BULLETIN NUMBER FIVE 
183 
By this I mean that with the aid of the automobile, and 
the “good roads” that it has brought, the man who hunts 
upland game birds, shore birds, fresh-water ducks and 
geese, and deer, can cover in a given time three times as 
much ground, and kill three times as much game, as he 
could cover and kill by the aid of even the best horses. 
Let me quote from Mr. M. F. Westover, of Schenectady, 
a concrete statement regarding conditions in the Adiron- 
dacks affecting our deer: 
“The number of hunters is increasing, and especially of 
those who live in cities and towns adjacent to the Adiron- 
dacks. The reason is obvious. In the old days a man who 
had a week-end vacation could not make a day’s drive in, 
hunt a day and take a day to drive back. Now, through 
the automobile, and the good roads which the auto has 
brought, the same man can be in camp two days; and those 
who live anywhere within 50 to 100 miles can get in within 
a few hours. I was only 4 hours and 15 minutes from 
Schenectady to North Hudson, a distance of 104 miles. 
“Last fall [1914], during the last week of the season 
there were, within a radius of five miles from a certain 
supposedly ‘wilderness’ camp, more than 250 hunters; and 
one drive was made with 31 men working together. Three 
years ago 53 male deer were taken out of that territory; 
two years ago, 26; last year, 23; and this year during the 
first six weeks of the season, 2!” 
The use of the automobile in hunting, just as far and 
as fast as it possibly can be used, now is universal. To the 
sage and other grouse and quail of the West, and to all 
the game of Texas, it is bringing particular havoc. In In¬ 
dia it is used in hunting elephants, and in Australia the 
auto is of great service in the wholesale slaughter of kan¬ 
garoos. 
Already two states, North Dakota and New York, have 
officially recognized the deadliness of the automobile to 
game, and have prohibited its use in hunting. 
