282 ANIMAL COMPETITORS 
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 Rio 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 
