WHITE-TAILED DEER KILLED IN DIFFERENT STATES 85 



The states of New York, Maine and Vermont long since 

 discovered that their wild deer constituted valuable state 

 property, and entered seriously upon the task of preserving 

 them from the annihilation that everywhere follows swiftly 

 upon the heels of non-protection. New York elected to pre- 

 serve the great Adirondack wilderness as a free hunting- 

 ground for her citizens. Maine, with perfectly proper thrift, 

 decided that her game should not only pay the cost of its 

 preservation, but should also be made a legitimate source of 

 annual income for her citizens. All guides must be licensed 

 by the state, no visitor may hunt without a guide, and every 

 non-resident hunter must procure a license, at a cost of $15. 

 This permits the killing of one bull moose and two deer, but 

 no caribou or female moose. 



As a result of the game and fish laws of Maine that state 

 becomes every autumn a vast hunting-ground, visited by 

 perhaps ten thousand sportsmen who desire to fish or to 

 procure deer or moose in their haunts. The army of recre- 

 ationists annually expends within that state a total sum which 

 is usually estimated at one million dollars or more. And yet 

 the supply of deer is maintained so successfully that to-day 

 there are in Maine a greater number of deer than anywhere 

 else in the United States, unless it be in the Adirondacks. 



In 1910 the United States Biological Survey compiled 

 and published all the facts available showing the number of 

 white-tailed deer killed in the eastern half of the United 

 States during the years 1908-9 and 10. The full statement is 

 as follows: 



