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THE TROPICAL 
AGRICULTURIST. |June 1, 1900. 
he does liis utmost to prevent killing of p;anie 
Vy unliceiiKed persons; (J) and tliat his license may 
he cancelled at any tinie if not availed of or 
abased. 
These free licenses would only he given for 
jmrely forest districts and none would ever he 
issued to Governme:it oHicials or headmen of any 
rank. The licensed hunters would he allowed to 
shoot at any time all the year round and he en- 
tith?d to a moiety of all lines recovered for 
offences a>(;iinsh tlie e;ama law.s reported hy them. 
If in the opinion of the Game Board game is 
scarce in any particular district, no free license 
would he if-suod for that district or only a very 
few head allowed to be killed in it. 
Some of 
THE ADVANTAGES OF THIS SYSTEM 
would be that — (a)ibcan beadoptedat once hy mere 
order of Government without any change of the 
existing law ; [h) it would relieve Government of 
responsihility for the preservation of game and 
throw it on the people themselves ; (c) a body of 
unpaid game-keepers would he formed whose 
interest it would he to prevent illicit destruction 
of game ; (rf) the jungle people would he able to 
get meat for food of which tliey are practically 
deprived hy the present Ordinance ; (e) the useless 
destruction of game through wounded animals 
dying in tljiP jungle would he reduced as licenses 
would only be issued to men known to be good 
shots and to possess good guns; (/) reliable inform- 
ation would be obtained as to quantity of game kil- 
led annually ; (.17) the killing in each district could 
he regulated to some extent, according to the 
head of game it carried ; and (Ji) the nuisance 
of a close season would be abolished. 
It is not claimed, of course, that this system will 
put an entire stop to illicit destruction of game, 
but it is helieved that it would work a great 
deal better than the present one under which 
it is not anybody's interest to prevent unlicensed 
persons from shooting. The principal danger 
under the new system proposed will he that the 
iicensed hunters will be tempted by greed to 
allow other men to shoot for them, also to 
exceed the limit allowed ; but there would always 
be plenty of persons, jealous of their privileges, 
who would he ready to inform against them. 
The penalties threatened by the ordinance of RlOO 
fine and three months' imprisonment with loss of 
a lucrative occupation, would probably induce to 
act fairly honestly. 
The ouly absolutely certain way of preserving 
game is the establishraeut of 
"SANCTUARIES," 
In a tew years the Forest Department will have 
large "reserved forests," scores of square miles 
in extentj every river, tank, rock-pool and other 
drinking place in which will he known and 
shewn on maps and w 11 be constantly visited 
by the patrolling forest watchers. Any person 
trespassing within the defined limits for any 
purposes whatever, without a pass, will 
be liable to arrest and punishment. When 
these reserved forests " have been proclaimed, 
the game laws may safely be relaxed, as there 
will he no fear of deer being killed out when 
they have such extensive cover to breed in un- 
molested. . , , 
The preservation of game m the Sow country 
is in fact, mainly a question of watei-. If plenty 
of drinking places are provided to which the deer 
can resort without fear of being fired at by native 
hunters, they will increase rapidly. 
SL'ORT IN INDIA. 
MR. DEUMMOND DEANE AND COUNT TEUKI'S 
EXPEDITION. 
Mr. H Drummond Deane, formerly of Maskeliya, 
and Count Teliki, who was recently on a visit to 
Ceylon, have been (says the local "Times") having 
some excellent sport in Travancore. 'I'hey were 
undfr canvas from the 7th t^ the 20th instant, 
camping out on the Feriar dam, and spent most 
of the time in the jungle. They left Stagbrook 
estate on the 6th instant and reached Thakady, 
at the head of the Periar dam the following 
day, and steamed down to the dam itself in a 
launch. The dam is full of standing timber, 
and covers sixteen square miles of water. This 
quarter is 
TEEMING WITH BISON, 
and on the first day both sportsmen stalked a herd 
of fourteen, ami the Count wounded a hull which 
escaped in thick eta jungle, it getting dark, The 
following day Mr. iJeane .started alone below the 
dam, down the river bed, and came suddenly on a 
large, solitary bull in long grass about twenty-five 
paces off. He shot and hit the base of the horn 
when the brute charged, but he tvas dropped at 
close quarters. It was a magnificent animal, 
measuring in heieht 76 inches from foot to wither in 
astaigrht line; having a spread of horn of 4l inches; 
between; tip.s 27 inches ; girth of horn at base 22 
inches neck from eighteen inches below ear 95 
inches; and length from nose to rump II feet 
7 inches. Later in the day he went after a heid 
of bison, but could not get in a shot. On the 
9th both rowed up the right arm of the dam under 
the guidance of villager called " Lord George," 
and landing the Count wounded a bull. Mr. Deane, 
running some distance with his estate kangany, 
tried to intercept the brute, but the kangany, 
throwing away the rifle he carried, threw himself 
into the jungle to escape the bull, tearing off the 
lobe of his ear in so doing. The wounded animal 
turned back, and the Count finished him at 100 
yards. 
PLANTING NOTES. 
Cheap Mangoes Promised to England.— A 
few mangoes from the East Indies have been lately 
bought up readily on the London markets. There 
will be a good supply of these delicious fruits this 
year, as they are to be shipped in larger quantities 
than in any previous year. The manjio is a high- 
priced fruit, but it is expected that big supplies 
from the East Indies will materially cheapen them 
in the future.— Z>a% Mail, April 24, 
Tea and Green Fly.—" How is it," writes 
a planter, " that seldom or never heavily-pruned 
tea escapes greenfly?" Our correspondent states 
that he has noticed that almost invariably heavily- 
pruned tea in his district is covered with green 
fly about May. It may last a month or it may 
last longer, but it is generally about the month 
of May (or if the we.ither is dry a little earlier) 
that it makes its appearance. Pure Assam j4t, 
he states, does not seem to attract the green fly, 
as hybrid does. Our friend has noticed cater- 
pillars con ing out, they seem to have just emer- 
ged from the egg, and are all together on a 
branch. As they get older they separate into two 
or three hunches, but keep to the same bush, till 
they have finished with it and then go off to pas- 
tures n&\i,— Indian Planters' Gazette, April 21. 
