42 CONSERVATION OF CANADIAN WILD LIFE 
Mr. Carmen Odell of Annapolis Royal, N. S., who under- 
took the work of introduction, has kindly furnished me 
with the following data: The first introduction took place in 
March, 1896, when nine deer which had been captured in 
Charlotte County, N. B., were liberated in Yarmouth and 
Digby Counties, N. S. Five more were liberated about 
1910. So far as is known there has been no immigration of 
deer into Nova Scotia from New Brunswick by way of 
Cumberland County, N. 8. Following their introduction 
a permanent close season was maintained on deer in Nova 
Scotia until 1916. By that time they had so increased in 
numbers, and in some instances were not only becoming 
somewhat tame, but were also destroying crops in certain 
sections that a short open season of ten days was declared, 
and about 150 deer were reported as having been legally 
killed that year. All the game wardens report an increase 
in numbers and none report decrease. 
In New Brunswick and Quebec the deer are generally 
plentiful and increasing in certain sections. While in parts 
of Ontario the deer have decreased in numbers in recent 
years owing to the ravages of wolves,—which have been 
very destructive where they have been reported,—in most 
districts the deer are plentiful, and in many places they 
are reported to be rapidly increasing in numbers. In all 
parts of their range wherever extensive forest fires have oc- 
curred the numbers of deer have been reduced. 
Too much stress cannot be laid on the importance of 
maintaining such protection as is necessary to imsure a 
plentiful supply of this excellent food animal, which is 
specially adapted to life in regions bordering settlement. 
Further, the value of this animal as a means of rendering 
productive vast areas that are unsuited for agriculture, 
such as we find throughout eastern Canada, cannot be too 
often insisted upon. The white-tailed deer affords an im- 
mensely important potential supply of ‘“‘wild meat”’ that is 
