecks per
aero. The Wideawake weighed .'!i to
3") i pounds per bushel and the Clydcs
dalo i).) to o?. In both cases tho light
est oats came from tho four peck rato of
seeding and th1 heaviest from the seven
peck rule.
Live Stork I'oliils.
The first annual outdoor exhibition of
the United Horse and Cuttle Show asso
ciation in the edge of New York cily
this spring was a great success. It is to
be hoped that this is u beginning of
great things for the future in the way of
outdoor stork shows. Neither animals
nor people ever appear to such advantage
as when they aro seen outdoors. Cer
tainly tho more human beings accustom
themselves to life in tho open air in all
weathers, the healthier and handsomer
they will be. It is expected at future
spring exhibitions of the association to
include all kinds of live stock, from fat
beeves to game chickens. One of the
at'ractive features of the show was that
of the mounted policemen wbucxhibilod
their dexterity in catching runaway
horses. In the big, outdoor ring the
horses' feet and lungs had free play.
Let us have more outdoor live slock
shows every spring and fall in the large
cities.
The ;lover.
No clover succeeds better in the cen
tral nn-1 middle states than the common
red clover, which is the Fpecirs most
generally grown in the United Slates, It
grows well on every properly drained
soil that has sufficient strength to all'onl
it nutriment. On soils so worn out and
imiKjvcrished as to require manuring for
the clover to make a Maud, no other spe
cies is known that will do any better.
Tho large clovers known as mammoth,
sapling clover, pea vine clover, etc.,
have a larger and later growth, hut
many firinerxobject t th iu as growing
too rank and coarse tu make good hay.
FARMERS ANO BAD ROADS.
The SeiiHible View of tho Situation Talteo
by a HHg;ht Woman.
Louisa C. Hcolicld, a lady living in
Rochester, N. Y., ha been much inter
ested in the roads improvement agita
tion. She recently wrote to The En- ;
gineeriiig Record: ;
1 wish to speak particularly of the j
system (and a system it is too) of ruts
which we now have as an excuse foi
country roads.
As to the farmer. I am sorry to say,
that every time 1 he subject of a good
paved road through the country comes
up he shouts with might and main that
he cannot aitord it, for even now he is
almost ruined by the taxes. Let us look
more closely into the matter and see
whether we think he can aland a good
paved road. On the present trails, called
by courtesy roads, ttie fanner hauls but
about half the load of one of our city
teamsters. Why? Because the farmer
must take his load over an uneven dirt
road, with many hollows and humps,
formed during Hie muddy season, which
have not yet been smoothed by working
out the road tax. But the city teamster
has a good, even pavement, and his
team draws the heavy load easily. Then
why is it that the, say French farmer, is
gradually accumulating money, while
our poor American fanners are (and
that not gradually) accumulating only a
rich harvest of debts. The reason is
simply this: The French farmer places
his produce m his storehouse and waits
until the market prices are high. Then
he quietly hauls Ins little store to tho
city and sells it at a good-price, and that
without killing his horses or breaking
his wagons, llow dillercnt with our
poor fanner! Uo, too. stores his harvest
but when his weekly newspaper tells
him there is a great demand lor his pro
duce he simply sits around the houso.
or, at most, mends a few straps iu his
dilapidated haruesKes,
An ignorant person would at once ask.
Why does he not go to market? Because
lie cannot, lie is us much in prison, us
regards his produce, as if he wero in
Siberia. The fact is that the road pass
ing his house is a miry lake and is abso
lutely impassable wiiii a loaded wagon.
But to town he must go. for the nec
essaries of life, so with a team of horses
harnessed to his lightest buggy be man
ages to get to town, and there leaves not
his produce hut the residue of his small
savings from a previous year. Finally,
when the roads are dry (and the martlet
down again) he draws his store to the
city and sell.s it at a low price, and ho
has the additional vexation of knowing
that a inonih before he could have made
a modi iM'-ger prolit Inid it been possible
tor iiun 0 i-eacli the fUj . So he returns
to his farm and home with a very small
amount of money and a smaller .store of
gooil nature, casting a gloom over the
whole house and refusing the least ex
penditure. Then, for his forced econ
omy, he is styled the "stingy farmer."
