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CONNECTICUT HAS KILLED HER DEER. 
Branford, Ct., September 12, 1916. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
The State of Connecticut, in 1915, passed the 
most lenient law, concerning the killing of deer, 
that has ever been known to our people, and the 
foreseen butchery has been wrought. We won¬ 
der, now, how such an inauspicious bill could 
have been approved, with its most obvious results, 
and influenced by the most prudent judgment of 
our representatives. We wonder if the farmers 
did not push it through in view of their immedi¬ 
ate recompense, or if, perhaps, the farmers were 
not justified in urging such a move. Yet we ask 
ourselves if the old law did not offer them suf¬ 
ficient protection. We can not help, also, from 
thinking of the so-called “class legislature” with 
a little bit of suspicion. But whatever it was, the 
whole subject and its discussion seems most dis¬ 
tasteful to us now. 
I fear we few friends of the deer were gravely 
deceived when the prolongation of the closed sea¬ 
son, a few years ago, gave us to understand that 
the existence of this animal was to the interest of 
the State. What pride, and what elation came 
over us when, for the first time in fifteen years, 
we saw the timid buck step out from cover, to 
nibble the dewy grasses of our meadows! What 
pleasant memories it recalled, and what a lasting 
impression a glimpse of this kind left with us! 
But this interest, this joy, and this satisfaction 
took place in a different light to some people, 
who stood to witness the same impressive sight. 
They craved to lift down their rusty firearm 
from its hooks, but feared the law. And then 
these farmers paved the way for the long-desired 
slaughter. Intolerable to them was the thought 
that something lived that they might shoot, and 
they greased their guns to prepare for the de¬ 
struction of our few deer that were tamed by the 
summer sun. And our commissioners and our 
societies, that might have opposed the passage 
of such a cruel law, stood accommodatingly aside 
to see the re-extermination of our deer. 
T. F. Hammer. 
AN APPPRECIATIVE CANADIAN SUB¬ 
SCRIBER. 
Sept. 18th, 1916, Minnedosa, Man., Canada. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
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up the good work and long life to you. 
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