BULLETIN NUMBER FIVE 183 



By this I mean that with the aid of the automobile, and 

 the "good roads" that it has brought, the man who hunts 

 upland game birds, shore birds, fresh-water ducks and 

 geese, and deer, can cover in a given time three times as 

 much ground, and kill three times as much game, as he 

 could cover and kill by the aid of even the best horses. 



Let me quote from Mr. M. F. Westover, of Schenectady, 

 a concrete statement regarding conditions in the Adiron- 

 dacks affecting our deer: 



"The number of hunters is increasing, and especially of 

 those who live in cities and towns adjacent to the Adiron- 

 dacks. The reason is obvious. In the old days a man who 

 had a week-end vacation could not make a day's drive in, 

 hunt a day and take a day to drive back. Now, through 

 the automobile, and the good roads which the auto has 

 brought, the same man can be in camp two days ; and those 

 who live anywhere within 50 to 100 miles can get in within 

 a few hours. I was only 4 hours and 15 minutes from 

 Schenectady to North Hudson, a distance of 104 miles. 



"Last fall [1914], during the last week of the season 

 there were, within a radius of five miles from a certain 

 supposedly 'wilderness' camp, more than 250 hunters; and 

 one drive was made with 31 men working together. Three 

 years ago 53 male deer were taken out of that territory; 

 two years ago, 26 ; last year, 23 ; and this year during the 

 first six weeks of the season, 2 !" 



The use of the automobile in hunting, just as far and 

 as fast as it possibly can be used, now is universal. To the 

 sage and other grouse and quail of the West, and to all 

 the game of Texas, it is bringing particular havoc. In In- 

 dia it is used in hunting elephants, and in Australia the 

 auto is of great service in the wholesale slaughter of kan- 

 garoos. 



Already two states, North Dakota and New York, have 

 officially recognized the deadliness of the automobile to 

 game, and have prohibited its use in hunting. 



