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Show STRONG FIGHT TO BE MADE ON COYOTES The State Board of Sheep Commissioners Will Use Every Effort Possible to Destroy Predatory Animals In Utah. The stiitc bonrd of sheep commissioners lins received from Dr. S. W. McClure, secretary of the Nnllonnl Woolgrowcrs association, an appeal to assist in the two months' campalRn recently announced an-nounced by the national orRanization against coyotes. The board will support the movement. In order to make the campaign more general the national association designated December nnd January Janu-ary as "coyote months." The state board will use every effort' to Induce growers in Utah to spend ns much time as possible and m much money ns ncccssnry during those months to destroy predn-tory predn-tory animals. Through the public press, and probably by letters direct to growers, the board will make strong and frequent appeals for support sup-port of the campaign. It Is expected to be made the greatest such effort In the history of woolgrowlng In the West. Utah wool-growers wool-growers sustain an annual loss of between two hundred thousand nnd two hundred nnd fifty thousand dollars from the coyote alone, according to A. A. Cnllistor, secretary of tho state bonrd, and it is to reduce this loss that the state bonrd will lend Its assistance to the movement to eradicate that anlmnl. ScnbleH and other pests are considered slight when compared with the menace to the herd from coyotes. The co-operative fight against coyotes wns commenced by S. W. McClure, secretary of the National Woolgrowcrs association, and through his efforts the "coyote months" have been designated. Dr. McClure addressed the nntionnl convention in Salt Lake City a year ago on the subject nnd nt thnt time the proposed movement met with general approval. The plan is to get every grower to scatter poisoned food freely during the next two months, over the spring and fall ranges, ns well as on the winter range. It is thojight particularly advisable to place tho jvoison on the fall nnd spring innges, as the sheep have left them, nnd there the coyotes are suffering suf-fering grcntcr hunger nnd will consequently more readily eat the poisoned food. It is the hope of both the national association nnd the slate bonrd of sheep commissioners to prevail Uon the growers to tnkc individual interest in the movement. Some growers have reported that they lost less than 10 per cent ns many hheep this year ns last, nfter having plnced the jKiison on the rnngcH last winter. |