The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-12-01
YEARS TOTAL Of
DEER KILLED ITO
Seventy-Nine i'm Windham
County Besides Open
Season List
FORTY SHOT FOR
DAMAGING CROPS
Twenty-Six Reported Shot Accidentally
or Illegally Some AgricuIturists
Eager TO Shoot Deer but Ignore De-
structive Woodehuck


That Windham county is the banner
county for deer is proven by statistics for
several years past. but why this is so is
rather difficult to determine. Grey
squirrels, partridges and Snowshoe rab-
bits also are very abundant i'm this
county, as are most fur bearing animals
particularly raccoons This abundance OF
wild life doubtless is due in large measure
TO the climatic conditions and the nature
of the country, well watered mountains,
and valleys with alternating tracts of
woodland and cultivated farms. The
amount of protection offered the wild life
from illegal. 0ut-of-season taking, also
is factor. and there are probably others.
Its geographic location makes this
county easily accessible to SpoFtsmen
from other states. and they come here i'm
swarms, but still the county's wild life
on the whole, seems to be on the increase
The 1870 wholesale slaughter of deer
during which a large number of fawns
were killed in addition 10 the does and
mature bucks, set the deer crop back an
prcciably. hut the county still leads the
state, the deer killed in this county the
past open season, 191. being almost one
fourth of the number killed in the whole
state. and S3 more than We're killed in
any other county.
Figures from the state fish and game
commissioner Office show that in adfTi.
ton to the 191 bucks reported this sea-
son tand some that We're Killed were not
reportedl, q total of 20 other deer were
killed in this county from Jan. /. 1922.
70 Nov. ~. 1922, making a grand tota
of 80, and these latter figures So far a.
neer accidentally and illegally killed are
concerned, are necessarily very incom-
plete
The 40 additional deer killed in this
county during the past II months are di-
vidcd as follows In Westminster oDer,
zone, Ii; killed for damaging crops. 40
reported as killed Illegally or accidentally
20. The reports on deer illegally and &c
cidentally killed include those dying from
wounds inflicted by farmerS who shot a.
them in their crops. from shots fired bv
nknowp lawbreakerS those for whiet
lawbreakers paid fines. aud those killed
by railroad trains. automobiles dogs. hah
cats and other agencies. OF course this
'lass IF reports is very incomplete as
many people fail 10 send i'm notification
If the dead deer they run across in the
woods and fields. and the lawbrpaking
hunters are naturally of 50 shy and re
firing n nature that tho ren0rtS of their
killings are few and far between
As 10 the deer killed doing damage
most of them really forfeited their lives
under the law, bus there are few agri-
culturiSts who like veniSon So well that
they crowd the line Of legality rather
close in their efforts 70 secure it,
One woodchuck viii do more damage
than two deer. but some farmers don't
cat wOodchuckS. When deer Is shot for
mining of Il few clover tops it looks q
little odd. especially when the field is
found 10 he made into 4 checkerhoard by
woodchuck paths.