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Show Animal Control Board Is Named The State Board of Agriculture has appointed three men for the county predatory animal control board. The board members are Frank D. Williams, Mdnersiville, chairmanT. W. Gunn, Beaver and A. 11. Christensen, Beaver. These men supervise the administration of the bounty law in the county and can answer your bounty questions. ques-tions. As the bill was originally written, writ-ten, it was planned that it should go into effect on predators caught during the last of January but the attorney general has ruled that all predators1 caught after September Sep-tember 1 are eligible for bounty. However, the bounty will not be paid until March 1. The bounty is $15 on mountain lion and gray, black or timber wolf; while that on lynx or bobcat is S6 each. This county committee is responsible re-sponsible for nominating area inspectors in-spectors and designating areas for approval by the state board of agriculture. Predators caught must be exhibited exhib-ited to the area' inspector within 30 days with the entire hide and with at least three feet attached. Then the hide and feet are presented pre-sented to the county control boards, who Sever the feet and return re-turn the hide to the trapper. The trapper takes the affidavit from the county board to the county clerk, where he gets his certificate for payment. This is a very heavy tax on the wool grower. He is now paying a 30-mill levy, 25 mills for the bounty prograim and the old five mill levy for cooperation with .the bureau of fisheries and wild life service. The sheepmen are attempting to handle their own problem and pr.y their way. All livestock growers of the state should be interested in this program and help wherever posistible to detect hides brought in from other states. There is a severe penalty for making f else affidavits under the bounty control law. It provides for a fine of not less than $100 and not more than $1,000, or by imprisonment in the state prison for a term of not less than one year or more than five years. |