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and tubers of every description, doing serious damage in a single 

 night. Poisoning and entrapping are the usual methods adopted 

 for their destruction, but these appear to be seldom effectual. 

 Spring-guns are apparently more effective, and MR. GREEN, late 

 Government Entomologist, informed me that, one beast which 

 defied all his efforts for months fell a victim to a spring-gun the 

 very first night it was set. 



Wild-pig .-A very destructive animal in some districts, es- 

 pecially in Malay, to young rubber plantations and to food crops, as 



FLYING FOXES, 



as seen suspended from every branch, have completely defoliated the tree. 



Cassava. Barbed-wire fencing around the Held or shooting the 

 animals are about the only remedies. 



Cattle. Trespassing cattle in many places in the low-country, 

 are a most troublesome nuisance. Nothing short of a bajcbed- 

 wire fence or a solid wall forms an effective barrier against them. 

 Impounding when caught trespassing may tend to greater vigilance 

 on the part of their owner. 



