| Show ivano acle team W I 1 I 1 hu vj 1 f he i m I 1 IN ava ps CW VA assaf ra r THE total federal funds val able for the cam big against ounces conducted under the direction at the bir survey of the I 1 ul ad states detail ie t 1 agriculture gri of a culture about iad was provided for use in dotro yin g ca 1 tin 1 n lions here bobcats and oil other r stock killing g animals bud and tor far the 1 sion I of wild animals affected with graild rabies 1 in the western states rate an ex I 1 tei tract met from the recently issued i annual an report at 0 th tills f a bureau follows during th the e fiscal year a force of arout rom to skilled hunters was employed under the direction of the to various r ill inspectors the salaries of a part of the hunters are paid from the federal feder I 1 treasury and of the others from cooperative funds supplied by the states let or by emarl contributions bod from local organizations organisations and individuals As heretofore the hunters are not at permit ted to receive bounties and ad the shins kin taken taken by each become the property of th the fede federal ml government the state 1 ale or it the organization or individual 1 providing for the money for or story salary 8 skins taken by federal hunters during I 1 the vear netted the federal government which has bar been turned lot into the united states treasury making the total received by the government from this source tp to date 37 the number of skins or smil scalps taken take by official hunters during the y year it Is as aa follows follow wolves wit coyotes ym e 27 mountain lions it 1 bobcat behest 4 canada lynxes 43 bears beam 81 81 1 la addition ns as it a a I 1 of poisonous all operations so an many bay dead coyotes yale are reported by stock growers to have love been found on the ranges where pol pat a operations were card conducted acted that milua it as safe ale to cut estimate home the number bar destroyed abie in this w way BY as more a t than ban astion equaling line the tha approximate 32 82 V preda led to tory Y animals of which the skins kl 8 and ad scalps were taken P predatory to ly animal aried huntera are am dl C reeled acted to il consider bears under adl nary circumstances as 1 game adam animals Is and have positive ins instructions I 1 ructions to take very every ciment precaution ion not to kill any ex card those known to be destructive to lle live stock occa to t unoffending bears beam are ale taken in trips traps set bet for other animals thus mak bank ing the umber of at bears bear killed during the year considerably larger large th than 0 would 1 it otherwise be the case the vust vast majority of boom bears at are SO far a as injury to Is concerned but occasionally aC casion 1 I ly individuals individual in 1 all 11 PM parts of 0 th the r range amos countr country become became stock killers wine some of the them being ro notoriously ence cunning drig and detractive destructive in their that activities naturally such am an mals roust must be eliminated mi and the more or promptly this is 1 do done the less a poeju P r eja dice there them Is likely to b be created among 9 the stock growers against go ins t all bears from much ell study to dy and tion great improvements in methods of Pa poisoning iteming predatory animals have resulted larger and more thoroughly organized r euzed patient poisoning 9 corm campaigns signs the than ever before attempted were conducted on ducted during the tha year their bce we was euch each that in many been areas stock grow ers a are urging the ext extension extrusion ruslon of this method s being the amet practicable one due fo tor the 0 control of coyotes ex tend tided ed poisoning operations were con a ducted 1 in the great sheep 9 roving growing see sec eions in arizona colorado nevada ne new mexico utah and ad NN V telling this we was followed by a marked decrease in the umber number of coyotes 1 in the bes sections poisoned with till a corresponding decrease 1 in the losses of sheep pigs colts and poultry reports have been received from face stockmen stoc kmen that on many ranges and ad lambing grounds the form former or heavy animal amount losses have become negligible or have been eat entire fire ly elite eliminated noted for far C a number bar of years rabies be has here been prevalent t among predatory a aal mes mala in culla california lit idaho teada nevada ore 1 gon 11 washington ashington and utah A part of the he money available for predatory alm ilm and control has be been appropriated for the he sli specific echle purpose of dest destroying roving the wild animals affected with it thia IS dla dis ease ase in the states although till he disease stilt still maintains a foothold in n bit all of these states efforts in sari blip pressing its carriers carr lera how have been so we BUC that its spread to other states has been base prevented and the number of domestic animals and persons bitten by rabid bid mil billial lial he has steadily de creased could until at pr present a seat the number it if cre ainsil ey lon small I 1 when an outbreak of the disease occurs in any district hurt hunt a ers are immediately concentrated use there them ao that the wild animals carrying the table or