WILD PIG MENACE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 25 September 1924, Page 9

WILD PIG MENACE.

METHOD OF DESTRUCTION.

Tlic wild pig problem is very acute in the back country, many of the farmers having suffered heavy losses in the lambing ' season through the depredations of these animals. A settler who has had heavy losses in the- past has forwarded to the Te Kuiti Chamber of Commerce a letter embodying what he has found a cheap and efficacious way of eliminating the pigs from his property. It is well known that pigs possess a. particularly keen scent, and a highly developed taste for strong-smell-ing food. Herein lies the remedy. Kill an old horse or bullock and hang the carcase where the pigs are known to gather, but. well out of their reach. Let, the “bait” remain in position, and from time to time.place a “feed” of phosphorised pollard and meat beneath it. Strychnine should not. be used, as it will kill the pigg. before they can get, to their bush lairs, and the farm dogs will be poisoned through eating the carcases. Phosphorus acts more slowly and creates a raging thirst which drives the pigs back into the bush in search of water. The writer adds that since he has used this method of poisoning- he has not lost a lamb through pigs, and has seen no sign of the pests about the farm.