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laborious to hunt until they find and kill antlered bucks. 

 Since the grown men and the fathers of the Deer Family 

 are too smart for them, they come to the legislature asking 

 for a law that will enable them to take it out of the women 

 of the deer species, particularly the mothers of the herds! 



It is asserted over and over again, and so far as I know 

 has not been denied, that when a guide's "sport" is so great 

 a bungler and so poor a shot that he can not kill a buck 

 deer for himself, his guide kills one for him. Mr. M. F. 

 Westover, of Schenectady, says in a letter that I have al- 

 ready published with his permission, that "Four out of five 

 of the deer now shot in the Adirondacks are shot by the 

 guides." 



This means, also, that the guides now find it too hard 

 work to kill antlered buck deer for their patrons; and 

 therefore the right to kill female deer would make things 

 much easier for them in providing "trophies" for unskill- 

 ful hunters. I believe this presumption is true, and that 

 it is one of the strong reasons why the men of the Adiron- 

 dacks are now so remarkably willing to yield their present 

 privilege of killing two bucks for the ignominious right to 

 kill one doe ! 



Do the senators and assemblymen of the Empire State, 

 — the State that for years has been held up as the model 

 game protecting state, — now desire to abandon New York's 

 high code of ethics in deer hunting? It is my firm belief 

 that they do not. 



In sporting ethics, the killing of female sheep, goats and 

 deer is far down in the scale. It is on a par with hound- 

 ing, killing in the water, jack-lighting and netting. Eigh- 

 teen self-respecting states have stopped doe shooting by 

 law. 



We have heard in our State Capitol the advocates of doe- 

 killing declare openly about as follows: "The buck law is 

 very unpopular with the people. A great many female deer 

 are being killed and left lying in the woods. If the law 



