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Show DRIVING COYOTES ! FROM JHE STATE MOST SCCt lisSI'fl, Vl, UtOIT-I'.lt UtOIT-I'.lt IIVKIt IV )MIN(J, iNiinilH'r lliiliiiiil Tiicnl) IVr tint In One Omul) III single Yrwr .Joint KtlorN of SliroiiiH'ti nml l'orcMr Srvlcu Vt'cilcil, llowciir. According Accord-ing to Itnl-ir Who TcIN tho Slor) How the aheepsjrower of one oun t In Wjninlng reduced the niimlxr nf nntra by 19 per rent In a single ear and saved anHt aaven thouaand ilnliats over the amount spent In henvv Imuntlea wa t"ld b) J f) Nuh irtt f Ciaevllla, Wyw. former prei-ilenl prei-ilenl nt the UncolH County iWynl n iMiigrownra aaoottatlon, at Salt lhi C) last Saturitat it In all a matter nt determination and the taming out nf a lllieral il-le il-le -wye Mohlett. who la to apeak on the aubnet at the coming eeeelons of toe National Woolgrowera' aaaorlntloli at SUnn PIrst we had bills (tamietl by the leeitslaturc enlarging the appropriation appropria-tion for hountlea to it mil re their being be-ing paid when due Thla encouraged austalnatl effort. The legislature made It possible to levy special us-snasinent us-snasinent on live stock for tho critdl tallon of lieaats of pre) An thl put the burden upon the Interest benefited, bene-fited, there waa no opposUlon from i ii- farmer In addition to the coun-t) coun-t) aeeoiiatlon bountlee, the Individual woolgruwcra owning adjoining land have formed local organization , Prom three to four grow era get to-1 gether und employ trapper Jointly to opernto especially during the fall graxlng season on the lambing ground. i "We operate with dog, gre) hounds, stnghound nnd bloodhounds, with prnrilc-al trapping methods nnd with poison the first three month or the year Our aaockttloii waa formed In 1908 Thn state bounty on coyote Is I 11.18 In the sheep grating district the aaaoclalleu mya nn additional laiunty of ft 10 Coyote pells lirlngl from three dollar to five dollars on I the market, thu bringing thn value or I tha animal to the- trapper up to eight ' or Mine dollar. , "Until recently In Uneoln county, i half of which I sheep country, wn i umh) io lon from alx thousand to sevnn thousand aheep a year from coyote depredation on our stock, whli h amounted to about one hundred ml seventy thousand head This has' been reduced lw ier cant In the Immediate Im-mediate aheep territory C-oeratlaii ! however, la nei-eeaary lietween the , aheepmen, the foreatry service and all j then In surrounding territory While we have driven away the. it.yote. they brenl Juet aa fast aa ever mitslde of the carefully stipsr-vIikhI stipsr-vIikhI tnrrllor) Kxtermlnullon cn onl) be effected b) prowr und heart) co-operation " i |