Show protect deer and increase the meat supply of utah while fifteen states including utah will have no big game hunting this year beca because 1 use deer have been ex terminated or because the stock has been so reduced that the season is closed there are thirty three other states according to the united states department of agriculture which will have an open season for deer hunt ing this season ranges from four days in new jersey and six days in massachusetts and vermont to two months or more in some of the south ern states these seasons opened august in oregon and in most of california in september in the rest of california and idaho south carolina and virginia in october in maine new hampshire new york georgia montana wyoming wash ington nevada arizona and new mexico in november in michigan minnesota wisconsin and several of the southern states and in decem ber in pennsylvania there Is no open season on oft deer in utah this year in about one third ot of the states the law allows the hunter one deer a year and in most others two the department of agriculture urges all persons to operate cooperate to se cure the best possible prote protection clion of deer so as to get the maximum am aunt of venison as a source of meat it is estimated that about eighty thousand deer are killed legally in the united states each year these produce nearly ten million ot oz venison the biological survey of the department says that this num ber her of deer can be very largely in creased since only two or three states produce more than one thousand when eleven hundred deer are ob talked in a state as densely populate ed as massachusetts it should not be difficult says the department to in crease the total in the other states by at least 25 per cent every pound of venison brought in should be made tosane a pound of beet beef mutton or pork raised on ranch a or farm the operation cooperation of game torn tom missioners conservation association and other organizations Is requested by the department as an aid in cecur ing accurate reports of the number of deer killed in each state this year such reports should prove of value for comparison with the returns fioti from other years and may tell whether the number of deer annually taken in any state may be increased without impairing the breeding stock |