Ingersoll, Ernest. Animal Competitors: Profit and Loss from the Wild Four-Footed Animals on the Farm. New York: Sturgis & Walton Company, 1913. [12160]
Light green cloth, illustrated covers, some light soil & flecking, binding otherwise very good and tight, 7 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches. Former owner's private bookplate, xvi., 319 clean pp. B/w frontispiece plus other plates & text illustrations. Good. Hardcover.
Practical advice for the farmer on rats, mice, muskrats, beaver, gophers, squirrels, rabbits, foxes, wolves, coyotes, and deer. Shows how to be rid of some of them, and how to profit from some of them.
Ernest Ingersoll (1852-1946), b. Monroe, Michigan; d. Brattleboro, Vermont. He was educated at Oberlin College and at Harvard University, where he studied under Louis Agassiz. Ingersoll contributed scientific articles to the press, and was a zoologist on several exploring expeditions in the American West. He was a member of the United States Fish Commission, writing on Native American and other fishing in the West. He wrote popular accounts on many different subjects in natural history, contributed frequently to such periodicals as Field and Stream, and was an early advocate of the protection of wildlife and natural habitats.
