LET US GO AFIELD 



game seems to be to give the said stag as small a 

 show as possible. 



If memory serves aptly as to figures, there were 

 shipped one year from Maine, subject to the game 

 laws, not less than five thousand two hundred and 

 eighty-three carcasses of white-tailed deer, not 

 counting those consumed within the state. The 

 deer-license fund of Maine annually makes an enor- 

 mous sum, itself only a tithe of the money spent in 

 the state by deerhunters. Indeed, in Maine, New 

 Brunswick, and Ontario, moose and deer are re- 

 garded as valuable state resources. In all the states 

 of the Union that have deer, stiff license fees are 

 exacted from residents and non-residents; and few 

 states allow the shipment of more than one deer 

 that one to be accompanied by the killer of it. The 

 day of five-cent venison is gone, and in these days 

 a deer is a deer. 



Yet, keen as has been the chase of the stag all 

 these centuries, and increasingly efficient as have 

 become all the agencies employed against him, the 

 white-tailed deer of America at least holds his own 

 astonishingly well. There are more deer in Maine 

 and New Brunswick than there were twenty years 

 ago. The hunting areas of Michigan, Wisconsin, 

 and Minnesota are now more restricted, but the cur- 

 rent season shows the stock of deer about as large 



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