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the recent war, contained many elk to each square mile. It is 

 to be presumed, however, that the elk of East Prussia were 

 regularly given other food than that which the woods naturally 

 supplied. 



L. 



JACKING BY AUTOMOBILE HEADLIGHT 

 (See page 145.) 



Use of the automobile has introduced a variation in jacking 

 which is thus referred to in the Report of the Commissioners 

 of Inland Fisheries and Game for the State of Maine, for 

 1916, page 21 : 



"Good automobile roads extend for miles through the heart 

 of our big game country, and, as it has become known how 

 readily deer and moose may be held at a stand by the high- 

 power searchlights with which the modern car is equipped, 

 and thus become an easy prey to the night hunter, the popu- 

 larity of this 'sport' is increasing. . . . Such hunters are even 

 more despicable as a class than their brethren of a generation 

 ago who made a practice of jacking deer on the lakes and 

 ponds during the summer months. . . . Stock has been killed 

 in the pastures, and in one law-abiding community this season 

 a horse was shot down in the highway, the lights of the jack, 

 although showing up the 'gleam' and the two ears of the 

 'moose,' not clearly revealing the presence of two unoffending 

 occupants of the carriage. 



"Unfortunately, even in the daytime, game of all kinds ap- 

 pears to have very little fear of a moving automobile, while 

 in the night it is attracted by the headlights, and makes no 

 effort to escape. ... In the face of these conditions legisla- 

 tion prohibiting the shooting of any wild animal or wild bird 

 from an automobile is worthy of consideration. Such a law 

 might perhaps lessen the practice of night hunting, although 



