232 REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF 



Mr. William R. Bishop, Cranberry Lake, St. Lawrence County, N. Y. [Hotel Proprietor.) 

 — I think there should be a law passed prohibiting the use of dogs anywhere in the 

 State ; also, that jack-hunting should be stopped ; also, that no does shall be killed 

 for three years. And this is the opinion of the guides in this locality. 



Mr. Frederick M. Heath, Potsdam, N. Y. [Proprietor Ozonia Park.) — My preserve, 

 Ozonia Park, lies on the border of Franklin county, and sometimes suffers from 

 hounds started there which cross the line. The deer are certainly decreasing, and I 

 think hounding should be forbidden entirely. 



Mr. George A. Dukelow, Tupper Lake, Franklin County, N. Y. (Hotclkccpcr.) — 

 Without a doubt we have been breeding as many deer as there is food for. We 

 know that in some localities deer die for lack of feed. 



The deer killed in this territory the past season were fully as large as those killed 

 any past season. On account of so much lumbering in this region the feed for deer is 

 steadily increasing. 



I have conversed with quite a number that have the interests of our woods and 

 game at heart ; and the general feeling seems to be to have the hunting season open 

 a little later, and extend later in the fall. One reason is, deer in August are not in as 

 good condition as later. 



Mr. James La Mont, Brantingham, Lewis County, N. Y. — I am in favor of 

 prohibiting floating, and not killing does when dogging, for the next three or five 

 years. I understand there was a great number of deer found dead in the woods last 

 winter, whether from disease' or the amount of snow, I don't know which. Unless 

 there is some way to save the deer, there will be none to multiply. Prohibit killing 

 does. I have not been much in this locality this year, but have been up the Fulton 

 Chain and other places where I have found as many as fifteen dead deer in one yard 

 and five or six in other places. 



Mr. Charles O. Dwight, Brandon, Franklin County, N. Y. {Merchant}) — Those that want 

 to stop hounding talk that way, so that they can slaughter deer by night-hunting, of 

 which the larger part is done out of season. As an experienced guide I would advise 

 the night-hunting to be stopped at once, and all hunting until September 1st, which is 

 early enough for the hunting season to open. That would give the fawns a better 

 chance to take care of themselves. Furthermore, in regard to night-hunting, thirty 

 per cent, of the deer that are hit with buck shot are wounded, and go into the woods 

 to die. They are often found when spoiled, and no good to anyone. When a deer is 

 wounded in daylight he is easily found and is not wasted. 



Mr. S. M. Prouty, Whitehall, N. Y. (State Game Protector.) — If the season opened 

 one month later it would be an advantage; for some does that are killed at the opening 



