week in which the sportsman may kill one Deer only, and in this 

 way their numbers are kept within reasonable limit. The law also 

 gives the owner or occupant of a farm the right to kill at any time 

 Deer that are found injuring or feeding upon cultivated crops or 

 fruit trees. Deer are really creatures suited only to the wild, uncul- 

 tivated portions of our country, and cannot be tolerated in large 

 numbers in farming districts. 



Like other wild creatures, Deer will soon discover the protec- 

 tion offered by a sanctuary, and will persist and become numerous 

 within its borders. The proprietors of a sanctuary must then 

 decide whether these Deer should be tolerated for purely senti- 

 mental reasons, and if so, whether the pleasure derived from the 

 touch of wildness their presence adds to the surroundings, will 

 counter-balance, the damages they may incur upon farm and 

 orchard. 



Deer are often driven by hunger during deep snows, to browse 

 upon the branches of young apple-trees. This destruction of young 

 orchards could be largely overcome by placing alfalfa or red clover 

 hay, of which Deer are very fond, in small stacks in wooded por- 

 tions of the sanctuary, with a lump of rock salt nearby where it 

 would be accessible to them in snowy weather. 



Hares, or as they are commonly called "Rabbits," safeguard 

 the gamebirds within the sanctuary from their enemies, particu- 

 ularly the Fox. Hares are prolific creatures, and when plenty 

 form along with mice, the main food supply of the Fox. Foxes 

 have become so numerous throughout Massachusetts and adjacent 

 states, as to now be a menace to our gamebirds, the supply of 

 Hares and mice not being sufficient to supply the demands of an 

 ever increasing population of Foxes, Reynard pursues the game- 

 birds, for a Fox must live. 



Foxes as well as other predaceous animals cannot in safety be 

 tolerated within a sanctuary, even though an abundance of Hares 

 may somewhat modify the clanger to the useful birds. Their num- 

 bers must be reduced by trapping the adults and destroying their 

 cubs in the spring-time, when the Foxes' earth can then be dis- 

 covered and the litter of young removed. 



After establishing a sanctuary do not be disappointed, if dur- 



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