The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1911-10-24
BOUNTY SYSTEM
CALLED FAILURE
KILLING OF WOLVES SHOULD BE
LEFT TO EXPERIENCED
MEN SAY Ex-
PERTS.

That the money paid by states and
counties as bounties for killing wolves
is largely wasted Is the belief of gov
eminent experts who have been study
ing practicable methods Of eXtermin
ating wolves. coyotes and other var
minis. They contend that the best
way to get rid of wolves is by the use
of poison, placed on meat. Much can
also be accomplished by killing the
young when they are in their nests
"The problem of the determination
of predatory animals" says a guard
of the forest service, lis one that calls
for determined>~a persistent labor
alonS lines that are practical, at the
hands of men who are accustomed to
the country, thoroughly understand the
habits of the wild animals and are IA
miliar with the means of their exter-
mination.
"Where hunters are employed the
use of poison as a means of eXtermina-
ton stands first. It's advantage lies
I'm the ease and rapidity with which Vt
can be handled. Where the labor Of
half dozen men would be required
I'm setting and watching a line OF
traps. one man could easily cover the
same country with poison. The greater
the number of bats the greater the
chances for killing.
For bait fresh rabbit meat Is the
best but if this is not To be had, boil
ed ham. fresh liver, mutton or beef
tallow. bacon or quail are fair stubsti-
tutes. The quail. if broiled, and tie
breast meat used is almost equal to
the rabbit Never poison anything
containing a bone. Never touch the
bait with the hands or any other part
of the body ais
"Strycnnlne is the best poison. Or
dinarily as much as can be held upon
| the point of a large blade of pocke'
knife will prove fatal to any animal
This quantity should be put i'm the
center Of a cigarette paper, the ,side'
Of which must be gathered together
around the poison and the ends secure
w tied, forming a capsule. Dip th'
capsule I'm can of melted mutton OF
beef tallow, using wooden tweezer'
to handle il with, and hold 1t there
until 1t is well coated and then droT
II into n long-necked bottle. Wher
.he bottle is well filed with capsules
you cork it tight so, that the contents
will not be exposed to barn or house
odors.
Each of the poisoned capsules Is
put in a piece of meat, which, i'm turn
is dropped into a fruit jar and shu
up tight. Every precaution must p'
taken not to touch the meat with any
thing that will leave an odor. Always
drop the bait from horse, leaving 1
in some place where wolves cross OF
travel.
Never dismount, hut take particu-
lar note of the position of each bait
Deposit the bats In the afternoon and
gather them up i'm the morning. DC
not leave them out all day"
The government employees claim
that hunters who kill wild animals fol
the bounty do not exterminate, foi
the reason that they 90 not want tc
"kil the goose that lays the COLDER
egg" They destroy male wolves ant
COYOTES. but protect the females.
The professional hunter or trappel
is tricky. Two brothers made sinai
fortune operating i'm different states
one lived i'm Arizona. where wolves
are abundant, and the other in WIS
consn, where sheep are plentiful an'
bounties high The man I'm Arizona
shipped scalps to the one i'm Wisconsin
who. i'm turn. collected bounty 10
each one from the county.
Vernon Bailey of the bureau of bi
clogy. i'm discussing the bounty system
SAYS: cit has everywhere proved al
incentive to fraud. and thousands o
dollars are wasted annually I'm payin
bounties on coyote scalps Of dogs
foxes. coons. badgers and even cat