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fawns wouia collect in droves and remain * 

 until the U -Then they would a_- 



scatter through the woods. About the tenth of June 

 the does would leave their young at a little d 

 and come to the river for the moss in its bed. anc 

 tender feed which grew on the banks. If we saw a 

 doe near the river without her fawn, we started i 

 her with our best dogs, and she would run at 

 to where she had left her fawn, with which she 

 would take to the water. When the dogs pressed 

 her hard, she would turn and face them, to pr 

 her fawn, until she had reached a place w 

 water was deep enough to protect them from 

 dogs. If we wished to secure the fawn we sho: 

 doe, and then sent the dogs into the water, phmgmg 

 in after them ourselves, to prevent them :. 

 destroying the fawn. This was the most successful 

 manner of taking young elk. On taking them fa I 

 we generally put them in a yard with a cal: 

 which it would become* much attached. 

 as easily trained to work as a colt or a steer. I ; 

 taken full grown buck elk which were very unman- 

 ageable at first, but after shedding their ant. 

 became tractable and were roken to the 



-5, and were ever after very gentle, excep- 

 time in September and October, when their 

 -vere full-grown. A female elk will stand ar 

 herself to be milked, and their milk is near 

 to that of a cow, both in quality and quan: 

 my opinion the elk would prove a valuable add:- 

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