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can be supplied; and this will always be true; 

 while the price is correspondingly high. The 

 skins and horns of deer are also steadily salable 

 at remunerative rates. 



Capability of domestication. It has been 

 shown by centuries of experience in parks that 

 deer of all kinds are susceptible of cultiva- 

 tion, thriving and breeding readily in captivity 

 under reasonable conditions, yet few attempts 

 have been made to rear or domesticate them un- 

 der intelligent management. Foremost among 

 the exceptions to this negligence must be men- 

 tioned the work of the Duke of Bedford in 

 his park at "Woburn Abbey, England, where a 

 large number of species are assembled under 

 the most favorable arrangement for their in- 

 crease. 



"But raising deer for profit does not neces- 

 sarily imply their complete domestication," as 

 Mr. Lantz remarks in a Bulletin on this subject 

 issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture 

 in 1908. i i They may be kept in large preserves 

 with surroundings as nearly natural as pos- 

 sible and their domestication entirely ignored. 

 Thus the breeder may reap nearly all the profit 



