BULLETIN NUMBER TEN 



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valuable herds of game that otherwise would have been 

 exterminated. To this form of valuable service to the 

 world we understand that we owe today the existence 

 of such priceless species as the Mountain Zebra, Bontebok, 

 Blesbok, and others equally important. We pay our com- 

 pliments, and we extend our salutations to all the humane 

 and public-spirited men who have rendered these services 

 to zoology. We wish that all the game-inhabited farms of 

 the earth were theirs! 



But now we come to a new and less pleasing situation. 



The alarming disappearance of African game has re- 

 duced some species to points so low that the farmers' 

 new privilege of free-shooting on unfenced farms has 

 become a serious menace to the remnants of game. This 

 free-killing privilege has all along extended to the farm- 

 ers' friends; and the result easily can be imagined. 



The introduction of game laws has had little effect in 

 altering this state of affairs. Who can enforce the laws on 

 large private farms, if the owner himself will not do so? 



We are informed that the supply of game can no longer 

 withstand this awful drain! 



Are the people of South Africa so hard pressed for food 

 that they need to slaughter their most wonderful and 

 beautiful wild animals to keep the Hunger Wolf from the 

 door? 



The last idea is absurd. It is well known that food is 

 abundant in South Africa. This is true of all properly 

 governed agricultural and grazing areas throughout the 

 world. These facts being true, there is no excuse what- 

 ever for the wicked slaughter of Kudu, Sable Antelope, 

 Roan, Eland, Hartebeest, Waterbuck, Reedbuck, Rhebuck, 

 and Bontebok that now is proceeding. Think of the kill- 

 ing each year of 121/2 per cent of the remaining remnant 

 of 200 Bontebok ! 



New conditions demand new measures. The automobile 

 is now as deadly to the game as the rifles that they carry 



