AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST 
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VOLUME XXXII.— No. 8. 
NEW YORK, AUGUST, 1873. 
NEW SERIEr^-No. 319. 
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AT REST . — Drawn and Engraved for the American Agriculturist. 
The common deer is one of the few animals | are rarely seen save by those who know how I In autumn the velvet becomes hard and dry, 
that will remain near civilization in spite of I to hunt them. The engraving shows a young and is no longer of any use ; so the animal 
the huntsman. As the deer feed by night and | buck just in " the velvet," as the soft downy 
keen hidden and at rest during the day, they I skin is called that envelops the growing horn. 
stands forth in the full glory of a new pair of 
antlers, which, however, he 'mil lose next winter. 
