California Condor Eben Mcmillan 21 May 1964 certain that I could set accurate estimates of death loss in sheep from Mr. Meglas. This I will do. Stopping at Winter Field office and Poison mixing warehouse of Ben Easley I found Mr. Easley and an assistant just Cleaning up their machinery after having mixed a batch of poison. Easley said the poison was going out fast. That the call for material to poison Rats-Rabbits and mice was the heaviest he had ever witnessed it before. I asked if he knew of any Poisoning Operations Going on where great numbers of Ground Squirrels were being Poisoned. Mr. Easley told me to go to the Carl Twisselmann Ranch at McKittrick to see lots of squirrels being poisoned, for on that ranch, the man who Mr. Easley assigns from his office to oversee the application of 1080 poison, had reported that on the Carl Twisselmann ranch twelve-hundred pounds of 1080 poison had been scattered in one day. Mr. Easley mentioned that some of his assistants had doubted the use of this much poison in one day, by one crew of men, but Easley said he checked and found the statement of 1200 pounds used in one day to be authentic. Mr. Ben Easley said that at the rate operators are using poison he is going to be out of grain, with which to mix poison in a few more weeks. 55 or 60 Ton of grain is all that remains in his stockpile. Mr. Easley, upon being questioned by me, said he-