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"2. Enact a guide license patterned after the New 

 Brunswick law. That is : let no man guide without a li- 

 cense, — obtained at nominal cost, — and prohibit any guide 

 from carrying a gun, or shooting while holding a license. 

 If the guide wishes to get a deer himself, he surrenders 

 his guide's license and gets a hunting license, just as other 

 men. Four out of five of the deer now shot in the Adiron- 

 dack^ are shot by the guides. Let the guide make a sworn 

 return at the end of the season of the deer killed by the men 

 he guides. 



"If these things were done I think there would be many 

 more deer, better hunting, and the game would be got by the 

 hunters and not by the guides. Unless something of the 

 kind is done, I believe that a closed season for several years 

 will soon be a necessity." 



Yours very truly, 



M. F. Westover. 



The conditions revealed by Mr. Westover's letter are 

 thoroughly alarming. Up to the receipt of this report, we 

 had rested in the prevailing belief that in the Adirondacks 

 the deer were at least holding their own, and breeding as 

 rapidly as they were being killed. 



It is the old story. New conditions always bring to wild 

 life increased persecution and slaughter. The automobiles 

 and their "good roads" are now new elements of destruction. 



Steps have already been taken to place Mr. Westover's 

 letter before the sportsmen of the State of New York with 

 the query : "What do you propose to do about it?" Often we 

 have praised the sportsmanlike qualities of the hunters of 

 this state; and today we rely upon them to do the right 

 thing, just as strongly as ever. Confidently do we count 

 upon them to initiate the right salvage measures, and carry 

 them into effect. 



