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That the white-tail shooting is still very good in 

 Maine is shown by the following statement of the num- 

 ber of deer shipped over the Bangor and Aroostook 

 Railroad in the years named : * 



1894 white-tail deer 1,001 



1895 " " 1,581 



1896 " " 2,245 



1897 " " -. 2,940 



1898 " " -i^-ill 



1899 " " 3.756 



1900 ••• " " 3.379 



1901 " " 3,882 



1902 " " 4,495 



There are other railways which carry game in Maine 

 and the above list includes only the game killed and 

 shipped by sportsmen over the road named. Native 

 hunters also killed many deer in the same region which 

 were not shipped and do not appear in the figures 

 given. If the proportion is the same as that reported 

 in the Adirondacks no fewer than 17,980 deer were 

 killed in Maine in 1902. 



The report of the New York State Forest, Fish, and 

 Game Commission shows the following shipments of 

 deer from the Adirondacks : 



Carcasses Saddles Heads Total 



1900 1020 89 95 1204 



I90I 1062 103 121 1286 



Reports received by the Commission from each 

 locality indicate that for every deer shipped by ex- 

 press four more are killed which are eaten in camp, 

 consumed by the residents, or hauled out on wagons to 



* In the Maine Woods. Bangor and Aroostook Railroad, publishers. 



