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Summer Session Kansan
Tuesday. July 1, 1958
'Prairie Dogs May Become Extinct'
Is the prairie dog doomed to extinction?
This could happen, Ronald E. Smith, research assistant, says in a bulletin entitled "Natural History of the Prairie Dog in Kansas," issued this month by the State Biological Survey of Kansas. The bulletin is a report on a two year study in Barber County of one of the last large prairie dog towns in Kansas.
As late as 1903, Mr. Smith says, prairie dogs occurred on two and a half million acres in the state but today occupy only about one fiftieth of that area. In 1957 when Mr. Smith finished his field investigation, a fourth of those still living were scheduled for extermination in the present year of 1958.
Reproduction, behavior, burrows, relations to associated animals and food habits are some of the topics discussed in the bulletin. It is free of charge to any person who requests a copy from the Museum of Natural History.
"Since overgrazing by cattle or bison is necessary before the prairie dog can successfully establish itself," Mr. Smith says, "one of the most successful methods of controlling prairie dogs is to remove cattle from the range until it has a chance to recover." Prairie dogs can not live where there is a good amount of grass.
Twenty-three per cent of the natural food of prairie dogs "is vegetation not eaten by livestock," Mr. Smith says. "Under ordinary conditions they may speed up plant succession by their preferential food habits."
Burrows made by the prairie dog are essential to the existence of grasshopper mice, burrowing owls, black-footed ferrets, Audubon cotontails and other animals. When the prairie dogs are killed out, their burrows collapse and fill up and within a year or two burrowing owls and some other species become extinct in the area.
Mr. Smith concludes that the rancher or farmer should "think of control of these animals instead of their total destruction. He has a two-fold obligation in this connection to his progeny; 1) leave his land in better condition than when he received it; 2) retain the aesthetic value inherent in the native plants and animals on the land. Proper management of cattle will insure a good cover of grass that is of monetary value to the farmer, will fulfill his obligation to his progeny, and will control numbers of the prairie dog without annihilating the species."
Four Write Book On Indian Schooling
The Bureau of Indian Affairs in the U.S. Department of Interior has published a 249-page book by three University staff members and a former Lawrence resident.
Authors of "The Indian Goes to School, a Study of Interracial Differences," are L. Madison Coombs, educational specialist in the Bureau of Indian Affairs, formerly of Lawrence and now in Washington, D. C.; Ralph E. Kron, research fellow who this month received the doctor of education degree; Dr. E. Gordon Collister, director of the Guidance Bureau; and Dean Kenneth E. Anderson of the School of Education.
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Japanese Prints On Display Here
An exhibition of modern Japanese woodblock prints is now on display in the Kansas Union and the Undergraduate reading room of Watson Library.
Representative works of all the more prominent Japanese woodblock artists are included among the thirty prints.
One of the more celebrated prints exhibited in the library is "Impressions of a Violinist." Done in 1947, the print mirrors the tragedy of a concert artist performing for her American conquerors.
Also featured in the library is "Kabuki Dancer," a picture of a performer in Japan's traditional theatre. This print shows the influence of Picasso on contemporary Japanese art.
The "Iris Season" which hangs in the Kansas Union is closer in theme to traditional Japanese woodblock prints.
Gary Elting, Kansas City, Mo. sophomore, has been selected to be a saxophonist with the "Kids From Home" show which left Monday for an entertainment tour of American installations in the European command.
KU Student Member Of Group To Entertain Troops In Europe During The Summer
The "Kids From Home" troupe is chosen each year from among the
best student musicians and entertainers submitted by the deans and music directors of over 160 colleges and universities across the United States. The troupe includes a full show orchestra and chorus.
Among the many awards the "Kids From Home" have garnered are the Defense Department's Certificate of
Esteem, the Certificate of Merit from the Department of the Army, and other high commendations from many commanding officers.
In the average year, more than three and two-thirds billion quarts of milk are consumed with cereal alone.
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