Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1899-10-20
DEER HUNTING SEASON.
SpOrtsmen Should Read the Stat
utes Carefully.

The Season Lasts Only Ten Days, and
Single Hunter Can Take only One
Horned Deer---1O3 Bucks KILLED i'm
%, 1871 in 'Os.
The Vermont woods will be secured in
the ten days beginning Monday, the time IN
which deer having horns may be hunted in
the state having been changed from the
month of October to the last ten days OF
the month by the last legislature. 1t will
be well for hunters to remember that mo
person during the open season OF any year
shall take, kill, destroy or have in posses
sion more than one deer. The law also
provides that no person shall hunt, kill,
destroy or capture deer inthis state: With
dog of any kind; by the aid or use OF
Jack or artificial light; by the method
known as crusting; while the deer are
yarded or by the use or assistance OF any
snare, trap or salt lick.
Deer killed or taken in Vermont shall
not be transported by any person or cor
poration, except that the carcass, or parts
thereof of one deer, lawfully killed in the
state, may be transported in the open sea-
son and for ten days thereafter when open
to view, tagged and plainly labeled with
the name of the owner thereof and accom-
panied by him; and the possession of a
deer or a part thereof by common carrier
or servant of common carrier unaccom-
panied by the owner, or not tagged and
plainly labeled with his name, shall be
violation of the provisions of this section
by such common carrier and servant But
this section shall not apply to the head,
feet or pelt of a deer severed from the
body.
GA person violating any of the above pro
visions shall be fined 500 for each offence,
one-half of the fine to go to the complain
ant and the other half to the state
Deer were practically extinct in the
southern and central parts of the state II
years ago. At that time spOrtsmen in Rut
land raised several hundred dollars with
which deer were bought, and II animals
were liberated in Rutland county. In the
wild forest region of the northeastern par
of the state, particularly in Essex county
deer had never been exterminated. TIT
present stock of deer in the state original
ed from these two sources. 1t is probabl,
that the deer in Essex county, however
have not found their way into other part
of the state in large numbers, as the wilt
region of which the county is part ex
sends into the "forests primevap' OF north
ern New Hampshire and Canada, while oil
this side is a cleared and well settled coun
try.
The legislature in 1896 made the mont
of October an open season for huntin
deer, and in 1897 total of 103 bucks kill
ed we're reported to the fish and game com
missioners. The figures by counties wer
as follows: Addison /, Bennington 6, Cal
edonia ), Chittenden 4, Essex 6, Franklin
2, Lamoille 2, Orange 1, Orleans 3, Rutlan
p, Washington 8, Windham Z, Windso
SO. These figures do not represent the to
tai number killed. In Windham count
the total number was II or more, taken i
the towns of Rockingham, Grafton, Wind
ham, Jamaica, Wardsboro, Stratton, Wi
mington, Somerset. In the sparsely sci
tied sections of Essex county deer are u1
doubtedly killed illegally. The total nun
Der killed in 1897 is estimated by the con
missioners at $50.
The record in 1898 was Addison 6, Der
nington 4, Caledonia 2, Chittenden 1, FL
sex 10, Franklin l, Orange ?, Orleans
Rutland So, Washington 2, Windham
Windsor IS; total 1871. A large part {
the deer were killei in the towns nea
where the II deer were liberated II year
ago, the record in cluster of towns
Windsor and Rutland counties being q
follows: Plymouth %, Shrewsbury l;
Sherburne I, Mendon 5, Reading 7, BIidg'
water 0. These figures show total of
deer in six adjoining towns, and deer wei
also taken in II other towns of the tvs
counties.
The commissioners stated in 1898 Thu
they had received reports in the bienni
term of three deer being killed by locom'
tives and seven by dogs. Undoubted
many more deer were killed by dogs tina
were reported. In December, 1897, tv
bucks were found in Proctorsville wit
horns locked together. One of the bucl
was dead and frozen stiff, his neck havir
been broken. The other buck was ali
and was released.