Book/Printed Material ... The domestic cat; bird killer, mouser and destroyer of wild life; means of utilizing and controlling it.
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Image 1 of ... The domestic cat; bird killer, mouser and destroyer of wild life; means ... SB 994 .C3 F7 Copy 1 Stye CommontDtaltl) of Jtta00atl)U0£ti0 STATE BOAED OF AGRICULTURE ECONOMIC BIOLOGY— BULLETIN No. 2 THE DOMESTIC CAT BIRD KILLER, MOUSER AND DESTROYER OF WILD LIFE MEANS OF...- Contributor: Forbush, Edward Howe
- Date: 1916
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Image 2 of ... The domestic cat; bird killer, mouser and destroyer of wild life; means ... Class _ Book V X- Contributor: Forbush, Edward Howe
- Date: 1916
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Image 3 of ... The domestic cat; bird killer, mouser and destroyer of wild life; means ...- Contributor: Forbush, Edward Howe
- Date: 1916
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Image 4 of ... The domestic cat; bird killer, mouser and destroyer of wild life; means ... Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2011 with funding from The Library of Congress http://www.archive.org/details/domesticcatbirdkOOforb- Contributor: Forbush, Edward Howe
- Date: 1916
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Image 5 of ... The domestic cat; bird killer, mouser and destroyer of wild life; means ...- Contributor: Forbush, Edward Howe
- Date: 1916
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Image 6 of ... The domestic cat; bird killer, mouser and destroyer of wild life; means ...- Contributor: Forbush, Edward Howe
- Date: 1916
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Image 7 of ... The domestic cat; bird killer, mouser and destroyer of wild life; means ...- Contributor: Forbush, Edward Howe
- Date: 1916
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Image 8 of ... The domestic cat; bird killer, mouser and destroyer of wild life; means ...- Contributor: Forbush, Edward Howe
- Date: 1916
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Image 9 of ... The domestic cat; bird killer, mouser and destroyer of wild life; means ... ©f)£ ^ommontoealtt) oi Jttct00acl)iis£it0 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE ECONOMIC BIOLOGY BULLETIN No. 2 THE DOMESTIC CAT BIRD KILLER, MOUSER AND DESTROYER OF WILD LIFE MEANS OF UTILIZING AND CONTROLLING IT By EDWARD...- Contributor: Forbush, Edward Howe
- Date: 1916
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Image 10 of ... The domestic cat; bird killer, mouser and destroyer of wild life; means ... of D. JUL 24 191?- Contributor: Forbush, Edward Howe
- Date: 1916
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Image 11 of ... The domestic cat; bird killer, mouser and destroyer of wild life; means ... PREFATORY NOTES. Questions regarding the value or inutility of the domestic cat, and problems connected with limiting its more or less unwelcome outdoor activities, are causing much dissension. The discussion has reached...- Contributor: Forbush, Edward Howe
- Date: 1916
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Image 12 of ... The domestic cat; bird killer, mouser and destroyer of wild life; means ... 4 respectively to quote from Miss Repplier s charming volume The Fireside Sphinx and from Miss Winslow s Concerning Cats. Charles Scribner s Sons have granted a similar privilege regarding Shaler s...- Contributor: Forbush, Edward Howe
- Date: 1916
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Image 13 of ... The domestic cat; bird killer, mouser and destroyer of wild life; means ... CONTENTS. Introduction, Origin, History: The cat in Egypt, The cat in Asia, The cat in Europe, Fitness, character and intelligence: Cruelty of the cat, The cat compared with the dog, Independence of...- Contributor: Forbush, Edward Howe
- Date: 1916
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Image 14 of ... The domestic cat; bird killer, mouser and destroyer of wild life; means ... Food Concluded. Animal food of the cat Concluded. Expert opinions on the cat s destructiveness Destruction of mammals and lower animals Squirrels, Hares and rabbits, Moles and shrews, Rats and mice, Bats,...- Contributor: Forbush, Edward Howe
- Date: 1916
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Image 15 of ... The domestic cat; bird killer, mouser and destroyer of wild life; means ... THE DOMESTIC CAT. INTRODUCTION. The cat, of all animals, is in some respects the most intimate companion of man. It is more closely identified with indoor life and the cheerful domestic hearth...- Contributor: Forbush, Edward Howe
