The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1920-04-27
5000 WORK DONE BY
D|OlOC|CAl SURVEY
Stockmen az the West Apparent
ly DO Not Realise the Enorm.
Gus loss Caused by Activity
Of the Little Pests
fayeste

The gFeat rfas wolf has stain bic
thon>anas hus ihs prairie ass has
slain hls ssns ~ lheasaud. Thu.
miThi lhs story af Snul and David hs
raFnphFsssd "a lhe kreat essra ranges
suf the West. whsre ther, l. - home
~hni lea fer The loslns herds ena
where lhe sheep arr not gathered a.
twilight lnia The sh~spfola .
There WAS = time. now hartdiy Fad.
lng iata The silm past. ohen presalars
An.gnsls destroyed live stock ta the
value of sntssi,ssi year hus every
wear down % the present tlmv. rs~lenis
iessro, on these -am~ ranges forsxe
that would b. worth slsA,sslssa q
,"af - pasture Tor cattle AMI sheep
destruction ~ that mu,h paientlai
live stuck value These lignrvs wsrs
brought oui hy the United Slales bio
logical survey Recently. Tho purpose
~ the comparison. primarily. wH~ 60
convince live stock men ~ The range
country of the ns'essits ~ eiessr aud
more active cooperation with the gos.
eminent ~ the destruction Of such ~.
dents ~ ~. prairie slng. the rr,ana
squirrel, the laek rabbit and the pocket
gopher.
N is sstimssed that each wolf cn the
rang. destroys not less than sileo
worth ~ stock rarh year. aud these
2,so wolvrs u ,hsy had not been de.
sfroyed would mean loss of pot less
Than ssssesl a. the st0ckmen anna.
ally ulhsr Ensat STOCK lc~s would
have been caus.~i hs the 2sn mnunlnln
Hons and great numbers ~ niher pred.
aTory animals that have been siiled.
Al this saving Il perfectly apparent
TO The ssockmen aud they have not
stlniei money ~ aiding the work.
States. comnunlties and associations
" individuals have made liberal ap.
preparations 70 supplement ihuse made
bs the federal guNrfnmrnt
Bat the LOSSES fFHn rodents. great
~ ihsy nre. have never hren 80 stiik.
lngly apparent The fosienl ls lndl,ld
nally Insignificant aud comparatively
few ntockmrn realire the value ~ the
forage destroyed by the multiplied
is.lissss - ;sseni The prairie dos alone
occupies more than ipluovsl acres
of the best range land ln the nocky
mountain reglon. and his range II over
Tapped In places by the ground squlr.
rel. gopher nna rnbhit. The pralris
dog destroys frum 10 10 ~ per cent ~
the grass Va any territory Il occupies
Il has been estimated hs experts that
The ranges ~ New Mexico would sup
port A1Do more cattle or i.ftpWo
more sheep than at present " the
pralfl.-,log pest could be- altogether re-
moved
one ~ the simplest methods used by
the biological survey 90 destroy ~
dents i to mix sirychninc paste with
eats OF other grain and sprcad the mix.
inrs ia the nelEhhothood of their hol~s.
or 10 places where they are ln The hab.
Il of feeding og coafse suitable pre-
eautions must bs taken to sso that cat.
tie and other stock DO not gct any ~
the poisoned grain. Using This meih"si.
one man In arizona treated ~ one day
no acres. Eighty quarts ~ poisoned
oats wera used, tho toini cost. lneiud.
tug labor. being STD. A. result ~
This. 1850 dead prairie dogs w.fe col.
lecied fron this area, bot the number
Killed undoubtedly WAS much Iarxer.
since large proportion Of the animals
die la the burrows Robert II. houi
ton, Ia Pennsylvania Grit.