Show High Cost of oj At Marauders Marauders- GovEn tIENT experts estimate that rodents such V as prairie dogs squirrels and rabbits formerly ate 4 worth of food crops and that the the depro depre- of house rats exceeded c a total of more than A very largo large part of this waste it is has now been saved by the poisoning camI campaigns cam cam- I planned and pursued under federal guidance I Then there are arc the tho high livers o of the west the tho aristocratic aristo- aristo cratic robbers the tho legged four-legged highwaymen of t m mountain and desert who ho prefer r to live on spring lamb Jamb 1 mint sauce and fillet of beef with mushrooms A s single wolf has been known t to kill in six months head of cattle valued at In t tim tho o spring of 1929 1919 I T a mountain lion was killed in Wyoming which in one month destroyed 1000 worth of 01 live stock In less I than three months six coyotes slew sheep in Texas valued rained at They lived high these marauders of the range A yearly estimate of the loss in New Mexico fet Mex- ico leo showed that 3 per cent of the cattle or hc head d J head bead of sheep tad had ad gone to feed predatory animals annuals This means approximately worth of df d live Jive stock With all the government and state and andI I industrial activities to prevent them them the the thieves thieves' of oC the animal world continue to consume a a. large part of the national food supply |