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[[underline]] P.S. [[/underline]] Later one bit my thumb through a heavy leather glove till the blood ran in a stream.

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Another square rod had 161 burrows on it and thousands of rods ^[[& acres]] have them just as numerous.

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smothered by their own numbers. On counting up we had 51 in my can and 34 in his, or a total of 85 mice caught in 15 minutes in our hands. At this rate I could catch 200 mice to the hour, or in 10 hours 2000. With a long handled dipper one could catch them faster & easier. They could not bite us through heavy leather gloves, but would stand up and fight valliantly & bite as deep as they could into the leather.

The 85 & 11 more were put into 5 cages and given preparations of arsenic on sugar beets, wheat & cracked barley and cyanide of pot. on sugar beets & barley.

I measured off a square rod of the field and counted 134 burrows on it. This is about a maximum but on a scattered place I counted 54 on a square rod which is about the minimum.

A large lot of pellets made up of Microtus fur & bones were gathered up where the gulls sit during their