RED DEER. 



adjacent crops, where so many deer are 

 gathered in one place, the stags destroy the 

 young firs in the plantations. Rubbing their 

 heads against the young trees to wear off 

 the velvet, their antlers not only bark the 



trees but splinter the branches. The sap- 

 lings are thus completely broken to pieces, 

 and of course will not grow. The game- 

 keepers have deerhounds to hunt them out 

 of the covers, and yet even with these they 



