Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1903-11-12
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CERTAIN LURE FOR DEER.
A Turnip and Cabbage Patch viii
Bring Them Within Range.
New York S,ln.)

| "A man VINO has a cabin in the North.
western woods can get a deer, or as
many deer as he wants, during the
shooting season without stirring more
than 70 feet from his front door. 1t Is
necessary only that the shack be locat-
ed in the heart Of the forest, sufficiently
far from town or railway to induce in
the animals belief that their steady
| enemies are absent
| 1t will be necessary too to plant near
the cabin small patch of hardy late
growing cabbage, or rutabagas or both.
| OF these vegetables deer are passionate
~ fond and they stand no chance to
get them except by invading some ones
patch. zsie
They will take great risk to feed on
cabbage or turnips, and once having
tasted them, viii return again and
again. Indeed it is difficult to frighten
them so on any night that they will not
return within an hour.
Their hour for visiting the patches is
between 10 P. M. and A. NJ, ana they
Will come in the black dark or bright
moonlight with equal freedom. There
is no law in any of the Northwestern
states against shooting deer after dark,
though there = 4 law against the use
OF headlight, and man who knows
where his patch is can nearly always
make out the outlines of the animal
with sufficient clearnes to permit a good
shot
Indeed, If he wishes to get game. 1t
Will be better for him. to leave the light
alone. opening the cabin door suddenly,
stepping out quickly and closing 1t he
mind him. then standing in the dark
and surveying his patch closely. He can
sometimes get better view by squat
ting down and trying to bring the form
of the deer between him and the sky
The distance is so little that a fair shct
ought not to miss with a rife, even
though he cannot see the sights, and
with a shotgun charged with low
mould buckshot, he ought to kill 10
times out of TO-
Many of the cabin dwellers In the
north woods, men who have taken up
homesteads far from civilization, to
whom fresh meat is an object, get vent
son in this way. They work too hard
on six days of the week to permit OF
hunting, and are too tired at night for a
tramp, even if they possess headlights,
which most of them do not
They have the cabbages or rutabagas
until midnight listening for the tread Of
the deer. which in coming to the patch is
SO eager that it makes little attempt at
stealth or concealment The beat Of the
hoofs is distinctly audible, even through
the cabins thick walls -
Sometimes two or three deer will come
at once and they are nearly certain to
snort or leap or give some other sign Of
their anticipated enjoyment. The woods
man who hears these sounds merely rises
softly, takes his loaded gun from the cor
1t is possible that the deer see him, but
II so either they are not able to make him
out in the dark, or else they want fresh
vegetables so intensely that they do not
care what or who it>is. Even II they
take fright, which they do rarely. and
leap away, they will stop short after half
! dozen bounds and return slowly If he Ia
If one of them is shot and killed. the
others Will run away. but will come back
in an hour or so. Unlike most other ant
mails. they-do not seem to notice or care
for the scent and sight of fresh blood on
the ground. More than one deer has been
killed in this fashion while standing over
the bloodstains from a comrade shot an
hour before III =,
The man in the cabin if he wants cab
Dage-patch shooting in November. takes
his window so that the deer may not look
through the panes and see him sitting or
moving about inside. They would not
come to the Patch If they saw a man
sitting within a few yards of them, but
when the blanket is hung they come bold
ly.
As 1t is true that deer are often killed
IN this fashion, 1t is also true that any
city sportsman who owns n small bit OF
ground in the Adirondacks or any other
northern deer country can get a lot Of
them by planting par Of his land to
cahDageS or turnips. He should time his
vegetables so that they would be not more
than half grown when the season opened
a patch OF this kind placed in the woods
near no human habitation would Ia ever
more fatally attractive than patch near
a cabin. 1t is certain that a little piece
or ground prepared in this way would beat
any salt lick in the country, because deer
cabbages and turnips all the time -