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GAME AND AGRICULTURE; DEER AS FOOD
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A FOOD SUPPLY OF WHITE-TAILED DEER The Killing of the Does was Wrong
To meet the legitiinate dcinands for the abatement of unbearable wild-animal nuisances, I recommend the enactment of a law similar to Section 158 of the Game laws of New York, which provides for the safe and legitimate abatement of unbearable wild creatures as follows
vSection 158. Power to Take Birds and Quadrupeds. In the event that any sjiecies of birds protected by the provisions of section two hundred and nineteen of this article, or quadrupeds protected by law, shall at any time, in any locality, become destructive of private or public property, the commission shall have power in its discretion to direct any game protector, or issue a permit to any citizen of the state, to take such species of birds or quadrupeds and dispose of the same in such manner as the commission inay provide. Such permit shall expire within four months after the date of issuance.
This measure should be adopted b}^ every state that is troubled bv too many, or too aggressive, wild inammals or birds.
Buttoreturntothesubjectofbiggameandfarming. AVedonot complain of the disappearance of the bison, elk, deer and bear from the farms of the United States and Canada. The passing of the big game from all such regions follows the advance of real civilization, just so surely and certainly as night follows day.
But this vast land of ours is not wholly composed of rich agricultural lands; not by any means. There are millions of acres of forest lands, good, bad and indifferent, worth from nothing per acre up to one hundred
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