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can be supplied; and this will always be true; 
while the price is correspondingly high. The 
skins and horns of deer are also steadily salable 
at remunerative rates. 
Capability of domestication. It has been 
shown by centuries of experience in parks that 
deer of all kinds are susceptible of cultiva- 
tion, thriving and breeding readily in captivity 
under reasonable conditions, yet few attempts 
have been made to rear or domesticate them un- 
der intelligent management. Foremost among 
the exceptions to this negligence must be men- 
tioned the work of the Duke of Bedford in 
his park at Woburn Abbey, England, where a 
large number of species are assembled under 
the most favorable arrangement for their in- 
crease. 
‘‘But raising deer for profit does not neces- 
sarily imply their complete domestication,’’ as 
Mr. Lantz remarks in a Bulletin on this subject 
issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture 
in 1908. ‘‘They may be kept in large preserves 
with surroundings as nearly natural as pos- 
sible and their domestication entirely ignored. 
Thus the breeder may reap nearly all the profit 
