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[[underline]] Rogers Ranch [[/underline]]

[[underline]] Nov. 10 [[/underline]]. Caught a few gophers & photographed the gulls in the field. In P.M. went over to where we put out the poison yesterday and found 4 dead mice along the strip where Phosforus treated wheat had been put out. Also found one little pile of wheat (about a teaspoonful) smoking & on touching it with a stick it burst into a blaze.

One sick mouse that died in about 5 minutes was found where [[strikethrough]] po [[/strikethrough]] arsenic poisoned wheat had been put out, but none were found where the barley & sugar beets were distributed. The grain & beets had been partly eaten but I think the mice die in the burrows instead of coming outside as they do from phosphorus poison. Tomorrow we will dig open some of the burrows to see.

Saw other fields where the mice were as abundant as usual and in one field of barley stubble they are numerous. They seem to live on the dry stubble & what grain was scattered.