The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1920-03-10

could get for the pelts and were
thereby depicting the natural re.
sources that were there. He said
that the farms, were not fenced and
that If they fenced them with woven
wire netting the coyotes would be
able to dig under and escape and il
they tried to keep two fields, one for
coyotes and one for rabbits the rab-
bits could easily dig under and es-
cape, so they did rot see how they
could collect them and keep them
within the enclosures.
Judge Helps Editor Down.
The editor of this little paper does
not know all about raising wild ami
mails and keeps listening and watch
ing to see where he can get further
information on this question. One
hay we were in Boise and Judge ).
H. Richards invited the editor up to
his office to have a talk. Ye editor
went. 1t is treat to talk with Judge
Richards, and it is greater treat to
sit down and listen while Judge Rich
ards does the talking and that some
times happens if person is good
listener and asks a question now and
then.
The judge talked of reclamation,
of irrigation, of cultivating the wild
life and preserving the natural re-
sources of the Idaho game. Without
our asking any questions along that
particular line he outlined what he
thought could be done to save the
dry farmers from ruin on the great
arid plains where they had attempt
ed to farm and had not succeeded.
He said he had been out among
EN-" in various places and had made
a careful study of the great obsta-
cles confronting them, and in deep
sympathy he had tried to find So
luton. He wanted to make it pos
sible for these families to keep their
land, to preserve their homes and
make good income. He said he be-
lieved it was feasible for farmers on
these dry farms of say, 800 acres,
with woven wire, such as is used for
hog fences. He said that in putting
the wire on the posts it is necessary
to place it differently from the way
it is done to fence against sheep and
hogs or rabbits. Wild animals can
very readily dig under the wire and
they always start to dig right beside
the fence. The way to outwit the
wild animal is to turn the bottom
edge of the woven wire inward
few inches, digging little trench to
place it in and drawing the dirt back
on top of the wire. When the animal
starts to dig he encounters a woven
wire and gives up. He has not the
to find out where the
edge of this obstacle is and go back
and dig under the edge of it. If he
were on the outside of the fence dig
cling in he would probably get thru,
so the fences have to be adjusted &C.
When coyotes have two or three
hundred acres of their native sage
plains to rove over they hardly know
that they are in captivity and they
live practically in their natural
stages.
Automatic Feeder of Coyotes
There is an automatic feed for
sheep, cattle hogs and horses, and
here is way to make an automatic
'eeder for coyotes. Coyotes like jack
'abbits; jack rabbits like alfalfa hay.
t does not take much alfalfa to at
ract jack rabbits. They scent it at |
! great distance and travel to where
t is. They way to have an |
automatic feeder for cooytes is to
lave an automatic feeder for jack
abbits. Place a little alfalfa hay
ust inside the coyote field and fix it
o the jack rabbit can come up to
he woven wire fence closest to the
ay. Have an angle in the fence
there he can come little closer than
he main line Of the fence. The rab-
it will go into the angle so that
vhen he hops into this level trap
DOR it will dip and dump him into
he enclosure near the hay. A coiled
pring at each end of the trap door
1rows it back into position the in
tant the rabbit has been unloaded
nd it will be ready to dump the next
abbit that gets onto it.
Pooling the Rabbits
Once the rabbit is dumped inside
lis 800 acre field he never gets out
gain and the chances are that the
,yotes will get him but they have to
It him in natural way. That af-