MODERN SHEEP: BREEDS AND MANAGEMENT. 



spondingly hard to poison when they are living fat on jack rab- 

 bits. The writer has tried several different schemes for poisoning 

 coyotes, among them the drag method, which is a very poor one 

 if the coyotes are getting much to eat. The best method we have 

 tried i the following: Take a gun, a 22-caliber rifle preferred, 

 as ammunition for it is cheap, and a bottle of strychnine, and go 

 out hunting rabbits ; when a rabbit is shot, walk carefully up to it, 

 insert good, strong baits of strychnine into each of the rabbit's legs, 

 his neck and also his insides, cutting a hole behind the shoulder for 

 the latter purpose, pour the strychnine in and then stir it with a 

 small stick or the knife blade. Don't be afraid to use plenty of 

 strychnine. Some people contend that if too much strychnine is 

 used it will not kill, but we find from experience that the re- 

 verse is true and that too little is oftener used by the "green 



The Enemy. Photo by Doctor Misick. 



hand" than too much. The writer generally uses about one-eighth 

 of an ounce to every three rabbits. Be careful not to touch the 

 rabbit with the hands or feet, and after the poisoning has been 

 completed place the stock of the gun or a stick against the rabbit 

 and give it a sudden toss, tossing it several steps away from where 

 it was baited. By this means the coyote, bobcat or fox finding 

 the rabbit cannot detect human odor and its suspicion is allayed. 

 The coyote (pronounced coy-o-tey) is very hard to trap with com- 

 mon traps. 



The bobcat, or lynx, is also a very dangerous enemy of the 

 flock owner in New Mexico and other parts of the west. His 

 methods are very much like those of the coyote, except that he is 

 more cunning and will slip up and catch a lamb out of a flock 

 with the herder sleeping nearby, without disturbing either herder 

 or flock; but the bobcat seldom kills for the mere pleasure of kill- 

 ing like the coyote, but eats what he kills and seldom kills more 

 than one sheep in a night. It is an easy matter to detect a bob- 



