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LIST OF MEN SERIOUSLY WOUNDED. 



Daniel Malone, Baldwinsville, N. Y. 

 Joseph Mitchell, Minerva, N. Y. 

 George Orr, Wells, N. Y. 

 Nelson Charland, Saranac Lake, N. Y. 

 William Reiffenberg, Willsboro, N. Y. 

 Vivian Lacassa, Newcombe, N. Y. 

 Charles Snyder, Port Jervis, N. Y. 



Total, 9 deaths and 7 men wounded by being mis- 

 taken for deer during the hunting season of 1919. 



In 1918 there were issued 230,079 hunting licenses, each 

 one good for all kinds of New York State game up to the 

 total bag limits set for the various species. Those licenses 

 were good for the killing of 460,000 deer out of the total 

 50,000 generously credited to the forests of New York. 



If one-fourth of our licensed hunters were able to kill 

 each one deer in a given year, our State deer would in one 

 year be exterminated. 



How much does all this look like the "conservation" of 

 our dreams? 



the latest available figures. 



To ascertain with desirable closeness the number of deer 

 killed in New York during the past hunting season, and 

 the number of bucks and does, has been a long and diffi- 

 cult task. Even up to April 30, 1920, the actual figures 

 were not ready. < 



However, the mass of facts that already has Deen accumu- 

 lated by Commissioner Pratt is sufficient to furnish a fair 

 estimate of the final results. The following preliminary 

 statement from "The Conservationist Magazine," under the 

 title "A Review of the Deer Season," is quite sufficient for 

 practical purposes today. From this and other articles we 

 feel justified in believing that the number of female deer 

 killed in New York in 1919 was very close to 13,000. 



