The Coconino sun., 1920-08-06
THE FARMS AND THE RANGES
 Edited by Francis A. Chisholm, County Agricultural Agent
KILLED 300 COYOTES IN
 COCONINO LAST MONTH

Stanley P. Young, predatory animal inspector, gave most of the time in July on the sheep ranges between Will Hams and the Grand Canyon, where a large coyote poison campaign was carried on, this campaign being start ed the day after the wool growers convention in this city. It was most successful. Ten days was utilized in placing out poison stations. Due to the splendid cooperation on the part of the sheepmen, especially on the part of R. F.. Daggs, of Williams, a total of some 300 coyotes were killed.
 In this campaign the government used special form of alkaloid strych- nine, giving as a dose one grain to each bait. The baits used were com posed of back pork fat and after the strychnine was inserted into the bait, each bait was then rolled in dried pull verized burro jerky, the latter being a new discovery of bait for summer poisoning. The cooperating stock men furnished eight burros, which were killed, and each burro so butch cred into ports so as to make 10 per manent stations. Thus so odd per manent batting stations were placed on the sheep ranges, starting at the first on Daggs' II mile ranch and then placed 10 miles east and west on each side. Poison stations were later plac- ed approximately 25 miles north of this point and the same distance east and west. The cooperating sheep men furnished Ford truck and number of men gave their assistance wherever possible.
 After the first 20 stations were placed, in rebaiting them three days later, 46 coyotes were accounted for At one special station placed by MT. Young six coyotes were poisoned in one night, none of them being found more than 60 paces from the spot where the poison was eaten. Besides the ranges of R. F.. Daggs similar poison operations were carried on over the ranges of Messrs. Bly, and Burton and the Howard Sheep company, and around farm holdings in the vicinity of Red Lake.
 Extensive poisoning will be carried on to a greater extent than during the fiscal year just closed. 1t is antici- pated that the ranges in the northern part of Arizona will be divided up into units, each unit to be covered by a government man cooperating with the stockmen in carrying out coyote poison procedure to the best advant- age, It has been realized for some time by the bureau of biological sur vey that tagging alone will never bring the coyote infested ranges un- der control, and therefore, with the latest discovery in the use of strych- nine and the placing of proper poison stations, and the making of attractive baits, a great deal more will be ac- complished in the control of this var mint which is such detriment to the sheepmen. It is already proven to some of the Arizona stockmen that one box of 500 strychnine tablets IS worth to them as much as one trapper can do in a months time.
 Although the federal appropriation for this work in Arizona is smaller than allowed for the past year the of ficials directing this work in Arizona intend to bend every effort to get to every stockmans range where reports of damage from time to time are re- ported. Cooperation on the part of the stockmen will be one of the great. est means toward predatory animal eradication.
 Continued success is being reported from government hunters working in the ranges in the southern part of the state, foremost of which stands the capture of large renegade wolf in the Chiricahua mountains by Trappei A. w. Mills. It cost the government somewhere in the neighborhood of $400 to land this varmint, who had for years been killing stock. This wolf was known to have run the full length of the Chiricahua mountains for the past four years, and though other packs of wolves have drifted through from Mexico, this wolf has never join ed forces with them for any length of time, but invariably worked a lone game, killing a yearling, steer or heifer about every four days and nev- CT returning to the carcass. In the Little Rincon mountains, Lion Hunter J. G. Moore succeeded in killing an old female lion that had ravished the stock therein for many months. This lion at the time MT. Moore killed her was practically toothless, showing that