60 



Crust-hunting 276 



Clubbing 



Jack-lights 



Snares - 



out of season - 



Blank 229 



5. Is crust-hunting much practiced ; if so, by what classes ? 

 Answer 



Yes 468 



No 



Pothunters ' 78 



Farmers and settlers 



All classes 



Lumbermen 



Indians - 



Blank 121 



*26. Is summer "marsh" or "jack-light" hunting much practiced; if so, 

 by what classes ? 

 Answer 



Yes - 138 



No - 264 



Farmers and settlers - 137 

 Fishing parties 



All classes 17 



Pothunters 41 



Indians - - 57 



Campers 12 



Blank 248 



27. In what districts of Ontario were deer formerly numerous, to your own 

 knowledge ? 



28. Are they numerous there now ? 



29. If not, what has caused the scarcity ? 

 Answer 



Not necessary to answer the last three questions here ; asked with a view of 

 obtaining information as to localities in which deer are still plentiful. The 

 answers show that deer were abundant at one time all over the Province, but 

 have been getting scarcer and scarcer, year by year, owing to the clearing up of 

 the land, the advent of the settler, the railways, the wolves, and the indiscrimi- 

 nate and merciless slaughter of the pothunter and skin assassin. 



