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Oxford Democrat
Paris, South Paris, Oxford County, Maine
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The U.S. government, through the Bureau of Biological Survey, employs 500 men to combat wild animals preying on livestock, killing 32,000 last year and saving $5 million in farm stock value, despite ongoing losses in the far west like 25 sheep daily by coyotes in a Colorado area.
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The danger of wild animals in the United States to-day may not seem to be very great, but the government nevertheless employs a force of 500 men to fight them and spends immense sums every year in the campaign. The fighting forces are organized under the Bureau of Biological Survey of the Agricultural Department. Last year 32,000 wild animals were killed under their direction. The force of skilled hunters are constantly employed in the work. This warfare, it is estimated, saved at least $5,000,000 worth of stock on the farms throughout the country last year. In a single section of Colorado seventy-five miles in diameter, it is reported that twenty-five sheep a day were killed by coyotes. The loss of cattle, colts, pigs and sheep in the far west due to wild animals amounts every year to tens of thousands of dollars.
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United States
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Last Year
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32,000 wild animals killed; saved at least $5,000,000 worth of stock; twenty-five sheep a day killed by coyotes in a seventy-five mile diameter section of colorado; annual losses of cattle, colts, pigs and sheep in the far west amount to tens of thousands of dollars
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The government employs a force of 500 men under the Bureau of Biological Survey of the Agricultural Department to fight wild animals, spending immense sums annually. Skilled hunters constantly work on this, killing 32,000 wild animals last year and saving at least $5,000,000 in farm stock value.