Show unnn I t ER t fOR MARKETS 11li li ORT Oil POSSIBLE PROFIT IN t RAISING ANIMAL Ds Do o State Game Laws Are Amended I r Auction of Venison May Bet Be-t Widely Adopted on Vacant d Va-cant Lands au IShlngtonIt Is quite probable some day not far distant deer t will become as common and as r 5 In our market as mutton ch Is the belief of D E Lantz of Pulled States biological survey J In an exhaustive report Issued t he department of agriculture ills d the economic possibilities of 1 II tug deer and elk from a purely ads proposition of profit t Lantz even suggests that legls rr abe enacted which will make this L 0 is aDd in his report upon the er be tells how It Is posslblo to I Ucate deer for the market dte n toe average American tho report I Ir Lantz will como as a surprised surprise-d in nearly every section of tho count coun-t leer are protected as zealously as robin Aside from stating that the tC yc would profit by being able to v y Ue nutritious meat Mr Lantz rf I that 250000000 acres of land In pIC COuntry which at present Is hes8 st could bo utilized as deer lotions lit CCordlng to the report tho chief clt e to t profitable propagation of 1o I country this country Is the restrictive TI 1 titer of stato laws governing then the-n g 1 sale and transportation of fit Many state legislatures havo sR I y modiiiud the game laws and tic war as a result tho door and ble rdUstry has boor started ln n fow Ib iim collsJeralilo success k tecsas II ansa8 Minnesota Missouri and Is slaws Carolina have so modified their that deor can bo raised for l U1trket 7 under certain restrictions 111 other stales only i0rmlt deer noM ad sold reservations i cu sLates that safeguards ism e De destruction of wild door In bl or domesticated deer nro not hit ult I 10 i enforce and suggests a eye I n n often licensing private parks and of tagging deer or carcasses sold or shipped so that they might bo easily Identified The report states that the best species spe-cies of deer to raise for tho markets is tho Virginia deer for It can be raised under any condition of food and climate Tho department of agriculture gives the domestication as Its reason for advocating mestication of deer for tho markets he growing scarcity of game mammals mam-mals In this country and the threatened threat-ened extinction of some of them over various sections makes the preservation preserva-tion and development of the deer industry dustry necessary That the Industry Is well under way In several states Is best Illustrated by reports received by the department of agriculture from owners of reservations reserva-tions One of great interest is the following written by C H Uoseberry of Stella Mo In his letter Mr Hose berry states tho in breeding My experience common or Virginia deer covors a nnnn period of 17 years beginning In March 1891 when as a boy of 16 I built a small enclosure of one and one half acres to confine a single doe that was captured as a fawn In the neighboring neigh-boring forest A buck and other does were secured se-cured from year to year until In 1900 by purchase and natural Increase my herd numbered 25 head of all ages From 1891 to 1901 I lost every year from disease an average of 20 percent per-cent For tho last seven years my herd has averaged 70 per cent Increase all of which I have sold at satisfactory satisfac-tory prices I began selling at 20 per pair of fawns at four months of ago and 30 per pair of adults I sell exclusively for pets and for propagating propagat-ing purposes although a few surplus bucks have been sold for venison averaging av-eraging mo 15 cents per pound gross weight If we except the goat I know of no domestic animal common to tho farm that requires so little feed and attention as the deer |