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ductive of good results and should be watched al- 

 most constantly. As any old hunter knows, such 

 a place can be made by salting an old stump, in a 

 deer-frequented place, with rock salt, repeatedly. 

 They will soon get to know of it and will come 

 there regularly to find it. 



In the early spring deer come into the open 

 to feed more frequently than at any other season, 

 as at this time the sprouts have not yet begun to 

 appear in the woods, while things are fairly green 

 in the open places, and consequently they can 

 find more to their liking in these places than in 

 the deeper woods. They then offer many good 

 opportunities for pictures to any one who is ready 

 for them. This is the time when a tripod camera, 

 used from an ambush, can best be employed. 



But sportsmen undoubtedly know these and 

 many other habits of the Deer family much better 

 than I can teach them, and so it is simply wasting 

 time and space for me to enumerate the different 

 places where one should hunt. 



Mr. Wallihan, as I have before mentioned, 

 hunts his cougar with a pack of hounds, running 

 them until they are treed. This has the disad- 

 vantage of nearly always forcing your cat into a 

 tree, for it is very seldom that they will take a 

 stand on the ground. It is the only way of get- 

 ting close to them, however, unless you do as Mr. 

 Carlin did with his lynxes and first trap them. 



