208 CONSERVATION OF CANADIAN WILD LIFE 
The actual destruction of the animals is accomplished 
through hunters and trappers, at salaries of $75 per month, 
with additional allowances in meritorious cases of $10 per 
month for camp equipment, and $15 per month for each of 
two horses, the hunter to pay his own expenses, including 
subsistence for himself and horses. Almost all hunters 
furnish one or more horses. The pay of hunters is rated on 
their skill and the results secured, only the best receiving 
the full $115 per month. They are not allowed to receive 
bounties, and deductions are made for time lost. A careful 
record is kept of the number and kind of animals taken by 
each hunter as shown by reports, skins, scalps, and skulls 
submitted. 
Trapping with steel traps has been very successful, and 
has the advantage of giving known results and preserving 
for sale the skins of the animals taken. Beginning with the 
methods known to the professional trapper, the policy of 
the Bureau has been to adopt the best devices, develop new 
methods, and discard in favour of new methods such prac- 
tices as do not give satisfactory results. Annually the in- 
spectors are called to some central point for conference with 
the Bureau officials in charge of this work. 
Poisoning individual animals is occasionally done to ad- 
vantage where stock are killed and carcasses fed upon by 
depredating animals. General poisoning campaigns have 
proved very successful, but have the disadvantage that the 
number of animals destroyed cannot be definitely deter- 
mined, and the furs are not recovered. Strychnine capsules 
are being used in these operations, and experiments are 
being made with cyanide and other poisons. Hunting with 
dogs has been carried on in an experimental way, but with- 
out signal success. 
The skins of all fur-bearing animals taken by the hunters 
are cured and saved, being shipped to Washington from 
time to time. They are sold by auction. It is estimated 
