Fallow Deer 



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In this way you will finally get a well-matched herd. Similarly 

 for a black herd, kill off every buck who is not a jet black, and then 

 ,in subsequent years begin weeding out all but the blackest does. 



This plan of fallow-deer breeding takes time ten to fifteen years 

 or more owing to the circumstance that as the deer have always 



Photo by the Author. 



FALLOW DEER IN SNOW. 



been allowed to breed at random, they all have mixed blood, and 

 consequently a bad-coloured one may turn up in the shape of a fawn 

 whose sire and dam are both perfectly coloured. 



Care must be taken not to keep a good buck too long in the 

 herd, as there is a natural inclination, if a buck be just of the type 

 one wants, to keep him as long as possible to perpetuate his type. 



