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ceases to be profitable to kill them, the destruction of the pesl 

 stops. The creature has not been exterminated and it is but a 

 short time before another bounty measure has to be passed. It is 

 a question, whether competent men cannot be hired, as the Gov- 

 ernment is now doing, and whether these creatures cannot be 

 more effectively reduced in number and at a far more reasonable 

 price to the taxpayers. 



For several years the state has been paying out considerable 

 money to destroy coyotes which are the natural enemies of the 

 rabbit. The coyote and jack rabbit problem in eastern Oregon 

 is a good example of overthrowing the balance of nature. 



THE DEATH OF PROF. L. L. DYCHE. 



Prof. Lewis Lindsay Dyche, State Fish and Game Warden 

 of Kansas, died on January 20, 1915. He was well known 

 ' throughout the country as a naturalist and for his work in wild 

 life protection. He took an active part in the National Associa- 

 tion of Game Wardens and Commissioners and for the past five 

 years has acted as treasurer. 



In 1899 when an effort was made to kill off the sea lions on 

 the coast of California, Professor Dyche, by a study of the food 

 of these animals at Monterey Bay and an examination of the 

 stomachs of about 25 individuals, furnished evidence which 

 demonstrated conclusively that these sea lions instead of feeding 

 entirely on food fish, fed largely on squids and in consequence 

 permission to kill the animals on Government reservations was 

 rescinded and the extermination prevented. 



Professor Dyche has made more than twenty scientific expe- 

 ditions to various parts of the continent, to the Arctic regions, 

 including Greenland, and to points on the Pacific Coast from 

 Alaska to Mexico, in search of material for the University of 

 Kansas Museum. The Kansas State exhibit of big game animals 

 which he prepared for the World's Columbian Exposition in 

 Chicago in 1893 attracted much attention and favorable comment. 

 In connection with his work for the University Museum he 

 was fortunate in securing an important series of mountain sheep 

 in northern Washington representing a form now almost extinct. 



