200 CONSERVATION OF CANADIAN WILD LIFE 
livelihood, the result being that some animals and poultry suffer to a 
greater extent than at other times. I do not think that timber wolves 
are as destructive as they were some years ago, owing to being fewer in 
number, neither do I think that there are as many coyotes as formerly. 
The statistics as to losses are not available. 
4. Stockmen’s associations have been offering a bounty independent 
of the bounty offered by the Government; this applies more particularly 
to a bounty on timber wolves. 
The following letters which I have received indicate the 
loss and expense caused by the depredations of coyotes in 
Alberta: 
Mr. W. E. Ross, Clive, Alta., writes: “I lost 8 calves out of 55 and had 
to build a fence around two acres to take in the houses with a chicken- 
proof fence to raise chickens.” 
Mr. Alex. Lewis, Bon Accord, Alta., writes: “I have lived in Edmonton 
for over 20 years. The past three years I was troubled with coyotes. 
I had to keep one of the children with them [the sheep] when they were 
on the range. I did not lose more than one or two by coyotes. The 
last two years (1916-17) the coyotes have again started to devour them. 
Last summer (1917) I lost at least $150.00 worth of lambs by coyotes. 
And every year since I lived on my homestead we have lost poultry, 
sometimes an old turkey and her whole flock of young; we have lost as 
many as 50 hens and chickens in a season. I have just completed my 
sheep pasture by fencing with a 14-line wire. I had to act as shepherd 
last summer and stay with the sheep whenever they were in the pasture. 
I have lived 17 years on my homestead and I am certain that my loss 
in that time would exceed $500.00, besides the expense of fencing and 
watching.” 
Saskatchewan.—On account of the menace to the live- 
stock interests of the province, the provincial government 
has endeavoured by means of the bounty system to encour- 
age the destruction of wolves and coyotes. In response to 
my inquiries Mr. F. H. Auld, deputy minister of agriculture 
for Saskatchewan, has furnished me with the following in- 
formation on the control of coyotes and wolves in Sas- 
katchewan: 
Your letter of the 20th ultimo, having reference to the control of wolves 
and coyotes, is hereby acknowledged. 
