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Ordway, is proprietor, is within two miles of Mud Lake, where deer are thicker than 

 in anv other spot in the Adirondacks. Thirteen deer have been killed the past week, 

 and all within two miles of the house." 



Mr. A. X. Cheney adds : " I have talked with Mr. Patterson, who is a brother of 

 ex-District-Attorney Patterson, of Warren county, since his letter was printed, and he 

 added, to the figures given, that the deer measured 37 inches around the neck, back of 

 the head, and that the longest spike on one beam was 13 inches. The buck had been 

 seen on several occasions during two or more years before it was killed, and several 

 sportsmen had made special efforts to kill it. It appeared to have no fear of dogs that 

 were put on its track, and on one occasion attacked and drove off two hounds that 

 were on its trail." 



Andrew Rogers, of Malone, N. Y., killed in 1889, a buck that weighed 306 lbs., 

 four hours after it was shot. This buck was killed on Deer River, in the town of 

 Duane, Franklin county. It was of the kind known as a " short-legged " buck. It 

 was weighed at Schroeder's hop kiln on common platform scales. 



Mrs. R. W. Smith, 102 West 1 16th Street, New York, in September, 1889, killed a 

 buck at Meacham Lake, Franklin county, that weighed 310^ lbs. live weight. The 

 guide's name was Joseph Lavature. 



Charles Rexford, of Malone, X. Y., recently killed a buck at Indian Lake, Franklin 

 county, that weighed 244 lbs. dressed. 



Mr. Warren S. Potter, of Glens Falls, N. Y., shot a buck recently near Thirteenth 

 Pond, Warren county, that weighed 318 lbs. dressed. The weight of this remarkably 

 large deer was well attested by several reliable and experienced hunters who saw the 

 deer weighed. 



Mr. Weston Finch, of Glens Falls, X. Y., shot a buck near the Boreas Pond, Essex 

 county, that weighed 252 lbs. dressed. 



In discussing the size of deer in the Xorthwest, Judge Caton* says : 



" The largest common deer of which I have any authentic account was killed in 

 Michigan, and weighed before he was dressed, 246 pounds. But such specimens are 

 rarely met with. It is much more common to meet adults that will not exceed 80 

 pounds in weight, and the average weight may be set down at not more than 100 

 pounds. The guesses of hunters often give much larger weights. 



" In the fall of 1876, 1 shot a buck in northeastern Wisconsin, which was judged by 

 several experienced hunters to weigh nearly 250 pounds. Four of our Indians came 

 from camp, but would not undertake to carry him in (not more than a third of a mile), 



"The Antelope and Deer of America, by John Dean Caton, LL.D., New York, Forest and 

 Stream Publishing Company, Second Edition, 188 1. 



