Excerpt from Report of the Director: For the Year Ending October 31, 1944 The October Microtus census indicates that the mouse population IS definitely low this fall. This condition is probably related to the downward trend of the population, which was noticeable last fall, after the high year of 1942. The lack of abundant food and cover due to the drought of the past two growing seasons was undoubtedly a fur ther check on the population. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.