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Doctor Xki.son. WhyV 



Mr. IhcMANAN. W«« iisc thi' jack nil>l>it in nnlcr tf) curr» it. 



Doctor \ki.son. Wc tis(> pois<»n; that cures it. 



Mr. lii < iiAN.VN. Oh, no; poison docs not cure a man or a person 

 who is hit ten, who contracts rahies. 



Doctor .Xkl.son. 'I'hat i.s cured hy the I'asfeur tn-atnient. 



.Mr. HrciiANA.N. They use the jack rahhil for thai Ireatinent. 



Doctor Xf:i..s()\. In this (tuthreak I have ju.st spoken of. which we 

 have suppressed, there is an ollicial record of 2.154 peoph' that have 

 heen hifteti hy ral)id animals in that territ»)ry. 5?) of whom died. 

 The wav it was ^oiiii; the disease would have sjiread over the entire 

 K(K'ky Niountain re^^ion. a.nd utdess it has heen successfully headed 

 off the munher of peoph* hit ten and the losses would have hern 

 t remendous. 



Mr. lii ( ii.vNA.N. Do you know it is the last thin^ in the world when 

 we lose n case of rahi(>s if the person will <]jo to the institute ri^ht 

 away ? 



Doctor Xki.son. I know it. The trouhle is that people have a 

 little wound, and they <l<) not think anything of it, and they let it 

 go until it is too late. But they have learned their lesson in this 

 territory, and they do not lose any time in gettinj^ to a place where 

 they can he treated. 



WILD .\NIM.\LS COMINfl OVER BORIJEU. 



One thing you alluded to, Mr. Buchanan, is the fact that in south- 

 ern Xew Mexico and Arizona — I am not sure whether the same thing 

 happened in southern Te.xas or not — wolves are constantly coming 

 across from old Mexico. The stockmen along the horder report to 

 our inspector the arrival of wolves. During the past season in 

 Arizona over 80 wolves came across, and were reported on the stock 

 ranges hordering ^^exico. Our men killed all these e.xcej)t one 

 which got away and returnetl to Me.xico. Xot one of them got more 

 than 2.") miles north of the horder. That I consider was a pretty 

 effective reconl. They actually got the skins of these animals. 

 They came in [)acks. one pack consisting of seven, and they cleaned 

 them up very promj)tly. 



You see these animals make kills and leave tracks, and the stock- 

 men find them right away after they come over. There is a very 

 hig reserv(»ir of wolves in the Sierra Madre Mountains of old Mexico, 

 and if they were not stopped they would keep Arizona and all that 

 southwestern country full of wolves. We are l^olding them down 

 hy killing them promptly after they come across the horder, hefore 

 they have time to hecome estahlished and hreed. 



In addition to the saving of live stock, the ])redalory animals are 

 also extremely destructive to game of all kinds and, natmally, the 

 killing of such a large number of them saves a very great amount of 

 game and has a great influence in increasing the supply. 



In Michigan, the conservation commission askeil u.s for assistance 

 in organizing a predatory animal service under the State game 

 commission, to help suppress the w'olves which were destroying 

 deer on such a large scale in the northern part of the State. We 

 have had a man there, and the ollicials appear to be very apprecia- 

 tive of the work he is doing in teaching tne State wardens, wlio are 



