WHITE-TAILED DEER KILLED IN DIFFERENT STATES 85 
The states of New York, Maine and Vermont long since 
discovered that their wild deer constituted valuable state 
property, and entered seriously upon the task of preserving 
them from the annihilation that everywhere follows swiftly 
upon the heels of non-protection. New York elected to pre- 
serve the great Adirondack wilderness as a free hunting- 
ground for her citizens. Maine, with perfectly proper thrift, 
decided that her game should not ‘only pay the cost of its 
preservation, but should also be made a legitimate source of 
annual income for her citizens. All guides must be licensed 
by the state, no visitor may hunt without a guide, and every 
non-resident hunter must procure a license, at a cost of $15. 
This permits the killing of one bull moose and two deer, but 
no caribou or female moose. 
As a result of the game and fish laws of Maine that state 
becomes every autumn a vast hunting-ground, visited by 
perhaps ten thousand sportsmen who desire to fish or to 
procure deer or moose in their haunts. The army of recre- 
ationists annually expends within that state a total sum which 
is usually estimated at one million dollars or more. And yet 
the supply of deer is maintained so successfully that to-day 
there are in Maine a greater number of deer than anywhere 
else in the United States, unless it be in the Adirondacks. 
In 1910 the United States Biological Survey compiled 
and published all the facts available showing the number of 
white-tailed deer killed in the eastern half of the United 
States during the years 1908-9 and 10. The full statement is 
as follows: 
