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Mr. Fletcher S. Beede, Keene Valley, Essex County, N. Y. (State Game Protector.) — 

 It would be much better for this part of the country if we could stop the hounding of 

 deer entirely. 



The country is full of hounds trom the time the hunting season opens until its 

 close. They certainly drive lots of deer out of the country. Deer having a hard 

 race and finally going in the water to shake the dogs off, are pretty sure to go out 

 and die. My idea is that one month is long enough to hunt deer in any shape. 



"Commodore" Henry Bradley. Olmsteadville, Essex County. N. Y. (Lumberman and 

 To-iun Supervisor?) — The law should be changed so as to prevent the night-hunting or 

 floating. Not more than one-half the deer that are shot in the night time are saved, 

 but go into the woods and die. The deer that feed around the lakes and ponds in 

 the early part of the hunting season are mostly does and have fawns near by. If the 

 mother is killed the fawns never amount to much, and if you find any dead deer in 

 the woods in the winter time it is these that you find. I am satisfied from personal 

 knowledge of the Adirondacks that the deer are increasing every year very fast. For 

 this reason : the wolves and panthers are all killed off in the Adirondacks, and the 

 game law has stopped the crust hunting in the winter. The first thing to be done by 

 the State is to buy all the forest land within the Forest Park lines ; the State will 

 then have control of all the feeding grounds in the Adirondacks for deer. 



Mr. James Galvin, Carthage, X. Y. (of Myers & Gamin, owners of Fifth and Sixth 

 Lakes, Fulton Chain.) — Pass a law to stop floating. I heard of a great many deer 

 being wounded by night-hunters and never found. I would also stop hounding for 

 a few years. If deer are slaughtered for five years, as they have been for the past 

 five years, there will be few deer left. 



Mr. Reuben Ross. Newton's Corners, Hamilton County, N. Y. (Guide and Woodsman.) 

 — In my opinion it would be best to do away with night-hunting in all of its forms, 

 and allow about twelve days longer for hounding. Then I think there would be less 

 deer killed. 



JLr. C D. Allen, Peru, Clinton County, N. Y. — Hounding deer is an unfair and cruel 

 way of hunting. Sportsmen should be allowed to hunt at certain seasons only; and, 

 then, by still-hunting. 



Mr. George H. Mead, Piseco, Hamilton County, N. Y. — It would be well to stop 



hounds being brought in from other counties into the hunting districts. Now for, 



example, there are some parties in Fulton county that come into Hamilton county, 



parties of eight or ten with from six to eight dogs. They let them all go, and as these 



dogs are in a strange place half of them get lost. Then they run the woods and kill 



deer. 



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