FISHERIES, GAME AND FORESTS. 2IQ. 



think it brutal to kill deer in the water, after being driven in by dogs. As a remedy 

 I would suggest twenty days more hounding, and prohibit the killing of deer in the 

 water. Allow them to be killed on runways, or when they go out of the water, like 

 the Michigan law. Sportsmen would like it full as well, and would not kill half the deer. 

 I know by experience that hounding does not destroy or drive away as many deer as 

 people suppose. In this vicinity, and from my house, from one to three men were 

 starting from two to four dogs on each one of the thirty days of the open season, and 

 had no trouble at all in starting. I was out four or five days after the close of hound- 

 ing, and raised five deer in less than half a mile of the house, on ground we had 

 apparently been over every day. 



Mr. E. L. Marks, Old Forge, Herkimer County, N. Y. [Superintendent Fulton Chain 

 Hatchery.) — The deer are growing less, and if some measure is not taken to protect 

 them they will soon be a thing of the past. I think hounding should be abolished. A 

 deer driven by dogs has little chance to escape. Every runway and watch point is 

 covered and some of them by from one to four persons or hunters. After the deer 

 season closes there are always more or less dogs running loose. Where there has been 

 one dog chained up there have been six running at large. On every one of our rivers 

 at this time of year it is not safe to travel on the ice, and a deer driven to any river 

 after December 1st is quite sure to lose its life. We find more or less dead deer 

 floating every spring in the river, and the cause therefor is that dogs are allowed to 

 run at large and drive the deer to the river where they break through the ice and there 

 they stay. 



Our special game protector located at the Eighth Lake killed five dogs a few days 

 since running deer. I claim this is the best piece of work that has been done here 

 by any protector in a long time. 



Mr. D. W. Riddle, Saranac Inn, Franklin County, N. Y. [Manager Upper Saranac 

 Association.) — In my opinion the present law is good enough, but it is not well enough 

 enforced in this vicinity against the few persons who undertake to violate it. The 

 residents of this vicinity, as a rule, are in favor of and do respect the game laws. 



Mr. Henry L. Smith, Albany, N. Y. [Proprietor of a Forest Preserve in St. Lawrence 



County) — I would favor a law prohibiting the hounding or killing of any deer by aid 



of the dog; also, the killing of any deer on the water at night by aid of a " jack " or 



artificial light; also, an appropriation by the State of a sum of money sufficient to 



employ good, honorable men, and pay them to guard and protect the deer. I have 



had more than thirty-five years' experience in this great and grand wilderness in the 



Adirondacks, and urge that it be preserved and the deer protected. 

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