Adirondack Game Report for tf)e 



^ear 1906 



Hon. J. S. Whipple, Forest, Fish and Game Commissioner : 



SIR. — Everybody interested in the wild animal life of New York State, 

 will read with increasing satisfaction the annual statistics now trans- 

 mitted for your consideration. Although the hunters were far from 

 satisfied with the conditions which prevailed, they secured a much larger 

 number of deer than they did during the season of 1905. This result is all 

 the more significant when it is remembered that the hunting season of 1906 

 was fully a month shorter than that of the previous year. An increase of 

 2 1 7 deer shipped out of the Adirondacks by the express companies during 

 the past season is what the record actually shows when compared with the 

 figures of 1905, and the records of the Commission • prove that more deer 

 were killed and shipped out last year than in any season during the past 

 six years. These figures again prove the unreliability of the personal ideas 

 annually expressed offhand by the hunters themselves, which this season 

 were recorded in a dispatch, dated November 16th, which declared that 

 " the number of deer killed this year and shipped out of the woods was 

 considerably less than that of the season a year ago." 



It may be noticed that the figures given officially show some slight 

 decrease in the weight of heavy deer shipped out, but there is nothing in 

 this that should cause alarm or indicate anything wrong with the deer of the 

 Adirondacks. The heaviest deer shipped in 1905 weighed 265 pounds; the 

 heaviest deer shipped during the past season weighed 246 pounds. The 

 total -weight of the carcasses, saddles and heads of deer taken out of the 

 Adirondacks by the express companies during the past season, as shown 

 by their receipt books, amounted to 212,847 pounds, or more than 106 



tons. 



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