510 



1890, records show tlial 119 of tliese animals were 

 killed ill Pike county; about 1892 or '9li over sixty were 

 captured in the Diamond Valley (Huntingdon county). 

 Mr. Khoads says, quoting Mr. Seth Nelson: 



"In the period between 1861 and 1865 the deer became so 

 numerous in that county (Clinton) that they generally damaged 

 the crops, and snaring was employed to diminish their num- 

 bers. In contrast with this there were killed in 1895, in his 

 vicinity, all told, only ten deer, and most of these out of season, 

 by wild hounds or pot hunters. The chief agencies in the 

 extermination of deer are forest fires and wandering dogs, both 

 of which pursue their relentless course during the entire year, 

 the latter being ten times as destructive as the Gray Wolf ever 

 was." 



WITH PROPER STATE AID DEER WILL INCREASE. 



If the lawmakers of Pennsylvania will enact proper 

 measures which will enable county officers under the 

 direction of the State Forestry Commissioner to keep 

 in check the disastrous forest fires, game of all kindh 

 should increase rapidly, now that we have such a good 

 law for the protection of birds and mammals. 



If the Pennsylvania Board of Game Commissioners 

 receives, as it should, from the Commonwealth, money 

 to fairly compensate Game Wardens to enforce the 

 new law of 1897, it will not be long before the Virginia 

 Deer, and other kinds of game will be much more plen- 

 tiful. The days of the professional market hunter 

 were numbered in this State when the Harris Game 

 bill became a law June 4th, 1897. 



THE BLACK BEAR. 



This animal is found in nearly every county where 

 the Virginia Deer O'Ccurs with any degree of regularity. 

 In some sections of Pennsylvania, particularly large 

 ar-t^as of land from which the timber has been cut ami 



