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BUT WHEH HE PUTS SOME DOUGH IN
OH.BOY, DOES HE MAKE SURE ITU. BE
CREDITED TO THE Rl6HT3CCaJNT.'
Is That So?
"Ranger Burns: Would 'it be
practical and morally right to in
troduce the deadly virus disease
Myxomatosis into the jackrabbit
population on the Snake, River
plains of southern Idaho (or for
that matter in any other region
where rabbits are a pest) in an
attempt to destroy the wild rab
bits to aid farmers and stock
men? I realize there may be dan
ger to domestic rabbits and pos
sibly other rodents but I submit
that the situation here in Jerome
county is serious enough to war
rant discussion of this question. .
'"My wife and J are farmer
sheepmen, making our living on
one of the small farms opened to
drawing by World War II ser
vicemen in 1949 by the U.S. Bu
reau of Reclamation.
"My wife and I are farmer
sheepmen, making our living on
one of the small farms opened to
drawing by World War II ": ser
vicemen in 1949 by the U. S. Bu
reau of Reclamation. .
For two of our six years here,
the jackrabbits have been high
ly destructive, rating as the
worst drawback to ranching
here. This past year, they again
built up to enormous numbers
two neighboring farms lost ; at
least 10 per cent of their irrigat
ed crops. And if past experience
is any criterion, the rabbits "will
continue to increase until natur
al disease or starvation decimat
es theic. number and then they
will almost disappear for a year
or two, only to come back again
in another terrifying cycle.
"The nine farms in this sec
tion of the project are surround
ed by sagebrush which is won-
Lone Tree . . .
Halfway down the mountain
a shoulder of granite jutted so
as to be visible for many miles.
On the shoulder's point a tree
grew out of loose rocks. It was
probably more than two hundred
years old, yet it was no more
than twenty inches through the
trunk, while its wind-beaten
crown was but sixty feet aloft.
The roots of the tree on the
point were numerous and they
were powerful and large and
their spread was exposed far
out from the trunk. There the
roots swelled in bulges, as with
mighty muscles, reaching on to
grip the rocks before thrusting
down to water sources.
Here the tough and strong
tree had stood and held its own
for 200 years against the worst
the winds and rocks could give
it, and so it had served as a
landmark for the pioneers of the
1840s. They had named the spot
Tough' Tree Point.
By EUGENE BURNS
Ranger-Naturalist
derful rabbit breeding - ground
with lush grass in the spring. In
July when the range becomes
dry the rabbits are driven in up
on our irrigated section by hung
er. And with the price squeeze
now pushing the farmer anyway,
even a small loss of irrigated
crop or range grass hurts ser
iously. it is estimated that six
large - jackrabbits will eat as
much as one sheep.
Millions of Rabbits
"And there are literally - mil
lions of rabbits breeding around
us. Three years ago wnen win
ter snows covered the dry grass
JWI-S6
they came upon us "in unbeliev
able numbers. During the daily
invasion, just before, dusk, I
would stand at our haystack and
shoot the oncoming rabbits as
fast as I could pump a 22 rifle
borrowed from the county agent
for that purpose. Their death
struggles and screams went un
noticed among the starving live
rabbits as they came around and
over the bodies of the dead to
get at the hay in our stack.
"These invasions would start
at dusk and continue throughout
the night, irhave gone into the
Corral by moonlight, pointed my
shotgun into a corner and killed
as many as nine rabbits with
one 'shot, they were that thick.
Finally, my neighbors and I de
cided that shooting was useless
against such hordes and half a
dozen of us resorted to poison,
using strychnine furnished
through government agencies.
We had to overcome our distaste
for using poison in order to save
the last of our hay. When spring
came, we estimated that we had
killed at least 12,000 rabbits. The
stench of rotting bodies pervad
ed the whole valley.
Fences of Little Good
"You might ask about organiz
ed rabbit drives! They are OK
but they don't get enough to do
any discernible good. Or fences.
They don't do much good: in
summer the rabbits dig under
them; in winter, they walk over
them when the snow drifts in.
"In an effort to build a home
v.nd follow test conservation
practices, my wife and I planted
a long shelter belt of trees. For
three years in . succession, the
rabbits ate the trees off nearly
to the ground. When we planted
rye and crested wheat on a burned-over
area of our range land,
to prevent its blowing, the rab
bits not only ate off the grass
but literally dug it out by the
roots and completely killed the
stand. !
"So the question: What are
the pros and cons of infecting
jackrabbits with the dread
Myxomatosis virus, which helped
clean out the rabbits in Austra
lia and is now running through
Europe?. I understand the doc
tor who introduced it into Eur
ope is a hero to some, particu
larly the farmer, and a heartless
wretch to others.
