ioo Deer Breeding for Fine Heads 



The stags, and the hinds with calves, would, of course, have to 

 be kept in separate paddocks well away from any chance of being 

 disturbed by these huntings. 



In Spain the young bulls, when they are two years old, are tried 

 with a lance by men on horseback, and if they do not show 

 courage, they are fattened for the butcher ; only the fiercer bulls 

 being kept for future trials, till at last the picked bull can be sold 

 with confidence for a bull-fight. In the same way young deer 

 might be tried as two-year-olds to see if they would run straight 

 and not turn into road-runners ; those which proved unsuitable 

 being sold for venison. 



Old hinds, when getting past hunting, could also be returned 

 to the establishment for breeding purposes. 



The present haphazard way of getting deer for hunting is very 

 unsatisfactory, as so large a percentage is useless, while even the 

 good ones do not become fit till they have been hunted several 

 times, and may easily get killed in the process. It is just like 

 trying to hunt on a green horse instead of a made hunter. 



If those opposed to " tame" stag hunting (they emphasize tame 

 as if it were kinder to hunt a wild frightened thing and kill it 

 than one that gets to know it will not be hurt) would only come 

 out a few times and see how well the deer are treated, it would 

 be -better than writing about matters of which they know nothing. 



The hounds like the gallop, the horses thoroughly enjoy it 

 often too much for the comfort of their riders and, I think, the 

 deer, if asked, would rather have a scamper through the fields 

 occasionally than spend all his life shut up in a small pen in a 

 menagerie. 



