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truth in the statement, more particularly along the west line of Franklin county, for 

 this reason: All the lands along the county line in St. Lawrence county are preserved 

 from the middle of Township 12, "Riversdale," south to the Hamilton county line. 

 Do away with the hounding throughout the State, and leave the balance of the law as 

 it now is. In five years there will be two deer where there is one now. 



Mr. F. E. Abrains, Newton's Corners, Hamilton County, N. Y. — I have lived in this 

 locality almost seven years, and I don't think there is one deer here where there were 

 four when I came here. It would be good protection to stop hounding for five years. 



Mr. A. M. Church, Boonville, N. Y. [Fulton Chain Guide and Taxidermist?) — Make 

 the open season shorter than at present. September 1st to October 15th would be 

 ample. Place no restrictions on the mode of hunting. 



Prohibit the killing of does and fawns; also the sale or shipment of venison or 

 trout, killed in this State, at any time whatever. 



Allow one man to kill but two deer in a single season, and also restrict or prohibit 

 the catching of over ten pounds of brook trout by one man in one day. 



All the best guides in the Fulton Chain region have advocated an amendment of 

 this kind for a number of years. 



Mr. David Hunter, Tahawus, Essex County, N. Y. (Gamekeeper, Adirondack 

 Preserve.*) — I would propose to have the law changed in regard to still-hunting and 

 night-hunting. Have it stopped entirely. There are more deer slaughtered in some 

 localities by night and still-hunting than in any other way. 



Mr. Martin Moody, Tupper Lake, Franklin County, N. Y. (Pioneer Hunter and 

 Trapper and Guide?) — The law should be changed from September 15th to October 

 20th. All hunters are anxious to get a buck's head to take away with them ; and 

 from October loth to the 20th is the time the bucks are running. The does are then 

 hidden away, and so at that time the largest per cent, "of deer killed would be bucks. 



Mr. Bentley S. Morrill, Plattsburg, N. Y. (State Game Protector.) — The deer that are 

 killed in this section are driven from the denser woods of the Forest Preserve by 

 hounds. I would suggest the stopping of hounding for at least two years. People 

 owning dogs swear, when brought before a justice, that they were fox or rabbit 

 hunting. It would have a tendency to give us protectors a better show to protect 

 game. 



Mr. Carlos Hutcliins, Cedar River, Hamilton County, N. Y. (Guide.) — To preserve 

 the deer it would be well to stop the killing of does entirely. In the vicinity of Moose 

 River there were eighty-three dead deer found this spring. 



* The 96,000 acres around Lakes Colden, Sanford, etc., including the old Iron Works or 

 Deserted Village." 



