Multiplying Moles The work of the more is yet more
conspicuous than the nest of the squirrel, but it is not therefore very vulnerable. The trapper must be something of an expert. Some surprising results have followed the attempt to poison the animals by putting pieces of poisoned liver in the runs. The victims have not been moles but shrews which apparently take advantage of these spacious roadways. It Is an ill wind . • One field almost ploughed up by moles was, I discovered, being freely used by adjacent cottagers as a source of top-soil for their gardens! One would have thought that in these hard times the excellence and value of the mole's skin would have encouraged trappers ; but the craft of mole- catching seems almost to have disappeared with other crafts. The harm they inflict is not great, till they find their way into a garden and decide to make a run under the line of green peas or such, where they arc a worse plague than wireworms or slugs.
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