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  COYOTES 
  IN 
  THEIR 
  ECONOMIC 
  RELATIONS. 
  

  

  Number 
  of 
  coyotes 
  on 
  which 
  bounties 
  were 
  paid 
  in 
  Kansas 
  from 
  July 
  1, 
  1903, 
  to 
  

  

  June 
  30, 
  190 
  J^. 
  

  

  County. 
  

  

  Allen 
  

  

  Anderson 
  . 
  . 
  

   Atchison 
  _ 
  . 
  . 
  

  

  Barber 
  

  

  Barton 
  

  

  Bourbon 
  ... 
  

  

  Brown 
  

  

  Butler 
  

  

  Chase 
  

  

  Chautauqua 
  

   Cheyenne 
  . 
  . 
  

  

  Clark 
  

  

  Clay 
  

  

  Cloud 
  

  

  Coffey 
  

  

  Cowley 
  

  

  Crawford 
  . 
  . 
  

  

  Decatur 
  

  

  Dickinson 
  . 
  . 
  

  

  Douglas 
  

  

  Edwards... 
  

  

  Elk 
  

  

  Ellis 
  

  

  Ellsworth 
  . 
  . 
  

  

  Ford 
  

  

  Franklin 
  . 
  . 
  _ 
  

  

  Geary 
  

  

  Gove 
  

  

  Graham 
  

  

  Greeley"... 
  

   Greenwood 
  

   Hamilton 
  .. 
  

  

  Number 
  

   of 
  

  

  coyotes. 
  

  

  73 
  

   129 
  

  

  48 
  

   633 
  

   109 
  

   157 
  

  

  70 
  

   186 
  

   343 
  

   451 
  

   585 
  

   460 
  

   104 
  

  

  42 
  

   159 
  

   325 
  

  

  51 
  

   240 
  

   145 
  

  

  99 
  

   290 
  

   212 
  

   248 
  

   193 
  

   500 
  

   152 
  

   102 
  

   355 
  

   293 
  

   117 
  

   336 
  

   275 
  

  

  County. 
  

  

  Harper 
  

  

  Harvey 
  

  

  Hodgeman 
  . 
  . 
  . 
  

  

  Jackson 
  

  

  Jefferson 
  

  

  Jewell 
  

  

  Johnson 
  

  

  Kingman 
  

  

  Kiowa 
  

  

  Labette 
  

  

  Lane 
  

  

  Leavenworth 
  

  

  Lincoln 
  

  

  Linn 
  

  

  Logan 
  

  

  Lyon 
  

  

  Marion 
  

  

  Marshall 
  

  

  McPherson 
  .. 
  

  

  Meade 
  

  

  Miami 
  

  

  Mitchell 
  

  

  Montgomery 
  . 
  

  

  Morris 
  

  

  Nemaha 
  

  

  Neosho 
  

  

  Ness 
  

  

  Norton 
  

  

  Osage 
  

  

  Osborne 
  

  

  Ottawa 
  

  

  Pawnee 
  

  

  Number 
  

  

  of 
  

   coyotes. 
  

  

  44 
  

  

  99 
  

  

  74 
  

  

  86 
  

  

  94 
  

  

  106 
  

  

  62 
  

  

  257 
  

  

  477 
  

  

  137 
  

  

  164 
  

  

  56 
  

  

  105 
  

  

  175 
  

  

  329 
  

  

  197 
  

  

  166 
  

  

  304 
  

  

  210 
  

  

  224 
  

  

  96 
  

  

  100 
  

  

  148 
  

  

  176 
  

  

  58 
  

  

  98 
  

  

  273 
  

  

  227 
  

  

  173 
  

  

  248 
  

  

  61 
  

  

  230 
  

  

  County. 
  

  

  Phillips 
  

  

  Pottawatomie 
  

  

  Pratt 
  

  

  Rawlins 
  

  

  Reno 
  

  

  Republic 
  

  

  Rice 
  

  

  Riley 
  

  

  Rooks 
  

  

  Rush 
  

  

  Russell 
  

  

  Saline 
  

  

  Scott 
  

  

  Sedgwick 
  

  

  Shawnee 
  

  

  Sheridan 
  

  

  Sherman. 
  

  

  Smith. 
  

  

  Stafford 
  

  

  Stanton 
  

  

  Sumner 
  

  

  Thomas 
  

  

  Trego 
  

  

  Wabaunsee 
  .. 
  

  

  Wallace 
  

  

  Washington 
  . 
  

  

  Wichita 
  

  

  Wilson 
  

  

  Woodson 
  

  

  Total 
  

  

  Number 
  

  

  of 
  

   coyotes. 
  

  

  400 
  

   329 
  

   242 
  

   223 
  

   184 
  

   52 
  

   90 
  

   206 
  

   280 
  

   144 
  

   258 
  

   186 
  

   193 
  

   223 
  

   69 
  

   306 
  

   291 
  

   133 
  

   142 
  

   188 
  

   401 
  

   185 
  

   430 
  

   170 
  

   259 
  

   200 
  

   307 
  

   210 
  

   115 
  

  

  19,514 
  

  

  « 
  Six 
  months. 
  

  

  The 
  experience 
  in 
  Kansas 
  is 
  not 
  exceptional. 
  It 
  may 
  be 
  duplicated 
  

   in 
  a 
  dozen 
  other 
  Western 
  States 
  and 
  in 
  some 
  of 
  the 
  British 
  provinces. 
  

   It 
  is 
  probable 
  that 
  the 
  united 
  efforts 
  of 
  the 
  people 
  are 
  keeping 
  the 
  

   azotes 
  in 
  check, 
  and 
  that, 
  were 
  these 
  efforts 
  relaxed, 
  the 
  animals 
  

   would 
  be 
  far 
  more 
  abundant; 
  but 
  the 
  coyotes 
  are 
  still 
  so 
  menacing 
  

   to 
  certain 
  interests 
  that 
  the 
  subject 
  requires 
  careful 
  investigation 
  to 
  

   determine 
  what 
  more 
  may 
  be 
  done 
  to 
  improve 
  present 
  conditions. 
  

  

  GENERAL 
  HABITS 
  OF 
  COYOTES. 
  

  

  The 
  various 
  forms 
  of 
  the 
  coyote 
  seem 
  each 
  to 
  conform 
  to 
  particular 
  

   faunal 
  areas. 
  They 
  inhabit 
  all 
  the 
  life 
  zones, 
  from 
  the 
  Lower 
  Boreal, 
  

   through 
  the 
  Transition, 
  the 
  Upper 
  and 
  Lower 
  Sonoran, 
  and 
  the 
  semi- 
  

   arid 
  parts 
  of 
  the 
  Tropical. 
  In 
  the 
  northern 
  part 
  of 
  its 
  range 
  

  

  