Buying and Exchanging Deer 8 3 



has been illness amongst them, as fallow deer are apt to get 

 epidemics which are very fatal. 



If good-looking deer are offered cheap it is very suspicious, and 

 they should be very thoroughly examined and all details of their 

 history examined before purchase. This applies especially to wapiti, 

 which, in England, are very apt, as already mentioned, to be con- 

 sumptive, and also to sika, which are subject to rickets and 

 crooked legs. 



