Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

 

Ranchmen Suffer Heavily From Depredations of Wolves.

     Vernon Bailey, of the forest reserve bureau at Washington, who has been making an investigation of the ravages of wolves on the ranches of the southwest, reports that in a certain part of New Mexico he learned that a moderate estimate of the stock killed by four wolves of which he got trace was a yearling cow or a calf every three days, or approximately 100 head head of cattle to each wolf. “Counting all as calves,” says Mr. Bailey,” at the low rate of $10 a head each wolf would at this rate cost the ranchmen $1,000 a year. This estimate of $4,000 for the four wolves leaves out of consideration the five to ten hungrey offspring of each pair, which begin to kill stock for themselves in the fall and continue to do so as long as they live.”