- Date: 1916
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Image 16 of ... The domestic cat; bird killer, mouser and destroyer of wild life; means ... 8 and allowed to shift for itself, it must appease by its own efforts the hunger due to wandering, fighting and exposure. Many- people express the belief that it is a poor...- Contributor: Forbush, Edward Howe
- Date: 1916
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Image 17 of ... The domestic cat; bird killer, mouser and destroyer of wild life; means ... 9 Hebrew scholars, however, believe that the animal there referred to is the jackal. Even in Egypt, where the cat appears to have been first tamed and where it became an object...- Contributor: Forbush, Edward Howe
- Date: 1916
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Image 18 of ... The domestic cat; bird killer, mouser and destroyer of wild life; means ... 10 cat of Europe, there seems to be a probability that the domestic cat is the product of many species. Since writing the above I have devoted some attention to the probable...- Contributor: Forbush, Edward Howe
- Date: 1916
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Image 19 of ... The domestic cat; bird killer, mouser and destroyer of wild life; means ... 11 to the sun also. Plutarch says that the image of a female cat was placed at the top of the sistrum as an emblem of the lunar orb. Horapollo asserts that...- Contributor: Forbush, Edward Howe
- Date: 1916
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Image 20 of ... The domestic cat; bird killer, mouser and destroyer of wild life; means ... 12 the burning building and neglected to quench the fire. In spite of all this tender solicitude some cats escaped and cast them- selves into the flames, amid the wild lamentations of...- Contributor: Forbush, Edward Howe
- Date: 1916
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Image 21 of ... The domestic cat; bird killer, mouser and destroyer of wild life; means ... 13 The Cat in Asia. About 400 B.C. the cat is referred to in Chinese records as a wild animal, and does not appear to have been tamed in China until after...- Contributor: Forbush, Edward Howe
- Date: 1916
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Image 22 of ... The domestic cat; bird killer, mouser and destroyer of wild life; means ... 14 were roasted in iron cages, over fires, in company with effigies of murderesses. The worrying of cats by dogs was a common sport. Boys tied cats together in pairs by their...- Contributor: Forbush, Edward Howe
- Date: 1916
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Image 23 of ... The domestic cat; bird killer, mouser and destroyer of wild life; means ... 15 times brave, sometimes cowardly with dangerous antagonists, but bold and courageous when brought to bay. Naturalists agree that the cat is a highly organized and in- telligent animal. Mivart says that...- Contributor: Forbush, Edward Howe
- Date: 1916
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Image 24 of ... The domestic cat; bird killer, mouser and destroyer of wild life; means ... 16 The Cat compared with the Dog. In estimating the character and intelligence of the cat, it has been customary from time immemorial to compare it with the dog, much to the...- Contributor: Forbush, Edward Howe
- Date: 1916
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Image 25 of ... The domestic cat; bird killer, mouser and destroyer of wild life; means ... 17 Independence of the Cat. Many cat lovers admire the cat because it loves not, because it is fond of the fire but not of the fire maker. Witness the fol- lowing...- Contributor: Forbush, Edward Howe
- Date: 1916
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Image 26 of ... The domestic cat; bird killer, mouser and destroyer of wild life; means ... 18 affections. The Pretty Lady was contented wherever I, her most humble slave, went with her. 1 Many a puss has been known to be contented in the company of her humble...- Contributor: Forbush, Edward Howe
- Date: 1916
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Image 27 of ... The domestic cat; bird killer, mouser and destroyer of wild life; means ... 19 FECUNDITY OF THE CAT. Cats are known to have from two to four broods yearly, with from five to nine in each brood. Fostered and protected from their enemies, a single...- Contributor: Forbush, Edward Howe
- Date: 1916
