CHAP. 

 X. 



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MAIZE 



various plans have been suggested by writers to the Agricultural 

 Journals of the several South African Provinces, but none of 

 them appears to have given uniformly satisfactory results. To 

 quote the late Dr. J. W. B. Gunning, Director of the Transvaal 

 Museum : — ' 



"They live in troops of ten, fifty, seventy, or even more, 

 and their system of spying, and putting out sentries on the 

 highest cliffs would compare favourably with that of any 

 European army. 



Fig. 162. — Chacma baboon, Chceropithecus porcarms (Bodd.). (From Trans- 

 vaal Agricultural journal.) 



" I have tried poison in many ways. Mealies soaked in an 

 arsenical solution and afterwards sun-dried so as to have the 

 aspect of the original size of the corn, and thrown broadcast 

 in places daily frequented by a troop of baboons, were left un- 

 touched. Whether the poison was detected and therefore the 

 mealies discarded, or whether the baboons had noticed the 

 human beings near by and therefore did not return to these 

 places for some days, I cannot say ; at any rate the mealies 

 were not picked up and no damage done to the baboons. An 



1 T.A.J. , Vol. II, pp. 52S-31, Plate CXXIII. 



