Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 240, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1913 — Big Game and Disease. [ARTICLE]

Big Game and Disease.

It has been suggested that the big game of Africa should be'systematlcally exterminated In order to abolish the "fly fever” by destroying the principal means of -nourishment of the tsetse. In regard to this suggestion, Sir David Bruce says that while it Is true that the tsetse disappears when the big game Is killed off, there are other African diseases-similar to the fiy disease which are .‘not spread by the tsetse. Although “civilization and big game cannot “exist together," he thinks that the proposed wholesale destruction all over Africa would be quite unjustifiable. Ast the new country is divided ,off into (farms, the big game must go, but should be a gradual one, applied only as the exigencies demand. For at least a thousand years to comeithere ought to be room in Africa fori big game reserves.