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Deer Breeding for Fine Heads 



their deer in England have failed, but so far mine have been 

 very healthy. I have only had to shoot one bull on account of 

 lung-trouble, and two cows (mother and daughter) for deformed 

 feet. 



The roar of the bull wapiti is quite different from that of 



Photo by H. Fenfold. 



EIGHTEEN -MONTHS -OLD WAPITI SHED HORNS. 

 This head of five points is a record for that age. 



a red deer stag, being much higher and going off into a high 

 harmonic note. The wapiti-red-deer cross begins with the red 

 deer roar and ends in the wapiti whistle. 



Wapiti are very dangerous at all times except when their 

 horns are shed and till the' velvet peels off; at other seasons 

 they follow one along the fence, when one is outside, curling 



