Show BEER FOR MARKETS REPORT ON POSSIBLE PROFIT IN RAISING ANIMAL when state game laws are amended I 1 production of venison may be 86 W widely idely adopted on va y cant lands c 1 i f washington it Is huite probable that some day not far distant deer meat will become as common and as cheap in our market as mutton buttons such Is the belief of A D E lantz of the united states biological survey i who tn in an exhaustive report issued aby by the department of agriculture dis cusses tho the econom economic c possibilities of raising deer and ilk from a purely business proposition of profit I 1 mr dir bantz lantz even suggests eug sug gesta gesis that legis s lation be e enacted i which will make this possible and in his report upon the matter he tells how ai is Pos possible sibio to domesticate deer for the market to the average american tho the report of mr air lantz will come as a surprise for in nearly every section of tho country deer are protected as zealously as the robin aside from stating that the public would profit by being able to luy buy the mit rillous meat mr lantz dds adds that acres of land in this country which at present Is worthless could be utilized as deer reservations according to the report the chief obstacle to profitable table propagation of deor deer in this country la is the restrictive f character of state laws governing the was kly ing sale aul and tra transportation ns of ia game many state legislatures have already modified the game laws and in this way as a result the deer and elk industry has been started in a few states state with considerable success arkansas arkansas minnesota missouri and north carolina have so modified their game lawSy that aper pan can be raised for the market under certain restrictions many other states only permit deer to bo 14 sold to owners of reservations mr lantz states that safeguards against the destruction oi of wild deer in place of domesticated deer are not difficult to enforce and suggests a system of licensing private parks and of tagging deer or carcasses asies sold or shipped s so 6 that thai abe they might be easily I 1 identified I 1 the report states that the best species of deer to raise for the ahe markets Is the virginia deer tor for it can be gafiea raised under nn any y condition of food and climate the department of agriculture gives as its reason for advocating the domestication of deer for the markets jee the growing scarcity of game mammals in this country pad and the threatened extinction of some of them over various sections makes the preservation and development of the deer industry necessary that the industry Is well under way in several states la Is best illustrated by reports received by the department of agriculture from owners of reservations one of great interest is the following written by C 11 Roi roseberry eberry of stella mo in his letter mr roseberry states my experience in breeding the common or virginia deer covers p a period of IT 17 years beginning in march 1891 when as a boy of IG 16 I 1 built a small inclosure of onland one and one yia yi 1 halt half acres to confine a single doe that was captured as a fawn in the neighboring forest A buck and other does were secured from year to year until in 1900 by purchase and natural increase my herd numbered 25 head of all ages from 1891 to lost every year from disease an average of 20 per cent for the last seven years my herd herd has averaged 70 per cent increase all of which I 1 have sold at satisfactory prices I 1 began selling at 20 per pair of fawns at four months months of age and 30 per pair of adults I 1 sell exclusively tor for pets and for propagating purposes although a few surplus bucks bayo been sold for venison averaging me 15 cents per pound gross groga weight if we except the goat I 1 know of no domestic animal common to the tha farm that requires so little feed and attention as the deer |