﻿196 
  Sixteenth 
  Annual 
  Report 
  of 
  the 
  

  

  difficulty 
  is 
  to 
  show 
  in 
  his 
  evidence 
  the 
  connection 
  between 
  the 
  

   hunters 
  and 
  the 
  dogs. 
  With 
  the 
  law 
  amended 
  as 
  suggested 
  when 
  

   the 
  illegal 
  hunting 
  was 
  done 
  the 
  dog 
  would 
  undoubtedly 
  be 
  run 
  

   with 
  his 
  collar 
  off 
  and 
  no 
  tag, 
  and 
  all 
  that 
  would 
  be 
  necessary 
  to 
  

   make 
  a 
  case 
  would 
  be 
  to 
  establish 
  the 
  identity 
  of 
  the 
  dog, 
  which 
  is 
  

   a 
  much 
  simpler 
  proposition. 
  

  

  THE 
  DEER 
  SUPPLY 
  

  

  There 
  can 
  be 
  no 
  doubt 
  that 
  since 
  hounding 
  was 
  stopped 
  there 
  

   has 
  been 
  a 
  great 
  increase 
  in 
  the 
  number 
  of 
  deer 
  in 
  the 
  State. 
  

  

  During 
  the 
  hunting 
  season, 
  which 
  terminated 
  October 
  31st, 
  the 
  

   express 
  companies 
  doing 
  business 
  on 
  the 
  Adirondack 
  railroads 
  

   transported 
  twenty-three 
  hundred 
  and 
  forty-three 
  carcasses, 
  saddles 
  

   and 
  heads 
  of 
  deer. 
  This 
  is 
  the 
  largest 
  shipment 
  ever 
  made 
  from 
  

   the 
  Adirondack 
  section 
  during 
  a 
  season 
  when 
  snow 
  hunting 
  was 
  

   not 
  permitted. 
  1896 
  was 
  the 
  last 
  year 
  in 
  which 
  hounding 
  was 
  per- 
  

   mitted 
  in 
  the 
  Adirondacks. 
  Between 
  that 
  time 
  and 
  1900 
  the 
  deer 
  

   season 
  included 
  the 
  period 
  from 
  August 
  15th 
  to 
  November 
  15th. 
  

   From 
  1900 
  to 
  1905 
  inclusive 
  the 
  open 
  season 
  was 
  from 
  September 
  

   1st 
  to 
  November 
  15th, 
  inclusive. 
  In 
  1906 
  the 
  season 
  was 
  from 
  

   October 
  1st 
  to 
  November 
  15th. 
  In 
  1907 
  and 
  1908 
  the 
  season 
  was 
  

   from 
  September 
  16th 
  to 
  October 
  31st, 
  inclusive, 
  as 
  it 
  is 
  at 
  the 
  pres- 
  

   ent 
  time. 
  In 
  1909, 
  however, 
  fifteen 
  days 
  in 
  November 
  were 
  added 
  

   during 
  which 
  time 
  bucks 
  only 
  could 
  be 
  killed. 
  

  

  It 
  is 
  interesting 
  to 
  note, 
  from 
  the 
  table 
  printed 
  in 
  another 
  part 
  

   of 
  the 
  report, 
  the 
  manner 
  in 
  which 
  the 
  number 
  of 
  deer 
  killed, 
  as 
  

   indicated 
  by 
  the 
  express 
  shipments, 
  has 
  steadily 
  increased. 
  In 
  

   1900, 
  with 
  two 
  months 
  and 
  a 
  half 
  open 
  season 
  and 
  snow 
  hunting 
  

   permitted, 
  only 
  twelve 
  hundred 
  and 
  four 
  deer 
  were 
  shipped 
  ; 
  and 
  

   in 
  1901 
  only 
  twelve 
  hundred 
  and 
  eighty-six. 
  By 
  1903 
  the 
  two- 
  

   thousand 
  mark 
  had 
  been 
  passed. 
  In 
  1904, 
  owing 
  no 
  doubt 
  largely 
  

   to 
  the 
  disastrous 
  fires 
  of 
  1903 
  and 
  also 
  to 
  a 
  bad 
  winter, 
  the 
  num- 
  

   ber 
  fell 
  to 
  eighteen 
  hundred 
  and 
  ninety-four, 
  but 
  in 
  both 
  1905 
  and 
  

   1906 
  there 
  was 
  a 
  notable 
  increase 
  in 
  the 
  number 
  killed. 
  In 
  the 
  

  

  