Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-01-29

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bounty hunters take care to leave
plenty of breeding stock in order
to keep UP the supply of wolves
and other creatures whose hides
yield them the bounty money.
The bureaus trappers have often
caught female coyotes whose legs
showed trap marks. indicating that
they had before been caught and
released by the canny bounty hunt
ers. Other bounty hunters AVE
confessed that they never kill fe-
male coyotes If they a heip IL.
Montana paid out 100000 in
bounties over a period OF eighteen
years, and at the end of that time
there were as many wolves and CO.
votes as ever.
The bounty system, too, was in
effective against those old notorl-
GUS killers among the wolf family
known as loboes. Sometimes a re-
ward as great as $500 has been OF
fered for the hide OF a single wolf.
These lone animals are exceedingly
cunning, and might escape a single
hunter for months. The bounty
hunter, therefore, cannot afford 10
keep on the trail. for there is more
money for in killing the less consplc
uous and less wary members of the
wolf tribe.
The government hunters, how
ever, work on salaries, and if or
dered will keep on the trail Of a
single wolf until they get him.
One of the bureaus men killed a
wolf in South Dakota that had a
record of having destroyed $4,000
worth of livestock on the ranches.
Another government man shot a
grizzly bar in Arizona last spring
that had killed about $4,000 worth
of stock.
Since the government has taken
hold of the predatory animal prob
lem in earnest, the states OF the
ives have practically ceased to pay
bounties at all. and instead are CO.
operating with the government in
its determination plans. Poison is
the most effective weapon against
animals, and so cunning have the
%pursuers become that they can pre-
Ipare bats that will be eagerly swal-
lowed by wolves too crafty to touch
an animals carcass which they
have not themselves killed. Just
now the bureau in its Denver labo-
ratory Is developing a ~tasteless
strychnine to fool animals that
have learned not to swallow nv
thing with a bitter taste.
Wolves From Across the Border
There are about 200 men in the
Federal army now waging it's cease
less war against undesirable wild
animals. One important duty some
of thesee men have is to kill the
wolves which cross the border into
Arizona from the wolf breeding res
ervoil in mountainous Mexico.
Against rodents of all sorts the
campaign is u~nrelenting. The bu-
reau poisoned 100000 jack rab-
bits In one section of eastern Orr
gon. Five million prairie dogs were
cleaned out of TWO counties in Arr
iona. The plan now is to begin ct
the eastern edge of the prairie dogs
range and work westward, getting
every dog on the way. In this
manner the bureau believes the
ly extinct. So great is the damage
to forage wrought by prairie dogs
that ii they were eXterminated al
together the west could feed an
additional 100000 cattle on the
present range.
BY the use of poison the bureau
stopped the spread of an epidemic
of rabies that was attacking wild
and domestic animals in the North
west. Over 1000 persons were Bit
ten by rabid animals in that sec
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teur treatment saved all but fifty
nine of them, and most of the ia
talities resulted from not taking the
treatment In time.
There are now about 500 silver
fox farms in the United States, DR..
Nelson reported. with about 10000
foxes. The bureau by experiment
has discovered how to breed the
marten, which Is the American sa-
BILE. 1t had always been supposed
that martens would not propagate
in captivity.
Starting with an importation ct
Siberian reindeer into Alaska of less
than 1900 animals up to 1902, the
reindeer herds there now number
200, 00G animals, while another
100, 900 have been killed for food
Alaska can accommodate 4,000,'
600. The bureau is crossing them
with caribou to get a heavier an.
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