Control of Predatory Animals: Hearings Before the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, United States Senate, Seventy-first Congress, Second and Third Session on S. 3483, 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. May 8, 1930, and January 28-29, 1931 |
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... nature . In fact , everything we do under the name of civilization is a fight against nature . There are many large districts in ths country where coyotes are absolutely unknown . Why do these districts not suffer from a serious rodent ...
... nature . In fact , everything we do under the name of civilization is a fight against nature . There are many large districts in ths country where coyotes are absolutely unknown . Why do these districts not suffer from a serious rodent ...
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... natural instinct to destroy was with him . Mr. WING . Mr. Chairman , I also have a letter from Mr. L. T. Oldroyd , commissioner , department of agriculture , State of Wyoming . He states as follows [ reading ] : Mr. F. R. MARSHALL ...
... natural instinct to destroy was with him . Mr. WING . Mr. Chairman , I also have a letter from Mr. L. T. Oldroyd , commissioner , department of agriculture , State of Wyoming . He states as follows [ reading ] : Mr. F. R. MARSHALL ...
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... nature and that we are elim- inating the value of predatory animals as destroyers of rodents . As a matter of fact , we in California have been expending , through public agencies and through the activities of the landowners who are ...
... nature and that we are elim- inating the value of predatory animals as destroyers of rodents . As a matter of fact , we in California have been expending , through public agencies and through the activities of the landowners who are ...
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... nature has been upset but because agriculture and normal progressive development has created artificial conditions favorable to both rodents and predatory animals . Just as with insect pests of grain and fruit , if the host was not ...
... nature has been upset but because agriculture and normal progressive development has created artificial conditions favorable to both rodents and predatory animals . Just as with insect pests of grain and fruit , if the host was not ...
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... nature . It is a sonorous phrase , this balance of nature , and we too used to think very highly of it until we discovered that it doesn't mean anything . So far as we are able to glean from what history is available to the 14 CONTROL ...
... nature . It is a sonorous phrase , this balance of nature , and we too used to think very highly of it until we discovered that it doesn't mean anything . So far as we are able to glean from what history is available to the 14 CONTROL ...
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Agricultural Committee animals and rodents ANTHONY appropriation areas Arizona Association badgers BAILEY believe Biological Survey bobcats Bureau of Biological California carried cattle CHAIRMAN CHARLES CHARLES L Committee on Agriculture Congress control of predatory cooperation coyotes damage deer Department of Agriculture destroyed destruction of predatory extermination favor Federal Government foxes funds fur bearers fur-bearing animals game animals gray wolf ground squirrels HENDERSON HIRAM JOHNSON hunters increase investigation January January 28 killed land livestock loss mammals methods MILLS Montana mountain lions national forests opposed Oregon poison poison campaign poultry prairie dogs predators predatory animal control predatory mammals protection rabbits ranch ranchers range resolution rodent control rodents and predatory scientific Secretary Senator KENDRICK Senator NORBECK Senator THOMAS Senator WALCOTT sheep sheepmen skunks statement stockmen THOMAS of Idaho tion trappers traps tularemia turkeys United States Senate Washington West western Whereas wild WING wolves Wool Growers
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Page 191 - Executive order, administered by the Bureau of Biological Survey of the United States Department of Agriculture...
Page 2 - Provided, That in carrying out the provisions of this act the Secretary of Agriculture may cooperate with individuals and public and private agencies, organizations, and institutions...
Page 168 - Hon. ALLEN J. ELLENDER, Chairman, Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, United States Senate, Washington, DC DEAR SENATOR ELLENDER...
Page 1 - Agriculture is hereby authorized and directed to conduct such investigations, experiments, and tests as he may deem necessary under sections 2 to 10, inclusive, in order to determine, demonstrate, and promulgate the best methods of reforestation and of growing, managing, and utilizing timber, forage, and other forest products, of maintaining favorable conditions of water flow and the prevention...
Page 1 - ... eradication, suppression, or bringing under control on national forests and other areas of the public domain as well as...
Page 93 - ... as to what should be done and what should not be done. And not only that, but I believe such a procedure to be an important step forward in what I might term "democracy in industrial management.
Page 2 - Any sums so appropriated shall be available for necessary expenses, including the employment of persons and means in the District of Columbia and elsewhere...
Page 1 - 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, Territory, or privately owned lands of mountain lions, wolves, coyotes, bobcats, prairie dogs, gophers, ground squirrels, jack rabbits, and other animals...
Page 30 - To authorize the Secretary of Agriculture to carry out his ten-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...
Page 148 - These locations were made in good faith and held by the locators before any withdrawal of said lands was made or even contemplated by the Government; and Whereas, There is now before Congress a bill known as the...