Show POISONING COYOTES methods strychnine on wild animals in the n cat AW lately introduced in the colorado legislature provides for the purchase of strychnine by county commissioners for the destruction of wolves and coyotes which are becoming quite desperate all over the state and are multiplying in spite of bounty laws says the denver field and farm one way to put out poison is a fresh dead cow or horse remove the hide cut the animal open gash the outside with a knife and put strychnine in the incision and on the entrails the crystals of strychnine will soon dissolve and penetrate the flesh carcasses thus prepared are often frozen before tho wolves find them but the wolves eat of the frozen blood from the thorax and die within an hour after eating the action of the poison in warm weather is much quicker occasionally poison is unsuccessfully used but the hunter is almost sure of some pelts and is sometimes richly rewarded from fifty to seventy five wolves have been killed in one night from the poisoning of one carcass this was in middle park where the wolves are very plentiful it takes two bottles of strychnine to poison one dead cow or horse and from one fourth to one third of a bottle for a sheep small animals or birds require a less proportionate amount all the carnivorous animals may be destroyed by strychnine the larger ones may be poisoned by putting a few crystal in small balls of butter or lard when the animal is frozen so that it will not aboab poison scatter the balls round about small animals can be killed by poisoning scraps of meat or small birds mice or fishes the red fox can be easily poisoned where it could not be trapped strychnine must be handled with great care it should be used moderately in small baits and placed where dogs and cats are not likely to find it poisoned animals may be kept for months if necessary and if promptly removed when thawed the skins will be good A hole bored in a log or block of wood and filled with lard mixed with strychnine is very effectual when weather is not freezing the animals lick it out so slowly that they die before they get away the approved method used here in colorado is to altce small quantities of crystallized strychnine in druggists capsules and insert one of these in a bait of meat about the size of a hens egg biang up a head or some fresh meat in a tree or on a fence so high that wolves cannot reach it then scatter the bait around the spot every few feet the fresh meat in the tree attracts the animals and ahey readily pick up the bait on the ground A bottle of strychnine costs thirty five cents and contains forty or fifty doses of poison the capsule method is recommended as best of all |