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no doubt that, given suitable coverts, if your stock 

 of pig is not increasing there is assuredly poaching 

 taking place. 



If you kill small immature pig you will ruin 

 your stock. 



Size and Weight, — Pig vary much in size. Baden- 

 Powell records one of 42 inches in height killed by 

 Mr. J. M'Leod, Chumparan. 



Williamson, in his Oriental Field Sports, 1808, 

 records a pig of 39 inches who took them twelve 

 miles. 



E. B. Baker's Sport in Bengal, 1886, records one 

 of 38 inches. Captain R. D. Burlton, with the 

 Nagpur Tent Club, 1896, killed a boar of 38 inches, 

 358 lbs. Moray Brown, in Stray Sport, 1893, quotes 

 a letter from "an old enthusiastic Bengal Hog 

 Hunter," in which the latter says, " I have turned 

 up old notes and find such records in 1854, 1855, 

 1856. Two boar, each 36 inches, one boar 37 inches, 

 one 39, one 40|, one 42, and one 43J inches." 



The biggest boar I have ever seen is one in 

 Rowland Ward's, a Siberian boar. He is set up 

 half crouching, but even so I measured him over 

 44 inches. He is covered with a sort of fur. I 

 have never killed one over 34j inches myself. 



The biggest boar in India are probably killed in 

 Behar and in the Nagpur country. Pig inhabiting 

 the pig jungles are generally bigger than their 

 brethren of the grassy plains ; this may be due to 

 the fact that they are not molested. But many of 

 the big measurements above come from Bengal, 

 and, I presume, open country. I think the Central 

 India jungle pig are bigger than those of the 

 Terai. 



The limit of size below which you may not kill 



