| Show DEATH LURKS IN POISON BAIT ON RANGES ed former richfield san inn and non no assistant inspector for the i L S biological biologic ai survey and having immediate charge of the destruction st of predatory predator animals throughout all the southern purl part of the state stale was bif richfield the past week preparing jor for a war of extermination mi nation on oil predatory animals in the mountains east and west of richfield Form formerly For meily cily the method of emerman aaion vas nas by trapping but in recent years vears it il his has been found that poisoned 1 hat at is a much more effective enec tive method of ridding tile the country of coyotes otes wildcats and other destructive ani animals nials on oil tile the ranges the late fall and winter seasons are best adapted apted for foi the poison bait operation but oven even this summer havoc was i rough t near the water holes in the by this process the method of preparing the bait ia to take like a carcass carcas sheep lamb or other toothsome flesh and open the flesh in numerous places throughout the carcas carcass into these openings ar I 1 placed mall small s capsules of str strychnine ch wrapped in hi a layer of the fat of I 1 tile lie animal when the carcass is attacked the predatory animals are ure i to find one or more caly capsules wih vill its meal the file chief trouble is to keep the bait fresh as wild v ald animals have little use tor for decayed animal matter but mr bir Rasmuss cn and his crews were ible ble 1 this summer to get several hun ired coyotes by this method around tile he watering places in the moun his now that summer is past and cheep adeep have been moved from the high banges the frost and cold of the high peals peaks make the poison bait method a sure predatory pied atory animal eradicator mr air has stal stained led a crew of men on oil the ranges to spread death and destruct t ton on among coyotes es bobcats bob cats cougars ind and any other er vermin that infests the sheep and cattle ranges and predatory si ils bid fair to become tiit bee because ause of the efforts of the government through its biological survey |
