we? 
mien; but always in the ne‘'ghbourhood of extenfive and 
folitary woods, to which tney may fice in the hour o 
anger,’ 
It is fated by the fame writer that. “ the dee 
ibe! ass rife in t i 
» like 
ed un difturbed, b 
‘than at prefent, while banifhed to the receffes of the highest 
mountains, and compelled to live on fuch coarfe fare as 
they can find on nis eran! 3 brow 
Thefe animals are well fuited as tock for large parks and 
other fimilar grounds ; 
e more elegant in their appearance, if they be well 
feledied, than the fallow deer, or better fuited for occuny- 
ing an extentive lawn, which ftretches round the caftle of a 
great m 
Itis remarked in the Report on Agricuitu re for the County 
ad Hertford, that the earl of Claren 
that there is no more 
, n as the ruttin 
about the tenth of November, his Lordfhip fele&s from the 
herd, the weak ones, fome of which would probably die in 
the winter, and keeps them in a {mali yard that has a thed 
on one fide, and a net over the whole, againfl pigeons, &c.; 
the {pot very warm and well fheltered. Their horns are im- 
do not eat it well, a little falt is added. 
plenty of water, and are kept perfectly clean: 
tention fhould be paid by the keeper, to make himfelf fa- 
Before 
» to take away 
ke, fuppofing fies o be the ef- 
or Ae is certain that t cweifon is exceed- 
ingly good. As tow unch uf fually eighs about 
twenty-four pounds; a brace are @ fold for fifteen guineas : 
the fkin worth 2/. 2s. is the keeper’s perquifite ; fo that 
the value of a brace amounts to 17/175. exclufive of fome 
trifling articles. The a era fends for them. His lord- 
fhip ufually fattens niné brace: his whole winter ftock rifes 
me green meat giv. 
con- 
amounts - peared. _ panes reduced 
to that quantity by the u ch browfe; all afh, elm 
and Scotch fir, being beoeene for chat Geno before fag- 
goting, which not only faves hay, but impreves the flavour 
of the venifon.”’ 
The writer of the work mentioned above ftates in addi- 
tion that he had, ‘* from various information, conceived 
that breeding deer for fale was a very unprofitable pes 
uch as 
places the eftimate of advantage in quite a new light: thus 
sane ed he thinks, the (eculaion fens a profitable one. 
It is not uncommon to hear of great winter loffes of deer 
in pares for want of a fyftem in which fuch can be applied 
to advantage: nothiog of this fort can be well done, that 
sana 
3 not ina regular courfe; but, by this aaa every deer 
ohel. from feverity of feafon, or from accident, would be 
lott, is converted to a great profit ; as in ek cafes the ex- 
pence of fattening is a trifle, the greater burchen of pian 
ing them to an age for fale, not belonging to the account 
of he em ome, it is obferved, ae fiteael well, 
that nae had their legs broken by accident 
certain it 5 0 ne with 
ttable ne one with deer’s dung, and he left athird without 
manure; the two manured were nearly equal, if any differ- 
ence, it was in favour of the deers the other of courfe was 
much inferior. There are loop-holes in the fence through 
which they are fhot. This is confidered as a fimple fyftem 
of management, in this branch of farming, by which much 
profit is capable of being derived from an animal which has 
hitherto been fcarcely rerarded by the farmer. 
EER «field, a park or place where deer are kept. 
Deer- ae bag or bee nets, made of cerds, to catch 
eer, Anni I. 
*s- a in Natural Hifory, a remains, bearing 
a contiderable re eee to the hor f ftags; fome of 
thefe, see imbedded in tufa, aan conerttionset cal 
careous matter, as at Matlock. Bath, and at Alport in Der- 
otic are of immenfe fize, although pretty clofely refem- 
bling recent deer’s horns in other refpe&is. Many extraneous 
foffils have been denominated deer’s-horns, which are in re- 
ality the cafts of branched coraloid fubftances. See Stac’s 
Orns. 
Deer-neck, in Rural Economy, a term in the language of 
the ee which denotes a thin ill-formed neck, as appli- 
cable to horfes, neat-cat! le, fhee 
Ps 
-flea oe are evera cana for the 
punifhment of deer-ftealers; as I. 27. againft 
Il. ca 
Il. cap. 32.—28 ie Il. c. “19. 16 
By itat. 5 Geo. I unding or > killing deer ina 
eae: is punifhable with eilpoeanen. y9 Go. I. c. 
22, to hunt, w eal any deer, in the king’s 
n any other incloied place 
r have been ufually kept ; or by gift or promife 
of see . procure any perfon to join in fuch unlawful a& : 
all thefe are felonies without benefit of clergy. But the 
principal ftatute for the punifhment of deer-ftealers, is the 
16 Geo. ILI. c. 30., which ena&s, that if any perfon hall 
hunt or ‘take j ina Gare; or kill or w 
any inclofed park, a pad 
hey fhall forfeit 20/, for the firft offence, see alfo 30/. for 
or taken e-ke ecper of. 
rafe 
the diferction of the juftices. 
nets or {nares, forfeit for the firft ae 3 
and for every other offence from 20/. t Perfons pull- 
Hl — pales, or — of any forelt, ae park, 
ood, &c. oe to the pena ape to the 
firft ieaee for killing de ogs, engines may 
be feized by park- Ca and So ring fhail be 
anfported 