Even when continued good weather
has improved t'.j roads it is not uncom
mon to see a fanner going along with a
broken wagon or a lame horse, all be
cause he must travel over such rough
roads. It is not tho lack of business
ability that makes the poor farmer
poorer but the lack of good roads.
Every one knows that the dull French
peasant cannot he favorably compared
with our intelligent American farmer,
lint alas! the hitter's intelligence has not
yet reached the height of good roads.
But surely we may hope our govern
ment will soon take up the subject in
earnest and attend to the organizing of
a complete system of roads such as aro
possessed by the countries of Europe.
InlfUitfcnt Hunt! in lilting.
Intelligent roadniaking iu this coun
try seems to be a lost art. It is ridicu
lous to compel the yeomen each year to
turnout and scrape great clods upon a
road already impassable and thereby
keep it in had condition all the year.
"Road working" as now conducted by
rustic labor is the harrowing farce of to
day. How long ihis humorous maneu
vering will be tolerated remains to bo
seen. The ablehodied men of the dis
trict turn out under the roadmaster and
spoil the highways for months to come.
Like Tennyson's babbling brook tho
pathtnaster's farce gin s on forever.
Railways can never supply the place
of good wagon roads, which u few miles
of the latter would amply prove to any
disinterested mind. The grangers seem
to think that the cities should hear
the burden of expense. Not so. The in
teritus are mutual and not inimical.
Notwithstanding all the great betielits
to he derived there will always be stub
born opposers to the road improvement
idea until the bh-:-.sing is irrevocably
thrust upon them. It is a fact that iu
other countries it has been proved that
good roads have beni-liteil the country
folk far more than the' city people. It
is siirpri.-ing that country dwelleiH can
not understand this fact and fully ap
preciale it.
There is but one way to secure the
great hoon of country roads build them
by a general tax. IJIoonnirtoii Eye.
Scaly legs are eyesore.-. and with Mich
simple reiiiedirs as applying vaseline or
lard, to which a few drops of carbolic
ucid has been add'-d, lln-r" is no excuse
for their presence in a well kept flock of
noultrv.
For a month before cows are due to
calve they should be fed on cornincal.
Two pounds a day of link ed meal makes
an excellent substitute, according to The
.lcri.ev Bulletin.
Highest of all in Leavening Pow
ABSOLUTELY PURE
SOME KAOLETS.
From the Long Creek Pal or.
W. 0. Cox arrived from Heppn
day with freight for merchants
city.
The bund received supplies thi'J
in the sliHe of two new drums
dozen iQiisio stands.
Pry Wilsou and family, Robt. f.
ni'd f .1 tn i . returned from Desolation
:-ik Kiitnrday. They report un enjoy
able tiuie.
George Ward was down from the high
Greenhorn ' hist i k. He is looking
ifier I". C, Thou. soli's hand iu this
.-.unity.
John Murphy, "Vni. Cohoe and other
oiihtf leoide fi'iu the Hamilton and
M uiiojieiit sectiou r. turned from Deeola.
i ii tt hike Sal Urdu).
Guess there wasn't nobody heard
notliin' of nobody sinn' uo bucket of
e dd water throwed oa 'em at the Hitter
dunce Inst. Friday evening whs they?
Holland TlmmpMin, of Morrow couuty,
brother of P. C. t'homiion' ex represen
tative from Mono, whs in Long Creek
list week, being out nn a pleasure tour.
He piss, d considerable tune at- Teal
ii tid McDulliee springs since he left home.
Mr. Thompson is a biother of P. 0.
riioinpson, instead of , I. C. Thomson. -lid.
Gazette.
A. J. Shaw of Morrow county, was iu
Long Oeek oouutry buyiug beef oattl (
dint week (or the Portland miTket. He
dirchased quite a baud on the Middle
foi k, getting several head from A. D.
ihoin.
