Trail and Camp-Fire 



Little Missouri, for the last two or three years, 

 as formerly on the Sun River, hunting- with 

 dogs has been found to be a far more success- 

 ful method of getting rid of wolves than trap- 

 ping. Doubtless there are places where this 

 would not be true. I am inclined to think 

 that wherever wolves have been chased in one 

 manner for a long time, a new method will 

 at first prove particularly efficacious. When 

 they have become thoroughly used to poison, 

 traps have a great success. If they are per- 

 sistently trapped, then poisoning does well. 



I am particularly interested in what Mr. 

 GrinneH's informants have described as to the 

 occasional tolerance, even by hungry wolves, 

 of kit foxes ; for frequently a wolf will snap 

 up a fox as quickly as he would a fawn, and 

 once, at least, I have known of a coyote being 

 killed by a wolf for food. 



Theodore Roosevelt. 



NOTE. The apparent discrepancies between the ob- 

 servations recorded in the two articles on wolves just 

 preceding, may, we think, readily be explained on two 

 grounds. One of these is that of difference in locality, 

 but more important is the difference in the date of the 

 two sets of observations. In the West, difference in 

 time means difference in surrounding conditions. 



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