BULLETIN NUMBER TEN 



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The people of South Africa must arouse, and take ef- 

 fective measures to regulate or prohibit the killing of 

 game by natives. The waste of a once great fauna has 

 gone far enough. 



In Africa, as in America, a great many men are not 

 to be trusted with free-hunting privileges! Both in Africa 

 and in America there are too many farmers who do not 

 admire or love beautiful wild animals, — until they are 

 killed, skinned and served on the table, or converted into 

 biltong. There are too many men who are reckless in 

 the killing of game, and who simply WILL NOT conserve 

 until they are forced by statute law to do so. We are 

 told that now the men of this class have become a scourge 

 to the game of Africa, just as they long have been in 

 America. The non-conserving farmers shoot, not wisely 

 but too well* they freely permit their friends to shoot 

 and the game is going down and out. 



The question now is: Will the good game-protecting 

 farmers of the Transvaal give up their free-shooting 

 privileges for the sake of stopping the unjustifiable ex- 

 cess killing that is done by men who are not conservers 

 of their game? It can not be possible that the old farmers 

 of the Transvaal have no sentimental interest in the 

 remnants of the big game species that furnished them so 

 much sport and so much good food in the golden days 

 of their youth, when the veldt was swarming with wild 

 animals. 



Nor does it seem possible that the young farmers who 

 have heard so many thrilling stories of good hunting in 

 the early days can now be utterly indifferent to the fate 

 of the remaining Kudu, Inyala, Eland, Roan and Sable 

 Antelope. Where do the young farmers of the Trans- 

 vaal stand toward the game? What shall it be for them 

 — extermination or preservation? If it is the latter, then 

 some vigorous measures must at once be formulated and 

 made effective. 



