Show SHOOTIG DEER FROM TREES Curious Sport Indnlged in by the Apple Grower of Arkansas In the applegrowing regions of Arkansas Arkan-sas the natives have a way of deer shoot ing entirely original with themselves Deer love apples and in the vast orchards or-chards they go to feed Not only do the deer eat the apples but when the fruit 1s all fathered they turn their attention to the bark on the young trees and the branches of the elder ones In the fall when the apples are plentiful the native watches for deer signs and when he lo cates the trees which the deer frequent he goes to work gathering the fruit al ways leaving two or three trees unpicked that bear the favorite apple of the deer After the fruit gathering is over he turns his attention to harvesting venison The deer come to the orchard to feed In the night and when daylight comes hie away in some secluded hollow and sleep When the moon is in the first quarter the native takes his gun and goes out in the early evening to lie for the deer Generally two or three hunters scatter out about the apple trees that are left full fruited to lure the deer to destruc tion They climb into the branches of the trees a short distance from the ones that bear the fruit and remain silent and motionless to await the coming of the game Shotguns are the weapons and buckshot the ammunition used Us ually the hunters do not have long to wait before they can hear the deer ap proaching The game comes cautiously and it is sometimes an hour after the game had been sighted or heard before he presents himself at the apple tree says a writer in the St Louis Republic I watched one night for an hour and a half and during all that time deer were In sight but not close enough to shoot At last a splendid buck came up on the opposite side of the trees and began reaching and picking the apples Presently Pres-ently a doe put In an appearance I sat there admiring the pair waiting for them to move around a little to give me a better shot when Bang Bans in rapid succession my companions gun sounded about 100 yards from where I was stationed startling the beauties that I had considered as good as dead and as they started off I tried to get my gun in position to shoot as they ran my foot slipped and down I went in a heap on the ground My companion however who had fired the shots was more successful suc-cessful When I reached him he had a buck and doe lying beside the apple tree and was just in the act of cutting their throats He said there was no use remaining as the deer would not comeback come-back again until near morning and may be not that night I killed a doe the next night and the native duplicated the performance per-formance of the previous evening His record for the season was J7 deer all killed in the same orchard which covered an area of about 100 acres |