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THE CONNECTICUT POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY 



Introduced by Air. H. R. Howard. 



Resolution seconded. 



President Rogers : In regard to forestry in this state,, 

 there is a little movement that way, and I believe it is a good 

 thing. We have got lots of woodland now, and if the state of 

 Connecticut is going to protect the deer, why not let the state 

 buy up a lot of this forest land, enclose it, and keep the deer 

 where they will not do any damage? That is right along in 

 that line. If I am right in sympathizing with the resolution 

 I hope it will be carried. 



Mr. Gold: I am sorry to differ with you, Mr. Presi- 

 dent, on that, btit I think that the resolution as offered is 

 altogether too strong, and asks too much. There is a good 

 deal of complaint of damage from deer, but I do not believe 

 we are in a position to call for the passage of any such action 

 as that resolution calls for. I, for one, would be opposed to 

 the passage of it. We have got some deer in the state, and 

 they are doing some damage. I do not want to see that 

 passed, because you are asking too much in that resolution. 

 If it was in milder form, I would favor it, but the state is 

 not going to pass any such bill as that calls for, and I do not 

 think we want to ask anything more than what the state is 

 ready to do. 



Mr. Howard: I am glad to hear this gentleman in de- 

 fense of the deer. It was my pleasure to meet with the Fish 

 and Game Commission yesterday, and in talking over the 

 matter of a large bill for deer damage, this matter was 

 brought up, and it may be that the people, when they become 

 aware of what the expense for damage by wild deer has been 

 in the last year or two, will make some provision for their 

 extermination, or for the confining of them in state tracts. I 

 believe that there would be a lessening of the expense to the 

 taxpayers of the state to confine them in a forest somewhere, 

 and our chairman has spoken along the line of the forestry 

 preserves of the state, where they belong, and the expense of 

 maintaining and of fencing in those deer would be less than 

 what we will have to pay for damages if they continue to 



