The Snyder signal. (Snyder, Tex.) 1887-????, 1912-07-26
COMING THE COYOTE
West Texas Wolves to be Raised for
Scientific and Commercial
Uses.

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sweet milk make an effective poul-
tice to cure snake bite and that the
ordinary prickly pear has been found
not only good stock food, but Is good
for peope-but scientific and mer-
cenary men have even gone further
than tcat and are about to coin the
detestabe, repulsiye coyote which
has so long been a pronounced nuis-
ance in West Texas into mine of
fabulous wealth and laboratory
for the production OF a cure for a
most dreadful malady
Scientists have found that the sa-
liya and slobbers OF a mad coyote
furnish the serum which is an anti
dote for rabies or maddog bite and
syndicate of eastern capitalists
have purchased two sections of land
near Alpine. Texas on which to es-
tablsh coyote ranch
Three hundred pairs of these ami
mails will be secured by trapping and
from ovorstocked geological gardens
as beginning and Il is expected
that the offspring from this number
viii thereafter furnish any number
of the animals desired. The syndi-
cate has an option to lease several
sections Of land in the vicinity of
their coyote ranch upon which will
be grazed large flocks of goats which
will provide food for the coyotes.
Once each day a number OF these
goats viii be placed at large within
the enclosed sections of land, To be
deyoured at will by the hungry coy
otes.
The recognized scientific fact that
hydrophobia, or more correctly
speaking. rabies, originates and is
spontaneous among the coyotes I'm
their native state first suggested to
the promoters the idea of this ur-
dertablng Since the discovery and
isolation OF the world renowned Pas
teur OF the germ which produces
rabies, and the further discovery OF
serum or culture which when moe
uated into the patient prevents she
appearance of the dlsease by destroy
ing the germ. institutes for the treat
ment OF the disease have been es-
tablished throughout the civilized
world. with the result that the dis
ease has become very rare, both i'm
man and I'm the lower animals. How
ever. II Is necessary at all time to
keep on hand at these institutes
supply of this serum and first step
i'm the preparation of which Is to se-
cure the germ from some animal
suffering from this dreaded disease
Hence It Is that these germs being
hard To procure and since the serum
retains It's vitality for only a short
time, have become very valuable and
TO secure them i'm sufficient number
has resolved itself into one of the
most serious problems confronting
the medical world
II Is for this purpose. primarily
that the coyote ranch Is to be main
tanned After several years of con-
tinuous scientific observation OF coy
otes in captivity II has been proven
that II can be determined several
days before hand when one of these
animals is going TO be stricken with
the disease. the infected animal In
variably leaving it's fellows and ira
versing a small circle for several
days before the disease otherwise
manifests itself or can be transmit
ted to another II will thus be seen
that any number of coyotes can be
segregated from thel arger body
and placed with the infected animal
and thereby keep the disease within
bounds and in this way just so many
rabid animals as may be required
will always be at hand The germ Us
found In the saliva and is scum
which forms ON the teeth of the rab-
I'D animal At the proper time the
stricken animal is killed and this
substance collected and forwarded 10
certain laboratories In France whore
the serum used boy the institutes thru
ont the world is prepared Il is said
that this Injected matter Is paid for
az the rate-of 500 per ounce and
that about three million dollars each
/ year Is expended for this substance
About one tenth OF an ounce can be
secured from one rabid coyote
Il will be readily seen that the in
come TO be derived from this source
alone will be enormous and suffi-
Client within itself To justify even a
much larger expenditure than viii
Dee required to finance the undertake
ing
while neither the skin nor the
hair or fur which covers IL has been
Of great value heretofore. It has re-