are immo summarily mrily destroyed and the spread of the disease ly 1 la promptly stopped T the a serious situation It utia reaul resulting tm from th the be outbreak ot of rubles before it we was controlled strolled trolled Is indicated by the fact that in 1 the fiscal year when hen the principal outbreak in NOT nevada I 1 do oe occurred larold it 11 was estimated that live stock in that stai e valued at about ii was I 1 lost t through cich be being ng bitten by raltie small animals kalme ranch ranches C lost last from to held head of cattle up to the present time approximately 1500 persons are am known know to have be been little bitten by rabid animals cale slid and treated tor far ill the disease and ad at least 47 are loan to have died from it without federal inter intervention mian tor far the suppression of rabies cables the ravages brought beat about by it would have licen been vastly increased special efforts are am being made by in 1 rectors pec tors of the bureau to destroy fall v vidual at predatory antin animals w which b 1 ch have bucce u IC b become notorious tor far th their a stock to e k killing exploits exploit in various states near du do bols 1 wyo WY 0 a mountain he lion was killed in the spring p ring of 1919 1019 which was vias known to have hae destroyed 1000 worth of live stock the preceding october and ad to tio have killed a number of cattle d during n the winter this a was B much hunted and ad battle scarred animal which had bad bec been wounded a number of times by private hunters another mount mountain tell lion taken in n A april I 1 had killed seven colts during the spring in the same surfing state late a pair of wa were war killed the f female cale by a government hunter and the male mail by a private hunter which had destroyed fore fare than 2 worth of stock during the preceding year the owner of a ranch near car mert zon on tex tenc ru reported ported that la in less than three oaths months his losses amounted man led 1 to nearly sol sheep valued at caused ad by six 1 coyotes yet which one of the government hunters capin captured r ed it dur u ing july in western wester colorado iu in no an area me of about 75 miles in 11 diameter which vs was poisoned ta two a successive years year through co operation cooperation between local stock do k g growers I 1 or o r and ad tile the bureau sheep owners owner r reported part C it formerly erly a loss lose of about 25 23 sheep a it day throughout the season but the destruction of predatory animals has been so thoron thorough tv that at present the losses loss are mall nominal ool and sheep are reported to range treaty freely sometimes unattended tor for several days in success succession without Is loss in new mexico the wolves elves which were mere estimated to number between and at the time the cara campaign began there them be have a been reduced to less lesa than 70 0 individuals and this number Is new naw thim being Idem steadily lily decreased by the persistent campaign against them these remaining wolves as are mainly ex ced adults causing annual I 1 losses C of live stock amounting to beat about 2000 2 each in southern souther NOW new mexico the at stock it of wolves Is constantly renewed by stragglers from the mountains of northern chihuahua in addition to the ravages from the predatory animals live stock Is in parts of texas arizona and other states suffer from depredations by dogs does which have gone wild hit and ba have taken up the predatory life of wolves in so some we places the dogs dog join the s wolves old and the halt half breed offspring increase the packs pack numerous species of ground split aels occur in th the we west several of them having wide ranges an and d existing in such lucli abundance that their dep depredations on empe crops and for firnge e are most s simi serious imi S a acco rAng mr to the biological biological survey A As with to the prairie dogs continuous investigations are being made to provide improved methods of poisoning and ad of organization ahm for far their destruction the poisoned grain used tor far operations against gr ground it squirrels stul tards on private 1 lane ads s Is prepared under the supervision of field depre vent athea of the bureau and fi burnished bed to CO operating farmers at cost through local organizations organization in this way 1349 1340 tons of poisoned grain were prepared and distributed during the yen year and nearly early tanners farmers took part in the campaign T through b rough the plan inaugurated bv the bureau of put of raison potion supplies the saving in the squirrel campaign as aa well ell as a 1 in tin the it destruction st rution of other rodents has baa been on eother very y great as ill illustrated grated by idaho where here it amounted at ad to about during the year ground squirrels squirrel were mere poisoned and mostly destroyed on an more than 1 4 acres 1 of P public bill domain it in and ad on more than 13 acres es of private lands this resulted 1 an fn materially chicre increasing ing the percentage of crops cards basted rested ba sted in all the states state where bers woric ok was conducted and 1 in in creasing the forage output on the pub I 1 lic to do domain |
