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F. Cornwall, Cherry Creek : "I shall not know the extent of our loss until 

 we make count in the fall, but we have a large number of ewes with full 

 udders and no lambs. At the Sugar Loaf, our sheep range, it is impos- 

 sible to keep the sheep there this year. Every day they are scattered 

 to the lower ground by coyotes, beyond the power of the herder to pre- 

 vent it, good man as he is. One of my neighbours raised a lot of poultry 

 — including many turkeys — the coyotes have made sad havoc with them 

 in spite of every effort to circumvent them, and the result will be a very 

 heavy financial loss." 



D. W. Strachan, Superintendent Alexandria Ranch (King Edward 

 Sanatorium), Tranquille: "I cannot tell you our exact losses, but they are 

 heavy, in spite of having an extra boy to look after the bunch. The sheep 

 are pure bred Cotswolds and the loss of over 30% of lambs each year 

 is a serious one for the ranch and also for the community in face of the 

 shortage in both mutton and wool. Let me say, speaking as President 

 of the Wool Growers Association, that this subject is ever before us at 

 our meetings, for we are all sufferers, and the inevitable conclusion is 

 that, until some drastic steps are taken to attack the pests in their breed- 

 ing places, and this must be vigorously followed up, there will be no further 

 development of sheep husbandry, and consequently no addition to the 

 mutton supply, or the production of wool." 



Mrs. Hoffman, Shv^wap: "We dare not let our sheep outside the fence, 

 and during the early part of last year my son shot 15 coyotes which came 

 inside the pasture after the lambs." 



W. W. Shaw, Heffley Creek: "Purchased 125 sheep last year. Up to 

 midsummer of this year, had lost by coyotes 30 ewes and 60 lambs." 



Mr. H. F. Mytton, B. C. Fruitlands Co.: "A thorough sportsman who 

 spends all his spare time in hunting coyotes and encouraging others to 

 do so, had only last week a chicken chased to and killed on his door step 

 — this was defiance with a vengeance." 



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The Superintendent of the Provincial Government Experimental Farm, 

 Cariboo Road, says: "Coyotes are very bad and we have lost at least 

 25% of the lambs, and it looks like selling off the bunch or letting the 

 coyotes finish them." 



C. G. Cowan, a neighbouring cattle rancher, with a flock of sheep, says : 

 "The coyotes having punished the Provincial Government flock have 

 turned their attention to ours. Although we did not keep sheep as a 

 commercial proposition they were profitable and afforded us fresh meat 



