The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-03-09

says the only way to get rid of them Is by getting track of their dens and killing the young. Mir. Baily says that between March A and April 21, 1906, he found four dens containing S2 pups in the Green River Valley in Wyom- ing, and there were evidently two or three other dens in the valley. He adds:
 Forty old wolves would seem a fair estimate of the number in this valley Along the east base of the Wind River Mountains, from Miners Delight to Union, at least nineteen wolves were killed during the year of 1905 and five pups were taken from one den near near Lander on May 1, 1906"
 In three other valleys of the State bounties were paid on about 125 wolves last year. Reports from Montana and Colorado indicate that the wolves are as numerous as they are in Wyoming and New Mexico
 The disappearance of buffaloes seems ! to nave caused a large increase in the wolves, according to some authorities. The buffaloes were their former prey, but they have found it easier to kill cattle than buffaloes and hence they have increased all the more rapiditly.
 Although the wolves like game bet ter than any other raw food they find l 1t easier to kill the cattle than game. They spring on their victims from behind and the animals are eaten H. terally alive. Mr Bailey says that sometimes a calf or yearling will es- cape with a great piece torn out of it, while the wolf goes to catch another animal
 The ranchmen say that the injured animals die usually of blood poisoning. They say also tilat more cattle are killed than eaten because the wolves usually prefer fresh meat. MT. Bailey adds
 Tn summer they rarely return for even a second meal from the same animal; but in winter, when the cat tie are gathered into pastures or stables, they often return to a carcass until its bones are picked"
 There are no accurate data as to the amount of game killed by the wolves. In the far North caribou, moose and musk oxen are their vic- tins, while in the United States deer and sometimes antelopes and jack rabbits fall as prey to them. One in- stance is given:
 On Grand Island, in Lake Superior, gray wolf appeared on the game preserve of the Cleveland Cliffs Iron Company in January, 1906, when the snow was two feet deep. Within thirty days the wolf killed thirteen deer and one caribou. The antelopes usually es- capped except the aged the crippled and the young. nile young of the elk, rather than the grownups, are also the victims
 Wolf skins are worth from $4 to $6 and the bountles range as high as $1O o neach wolf pup, $20 on each grown wolf dog and $40 on each she wolf with pup. Mir Bailey says, however, that the bounty system is a failure and adds
 "A floating class of hunters and trappers receive most of the bounty money, and drift to the sections where the bounty is highest. If extermina- ton is left to these men it will be a long process.
 Even some of the small ranch own CTS support themselves in part from the wolf harvest, and 1t is not uncom- mon to hear men boast that they know the location of dens, but are leaving the young to grow up for higher bounty. The frauds which have frequently wasted the funds appro- priated for the destruction of the nox- ious animals almost vitiate the wolf records of some of the States.
 If bounties resulted in the exter- l imitation of the wolves, or in an i'm portant reduction in their number the bounty system should be encour- aged, but if it merely begets fraud and yields perpetual harvest for the support of floating class of citi- zens, other means should be adopted ;
 MT. Bailey is convinced that the on ly way to war successfully on these pests is by poison. He says that many more animals could be killed in this way if the methods in use were less | crude.
 1 He thinks that the only safe poisor to do the work Is strycilinine, and de. clares that four grains of pulverized 1 sulphate of strychnine should be put in a gelatine capsule, from which every trace of the bitter poison should bt wiped. These capsules should be placed in small pieces of beef fat and should never be touched by the naked hands It is best to use for-ceps in handling them. An old wolf will rarely toucr bait poisoned In the ordinary way bu
 with the approved methods a whole family may be killed with one carcass
 It has been learned that the larges
 wolves are in the North. The wolve; are divided into two groups-coyote' an dthe large gray or black wolves as
 timber wolves, The light gray wolves of the middle plains region are smaller