The Brattleboro reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1907-1912, 1910-11-04
FEWER DEER SHOT
THAN YEAR AGO
Number Killed in This County
Will Not Exceed 300.
BRArrLEBoRo NIMRoDs LUCKY
Many Of Them Get Trophies In sur
rounding Towns Dummers,on Seems
20 Re the Banner Town Of the County
This Season.

The prophccy made last year that the
sbooiinv of does would not maicHaip
reduce the number of deer shot this
wear has hardly proven eorfsct, luuE
In The Incomplete returns received from
different PARTS oi the county. Tue ny
ur.s TINS morning indicate that hy'
over $50 deer have been shot IN @
ham county. The percentage oI M doos
sbot h small, being probably less than
81 40, cont. County Game warden
Roswell l.. Frost. basing his estimate
n,,nn the number Of deer reported shot
in nearby towns, IL inclined 10 behcNe
,b,, Tho week will total nearly up 10
H. season of 1909 when 1876 were re.
,,or,.d slain, but the returns AS hauo
bv The RetoTmcr correspondents ~
M. various towns of the county do hot
show anything liz. tue slaughter OF M ,ass
veor Mr. rost has been busy TINS
week keeping track ui the uv oya
bunters IN tie woods. and while therc
have been about the usual number Oh
mon in the woods he has had no Sc
vious complaint concerning NloiallVhs
~ The game laws. The animals shot
,bis veaT are hardly up TO tine size OF
those killed last wear. Mr.. Frost ealIs
attention TO the law requiring an per
sons killing deer to notify the near
est game warden. lie says tha. 1".y
"A
him M TO last night aud as ne hhu
Lnn,yledpe of twice that number OF
5asr being killed in this immediate see
,ion he is inclined TO think that huht'
ers are negligent in the matter OF re-
nor,ino 40 accidents have been re-
norted and this is perhaps due to some
extent to the clothing worn py the
hunters. This year II is claimed tnat
a greater number OF hunters nave Mo'.
aasier for the hair-trigger nimrod to
| distinguish them from deer, than u
they wore brown or gray clothing ana
| hats. hoo, out
| a,,r;nn ,be week in considerable num-
| hars but the sum total of their en-
| deayors TO bring in big game Aas re,
suited in only nominal hgures. Loca,
hunters were in the woods III .hls anu
surrounding towns carry M1huul no
;na which proved ideal for hunting ana
sbortlv before II clock w. j. Haw klns
of West Brattleboro brought IN the hist
snecimen. n 300.pound buck win u
bondsome set of antlers, shot IN puil-
cord About a half an hour later Ut.
/ Edwards arrived from Dummers.
ron with a fine buck. weighing about
l50 rounds. He shot the animal on the
Barber farm about clock IN tue
morning. During the evening VI; y. ~,
Aldrich arrived with Il 200-pound buck
, shot in Putney. To John r; stark or
West Brattleboro probably falls the ans
tinetion of securing the smallest speesl-
mon durintr the week. He got oo'
, pound buck Monday forenoon p,.nov
G. l.. Coane arrived from ruthey
, Tuesday with 225-pound buck shot r., IN
!, that town during the forenoon. The In
, same same dav Clarence Bruce cot 10
pound T% doe in Wardsboro and Wednes, IS
day R. II. Briggs of West Brattlebor,o t,1 1I, .
. COT cot a 2OO.round doe in DR.. c. 5: ClaTR p6n
! nasturc. Fred H.. Wilder shot g s99'
: pound doe the same dav and Charies
4 Prescott was lucky Brattlepolo. iunI hlni
\ ar getting a 2O0-pound four-polnt BUCK
: a. West Townshend. Harris GRAY go'
!. a oo5.nound doe on Black mountain II
|. Dummerston. Charles Wilder tried ms