J. Rodgers 1/2 Frank Clarke Ranch, Mr. S.W. Laytonville, Mendocino Co., Calif. March 31, 1938 thinks little of him otherwise, however. Carl said, ... "the country is wild, isn't it?" Mr. Clarke said answered, "too many hiding places, that's the trouble.". Coyotes use to be least, but not since Biological Survey Control. Joe saw one a couple days ago, and one of the neighbors saw two a week ago. They eat every bit of garden they can get to. Measow mice clean up vegetables as fast as they come up. Moles encourage erosion; gophers don't. April 1, 1938 Wegot up at 6 o'clock and had breakfast at 6:30. I went out with Mr. Clarke to look at the traps he had set the night before. He was trying to catch something that had cleaned out a setting of 12 turkey eggs the day before. The first trap had not been disturbed. The next trap had been dragged about 70 feet down the hill. We found no hair in it. At the third trap we found a very much exhaustedcoon on the top of a fence. The trap was on a very