Notice of Hearing on the Application to Use Sodium Fluoroacetate ...

3 percen: in 1073 and 1975. 21s aaya was ;ol:~c~ed and ccmp;ied E;/
the Texas Crop and Livestock R~por~lng Service and, with the excsptjon
<strong>of</strong> the daca for 1967, is also cant2ined in Gze, et a:. G2e, e: a:.
repo'r;ed lamb losses in T2xas ra predators as a percentage <strong>of</strong> larncs
born totaled 11.3 r !nt in 137? <strong>of</strong> which 5.3 percznt <strong>of</strong> iambs born
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were lost ;o ~ 3 ~ 0 ~ 2ns i . i c3rresponds c:os21y with the 1i.d percan1
<strong>of</strong> lambs born lcs; 1s predators as reported by the T2xas CTOD and
Livestock Reporting Service. Alehougn lambs last to predators as
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a percent oi limbs bdrn as reported by the aals Crop and Liveitsck
Reporting Service totaled 3 Fercenr in 7373, ;lr. iir~auer reviiea tbij
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ri yri. upwari n3 1 1.0 Fercent baszd cn da:. csn:ri~ed : 7 i exas
Sheep i ~ Goat d OearS Losses and Xarkeiing ?ractices (1 372) ~ n l
USOA SRS data on larno crops iar the years 1567 and 1371-78. Hr. litrauer
made a similar. ca!cu?atian and derived larib losses as a prcent <strong>of</strong>
lambs born <strong>of</strong> 12.3 percenx in 1976, 3.2 percent in 1977 and 11.9 Fercen:
in 1978. The losses <strong>of</strong> adult sheep as a percent <strong>of</strong> scock sheep ore
year or eider on ?and is <strong>of</strong> Jan~ary 1 as reported by che Texas Crc?
and Livestock Reporting Service totaled 1.9 percent in 1367, 3.1 percelt
in 1971 , 1 .i percent in 1972 and 2.4 perceni in 1973 and 1 .7 7ercent in