Dr. L. F. Shipley, of Heppuer, is at the
MoOullie hot Bprnigs.wuere heis oarring
lor his sou Frank, who has been declin
ing in health for tiie past two ears.
Uoung Mr Shipley is nn old tj po, having
labored inmty a day along side ef the
.i htor of the E igle.
Frank Keeney, the youngest son of
J .sepb Keetiey, of this oity, met with an
accident Thursday of last week, result
ing in the dislocating of the second linger
of his right hand. He was running
alone side of a bicycle when lie "tumbled
ami fell, the wheel passing over his hand
with ill-i result as above stated IV.
vV M. Lexis whs summoned and the
m-iimed member was set, and young
c'cink is urouud as happi as ever.
OB.-KUVATIONM.
Arthur Smith, who takes strict notiee
f weather matters, repoits the f"lowing
'aiiil'all for August for )ears indicated
onlow :
iHHll on '!" and .'it) 0.UT
is-.io " ;;o 0.17'
IKil " 2 trace.
t'o keep up the record, ruiu should fall
today.
Fust rain in September for three years
preceding 181)2 tell us lollows:
tssa on Sept. 21 0-07.
thill) " 5 U.U4.
IS'll " ' t li k , ).
I.ATliST LAND LKUl 'jATION.
Hon. A. denier, register of the La
Grande land ollice, send the GuZi-t'othe
. j lowing relating to reocut land legisla
tion, and of much interest to settlers in
this section:
Depiti tment of thulnterior, General Land
Ollioc, Washing Ion, D. C. Aug. 11), "J2.
Register and JL ceivcr, La Grande, Or.
Sirs; You are hereby ud vised in re
piy to your telegram of Aug 15, 1802,
th .t by act approved June 25, 18'J2, con
Si ens so amended sectiou tbiee of the
forfeiture act of Sept, 21), lbtid, as to ex
tend the time wilhie which poisoi B aotU-
ll.hV UKHIUINO UPuN T1IK PollFlill'ED
undh shall be permitted to purchase the
sume three ears Iroiii the pussugo uf the
Hitler,
The act of 18!)2 nff ts only one class
of persons lhui claiming under sectiou
thieo of the act of )' (), and aatuidly re
siding upou the lauds, uud questions lis
to the construction to he given the for
mer have been submitted to mid are now
pending before the Secretary of the In
icrior. As soou as tho secretary deter
mines said questions, instructions under
die not of 18112 ill be given.
Very respectfully,
I. R CoNWIiLL,
Acting Coiiiujissioiii r.
before H(ni-liiii on a Journey
i person usually desires to gain some iu
oriuiitiou as to the most desiiablo route
0 lake, and will purchase tickets via the
nn- that will allord him the quickest and
lest service Before starting on a trip to
llucago or any point East, you should
irovide yourself with a unip uud time
1 able ot I tie Wisconsin Central lines.
I'he trains run on this route are vcftti
niled and equipped with Pullman's lat-
di awing room sleopers, elrgant day
onclies mid dining curs of lalest design,
null expressly for this service, and are
xqiiisite in furnishings and convenient
ind comfortable in arrangement and so
oniplete in every detnil that they have
in superior in comfort and elegance,
the dining car service is pronounced by
dl tbe most elegant ever inaugurated,
mil is operated iu the interest of its pa
irons. Fust trains via the Wisconsin Central
dins lenve Minneapolis daily at 12:15 p.
tu. mid 6:25 p. to., and Ht. Paul at 1:30
;,. in. mid 7:Iiu p. m., uoiking favoiable
.loioii'ction uiih all trains from the West
.Old Southwest.
Fur tickets, lime tables, berth reserva-
ions, ele., apply to G. F. McNeill, C. P.
v T. A-. Minneapolis, Mum , or to .Ins.
(!. Fond, generHl piissenger and ticket
agent Chieico III. -t8!hf
- . Latest U. S. Gov't Report.
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