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HAMLYN'S MENAGERIE MAGAZINE. 
The principal requirements in our trade are 
the collecting- and transport men. 
Without good men, the business is doomed to 
failure. It is unfortunate, but Britishers have 
never proved good collectors or transport men. 
I have tried several in small expeditions- b«t they 
proved ghastly failures. Their own conveniences, 
likes and dislikes, must be studied first; after 
that, the animals. Such a procedure means fail- 
ure, for all personal comfort must be sacrificed 
whenever occasion demands it. Live animals just 
captured require careful attention — early morning- 
watering and feeding, with a repetition just be- 
fore dusk. I made it a practice to commence 
watering about five a.m., and to complete feeding 
before breakfast whilst travelling. My attend- 
ants wished to breakfast first, thereby dragging 
the feeding into the heat and burden of the day. 
This is typical of the British working man. 
There will be a lot more water flow under 
London Bridge before E. H. Bostock obtains 
supremacy in the Wild Beast Trade. And I rather 
fancy it would be unwise for him to attempt it. 
He may rest assured my plans are already laid 
and working, and I shall not be found wanting. 
EXIT THE ELEPHANT. 
Under the above heading the "Cape Argus" 
refers in an editorial article to the movement to 
destroy the elephants in the Addo Bush. It says : 
According ro recent reports, the herd of ele- 
phants which for centuries has had it home in the 
great Addo Bush is in danger of total extermina- 
tion. Until late years, elephants were tolerated 
b\ neighbouring farmers. There were occasional 
complaints of dams being smashed, fence poles 
torn up, and crops destroyed; but, generally speak- 
ing, nobody wished to be rid of these picturesque 
survivals But times are changed. Irrigation 
works and closer settlement schemes are the order 
of the day. The elephant is, therefore, coming 
to be regarded as a nuisance and danger: Re- 
cently Sir Frederic de Waal, with the approval of 
his Executive, gave leave; to the local bodies to 
arrange for the killing off of forty of the herd. 
The Uitenha,ge Divisional Council took the ques- 
tion into consideration and ultimately referred the 
whole matter to Mr. William Harvey, whose 
family have resided in the locality for a number 
of years and are familiar with the habits of ele- 
phants in the bush. In point of fact, no man in 
the Cape Colony probably has brought down more 
large tuskers than Mr. Jack Harvey, but then no 
one else knows, the beaten tracks better than he 
does. Mr. Harvey, in the course of his report, 
declares that the only way of protecting irrigation 
works, fences, and life in the district is by the 
total extermination of the large herd. To try and 
kill off forty elephants, he declares, would do 
more harm than good, since a certain number of 
the animals would escape wounded and become a 
menace to all surrounding farms. Mr. Harvey 
adds : " It seems to me that after the war is over 
the Government might resort to the use of weapons 
whereby the herd might be destroyed very quickly 
and( in a humane way." It is only necessarv to 
add that the Divisional Council has endorsed the 
recommendation and decided to> urge the Adminis- 
trator to order the total extermination of elephants, 
in the only part of the Cape Colony except 
Knysna where they are still to be found. 
LIVE STOCK TRADE IN ITALY AND 
ELSEWHERE. 
By G. de Southoff, C.M.Z.S. 
Since 1915 the foreign live stock trade, al- 
ready so inconspicuous in Italy, has completely 
stopped. The large Marseilles dealers having 
shut their shop one after another, the Italian 
dealers, all second-hand ones, had seen their stock 
exhaust. 
Cattaneo-Arado of Milan, Correa of Genoa, 
Mrs. Grilli of Florence, Cacchioni of Rome, have 
still some common seed-eaters which, with some 
ordinary parrots — but no mammals — reach fabu- 
lous prices. We must say that the customers are 
pretty scarce as seeds cost very much now and 
nobody wants to increase his" own stock. 
In autumn, 1914, the Italians bought at Mar- 
seilles, at a bargain price, many animals, es- 
pecially birds, which were landed for the Germans 
and sequestered there. Some dealers sell no 
longer live stock as Schiavetti Sons of Genoa. The 
Italian reptiles and batrachians purveyor to the 
North Europe dealers, A. Tartagli of Brozzi, is 
busy with government works. Others have been 
called under the colours. 
In Spain the trade has never been important. 
North France dealers received many sendings till 
1918, but not so' many as British, which had rare 
stock even these last months. However, in the 
Allies countries such a situation has only become 
by degrees. She has; been very hard from the 
outbreak of the war for our enemies. Being in 
Switzerland I remember to have read, in January, 
1915, an advertisement of a well-known Hamburg- 
Grossborstel dealer letting know to his customers 
that he liquidate his stock and that he will not 
receive other stock till some months after the end 
of the war. 
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