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the supervisors have been trying for several 

 years to devise a method to meet the difficulty 

 in the face of the prohibitions enacted by local 

 laws. The solution of the problem remains to 

 be worked out. 



Texan musk-hogs. The small wild pig of 

 western Texas, known in books as collared 

 peccary, and to Texans as javelin or musk- 

 hog, is more interesting than important. Once 

 spread as far north as Arkansas, these pigs 

 now abound only in the sandy, rocky districts 

 along the lower Eio Grande, where they are 

 extremely wary, hiding during the day in 

 swamps, thorny thickets or among rocks, so 

 that it is difficult to get near them without the 

 aid of dogs and horses. Occasionally sports- 

 men attempt to utilize this game for "pig-stick- 

 ing" after East-Indian methods, but the sport 

 usually involves severe injury to the horses 

 before the tough little boar succumbs. They 

 have formidable tusks in both jaws, those of 

 the upper jaw being turned downward instead 

 of upward as in typical swine, and all four as 

 keen as knives. They run, when chased in 

 open ground, with great fleetness, but will 



