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calves die before they enter the second year, if we take basis of 

 35 calves alive in Feb. to 100 hinds. 



We do not pretend to know accurately the proportion of young 

 to adult hinds, neither do we know exactly the proportion of yeld 

 hinds among the adults, but this table cannot be very far wide of 

 of the truth. 



The conditions of deer in an enclosure, or park, would be 

 altogether different. 



This concludes the chief things I have to say about the Jura 

 deer. Our calculations and estimates, and most of the paper may 

 be called "Guesses at Truth." We have travelled without much 

 track to lead us, except our own observations ; an Island however 

 gives unrivalled opportunities for investigation. I have recorded 

 the results of several persons' observations for the last twelve 

 years ; the observations of one, viz. : Angus McKay, senior, 

 go back for above fifty years. 



We must confess being occasionally reduced to the mental state 

 of the cautious witness, who answered " I don't know," till counsel 

 said " Tell us something you do know." 



" I know as Miller's pigs is always fat," was the reply, but doubt 

 returned like a flash as he added " I dun'no know whose corn 

 they'n eaten." 



Let us hope this paper may arouse observation, and stimulate 

 inquiry in other districts. 



H. E. 

 Jura, N.B., November, 1890. 



