Show I I Not an Ecsy to Tell foci's Age It Is Impossible says says says' the United States survey to ten tell the age of the deer tribe by the number of points on the antlers There Is n a popular notion that every time line a deer sheds Its which horns Is once a year rear the horn grows out with m an extra point In a general way thIs Is true But the ot of the antlers Is dependent de- de pendent on n a number of circumstances not hr the general physical ph s 's eal con condition of the animal and u d Its virility As u 11 rule tUle the horns begin b in as single singla points point and increase in size bad and number cr of points up to whatever ma may be tIll the tIllI maximum but the Increase in size in several years may not Dot he be strictly pro pro- As the old 0 there is a tendency for the horns harns to tobe be smaller with fewer points A point I Is nn an individual rn tine or snag rf of the antlers A deer cl with lith one point on each side Is called a two point deer one cne with two points on each sIde a point four deer mH and so on The reindeer rein rein- I C deer cIcer differs front from nil other deer deet In that the tle females of this specie also have j horns I |