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California Condor
Ebou McMillan
10 February 1969
Of one ounce of Compound 1080 to one hundred
pounds of grain when mixing squirrel poison. Pocket
Copper Poison can be treated at two ounces per one hundred
pounds of grain. Mr. Easley said that it was on the
property belonging to Mrs. E.L. Taughin that is
approximately two miles Southwest of Granite Station,
that is about 20 miles North by Northeast of Bakersfield,
Kern County California, that the Margaret Brown Condor was found.
Mr. Ben Easley also informed me that his office has
as many as six crews of squirrel poisoning persons
going in Kern County at the same time. This usually in
the months of May-June and July and on occasions
well up into September. In the Summer months of
1956 one crew of men poisoned squirrels on the
San Emidio Ranch for sixty-four days. On one
area of the San Emidio Ranch property crews under
Mr. Easleys supervision were applying as much as hree hundred pounds of poisoned grain to an acre.
That in the process of making a test on the [illegible]
Galanini property West of Inclifflick, Kern County
California that a plot one-quarter mile long and
one hundred fifty yards wide was treated with poisoned
wheat that had been mixed with Compound
1080 at the rate of two ounces per hundred pounds
of grain. Following this application sixty dead squirrels
were found on top of the ground inside this test
area. In a like area that had been treated with-
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