The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-17

l son. of Mobile. Mrs. Peovy of Atmore. and Mrs Bruce, of Brooklyn.
 | A private deer park perhaps. the I only one in Alabama and one of the very few in the United States, is main taineG by Atmores foremost citizen, Mir w. M Carney. The gentle. brown eyed herd of MT. Carney's pets numbers [ twenty two bucks. does and lawns to- gether
 They are kept in a double-fenced park twenty acres in extent in front of the beautiful Carney home and just across the railroad track. They are the native deer of Alabama, the red deer which not so many years ago abounded in the fields and forests of South Alabama. Some of them are still left in the woods of Baldwin and neigh
 boring counties. but their number is few and the city hunter who spends a week in the woods and succeeds in bag
 ging q single one has something to
 boast of in the years to come. Hunter I'm His Youth. MT. Carney, now in hale and hearty
 old age, was himself a famous hunter
 in his younger years. He, too, lived in Baldwin County, and perhaps he knew
 more of the haunts and customs of the deer than any other man in the county.
 And in the fascinating hunt for this beautiful wild game he was at least as | successful as any of the old time pot l hunters of that section in bagging red deer. It is said of him by an Atmore | man that perhaps he has killed more I red deer than any living man. This
 record beyond doubt has a bearing up- ] on his gentle and beautiful diversion of l keeping deer park and selecting the deer as favoJite pets, for when I asked
 him what induced him to go Into the diversion of maintaining and raising deer. he said:
 You seq in my VOuuDar dave spent no little time in hunting and I killed a great many deer. Now I feel lke l ought to even up the score by
 being as good to the family as can" The deer are jealously guarded and
 no pets ever received more careful at-
 tention. In the first place the park is really Il park within park. The en- closure in which the deer are kept Is enclosed in still another wire fence, both fences being s or feet high. The principal reason for the double
 fence is that the deer shall not appear
 at the outer fence near main travelled highways and thus tempt some
 thoughtless vandal to fire at one of
 them with pistol or gun. From one fence to another it is perhaps a dis
 tance of 50 yards and the brown -eyed
 pets can not core into view of any wandering vandal.
 Park Within a Park. The ten-acre park Is cut in two by stir another tall wire fence and in one compartment are kept the does and lawns, in the other the bucks. autlered and swift The herd had been given n
 special attendant in Lowis a negro who
 is' If anything, piouder of the brown
 pets than MT Carney. Lewis, when
 he is asked, deposes and says deer
 mas more sense than q dog, which Is
 supposed to nave the keenest intelli-
 sehce among animals. He says they
 are more aftectionate, have more tricks
 and know more than a dog. Mir. Car
 ney hardly shares Lewiss enthusiastic
 opinion as to the intelligence of fine
 deer. but likc all other people who
 nave Intimate acquaintance with deer
 ne thinks they have d hirh order of intelligence among aninn1s a much higher order than for which they are given credit
 They make delightful pets. those peautlful red-brown creatures. Many or them are as gentle and as affection- ate as a house dog. When we visited the park, two of us and both perfect strangers to the pets. one of inc does came up and insisted on being petted, She followed us about like a great doc
 put the most of them are nervous in
 me presence of strangers With the uoes ana lawns, MT. Carney and Lewis
 may take any strt of liberties, but the
 ueer are chary of making any new ac- quaintances. On our anproacb tbev
 lied in wild, strong leaps through the
 broom sedge.
 Month in and month out does and
 DUCKS are Ted on bran chops. They
 are given also some green food such
 as velvet beans and turnips. These
 vegetables are grown in patches fenced or in small lots in the neighborhood