PUBLISHER'S NOTES. 



DEER HUNTING IN ONTARIO. 

 The Grand Trunk Railway System an- 

 nounces that the deer hunting season ' in 

 Ontario resulted most satisfactorily to the 

 hunters who went into that district during 

 the open season of 1901. Though com- 

 plete information with regard to the num- 

 ber of licenses issued this year has not yet 

 come to hand, it is estimated that over 

 5.000 licenses were issued ; and hunting 

 parties and others estimate the deer killed 

 to be about one and a half deer to each 

 hunter. This would make a total of 7,500 

 deer killed. It is somewhat marvelous 

 how the stock of deer keeps pace with the 

 number killed, but it seems that each year 

 they are becoming more numerous, and 

 there is an increase instead of a diminu- 

 tion. This is accounted for by the short- 

 ness of the open season, which runs from 

 November 1st to 15th, and by the strict 

 prosecution by. the Ontario Government of 

 anyone transgressing the laws. The wan- 

 ton slaughter which, no doubt, would have 

 prevailed had hunters been allowed to kill 

 at their pleasure has thus been prevented 

 to a great extent, and one of the best 

 heritages of the public has been saved. This 

 year the Canadian Express Company alone 

 carried 2,372 deer, which is an increase over 

 the season of 1900 of 878 deer, the total 

 weight of these shipments amounting to 

 236,637 pounds. All these shipments were 

 made from points located on the Grand 

 Trunk Railway, the largest number of car- 

 cases being taken out of the Magnetawan 

 river region, the Muskoka lakes district 

 and points on their Northern Division 

 North of Huntsville. Of course, this is 

 not a criterion of the number that are 

 killed, as this does not include those killed 

 by settlers, Indians and half breeds and by 

 those hunters who do not have to express 

 their deer to their homes ; nor the wound- 

 ed deer which get away and die ; nor those 

 killed and eaten by the 5,000 hunters and 

 their dogs during the 2 weeks they are in 

 the woods. Taking all these into consider- 

 ation, there could not have been less than 

 8,000 or 9,000 deer killed during the season 

 of 1901. 



SUCCESSFUL SHIPMENT OF LIVE DEER. 



Nelson, New Zealand, 

 Mr. Charles Payne, Wichita, Kan. 



Dear Sir — I owe you an account of the 

 journeyings and unqualified success at- 

 tending the importation of the 5 Vir- 

 ginia deer purchased from you. First of 

 all, I presume you railed them from Kan- 

 sas to 'Frisco. Thence they had a 3 weeks' 

 boat journey to Auckland, when they 



were transshipped to the Quarantine, 

 where they remained exactly 2 months, 

 and I believe in a none too large en- 

 closure. From Quarantine they were 

 shipped for a 4 days' journey to Nelson. 

 On account of the extreme roughness of 

 the weather we detained them here a week 

 and then shipped them in a small boat 

 to Collingwood, the most isolated part of 

 this Province, where they are doing well. 

 The necessary period of quarantine is 60 

 days, but on account of our deer shoot- 

 ing season being open at the time we 

 thought it best to keep them out of harm 

 until the season was over. Their appear- 

 ance on arrival here was more than ex- 

 cellent. Sleek, and with magnificent coats, 

 they were the admiration of all. Such a 

 success, after all the knocking about they 

 have had, would lead me to believe that 

 you could send animals successfully to the 

 uttermost ends of the earth. 



Thanking you for what you have done 

 for us, I am, Yours faithfully, 



J. R. Macdonald, Secy. 



A NEW FOLDING STEREO. 



The Blair Camera Company, Rochester, 

 N. Y., has issued a new catalogue of the 

 Hawk-Eye camera, which should be in the 

 hands of every amateur photographer. A 

 new field of work for amateurs is sug- 

 gested in this little book. On page 8 are 

 a cut and a description of a Stereo camera 

 which makes pictures of the usual and pop- 

 ular size for use in the stereoscope, and 

 which sells for $25. This camera is pro- 

 vided with an excellent double lens and 

 double bellows, and yet folds up into so 

 small a space it can be carried in an over- 

 coat pocket, or in a small valise. A good 

 stereoscope can be bought at a surprisingly 

 low price nowadays, and anyone familiar 

 with the power of these instruments knows 

 how greatly a picture may be improved by 

 making it double, and then looking at it 

 through stereo lenses. 



Send for a copy of this new catalogue, 

 and when you get it, study this stereo 

 Hawk-Eye carefully. The company will 

 send you some sample views made with 

 this instrument, and they will certainly 

 prove of great interest to you. When you 

 write, please mention Recreation. 



THE OLD STILL NEW. 



The calendar season has returned, and 

 among the most notable samples of that 

 class of work that have yet come to hand 

 is the one from E. I. DuPont de Nemours 

 & Co., Wilmington, Del. This company 



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