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A BILL TO AUTHORIZE THE SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE
TO CARRY OUT HIS 10-YEAR COOPERATIVE PROGRAM FOR
THE ERADICATION, SUPPRESSION, OR BRINGING UNDER
CONTROL OF PREDATORY AND OTHER WILD ANIMALS
INJURIOUS TO AGRICULTURE, HORTICULTURE, FORESTRY,
ANIMAL HUSBANDRY, WILD GAME, AND OTHER INTER-
ESTS, AND FOR THE SUPPRESSION OF RABIES AND
TULAREMIA IN PREDATORY OR OTHER WILD

ANIMALS, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES

MAY 8, 1930, AND JANUARY 28 AND 29, 1931

Printed for the use of the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry

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CONTROL OF PREDATORY ANIMALS

THURSDAY, MAY 8, 1930

UNITED STATES SENATE,

COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY,

Washington, D. C.

The committee met, pursuant to call of the chairman, at 10.30 a. m., in room 324, Senate Office Building, Senator John Thomas of Idaho presiding.

Present: Senators Thomas of Idaho, Capper, Frazier, Gould, Hatfield, Walcott, and Kendrick.

Present also: Senator Hayden of Arizona.

Senator THOMAS of Idaho (presiding). If the committee will come to order. Senator McNary, the chairman of the committee, asked me to take charge of the hearing this morning.

We are to consider S. 3483, offered by Senator Norbeck.

Senator HAYDEN. Mr. Chairman, Senator Norbeck is out of the city, and his office asked me to appear before the committee this morning in the Senator's behalf in support of his bill. As you know, Senator Norbeck has been very keenly interested in the enactment of legislation to carry out the 10-year program as outlined in the bill, and as suggested by the Bureau of Biological Survey of the Department of Agriculture. If the measure he has sponsored is enacted into law by Congress it will accomplish that purpose.

I should like to suggest that the bill be made a part of the hearings, and be copied in by the committee reporter at this point.

There is a gentleman here, Mr. W. P. Wing, of California, to speak in behalf of the National Wool Growers' Association, whom I think it would be proper for the committee to hear.

Senator THOMAS of Idaho. The bill will be made a part of the record at this point by the committee reporter.

[S. 3483, Seventy-first Congress, second session]

A BILL To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out his 10-year cooperative program for the eradication, suppression, or bringing under control of predatory and other wild animals injurious to agriculture, horticulture, forestry, animal husbandry, wild game, and other interests, and for the suppression of rabies and tularemia in predatory or other wild animals, and for other purposes

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of Agriculture is hereby authorized and directed to conduct such investigations, experiments, and tests as he may deem necessary in order to determine, demonstrate, and promulgate the best methods of eradication, suppression, or bringing under control on national forests and other areas of the public domain as well as on State or privately owned lands of mountain lions, wolves, coyotes, bobcats, prairie dogs, gophers, ground squirrels, jack rabbits, and other animals injurious to agriculture, horticulture, forestry, animal husbandry, wild game animals, fur-bearing animals, and birds, and for the protection of stock and other domestic animals through the suppression of rabies and tularemia in predatory or other wild

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