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class of poachers, in dealing with whom are found 

 the most serious problems which the owners of 

 game preserves have to meet. The elk, like 

 the timber, constitute a portion of the value 

 of a landed estate, and both portions of the 

 assets are guarded from theft at considerable 

 expense by the maintenance of a large force 

 of men. 



The privilege of hunting is often leased in 

 Russia to sportsmen in the cities. In such cases 

 the successful hunter is entitled only to the head 

 and a certain small piece of meat, the rest of the 

 meat, the hide, feet, etc., remaining the property 

 of the owner of the land where the elk was killed. 

 In Norway also "the sportsman's share of any 

 animal he kills is only the head with the head-skin, 

 with twenty kilos of elk-beef; the remainder of 

 the carcass goes to the owner of the farm on 

 which the elk is first sprung, whether actually 

 killed upon it or over the boundary upon the 

 land of his neighbor.'"^ There is no bag limit in 

 Norway, but the hunter may not take more than 

 one elk in a herd if several are found together. 

 The non-resident license fee is lOO crowns (^27).'^ 



^5 Kapherr, Das Elchwild (Berlin, 1908), p. 74. 



Prichard, uhi supra. 

 ^7 Hiorth, Elch- und Schneehuhnjagd in Norwegen (Christiania, 1 910), 

 pp. 6, 7. 



