FOREST AND STREAM 
51 
Allowing for moose illegally killed and not re¬ 
ported to the Chief Game Commissioner and for 
others which were wounded and got away to die, 
I believe that no game country in the world of 
the same area can make a better showing. 
Mr. W. K. Boylston of Princeton, Mass, a no¬ 
ted (big game hunter, and at one time a profes¬ 
sional guide in Maine hunted with me this fall fn 
Digby County and he informed me that although 
he has hunted moose in Maine, New Brunswick, 
and every country they inhabit, except Norway 
he has never found these animals so plentiful 
(acre for acre), as they are in this province. 
H. A. P. S. 
Digby, Dec. 24th, 1914. 
DEER SEASON IN MASSACHUSETTS. 
Boston, Mass., Dec. 24, 1914. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
You may be interested to have the official rec¬ 
ord of deer killed in this state during the last 
open season, copy of 'which is enclosed. Had it 
not been for the bad weather the record of the 
previous year of 1,596 might have been equalled. 
In addition to this we are enclosing a state¬ 
ment of deer shot by the farmers in protecting 
their crops. 
The amount paid during the year past by the 
state for damages to crops by deer will amount 
to something over $10,000. 
G. W. FIELD, 
Chairman Commissioners on Fisheries and Game. 
The record furnished by Mr. Field follows : 
NUMBER OF DEER KIDLED BY FARMERS IN 
THE ACT OF DAMAGING CROPS. 
1907 . 
1911 
1908 . 
1912 
1909 .. 
1913 
1910 . 
1914 
Section 17, Chapter 92, R. L. as amended 'by 
Chapter 307, Acts of 1907; further amended by 
Acts of 1908, Chapter 377; Acts of 1909, Chapter 
396; Acts of 1910, Chapter 545; Acts of 1912, 
Chapter 388. 
SUMMARY OF DEER SHOT, ETC., DURING THE 
OPEN SEASON OF 1914. 
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129 
91 
11 
2 
35 
36 
15 
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231 
20 
7 
5 
7 
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6 
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32 
6 
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4 
12 
131 
92 
19 
7 
71 
28 
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24 
52 
Si 
242 
IO4 
76 
14 
3 
44 
37 
10 
19 
43 
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194 
120 
91 
15 
3 
58 
31 
16 
26 
47 
48 
226 
26 
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Total .717 498 96 21 302 198 jii 140 272 289 1312 
Total deer killed . 1312 
Total deer wounded . 21 
Deer Estimated to 'Weigh over 200 Pounds. 
200-300 lbs.158 reports 
300-356 lbs. 6 reports 
Largest deer, weighing 356 lbs. killed by 
Melville M. Allen, West Springfield, Mass. 
Nineteen deer weighing less than one hundred 
pounds were killed. 
Deer shot by women. 
Ruth Ballard, New Salem, Mass.; Miss Julia 
E. Groves, Brimifield, Mass.; Mrs. M. E. Worden, 
Otis, Mass.; Mrs. Marjorie E. Lackey, Oakham, 
Mass.; Mrs. E A. Webb, Pittsfield, Mass. 
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