64 HUNTING AND FISHING IN FLORIDA. 
ber and early October, and the young are born in April and 
early May. 
The Indians burn the prairies early in the year, and deer are 
attracted to the ‘‘ burns” by the young and tender new grass. It is 
by using such methods and being expert hunters that they kill 
great numbers of these animals ; but I am glad to say but very 
little of the meat is wasted; what they do not sell, they smoke and 
keep for their own use. 
Notsr.—Two of the photographs of deer were not taken in Florida. The full-page photogravure represents a 
group of wild deer on the author’s preserves in Massachusetts. 
