The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1911-01-20
RUTHLESS SLAUGHTER
Of DEER AND OTHER
GAME IN THIS COUNTRY
ST EciAL LEGISLATION WILL BE
ASKED BY MAuRY COUNTY
sPoRTsMEN.
FINE FOR ,H0oIlYd DER
First Monday In February Is Set for
aMeeting Of the Middle Tennessee
Fish and Game AssocIation.-FuII
Attendance Desired. y n sfsi
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That special legislation will be ask
ed for by a number of Maury county
sportsmen is a settled fact. Monday,
February 6, has been selected by
President John w. Jackson for the
calling together Of the members Of
the Middle Tennessee Fish and Game
Association for the purpose of dis
cussing and advising plans and ap-
pointing committee for the purpose
of drafting bill to be presented to
the General Assembly now In session
asking for the protection of the fish
In the streams Of Tennessee and the
game that inhabit the fields and the
forests OF the State. -
This meeting is all important and
every man that is Interested in fishing
tand hunting is urged to be present at
the meeting. The hour and the place
lof the meeting will be announced
later. ~ ststs-
S9News comes from Lawrence county
that the deer are being slaughtered
Without regard of season or sex. This
iwill eventually clear the barrens of
1.-THE lower counties of this game unless
something is done to stop the natives
from shooting these little animals.
In order to acquaint the general
public with the facts the writer has
gone to some trouble to investigate
the deer and their progeny. In Yer
mont thirty years ago there were nc
deer at all, and the State bought two
pairs and placed them in the State
reserves, and today the State abounds
with this game. A law was placed
around them to protect them, and to
day there are only two weeks of open
season in which to shoot these ami
mails and then does are not permitted
to be killed at all. The season opens
in November for two weeks, and last
season five thousand animals were
reported killed, and it is possible thai
more were killed that were not report
ed. Only bucks with horns are sub
ject to slaughter and any person vic
lating this law is subject to heavy
fine and Imprisonment and the laws
are strictly enforced
This must be done in this State t.
protect the deer and all other game
Sam Gillian, Of Lawrence county
bought doe about twenty years age
and she lived until she was eighteer
years old, and If her progeny shoult
have been permitted to live and e
without being interfered with, woult
have numbered over 1,100. The frs
year doe will have one fawn ant
each year thereafter she will have
two, and almost invariably one bucl
and one doe. II the proper Legislation
could be passed there are enough
lovers of sport to see that they are
enforced, and unless this is done
there will soon be no deer in thii
State.
When there is a heavy snow, which
was the case in 1905, the natives east
ly track them, and bag them at will
and it is reported that they are pray
ing for a heavy snow to get in theil
work. At present there are consid
cradle number of deer in the barrens
A hunter and sportsman stated today
that while out shooting quail a few
days ago that he started six deei
from their beds and that he saw al
least two dozen beds that had beer
recently occupied and some we're still
warm.