Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1892 — The Texan Peecary. [ARTICLE]

The Texan Peecary.

Extermination is the impending fate of the Texan peocaries, according toa recent publication of the National Museum by Mr. Frederick A. Lucas, on animals reoently extinct or threatened with extermination. He finds that in nearly every instance tbe oause is ‘ 'reckless slaughter by man.” As an instance of tbe way in which animals may be destroyed, he refers in the introduction to peocaries. In 1885 these little animals were so abundant in several counties of Texas that their well-worn tails were everywhere to be seen, while their favorite haunts oould be readily picked out by the peculiar musky odor characteristic of the creature. Shortly after that date, bogskin goods being in favor, a price of 50 cents each was offered for peccary hides, with the result that by 1890 the peccaries were practically exterminated.