Show coyote most too wise to get into A trap in one of our exchanges there Is an interesting item pertaining to the trapping of coyotes on which most states of the west pay a bounty for the reason that these animals take a heavy toll from the sheep and cattle owners men who have had many years of experience are able to trap coyotes with some degree of success but chev are most too toxy foxy tor for the average trapper coyotes appear to be wise to traps and in most in stances they will carefully under mine the trap and aprin sprin spring it without being caught these clever stunts are pulled off in the presence of the young coyotes in order to teach them the dangers and how to avoid them quite often where a number of traps have been set around the carcass of a horse or cow coyotes have under mined every trap and then in safety fed on the meat for this reasor government employees engaged la ta the killing of predatory animals are using poison which is placed in cap sules and hidden in small pieces of meat the plan usually adopted Is to place the poison capsules in the cent er of a small piece of mutton tat fat or bacon and fix this bait on the end of a stick about a toot foot above the ground placing the stick a consider able distance from the carcass of a dead animal the coyote in making a of the dead animal will pass the bait and seldom resist the temptation of swallowing ohp th melly smelly morsel |