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Show RAISING KAIBAB DEER PROVING PROFITABLE After numerous unsuccessful attempts at-tempts to relieve the overstocked condition con-dition among the Kaibab deer the forest service has lately found a plan that is proving successful. Each spring at the time of fawning Kanab people are issued permits as desired to go into tire forest and capture fawns. The hunters use dogs which frighten the young deer into hiding places and hold them there until they are caught and taken home. As soon as the young deer have taken food from their new guardians they become quite tame and friendly and the real problem of caring for them begins. They are fed on cow's or goat's milk until old enough to eat green stuff and hay. As they grow to mature size they are taken back by the forest service and shipped ship-ped to various preserves and private parks about the country. On the return re-turn of the deer the forest service pays the farmer $25 for the care of each animal during the summer. Although the first attempts at feeding feed-ing the fawns were not very successful, suc-cessful, the farmers raising fawns this season have overcome many of their early difficulties. The new business busi-ness is growing into a profitable sideline side-line for people of Kanab and adjacent adja-cent towns, one man of the section having had as many as 50 young deer on his place during, the summer. Forest officials report that the Kaibab Kai-bab is overstock with deer during fori vpars Thsv estimate the number of deer at around 30,000. They also estimate that Kaibab deer will have been sent to most of the states of the union by this season's shipments. ship-ments. Early attempts at capturing the mature deer by driving them into enclosures were entirely futile. The animals would beat themselves to death against enclosures or the walls of their crates in attempts to gain their freedomi. . |
