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way, and the past spring a deer breeder do, and plenty of it. Scarcely a day 

 in Missouri wrote me that his deer were goes by but that my animals go to the 

 sick and that nearly all the deer and elk salt and put in a half hour there. Mr. 

 in various preserves in the State were Reinhart makes a great mistake in feed- 

 so affected and in some preserves it had ing his animals bran and stock condition 

 nearly- wiped out the herds both deer powders. In a great many of these 

 and elk. powders there is a goodly per cent, of 

 A few years ago I shipped in to my black antimony, which is enough said, 

 preserve a number of deer from Colo- While deer like bran or grain, if he will 

 rado against the advice of a Pennsyl- feed nothing but clover or alfalfa hay 

 vania deer breeder -who said that deer, his deer will do better than on grain, 

 mule deer especially, would develop pul- People admire the sleek condition of all 

 monary diseases in a lower altitude, and the deer family in Lincoln Park, Chi- 

 he begged me not to put them in my cago; yet in a conversation last January 

 herd. I did not heed his warning and with C. B. DeVry, the director, he said: 

 shipped in seven mule deer as fat and "These animals have not had a mouthful 

 slick as could be. In four months all of grain in five years — nothing but al- 

 were dead and in addition I lost several falfa hay." Blue grass is all right for 

 elk, Virginia deer and one Japanese sika Mr. Reinhart's buffaloes, also for white 

 from the same symptoms, though the deer, Japanese sikas and elk, but his 

 main body of my herd did not contract Virginia deer will well-nigh starve be- 

 the disease. In these cases they lost flesh fore they will eat it. A fresh clover field, 

 until they were nothing but skin and alfalfa, acorns or weeds will appeal much 

 bones, and I do not think that medicine quicker. There would be great difficulty 

 would have helped them. Several years in treating deer for sore mouth, as they 

 ago I sold to the New York Zoo an would struggle and be very hard to 

 antelope shipped in from the West. This handle. The remedy which our veteri- 

 animal died in six months and the park nary used is as follows: One ounce of 

 people wrote me that they had invariably powdered alum to one-fourth ounce of 

 lost antelope sent in from a high altitude golden seal in a pint of rain water or 

 and that they would never again try boiled water. Make a cloth swab and 

 them. A gentleman in Indiana had mule swab the mouth and affected parts freely, 

 deer which he thought were thoroughly In two or three days the animal will 

 acclimated, but soon after the publishing begin to eat and recover. My own opin- 

 of an article stating that he had them ion is that this is a stomach disease and 

 breeding all right and doing well in the results in sore mouth, the same way that 

 denser atmosphere the disease swept his i n human beings there is a resultant bad 

 herd clean, so I was informed by a gen- taste i n the mouth and "fever blisters" 

 tleman who claimed to be a resident of when one has a disordered stomach, and 



the town. even death results when the stomach dis- 



Now in Mr Reinhart s herd trouble order becQmes acute In conclusion j 



he purchased his buffaloes of me, but •„ -i_ . • , ■ r » 



not his deer, and I do not know where ™ U ^ that in a very recent issue of a 



they came from. Possibly I would have W f^ , V »-ginia paper there is an article 



known the herd, but as he says they were published which bears out my theory, and 



fat when received I am inclined to think : enclose the clipping. It is clipped from 



they merely have the sore mouth and not The Pocahontas Times of September 23. 



pulmonary trouble. He asks if his buf- I trust that you may find something in 



faloes require salt. Most assuredly they the above to benefit your inquirers. 



