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Canadian Forestry Journal, May, ip20. 



Wild geese on premises of Mr. Jack Miner, Essex County. Ontario. 



Wild Life Sanctuaries and the Game 



Supply 



By Jac^ Miner, Kingsville, Ont. 



I have camped out in Canada for 

 thirty-four falls in succession, remain- 

 ing in the wilderness places from 

 three to nine weeks each trip, and 

 have hunted at nearly every drop- 

 ping-off hamlet between'" Lake Temis- 

 kaming and Fort William. Here we 

 have fully a quarter of a million 

 square miles of the most substantial 

 Red Deer country in America, lying 

 practically idle because of the devH- 

 ish timber wolves that devour the 

 deer before they acquire an adequate 

 start. Why do I say this is the best 

 deer country in America? Because 

 this same little game animal in the 

 Southern States seldom weighs one 

 hundred and twenty-five pounds. 

 Here in Southern Ontario it was a 

 large one that weighed one hundred 

 tind seventy-five pounds. But in 



Northern Ontario I have often shot 

 Red Deer that weighed two hundred 

 and forty pounds, and as high as two 

 hundred and fifty-three pounds. Bet- 

 ter still, I never observed a deer in 

 Northern Ontario that was not in 

 the pink of condition. Therefore, I 

 know from experience that this vast 

 area of country is ideal for Red Deer. 

 Time and again have I known a 

 family of Red Deer to start up near 

 the railway track between Chapleau 

 and Fort William, and, possibly, 

 there would be six or eight together 

 previously to discovery by the 

 wolves. After that this band of deer 

 would not survive two nights, and 

 these conditions have been going on 

 for the past twenty-five years, and 

 today the purchasing value of the 

 boimty paid on one of these Red 



