| Show THOUSANDS OF WILD ANI ANIMALS DESTROYED At Least Saved to Farmers and Stockmen Marked Decrease in Number of Coyotes Coyotes Coyotes Coy Coy- otes Followed by Corresponding Decrease Decrease in Loss of Sheep Cattie Cattle Cat Cat- tie tle Pigs and Poultry Prepared by the United States Depart Depart- Agriculture Taking the estimates of farmers and stockmen themselves there has hns been beena saved ad a d to them during luring the past year not less than from the hunting of at predatory wild animals by bythe bythe the he United States department of or ngy ng ag- I f y M Half Grown Mountain Lions Snapped In Top of a q Yellow Pine Tree In operation co-operation with the states The work Is done by the time bureau of ot biological survey and such agencies as are designated by the various arious states During the past fiscal year ear ar about wild animals were killed Billed lder the direction of the biological biological bi bl survey by a force of or between and COO skilled hunters Indications Indications Indi Indi- are still greater numbers were killed by poisoning though no actual count was was made trade of ot animals thus de de- Extensive poisoning operations were conducted In the great sheep sheep-gro sheep growing ving sections of Arizona Colorado Nevada New Me Mexico Utah and W Wyoming This was followed b by a marl marked ed decrease decrease de Ie crease In the number of coyotes particularly particularly par par- with a n corresponding de decrease decrease de- de crease in the losses loss of or f sheep heep cattle pigs colts and poultry Stockmen say that on many Important ranges and lambing grounds the former heavy henvy annual losses have become ne negligible dr have been entirely eliminated As Asan Asan Asan an Illustration there Is an area about 75 miles in diameter In ht western Colorado Colorado Col Col- orado where here sheep owners formerly reported an average loss of about 25 sheep a day throughout hout the season Poisoning operations have been conducted conducted con con- ducted through two successive seasons seasons sea sea- sons Destruction of predatory animals ani mals has been so thorough that sheep now range freely sometimes unattended unattended tended for several days das In succession without loss Losses throughout the area are nominal |
