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Coyotes in Their Economic Relations

Coyotes in Their Economic Relations

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U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

BIOLOGICAL SURVEY—BULLETIN No. 20

C. HART MERRIAM, Chief

COYOTES IN THEIR ECONOMIC
RELATIONS

BY

DAVID E. LANTZ

Assistant, Biological Survey

WASHINGTON

GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

1905



LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL

U. S. Department of Agriculture,
Biological Survey,
Washington, D. C., March 23, 1905.

Sir: I have the honor to transmit herewith for publication as Bulletin No. 20 of the Biological Survey a report on Coyotes in their Economic Relations, prepared by David E. Lantz, assistant. The subject is of immediate importance to the sheep industry of the West, where the wasteful method of sheep herding prevails. If in the range country sheep can be fenced with coyote-proof fencing at moderate cost, as seems probable, herding may be done away with and the sustaining capacity of the lands thereby greatly increased.

Respectfully,

C. Hart Merriam,
Chief, Biological Survey,

Hon. James Wilson,
    Secretary of Agriculture.



CONTENTS.

Page.
Introduction 7
 
Abundance of coyotes 8
Coyotes in Kansas 9
 
General habits of coyotes 10
 
Food habits of coyotes 11
Beneficial habits 12
Injurious habits 13
Game destroyed by coyotes 14
Depredations on farm animals 14
The coyote's relation to the sheep industry 16
 
Means of destruction 18
Poisoning 18
Trapping 19
Hunting 20
Bounties 22
 

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