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Deer Breeding for Fine Heads 



one ; and during the first few years I got very few male 

 calves, and when any calf died it was generally a male one, 

 this being just the reverse to what otherwise is the case of 

 the sika deer, in which a large proportion of the calves are 

 males. As I considered this might have been owing to the 



Photo by the Aulhor. 



HERD OF WAPITI, STAG ROARING. 



bull wapiti I had so far used, I shot him and tried another 

 and younger bull of a different family, and now almost all the 

 calves are males. This looks as if an old male breeds female 

 offspring and a young one males. In England it is very 

 difficult to buy \vapiti which have not got a consumptive taint ; 

 and I have heard that most people who have tried to breed 



