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UNCLE SAMS BIG GAME HUNTERS Big Staff of Government Experts Constantly at Work and the Ecsult Every small boy who owns an air rifle will be ginplnns for the future when he hears that the United States government actually employs keen eyed followers of Daniel Boone and Kit Carson to snoot wolves mountain lions grizzly bears and other marauding but interesting beasts There is a per ¬ manent staff of between 2T 0 and 350 professional hilnjcrs connected with the Biological Survey of th Department of Agriculture and all that these fortunate woodsmen plainsmen and mountaineers have to do is to shoot the animals that prey on sheep and cattle in the western states Think of being paid a silary to hunt big game enviously crios the editor of Outing Thats our idea of a good job Since the fall of 1915 when this corps of hunters was organized it has done considerable execution executionTho Tho bag includes 00473 coyotes 8094 bobcats 1829 wolves 201 mountain lions and 137 bears bearsThe The government receives a neat little income from fromtlie tlie pelts too For one years kill this amounted to about 100000 100000Xt Xt us soc just what damage a predatory animal M Wdoi Take for example the case of one oneWyoming Wyoming stockman Last May two male wolves wolvesvisited visited his ranch and got away with one hundred hundredhead head of sheep and seven colts Then they turned turnedtlVeirattentioit tlVeirattentioit to the ranchers neighbor and hit hithim him to the tune of fifty sheep A Biological Sur yey hunter ran the marauding pair down and killed killedthenV thenV thenVHera Hera are the governments estimates of the annual depredations among cattle and sheep uy a asingle single predatory animal AVolf 1000 stock kill killMrifr Mrifr grizzly hear 500 mountain lion 500 bobcat 50 coyote 50
