AH—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, May 31,1980
LANCASTER A new
type of coyote is living in
Pennsylvania and neigh
boring states the eastern
coyote more a creature of
deep woods than the open
plains of the west. Coyotes
have been noticed for
several years in the northern
Maryland to start 4-H eye care
COLLEGE PARK, Md. -
An estimated 620 elementary
school-age youngsters will
be learning about eye care
through puppet shows and
other educational techniques
at a recreational day camp
and resident 4-H camping
program this summer in
Montgomery county,
Maryland.
The pilot 4-H project is
being coordinated by the
University of Maryland’s
Cooperative Extension
Service with a 9650 grant
from the National 4-H
Council and the American
Optometric Association.
It is scheduled to be ex
panded throughout the state
in 1981 and 1982, according to
Erdenheim Farm to
livestock judging contest
DOWNINGTOWN -
Erdenheim Farm in
cooperation with the Penn
sylvania Extension Service
is sponsoring a livestock
judging clinic to be held at
Erdenheim Farm on
Wednesday, June 18, 9:30
a.m. -3;30p.m.
All 4-H and FF A members,
parents and friends with an
interest in livestock are
invited to attend. Chester
Hughes, Northeast Field
Manager, of the American
Angus Association, will be
giving the instructions in
judging beef cattle, sheep,
and swine.
Ribbons and trophies will
be awarded to the top
finishers in a mini-judging
contest.
The contest will have three
divisions- Junior 4-H and
FFA, Senior 4-H and FFA,
and Adult. The schedule is as
follows-
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New eastern coyote found in Pennsylvania
tier counties. Now they are
seen in the central and
southern counties of the
Commonwealth.
This eastern coyote is
unlike its western coun
terpart due to interbreeding
with dogs and wolves, ac
cording to Helen J. McGmnn.
Edith C. Williams, a state 4-
H Extension program leader
at the University of
Maryland. Funding after
this year is expected to be
raised from appropriate
sources by the Maryland 4-H
Club Foundation. A goal of
$lOOO has been set for each of
the two upcoming years.
Williams reported that the
Montgomery county 4-H eye
care project this summer
will be concentrated on
underprivileged children
participating in the sum
mertime component of the
Expanded Food and
Nutrition Education
Program, a 10-year-old
activity of the Cooperative
Introductions Bill Weber,
General Farm Manager,
Erdenheim Farm; 10:15-12
Tour of Erdenheim Farm;
12:00-1:00 Lunch - Bring
your own bag lunch. Soft
dnnks will be provided;
1:00-1:15 Introduction to
Livestock Judging; 1:15-2:00
Judging Beef Cattle; 2:00-
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and John L. George,
graduate assistant and
professor of wildlife
management at Penn State.
These wildlife scientists
have compared skulls of the
18 coyote subspecies living
west of the Mississippi with
skulls of coyotes from the
Extension Service,
This fall, the 4-H eye care
project will be broadened
through the Montgomery
county public schools to
elementally schools at all
income levels in grades one,
three and six. Teachers in
these grades will be
provided with educational
packcbLto help carry out the
program.
Williams explained that
selection of the target
audience is intended to
supplement screening for
vision problems conducted
among Montgomery county
public school youngsters in
kindergarten, first, third,
sixth and ninth grades.
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2:45 Judging Sheep; 2:45-
3:30 Judging Swine.
For further information
contact Cheryl Moran,
Chester County Agricultural
Agent 215/696-3500; or Mike
Fournier, Bucks County
Agricultural Agent at
215/343-2800.
Great Lakes area, southern
Ontario, New York, and New
England.
McGinnis and George
have also examined the
skulls of 99 coyote-like wild
canids from Pennsylvania.
Currently, the coyote
project
Conducted jointly by the
Board of Education and the
County Health Department,
this screening has revealed
that approximately 12.5
percent of school children
need the services of an eye
doctor. But there has been no
educational program
coodinated with the vision
screening.
The Maryland Extension
specialist feels that the 4-H
visual education project will
supplement the screening
tests to make a firmer im
pact on youth of the im
portance of proper eye care.
She noted that other youth
serving organizations are
being invited to participate
in the 4-H visual education
project.
An advisory committee
has been appointed to help
give guidance to the coun
tywide program. This group
held its first meeting in early
May at the National 4-H
Center in Chevy Chase, and
a follow-up meeting is
planned for August 6 at the
same location.
Maryland was one of four
states sharing in a total
grant of |5,000 to carry out
projects in 4-H eye education
during 1980. This U.S.
program is now in its fifth
year of operation under a
joint endeavor involving the
National 4-H Council and the
American Optometric
Association.
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population may be in
creasing, based on the
number of immature
animals shot, trapped, or
road-killed since 1974. Of 62
coyote-like canids taken
between April 1974 and
March 1979,30 animals or 48
per cent were young of the
year.
Some Pennsylvania coyote
skulls can’t be distinguished
from skulls of western
animals, Ms. McGinnis said.
Twelve skulls in the study
are possible first generation
coyote by dog hybrids
(coydogs). Most are
somewhere in between, she
noted.
A coyote east or west
looks a little like a German
shepherd dog but has a
somewhat foxlike face. The
bushy, black-tipped tail is
carried low or straight, not
curled over the back.
A typical coyote in Penn
sylvania tends to be darker
and more brightly colored
than many western coun
terparts. Ten skins of
possible coydogs, examined
recently, all had untypical
coloration. Four were black.
Average yearling or adult
male coyotes in Penn
sylvania weight about 37
pounds while females
average 33 pounds. This
equals the individual weight
of coyotes in Ontario, New
England, and New York.
This animal is larger than
the medium-sized coyotes of
the forested sections of
Minnesota and Upper
Michigan where males
average 30 pounds and
females 25. Western coyotes
are much smaller.
The largest coyotes
measured thus far in Penn
sylvania were two males
each weighing 46 pounds.
The smallest was a 22-pound
female.
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Ten of 70 coyotes and three
of eight coydogs from the
Commonwealth had
dewclaws on the hind feet.
Dogs often have them, but
McGinnis found none on
more than 700 skins of
western coyotes m museum
collections.
“The deviations in color,
heavier build, and rear
dewclaws as well as
features of skulls and teeth
suggest that Penn
sylvania’s coyote population
has interbred with dogs,”
she stated.
Stomach contents were
examined from 34 coyotes
and seven coydogs killed in
Pennsylvania. Deer remains
were in 15, all but one from
canids killed in the hunting
seasons or immediately
after. McGinnis said she
believes the deer parts had
been left by hunters.
Field mice were m 10
stomachs, rabbits in six, and
paper, plastic, and other
man-made trash in six.
Remains of domestic
animals in coyote stomachs
were infrequent poultry in
three, a pig in one, a house
cat in another, and hair and
hide of a Holstein cow in
one other. The latter was
believed to be from a
decayed carcass.
“Coyotes do take sheep in
Pennsylvania, but we do not
know of more than six
verified instances since
J 900,” George commented.
“Free-ranging poultry are
more likely targets of
coyotes,” he added.
M McGinnis and George
indicated that perhaps 50
coyotes are killed annually
across Pennsylvania. They
are much more abundant in
New York where an
estimated 3,000 were taken
in the 1975-1976 hunting and
trapping seasons.
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