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Conservation Reader 



Finley &• Bohlman 

 A coyote, one of the keenest-witted animals of the Western plains. 



It was proved that two thirds of all their food was made up 

 of harmful insects and that the farmers ought to be glad to 

 have them about. It was further shown that if the insects 

 killed by the meadow larks in one day in the San Joaquin 

 Valley, California, were loaded on the cars and hauled away, 

 it would take a train of twenty cars of ten tons each. The 

 meadow lark, upon this showing, was allowed to go un- 

 molested and at once began a happy carol. 



The grizzly bear had been summoned, but could not be 

 found, for all of his species had been killed except a few in 

 the Yellowstone Park. But the black bear was brought 

 in and accused of eating young calves and colts. The 

 stockmen asked that all the black bears be killed. The 

 Judge decided, however, that as there are so few left, and 

 they are so timid and rarely do any harm, and are, besides. 



