Ernest Ingersoll

Animal Competitors Ernest Ingersoll

This special re-print edition of Ernest Ingersoll's book "Animal Competitors: Profit and Loss from the Wild Four Footed Tenants of the Farm" is a guide to dealing with predators and pests on the farm, ranch or homestead. Written in 1911, this classic text provides insight into everything a person would wish to know about dealing with predators and animal pests on the farm. Chapters include The Pest of Rats, The Pantry Mouse, The Meadow Mouse and Its Mischief, Damage by Muskrats, Beavers, Wood Rats, Pack Rats and Cotton Rats, The Gray Gophers, Squirrels, Good and Bad, Ground Squirrels and Prairie Dogs, Rabbits Useful and Injurious, The Suppression of Rodents As Pests, Moles, Shrews and Bats, Foxes and Fox Farming, Gray Wolves and Coyotes, The Fur Bearing Animals, Directions For Poisoning and Trapping Pests and more. A truly unique and highly informative book on identifying and combating predator and pest animals on the farm or ranch. Note: This edition is a perfect facsimile of the original edition and is not set in a modern typeface. As a result, some type characters and images might suffer from slight imperfections or minor shadows in the page background.