280 MODERN PIG-STICKING 



Depends chiefly on keenness of members and on the 

 Hon. Sec. hunting the country. Mr. J. C. Faunthorpe, 

 I.C.S., and the late Mr. Chapman did much for this 

 country. The large number of factory hands are a nuisance. 

 Pig are badly poached. Still head of pig can be worked up. 

 Sport is capable of great improvement and the bag should 

 be 100 boar yearly. 



Biggest pig record, 34j inches. Records since 1869, 

 formed probably earlier. Nature of country — river country 

 and canals, grass, and jhow. The Ganges was run here till 

 1886. A silver spear for greatest number of first spears 

 used to be competed for annually. 



DELHI TENT CLUB 



Pig-sticking in Delhi has been carried on for nearly a 

 hundred years, but only since 1870 has a log been main- 

 tained. In their early days a Club can be said to have 

 existed in so far that, whenever two or three were gathered 

 together who were keen on the sport, they elected a 

 secretary whose duties were to arrange for the meet and 

 write the log. Meets, however, were spasmodic, and often 

 for prolonged periods only one or two went out. But the 

 posting of a N.C. Regiment (18th Lancers) to Delhi gave a 

 great fillip to the sport. They codified the unwritten rules, 

 and started preserving the country and hunting methodic- 

 ally. The effect of their work was not immediately 

 apparent, for the bag of three seasons that followed their 

 arrival, namely, 1907-8, 1908-9, 1909-10, was 56 on the 

 average. The next seasons saw the fruits of their labours, 

 for the average bag rose from 56 to 257, reaching a 

 maximum in 1911-12, when 385 boar were bagged. For 

 1912-13 the limit was changed from a height (27 inches) to 

 a weight basis. The average weight of the pig killed rose 

 5 lbs. ; the number of pig killed under 130 lbs. fell from 45 

 to 10. Fears regarding the diminution of stock are now 

 being expressed and the limit will be again raised. 



Experiments with wild pig in captivity have proved 

 that pig are often killed before completing their first year 



