Show MANS ANIMAL TOES In tho forthcoming year book to bo publlihed by the United States Department De-partment of Agriculture will offer n novel contribution to natural lilitory The topic will be Animals Suppo enl to bo Foes of Mankind and It will tell about Ibo mammal and birds lilt tlvo to this country which RIO supposed sup-posed to be hMtlle to human being and their Industrie It onrnot Iw laid that In the Unlln1 StallS liountln date brought about the nomination of alngte species ot animal mal In any state The rarity of wolves Hat of tho MlMlMlppI river la rather duo to the aettlrment ot tho country ban to the number klltnl for rewards 00 the great plains where clillliatlon hall not encroached upon naturoa domain do-main lo any great eilent the robe hove not decreased perceptibly not llhBlnndliiR high premiums paid for Mips Almoit undoubtedly coyote which are n small breed of waive Love Increased California during the loot three jenrs since the bounty on hem wag wlthdrnnn no that them are sow ai many of them In that state ns ever California Montana and Texas offered IS n pleco for coyote acalpa for porno time the outlay aggregating hundred of thousands of dollar but ho results were unimportant Iowa and Mlnnntota ore thin only Western states which now pay more than U per wolf scalp and In loa tho rata for young wohca la U Meanwhile In some parts ot the country wolves and cajoles nre very trucUo In New Mexico they kill from 150000 to 1300000 worth nf iheep annually and In Nebraska tin damage done to sheep la 1 reckoned at 4100000 a year Ono dimculty In the wolf problem Ilex In the fact that It U Impossible to secure Ibo cooperation of all the stales This lack of agreement on the subject of bounties In general opens a wide door lo fraud Hcilpn taken In localities nhcrn rewards arc Ion nro shipped In plncwi where premiums pre-miums are high and thus It often happens hap-pens that a county Is 1 compelled to pay for animals that did not belong to It At the present tlma Ibo bounty on nolle and coyote arles from 1150 to 15 thin latter price being paid In thn Illack Mill regions I of South Dakota t al IWII W In North Dikotu It Is 1 2 It Is 1 1 In Montana anti Womlng and In Iowa It Is 1 IS except for young nnlmal Thus rewards may be claimed profitably profit-ably In lows for coyote killed In North Datota Tile wolf bounty In Nevada was 50 tents when California was offering IS for rcalps Consequently thousands of scalps were shipped from Nevada to California and large numbers of thm ern actually Imported from Mexico to that California found herself getting get-ting poorer at A distressing rate and the bounty law was repealed Owing to Ijnoranco of natural history on the i i port of local authorities heads of domestic do-mestic fowls partridges pheasant cuckoos butcher birds eta were ac I ccptol and paid for ns those ot hawks I and owls tinder Ibo scalp act In I Pcnnnhnnln TP aklns of dogs and other domestic animals are frequently I turned In for than of woke and coyotes coy-otes In the caio ot small animals the heads are sometimes accepted In onn county and the tails In another county coun-ty so that the premluma nro collected twice One county In North Dakota waging war on ground squirrels first required the head then tli3 tall and a year or two later all four feet Ono Interesting effect ot the bounty system Is to encourage the breeding ot the animal outlawed It Is I sail that In India many native ara regularly regu-larly engaged In the business ot propagating propa-gating snakes for tho sale of the premiums pre-miums offered by the government for venomous serpents There la no doubt that this same thing has been doDo In this tountry with turbo animals for which bounties were granted lir example ex-ample the cgpi ot hnwks and owls have been taken from tide nests and hatched under hens In Iowa a few years ago It was said to be moro prof liable to rear coyotes for the bounty than to ralso sheep and Kentucky and New Mexico have recognized the possibility possi-bility of breeding wolves by requiring affidavit showing that the animals had not been raised for tha take of rewards |