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Other correspondence by the secretary, with reference to the deer 

 shipments and unusually large deer reported killed in various parts of the 

 Adirondack's, resulted in a number of letters of which the following is one 

 of the most interesting: 



North Granville, November 27, 1905. 



Forest, Fisli and Game Commission, Albany, N. Y.: 



Dear Sirs. — On November 14 I started out in company with Dr. 

 Jerome Sticknev, George C. Stickney and Hiram Danby on the range of 

 mountains south of Jay village, and while watching for those driving the 

 thickets a large buck came along which I shot. The bullet penetrated the 

 lungs, cutting them into mincemeat, but he made forty jumps after being 

 shot, some of them being 16 feet long and the last two or three were from 

 10 to 12 feet long. He ran a distance of 25 rods but was dead when I 

 reached him. He was shot with a soft point bullet of the 33 caliber Win- 

 chester. The dressed weight of this deer was 262 pounds and the live 

 weight (by the method used by the Commission) was 327^ pounds. The 

 four quarters alone weighed 228. * * * When dressing the deer all of 

 us noticed the absence of fat on the intestines, and there, was not five pounds 

 of fat on the entire carcass. Had there been, this deer would have weighed, 

 if in the usual condition, at least 350 pounds, if not more. This is not the 

 only large deer in that locality, one of our party distinctly seeing another 

 which he says was larger than the one I shot. * * * I might add that 

 the antlers of my deer measured 21^ inches wide at the tips. * * * 



Yours, truly, 



Carter McV. Tobey. 



The writer of this letter kindly offered to get one of the unusually large 

 deer for the Commission to have mounted as a specimen of the Adirondack 

 deer at its best, and asserted that it was his judgment, and that of several 

 other well known sportsmen whom he mentioned, that the largest deer in the 

 woods are found in the section from which his own came. 



An Albino Deer 



Several reports of the shooting of white deer appeared in the newspapers 

 during the season, and one of these at least was authentic. Under date of 

 December 8, Mr. John Hurley of Little Falls replying to a letter of inquiry 

 from the secretary, wrote: 



