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Show COYOTES VS SHEEP "Five hundred thousand sheep have been destroyed in Utah during the past year by predatory wild animals," an-imals," according to a survey just concluded by C. B. Stewart of the Utah Woolgrowers' association. "In addition to the mutton lost through this destruction, there has also been destroyed, 4,000,000 pounds of wool, as each sheep will average about eight pounds of fleece. "Wherever the government has taken a hand in the extermination of these destructive prowlers, a decided decrease in the wild animals has been noticed and a correspondingly smaller small-er loss is noted. The Utah Wool1 growers will immediately take up with Herbert C. Hoover and the Utah Congressional delegation the matter of increasing the appropriation for putting more government experts in Utah. "The government will be asked to double its forces if need be, and thus aid conservation as can be done in no other way. Cattlemen could probably prob-ably tell the same "story as their losses have been very heavy. It is as important to save the herds that we have, as to increase the production, produc-tion, and definite steps are being taken today to bring the matter before be-fore Congress. "Wherever government experts have worked against the predatory bands the results have been marked, but there are many regions of the State where the federal exterminators exterminat-ors have not been sent. It is for the purpose of reaching these places that federal aid will be asked. "J. W. Thornley of Morgan county reports that in one single hour last week his flock was attacked by three coyotes, and five hundred dollars' worth of damage was done." |