. Nature study and agriculture. Nature study; Agriculture. POCKET GOPHERS 403 The " pockets " for which these animals are distinguished extend along the sides of the head to the shoulders and open at the mouth, outside of the mouth cavity. They might be described as fur-lined cheek pouches used for carrying food to the storeroom in the burrow. There are over thirty species of these gophers, and they are distributed over our whole country except the section east of Indiana and north of Ala- bama. We are concerned with only two of these. The Red Pocket Gopher, or Mississippi Valley Poc
. Nature study and agriculture. Nature study; Agriculture. POCKET GOPHERS 403 The " pockets " for which these animals are distinguished extend along the sides of the head to the shoulders and open at the mouth, outside of the mouth cavity. They might be described as fur-lined cheek pouches used for carrying food to the storeroom in the burrow. There are over thirty species of these gophers, and they are distributed over our whole country except the section east of Indiana and north of Ala- bama. We are concerned with only two of these. The Red Pocket Gopher, or Mississippi Valley Pocket Gopher, is the most important species of all, because of the. Pocket Gopher great extent of the territory it inhabits. It is the big, brown- ish red gopher found in Wisconsin, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, and the eastern part of the Dakotas, Nebraska, and Kansas. Only the one species inhabits this territory, as pocket gophers are too ill-tempered to live on neighborly terms with others. Even members of the same species hate one another, and it is said that when two captives are put in the same cage they usually fight until one is killed. The North Dakota Pocket Gopher or Gray Pocket Gopher ranges all over the state whose name it bears excepting the parts of the Red River Valley occupied by the preceding species. It is a smaller animal than the other, but probably not less destructive if allowed to do business on our Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Schmidt, Charles Christian, 1859-. Boston, New York [etc. ] D. C. Heath & Co
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