Norwich bulletin., 1918-12-26
RESERVE CLAUSE HOLDS ALL PLAYERS

prey on sheep and cattle in the vest ern states.
 Their efforts are encouraging stock men to increase livestock production on the federal forest reserves as well as in the range country, and they are protecting the sources of our supplies of meat, leather and wool in the west ern grazing districts.
 Hunters of the biological survey of the United States department of agri- culture have killed 70,713 predatory animals during the last three years, which has resulted in a direct saving estimated at nearly $5,500,000 year to the stockmen of the Rocky noun tain section.
 l The total killed since the fall of 1915, when the work was started includes 1 GOATS coyotes, S,094 bobcats, 1929 wolves, POI mountain lions and 1S7 | bears.
 Government experts estimate that the annual depredations among cattle
 and sheep effected by single predatory 1 animals are as follows: Wolf $1,000,
 stock killing grizzly bear $500, noun
 tain lion $500, bobcat $50, and coyote
 $50.
 Fox Hunting at Ithaca.
 To decide who owns the fastest dog in Tompkins county, the Ithaca (N. Y.) Fox Hunting club is holding a fox hunt every morning there is a tracking
 snow. The hunts will continue to Feb. l. The Ithaca Fox Hunting club has 25 active members. Every member has two or more dogs.
 The country about Ithaca is rough
 and hilly, too rough to ride a horse, so the hunters go on foot, which of course
 brings Snowshoes into use. The red
 fox is hunted. He rarely ever holes
 or gets caught by the dogs, and will
 run from early morn until dark In connection with these hunts, Lou
 Smith contributes a few remarks about
 dogs. He has imported dogs from Eng
 land, has selected dogs in various sec
 tions of the United States, and has
 studied them carefully. Lou opines
 that the English dogs are not as fast
 as the American dogs and without l voice enough to be heard at great } distance; that the southern dogs lack courage to run all day in freezing , weather, and that the best dogs are the native ones, bred from generations back of the northern fox dog. Louisiana Gets Six Buffalo. Six buffalo-two bulls and four COWS i of the Corbin herd of Newport, N , H., will be, shipped in January to the 1 state forest preserve in Urania, La. f and placed in the same enclosure as : the elk herd that came from tn, ! Yellowstone National park three year: ago.
 The Corbin is the largest privat, , buffalo herd in the United States. 1 1, has become so large that the owners are decreasing the herd by selling I bulls and cows 10 state game com F missions. The Louisiana preserve Ii an ideal pasturing ground. The buffalo will be propagated unde
 the direction of the state departmen
 of conservation. The buffalo so raised
 will be distributed among the park
 of the state.
 l Want Change in Deer Law : South Jersey sportsmen have pre- 5 pared bill which they will presen r at the coming session of the Nev l Jersey legislature, asking for four sue 1 cesSive days in October next as tn D open season for the killing of deer in = stead of four days, in as many weeks
 as at present. Yhe sportsmen are no
 so much concerned about allowing tn Y use of dogs, but feel that with fou
 continuous days there would be a bet x ter chance to get crippled deer.