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;low deer, although I doubt if they would quite 
equal the weights of the heavy stall-fed fallow 
bucks, even if they were both proportionately 
fat. They are a very hardy variety of deer, and 
of uniform color, being a brown chocolate in 
winter and a ruddy brown in summer, slightly 
spotted. The stags are closely built, compactly 
made little fellows, and make most excellent 
haviers. Their venison is most delicious, and I 
have killed Japanese stags that turned the scales 
at no pounds; but they are at present uncom¬ 
mon and valuable. One peculiarity about them 
is, they never grow more than eight points on 
their antlers, when on the best of feed and fully 
matured. Doubtless in time the Japanese deer 
will become more generally recognized as a park 
deer. 
General Remarks. 
The above mentioned items refer to park deer 
alone, as wild deer in all countries generally 
have to take their own chance; that is to say, it 
is impossible to handle wild deer judiciously 
and systematically. Deer cannot be properly 
managed in any country unless they are inclosed. 
Deer in inclosed parks will always have advan¬ 
tages over any wild deer. In many portions of 
the United States and Canada how would it be 
possible to find the fawns for marking in the 
month of June? How would it be possible to 
pick out and kill the small and backward fawns 
a few weeks later? How would it be possible to 
find and kill all the full matured dry does and 
haviers in the winter months, even if there were 
any, and in many instances how is it possible to 
prevent wild deer from starving through the 
long, cold winters of North America? In all 
inclosed parks here in England the above men¬ 
tioned items are carefully attended to. I read 
some time ago an excellent article, “The Deer 
Park on the Farm,” one of the best articles I 
have ever read in Forest and Stream. It in¬ 
terested me immensely. In the course of the 
writer’s remarks he says less than half a century 
ago the deer park was an important part of 
many farms, and even at the present day how 
I could farmers and landed proprietors invest a 
little capital to better advantage than in a small 
deer park? 
Gentlemen, establish hundred-acre parks at the 
■ earliest possible date, more or less as circum¬ 
stances will permit, and stock them with Japan¬ 
ese deer; they are the best and most suitable 
variety for small inclosures, and by far the best 
venison. This is an important consideration un¬ 
der your prohibitory law, which forbids the kill¬ 
ing of bucks at the proper season, which is from 
May to the last week in September. In parks 
where stall and paddock feeding is not done, 
buck venison can be had only from July to Sep¬ 
tember, after which time the flesh is strong and 
quite unfit for the table. So as your laws do 
not permit the killing of wild summer venison, 
establish your parks, castrate the male fawns 
and kill haviers in the winter months, which is 
the proper season for all castrated deer, and 
have venison that is worth eating. H. Hickmott. 
BREAKFAST IN CAMP 
is nothing without coffee, and coffee is nothing 
without Cream. Ordinarily cream is out of the 
question nine times out of ten, but Borden’s 
Peerless Brand Evaporated Milk takes its place 
perfectly and keeps indefinitely until opened. It 
is unsweetened and has the natural cream flavor 
and color.— Adv. 
Vacation Time. 
Editor Forest and Stream: 
The vacation time is here, and go where we will 
we meet tellers, bookkeepers and clerks from all 
branches of business—on wheels, in canoes, in the 
mountains with rod and reel, with dog and gun; 
on the seashore; all enjoying their outing—and 
what a blessing it is. The getting ready and 
packing up for weeks before, the thinking of 
every little thing to take—all these are a pleas¬ 
ure in themselves. Oftentimes the outing it¬ 
self is a disappointment. We don't find the 
birds. Fish do not bite. Water too rough. And 
other things that interfere, but the large majority 
have very enjoyable times and come home re¬ 
freshed and ready for the duties that their 
positions require. We find work has accumu¬ 
lated in our absence, but we are equal to the 
task, and as the weeks roll on into months, some 
day or evening, while poring over a ledger dif¬ 
ference, there comes the thought how that old 
partridge did tumble, and then in less time than 
it takes to tell it here we see all the nooks and 
corners in the woods, and after that staunch 
point of Mollie, how the old grouse did get up 
from the other side of that log and like a rocket 
fly right over toward Doc. And what a shot. 
“Steady, now, old girl; there he lies. Fetch.’ 
We sit down and look him over, and as it is 
lunch time and here is a cool spring, we enjoy 
the spread, and after a smoke then on to that 
woodcock cover. 
With me vacation never ends. It comes to me 
in days of trial and perplexities in business, in 
the evening hours at home with my family or 
with friends. How pleasantly we talk over our 
outing days of each year, and read over the 
diary, where we saw our first deer—and so on. 
Vacation to me is not how many birds shot 
or how many fish caught. These may count for 
something, but the true and lasting value of 
every vacation comes from the lifting of mind 
and body out of the daily ruts of toil and care. 
The individual who carries his business into his 
vacation might as well stay home. To such an 
one the strike of a mosquito will do as well as 
the strike of a trout, and the pop of a ginger 
ale bottle as well as the report of a loaded 
shell. Fling care to the wind when vacation 
begins, and every wind will waft back comfort 
and restful influence. 
One word on half days off and the man at the 
head of the office in which I am employed. He 
isn’t a shooter or fisher—don’t know a wood 
chuck from a woodcock or a sandpiper from a 
pickerel. Fie isn’t interested in field sports, but 
he is interested in those under him, and there 
is no occasion to use the old dodge (which they 
say so many clerks have used), presenting a 
telegram to the employer that your aunt’s grand¬ 
father on the mother’s side is dead and you wish 
to go to the funeral. Nothing of the kind. We 
walk up and say we would like to go away for 
the afternoon. It is always, “Go, and I hope 
you will have a pleasant time, and if the boys 
have too much to do call on me and I will do 
your work.” 
My brother bookkeepers, clerks and any and 
all of you who may read this, my wish is that 
you all had such an employer, but I know you 
have not. I know that there are those who only 
think of you for the good you are to them, and 
if they give their consent for your going for a 
half day, do it so reluctantly that it takes from 
the afternoon all the anticipated pleasure, and 
you are wishing that you had remained at your 
post, and not asked for the favor. H. 
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