Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 December 1884 — Depredating Wolves. [ARTICLE]

Depredating Wolves.

There is a remarkable increase in the number of gray .-wolves in the cattle counties. They have been on the increase for three or four years past. With the disappearance of the buffalo the wolves also disappeared, as they were left without sufficient food Bupply and of course had to follow the wild herd as they retired to more remote pastures. But now the place once occupied by the buffalo is the pasture ground for thousands upon thousands of cattle, and as wolves are not so particular in their diet as to object to beef when they cannot get buffalo meat, they are returning to their old haunts, and the ranges are alive with them. The cattle, and especially the calves, are the food on which the pests thrive, and it is be-, coming quite a serious detriment to the cattle interests. Wolf- poisoning is likely to become a profitable industry, and some of the counties, by way of fostering it, offer to furnish free strychnine to all who wish to engage in it.—Yellowstone Jomal.