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ears torn nearly off their heads, and their noses terribly lacerated by the hounds that 

 they had escaped. The Legislature enacts a law under the title to prevent " Cruelty 

 to Animals," and under its provisions arrest and fine a poor Frenchman $5.00 for 

 driving a poor lame horse to the mill that he might have a johnny-cake to keep his 

 family from starving ; and during the same session enact a law legalizing the most 

 damnable and inhuman practice in the world, and all this to please men of means 

 who are too lazy to put on their moccasins and kill deer by their skill as a hunter. 

 They will hire their guides to put out the hounds while they themselves are perched 

 upon some rock or hidden in their boats awaiting the unsuspecting game that comes 

 bounding into the water (to escape the hounds in the rear) with blazing eye, bated 

 breath, and dilated nostril, only to meet the more deadly Winchester. 



Again, I would not have you think that I favor jacking ; but, if we can stop but 

 one, I would stop hounding. I see that the act introduced by Mr. Sanger to amend 

 Section 44, of the Laws of 1895, would allow hounding in this county. This, I hope, 

 will be fought to the death by our members as in the past. I certainly think that 

 such a law would be a great calamity to the people of our county, who have so long 

 and so nobly stood by this noble game that there might be one spot where the 

 baying hound will not be tolerated. 



What I have said here is not to be considered by you as dictatorial. Far from it. 

 I only give my views, based on sixty years' experience and after having been in the 

 woods six months consecutively in each year for the last fourteen years. 



Abstract of I$avs on Deer Htmtino; in tl)e Varioas States 



and Canadian Province^. 



Maine. — Open season from October 1 to December 1. Hounding and jacking 

 prohibited. Each hunter is restricted to two deer. 



Vermont. — Hunting or killing deer not permitted. Close season all the year until 

 1 goo. 



New Hampshire. — September 15 to November 15. Hounding prohibited. Hunters 

 limited to three deer each. 



Massachusetts. — No deer hunting allowed. Close season during the entire year. 



New York. — August 15 to October 31. Hounding permitted from September 10 

 to October 10. Hunter limited to two deer. No hunting allowed at any time in 

 Ulster, Greene, Sullivan and Delaware counties, and on Long Island. 



