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fencing against the jacks were suggested by Mr. Silver; but 

 ranchers have been too busy with their spring planting to pro- 

 niote drives. One drive late in the winter at a point half way 

 between Silver Lake and Fort Rock netted more than 2000 rab- 

 bits. Several homesteaders of the high dessert country, those 

 whose crops were destroyed by jacks last season, will not re-seed 

 their land this year. Others, notably the Allen brothers and 

 Oliver Osmundson, are fencing considerable areas with wire 

 netting made to turn rabbits. Messrs. K. C. and Lloyd S. Allen, 

 who have 240 acres thus fenced, believe the netting the easiest 

 and most economic method of combatting the nuisance. 



Lake county is watching* the bounty experiment in Harney; 

 but it is not probable any scalp bonus will be hung up in this 

 part of the state. 



TTEMS 



Mr. Arthur Perry of Estacada trapped a good specimen of 

 timber wolf during the last week in March, about a mile and a 

 half above the Oak Grove ranger's station. The animal was a 

 female, and upon dissecting her Mr. Perry found four pups, 

 which would likely have been born some time in May. 



Mr. W. 0. Hadley, Deputy Game Warden of The Dalles 

 writes that on April 9, Mr. P. E. Lamar of Bonita Ranch, ten miles 

 southeast of The Dalles, dug out a den of eight young Coyotes. 

 The pups were about eight or ten days old. The mother was in 

 the den with the pups which is rather unusual as the old coyotes 

 are generally away from the den during the day time. 



