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be surprised that the tiger and the jackal are as 

 numerous in the country as they were twenty years ago. 



The tiger will often live for a long time in close 

 proximity to an Ostrich-camp without molesting the 

 birds ; but once let him — or rather I should say she, as 

 it is generally the vixen that is the offending party — 

 kill a bird, and the farmer will liave no peace till the 

 tiser is killed. If the bird or animal which was killed 

 the previous night is found, and strychnine put in with- 

 out moving the carcase in any way, the tiger will often 

 return, and be found poisoned not far off. Pills — that 

 is, lumps of meat with about a grain of strychnine — 

 should also be laid about in all directions ; whilst a bush 

 fence across the kloof, with holes left for the tiger to 

 creep through should be made — in each of which should 

 be placed one of the ordinary double-spring tiger gins 

 that are sold in all colonial towns. Or, a little half-moon 

 bush hockey should be made, and a sheep or goat tied 

 up in it, with either spring guns or gins across the 

 entrance. But the farmer who would save himself from 

 further heavy losses should relax no efforts until he is 

 rid of his enemy. 



Jackals are very destructive to young birds. They 

 cannot kill an old bird, but are very apt to frighten 

 them at night, and the farmer should always poison 

 them off. This is easily done by laying a few hundred 