"For the many who will hold
up their hands in righteous hor
ror at the very thought of in
fecting our American rabbits
with a virus disease, let me pre
sent one last thought:
"My wife and I are so moral
ly and religiously against any
unnecessary killing that we do
not hunt or even butcher our
own farm animals for table use.
Feeling this way, you should
then come to our Snake River
plains as a : homesteader and
have to kill, kill, and then kill
some more to protect your very
livelihood. You should hear the
rabbits scream with pain when
you have wounded them. You
should smell the stench of dead
bodies piled high when the snow
melts. All because you are try
ing to protect your ranch
against other of God's creatures
whose only crime is that they
are too many and too hungry!
lufoFTid'ooDi;
The Douelas fir clune to the
rocks, drank through its roots,
Dreatnea and was fed through
its leaves, and bv the maeic of
its natural chemistry working
wiin air, sunlight and water, it
had lived through two centuries.
The Snag ...
Among the thousands of trees
on the mountain sIodp ahovo
Tough Tree Point was a dead
uougias iir, a hollow, standing
snag. Its trunk was ten feet
through. Foresters reckoned
that it had towered three hun
dred feet and more in its prime.
Early settlers had noted the biff
fir at a turn in an Indian trail
as far back as 1848. Then it was
still alive, except for a snag top.
Around 1898 the great Doug
las fir had lost its last sprig of
green. The giant trunk stood
on, dead timber, the top crumb
ling away year by year. Now
in 1955 it was broken down to
a mere 50 feet in height. At
its bottom a fire scar had eaten
into an opening that a man could
cuier wunout Stooping.
Six hundred years and more
ago, the foresters said, the big
tree had. been , but a tiny seed,
a grain with a glider tail.' in
flight from a ripe Douglas fir
cone tnat a dry east wind of late
fall had opened. Where a light
ning fire- had made a clearing
Hie seed found life in soil ex
posed to sunlight. Bracken fern
fireweed and salal had nursed
this seedling with others on the
burned land. In time a family of
young Douglas firs crowded, out
Without us here, they would al
so die a slow death of starvation
by the thousands. D.J.P., Jer
ome, Ida."
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Monday, February 13, 1956 -
Gum Diseases, Other Teeth
Disorders Pose Problems
Editor's note: This is another in
a series of articles on dental health
in connection with the observance
of National Children's Dental Health
Week. The series was prepared with
the cooperation of the Southern
Oregon Dental society.
Gum disease and irregular
teeth in children seldom receive
the public attention given tooth
decay, but the disorders pose a
threat to children's dental
health.
Few people realize that dis
orders of gums and other tooth
supporting structures actually
occur in children. According to
one study, two out of three child
ren between the ages of 5 and
14 have some degree of gum
disorders.
High Disease Rates . :
The study revealed that the
disease rate reached its peak in
children between the ages of five
and seven when the permanent
molars and the front teeth were
erupting.
Although the causes of the
ailments are complex, poor oral
hygiene and other dental ne
glect are usually involved.
The best offense against such
disorders is a good defense,
which should include brushing
the teeth and gums properly and
promptly after eating, having
all lesser plant life from the
burn and fought each other in
thrusting up yearly spears of
growth to the sun.
Six centuries of tree life come
to ruin. Seeing it, one remem
bers that six hundred years ago
trees were felled in Norway and
staves from them were used to
build churches. Today the woods
of these churches live on in
beauty and service.
Baby Tree ...
Down in the youngest growth
at the foot of the mountain and
near the county road stands a
five - year - old Douglas fir.
Branches, dead and dry, from
trees that had been cut and then
discarded by Christmas tree
thieves lay among the small,
high stumps. Above the wreck
ages the baby tree stood along.
It stood untE there were days
of heat and dry east winds. Then
a car sped up the road in a cloud
of dust, bound for a fishing
stream. - A live cigarette was
flipped from the window of the
car. It dropped in the debris
left bv the Christmas tree thieves
into mats of needle-like leaves
that had become brown, tinder
dry in the- parching weather,
Soon smoke boiled up in the
drifting dust.
. The fire crept on, there was a
lift of the licking flames into a
torch for a minute, and then the
little lone tree was left standing,
smoking, with every needle leaf
burned into a black shred. There
it stood, dead.
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Still another dental disorder
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failure of the teeth to meet
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Bad Positions
One study indicated that as
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The results of this disorder
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Again, prevention is far sim
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new meat bird he calls the
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The bird is "being raised on
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the 3000-acre farm for million
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we just got to experimenting"
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been producing pheaskins ever
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