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BULLETIN 1346, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
their numbers during the preceding 12 months. The only exception to this is 
in Harding County, where an increase was reported for the past two years, this 
possibly being due to animals having come in from other sections. A number 
of small bands of antelope have been exterminated in the State within the past 
few years. 
Stanley Phillips, present owner of the Phillips buffalo herd, informed Mr. 
Knowles that antelope in northern Stanley County were rapidly decreasing. 
He reported the existence of a good-sized band there two years ago, which has 
since been hunted with dogs and has been rapidly depleted. It is reported that 
officers who were searching the premises of an alleged " moonshiner " in 
Harding County found 11 antelope skins. It is encouraging to learn that the 
people in the town of Buffalo are organizing a rod-and-gun club largely for the 
purpose of giving protection to the remaining antelope in the State. 
Fig. 15. — Distribution of antelope in South Dakota, estimated at 6S0, in 11 areas 
Mr. Knowles wrote that there has been a disproportionate decrease in the 
number of buck antelope, and one of the small surviving bands is composed 
entirely of females. Owing to the scarcity of males throughout the antelope 
country many of the females do not breed. In one band of 40 only 3 bucks 
were found. 
On June 29, 1923, J. D. Carr, writing from Lindsay, stated that 75 antelope 
range within a radius of about 8 miles in the Cheyenne Breaks, where they 
are not being molested. On the same date, from the same locality. F. L. 
Norman wrote that about 125 antelope are running near Lindsay, where they 
are so tame that they often come within 100 yards of his home. The crop of 
young for the season appears to have been large. Mr. Norman states that 
he and his son try to protect the antelope in every possible way and that 
they will be pleased to have any measures taken to insure the safety of the 
herd. 
The remaining antelope herds of South Dakota appear to be distributed in 
the following 11 areas (fig. 15) : 
