tivity, and in the wild state are becoming a nuisance to the farmer 

 who is raising garden truck or young fruit trees. 



At the present writing (1915) the game laws of New England 

 protect them, allowing them to be shot only for one month. Under 

 these protecting laws they are becoming very abundant and un- 

 suspicious. It is not uncommon to see an albino (or pure white 

 deer) during the hunting season. They shed or drop their antlers 

 during the early summer, and have a new growth again within 

 three or four months. These new antlers are covered with a velvet 

 growth which remains on while the horns are in a soft or porous 

 condition, later this velvet being rubbed off by the deer on trees and 

 bushes while feeding. They are very quiet during the time when 

 the new antlers are growing and remain in the heavy timber most 

 of the time. The female, or doe, does not have antlers, and the 

 young, or fawn, is lighter in color and spotted. They are all very 

 graceful in their movements, the young especially so after a few 



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