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I would be very glad, myself, to have the open season begin August 1st, and close 

 October 20th, and prohibit the killing of does. 



Mr. John Cnmmings, Jr., Utica, X. Y. [Secretary of the Maple Lake Club) — 

 Maple Lake is not far enough in the woods for good deer shooting. No deer 

 were killed by members of the club. The natives hunt them during the season 

 by hounding, and shoot them on runways leading to the Black River. 



Mr. 1I~. J. Alford, St. Regis Falls, Franklin County, N. Y. — There were more deer 

 killed out of season the past year in this section than ever before. I attribute 

 this largely to the lack of protection, this section of country being left almost 

 entirely to the mercy of the people who do this kind of hunting. 



There are more deer killed with dogs than by all other methods combined, 

 and until this method of hunting is stopped the deer will continue to decrease. 



I have control of over thirty thousand acres of this wild country,- and I use dogs ; 

 but I can see plainly that if this kind of hunting is allowed for two or three years 

 more that we will be hunting foxes instead of deer. 



Mr. Charles J/. Barrett. Old Forge, Herkimer County, N. Y. [Hotel Proprietor) — 

 Floating or jacking ought to be stopped altogether, and the season ought not to open 

 until the first of September. It should close the first of November. 



Shortening the hounding season to twenty days, and permitting still-hunting or 

 daylight shots during the balance will, if lived up to, increase the deer. 



Dogging deer ought not to commence until the 15th of September, and ought to 

 close on the 10th of October. 



J/;-. Charles A. Tatuiu, 46 Barclay Street, New York. [Proprietor of the Bog Lake 

 Preserve. Hamilton County.) — Our party is usually in the Adirondack's for about six 

 weeks each year, and most of that during the hunting season. This season we were 

 only up for between two and three weeks, and none of us during the hounding 

 season ; consequently the dogs were not run at all. There appeared to be fully as 

 many deer tracks through the woods as usual, but they were mostly farther back 

 from the water ;• more on the hills and in the swamp ground, but not so many around 

 the lakes and streams. The deer in our section have certainly increased enormously 

 within the past six or eight years ; in fact, ever since the law prohibiting the shipping 

 of game from the woods was passed. In regard to the number of dead deer found in 

 the woods last winter, it is impossible for me to give you any correct information. 

 My men who had charge of the place in the winter report that they had seen several 

 dead deer, presumably starved or frozen to death ; but how many, I do not know. I 

 heard a good many reports of numbers of dead deer being found in the adjacent 

 territory, but no numbers were stated, consequently I paid very little attention to it. 



