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CONTROL OF THE COYOTE IN CALIFORNIA 



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when the boiuity is paid. This system would protect all counties 

 against paying two bounties on the same skin, and it would leave the 

 skin intact. 



Fig. 7. — Map showing bounties on eoyot«s offered by counties in California. 

 December 1, 1919. Counties which pay bounties are shaded. Figures indicate 

 amount in dollars of bounty paid per coyote. Note wide range of bounty: $1.00 

 in Mono County to $20.00 in Sonoma County. 



The bounty system is, at best, well-nigh futile; this is well illus- 

 trated by the coyote act of our own state, which went into effect 

 March 31, 1891, and was suspended September 30, 1892, after 

 $187,485- had been expended and little had been accomplished. It 



2 T. S. Palmer, Yearbook U. S. Dept. Agric. for 1896, p. 60. 



