The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-08
DEER IN THE ADIRoNDAoKs.
Comparatively Few KILLED This Season. Al.
though the Game 10 Plentiful.

MALONE, n. Y, Nov. 7.-When the new
game laws governing deer hunting in this State
were passed it was believed that the game war
dens would have a hard time enforcing them.
but from the reports up to date the hunters
have taken tho matter into their own hands,
and whenever a hound has been found loose in
the woods It has been shot. Until this year it
has been Lawful to hound deer in Franklin
county during the open season. This year
bounding and lacking have been prohibited.
In consequence of this law very few deer have
been killed thus far, and unless there is a fall of
snow before tho season closes the total num-
Der killed this fall will not be more than a third
of that of last year. The few men who have
gone into the woods to still-hunt say that deer
are more plentiful this year than for a dozen
seasons back. They haven't been driven back
into the mountains by the dogs. Despite
this fact 1t is very difficult to get a shot at a
deer still hunting. Half a dozen parties, which
have gone In every year for two weeks shoot
ing. have notified their old guides that they
are not going into the Adirondacks this year.
Two of these parties have gone into Canada
for their deer hunting.
''If this law is Observed" said an old guide
yesterday. iii venture to guess that in five
years the deer along the outskirts of the Adjron-
dacks will become 30, numerous that they
VIII prove q great nuisance to the farmers.
Killed this fall I" and the hunters tHM Hsv have Vs' for 0t the
most part been guides or old.timers, who
would go into the woods no matter what the
law was. The men who have been coming
up from New York every year haven't ap.
Peared this year One Of them wrote to me
70 come away up here for the privilege OF freez-
ing 10 neath early in the morning or late at
nighl without any definite prospect of a shot"
some OF the results OF the new law are unex-
pected. For instance, at Meacham Lake,
there have been twenty.one deer killed this fall
and thirteen OF them were does. There ID
probably no resort in the Adirondack; where
greater care ~ taken to prevent the killing Of
does than at this place. MIR. Fuller, who owns
nearly al Of the land around the lake, has for.
hidden the killing of does. Out of twenty-four
deer Killed there last year only four were does.
The still hunters this fall say that II is almost
impossible to distinguish between a doe and a
DUCK IN Inc early dawn and at twilight, when
they 40 thelr hunting, and the consequence is
That the men on post blaze away at anything
ing a buck.
In past seasons from fifty to one hundred
Seer nave bcen killed every fall in the neigh.
borhood OF Mountain View, and despite the fact
mat there Is now n. railroad station there and a
score or more OF cottages, IA great many deer
We're killed IN that region last fall. Thus far
Sniy two or three have been shot, though lots OF
deer have been seen. Similar reports come
from all OF the well-knOwn resorts. The hunt
ers say that two or three days OF snow b.foTe
thc season closes would give tho still hunters u
Iltie more than an even chance against the
Tho repeal of the bounty on hears has made
~ uhproftah!o to hunt them as a business, and
they nave increased rapidly. An old bear is
and as a rule they are just.about as shy when
they ger n glimpse Of "a hunter. 1t is only
When u pearls wounded or COrnerCd tina. he Is
nhhgeroIs. Three bears were seen in Brandon
lhsl week ,py Two boys who were looking for
escaped.