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Image 28 of ... The domestic cat; bird killer, mouser and destroyer of wild life; means ... 20 idea of their ubiquity. Hundreds roam about the country towns. On the early snows of winter their tracks may be found on nearly every farm in the land. There is no...- Contributor: Forbush, Edward Howe
- Date: 1916
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Image 29 of ... The domestic cat; bird killer, mouser and destroyer of wild life; means ... 21 on our part by the establishment of receiving stations and an elaborate col- lection service; and to the fact that by the use of motor vehicles we are able to cover...- Contributor: Forbush, Edward Howe
- Date: 1916
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Image 30 of ... The domestic cat; bird killer, mouser and destroyer of wild life; means ... 22 City cats make forays into the parks at night. A man em- ployed to guard the birds in Central Park, New York, killed in six months, from January to June, 1910,...- Contributor: Forbush, Edward Howe
- Date: 1916
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Image 31 of ... The domestic cat; bird killer, mouser and destroyer of wild life; means ... PLATE I Fig. 1. Vagabond House Cat with Robin. The vagabond cat or the barn cat, half-fed or forced to get its own living, becomes a scourge to bird life. Many house...- Contributor: Forbush, Edward Howe
- Date: 1916
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Image 32 of ... The domestic cat; bird killer, mouser and destroyer of wild life; means ... .2 o a 2 o- Contributor: Forbush, Edward Howe
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Image 33 of ... The domestic cat; bird killer, mouser and destroyer of wild life; means ... 23 Fisheries and Game, has noticed particularly the tracks of cats in his travels. He found numerous cat tracks on the islands of Muskeget, Tuckernuck, Nantucket and Martha s Vineyard. On Nantucket...- Contributor: Forbush, Edward Howe
- Date: 1916
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Image 34 of ... The domestic cat; bird killer, mouser and destroyer of wild life; means ... 24 must have been several times that number, Dr. C. L. Jones, Falmouth. Have seen a great many cats in the woods and about abandoned farms and farm buildings that had not...- Contributor: Forbush, Edward Howe
- Date: 1916
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Image 35 of ... The domestic cat; bird killer, mouser and destroyer of wild life; means ... 25 is to all intents and purposes a wild animal. In most cases it stays in the home of man, mainly because of the warmth of his fire, the food that it...- Contributor: Forbush, Edward Howe
- Date: 1916
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Image 36 of ... The domestic cat; bird killer, mouser and destroyer of wild life; means ... 26 correspondents and people from all parts of New England report many cats abandoned by summer people. Several persons note abandoned cats left uncared for in the city while their owners are...- Contributor: Forbush, Edward Howe
- Date: 1916
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Image 37 of ... The domestic cat; bird killer, mouser and destroyer of wild life; means ... 27 HABITS. The following, quoted by Miss Repplier, as translated from the Latin by Thomas Berthelet and printed by Wynkyn de Worde in 1498, cannot be improved much to-day: The Cat is...- Contributor: Forbush, Edward Howe
- Date: 1916
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Image 38 of ... The domestic cat; bird killer, mouser and destroyer of wild life; means ... 28 plain and forest, but the tree is plainly its natural refuge of last resort. It is not sufficiently expert in climbing to follow the arboreal mammals with much chance of success,...- Contributor: Forbush, Edward Howe
- Date: 1916
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Image 39 of ... The domestic cat; bird killer, mouser and destroyer of wild life; means ... 29 America, as well as those of other countries, are recognized as among the most destructive of all animals to game, birds and domestic animals, and therefore the policy of American communi-...- Contributor: Forbush, Edward Howe
- Date: 1916
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Image 40 of ... The domestic cat; bird killer, mouser and destroyer of wild life; means ... 30 The Cat a Birdcatcher in Ancient Times. The ancients recognized the cat as a destroyer of birds. If we may judge from pictorial representations on the buildings, tombs and monuments of...- Contributor: Forbush, Edward Howe
- Date: 1916