The Lancaster ledger. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1852-1905, 1893-04-19

surrounded by good bartef4 4wire fence,
provided q number of tam horses are
turned in with them. 1t is3s great task
10 teach them to drink waiter out OF
trough. They are frighten3d almost out
of their wits at the sight o{ awipdmill
or watertank, and at dist refuse to
drink from any artificial re- teptacle. The
water is allowed to rS,< upon the
ground and the wild kttsss drink il
sely. This taethod is Ybserved for q
week or two, aud then S>G4ghs are sunk
In the ground and the Fater run into
and over them. II reqstpss -four or five
weeks for the animals to Ihake up their
minds .ha. these .roes.ss re not decdly
traps, intended for their histsnt lestruc-
ton. After they drink 3nce from tn
troughs their fear disapH ears and they
never again object to sheih.
To get the animals into a corral, or
small inclosure. is another task requiring
patience aud ingenuity. Within one or
two hundred feet OF the watering place,
their captors build q corral, about four
hundred feet in circumference. II is
made perfectly closc. boarded up and
down, seven feet high. snd with gate
sixteen feet wide. Tw9 wings extend,
in v shape from the gaE,s, 10 a distance
of 800 feet. These wing fences are
made of smooth wifc. with Stats at.
tached every twelve inches. Tne wild
aud tame horses are driven into these
wings together. After the tame horses
have gotten in the wild horses will make
rush, aud will alt want to get iu at tho
same moment. The instant they are In
the men shut the gates IKE rgntning,
and the "oircus begins"
The horses dash around like crazy
creatures aud II takes long time for
them to discover that they are not going
to be killed on the spot. They are kept
in the corral over night aud are let out
quickly In the morning. BY feeding
them in the corral aud avoiding all ex-
citement they are gradually accu,tome
to this close confinement. 1t takes six
months to get thcm used to their quar-.
tiers. aud after that tinfs they will file IN
each night one by one of their own nc.
cord. The wild horses are now ready to
use on the ranch.
All you have to do Is to break then
every time you hitch them u. New
York Advertiser.
CroooaiIss sad Their Ways.
"E. X" gives in the pages of the Lon.
don Field some interesting information
respecting crocodiles. "During au eight
years residence in India" he writes, al
caught many, varying from fifteen 60
twenty-six feet. Let me prsmiss by say
ing that there existed at that time, about
eight to ten miles from Calcutta, q farm,
with large mill, built on the river side
in blight. whore pigs were killed aud
cured in large numbers, the DIAL being
thrown into theriver. In this blight alli.
gators sw,rmed. for q long time tried
shooting, but + never got one, for wheo
shot they sank, and getting into the cur.
rent, were carried down the stream.
have shot small oncs in tanks, aud they
invariably took from two TO three days
to come to the surface. The lar ;e't il
bulk that ever caught measured only
nineteen feet three inches, but at least
four inches to six inches Of his tail ha
been taken off. He measured close on
to twelve feet in girth just behind tho
fore legs or fins. The head when clesne J
weig he'd sixty -four pounds and the largest
tooth a ounces. He hal eigat shot
wounds in tho head, one eye was gono,
aud nearly all of his snou;, aud four bul.
lets were cut out OF his body. His in.
side passengers consisted OF "a dead
Hindu" seven pairs OF bapgles, three
arm ornaments, aud about fifteen ldche,
OF twisted brass wire; he had also three
hair balls, similar to those fouad in cat
! tle-no doubt all formed Of pigs hair
from the ofTal.
7 "The longest one I ever can mt wa,
for the late John Waterhous, o; iaiifax,
who was travelling with taxidermst.
He measured close on twenty-six fee,
twenty-five feet ten inches). He was,
however, lanky and would not have
weighed more or so much ~ the one ol
nineteen feet shree inches. ! have
frequently had in the pen, where they
were put, two togetherl aud pretty
bobbmy they made, gvowiing like dogs,
lashing one another wfsh their tails, AMI
wrestling with their jsss llcsed. My
apparatus for catching consisted Of forty
fathoms Of II incd white m.nills rope,
at the end barrel 70 eerve as buoy. q
pile driven into the ground for q iony