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Show iCTATES REPORT" j DEERRECORDS! One Hundred I housand Deer Killed by Hunters of Seven teen States Last Year By PETER c CARNE1 One hundred ihirty-thrcc thou- 1 Rind, ninety-eight deer were leg- i ally killed in the United States last year Impossible as these figures may appear ap-pear they .ire correct, and furthermore th y reprc.-.-.-nt only ;h,- total kill of IT states, the 17 states in which the hunters are requested to make a report re-port on the bag of deer. The above figures do not take into account the great number of deer that are killed Illegally. i n New York, for iRslanre. the com mission has reports On a few inor'-' than five thousand taken, while It is1 tho common belief among those who hunted In the state that the total kill I was nearer 20,000 New York has re-j turned to the one buck law and it isj not likely that there will be any morej slaughters. I We have been told that deer were, scarce but the figures mentioned above' do not indicate that such is the cu.se The figures amaze us, and no doubt; will amaze a great many others In some states the season Is quite; long while in many others the season Is brief. In Colorado the season Is only four days, In New Jersey five, and In several other states the hunting dj.s for deer are less than ten. You; can Imagine what the total would be I If the season was extended In any of these statei I ne thousand were kill-; ed In Colorado in the four days Twenty-five years ago a deer w.i a curiosity In New Hampshire. The, past season nearly 5,000 were killed.' Deer are so thick in Vermont that the; shooting of does is permitted once In ever -s'x years. Deer are protected In Illinois until 1J25. By that time' ' ' . . i . I'.tl. -. IJ .1 ... .1 I 11,1 I I will walk up and be shot as did the Moose In Maine the past season i after aflve-ear closed season-i season-i ii i Mi l. in 91 m i 6 H-r are tho statistics on the deer1 killed in the states Compiled record. Wisconsin 26,oooj Minnesota 20,000 1 Michigan 18.000 W 'iiung l fi.i California 13,000 1 Ifontana 7.500 Maine 5.748 New York .I.Otil Oregon .1.000 x.-w Hampshire 4.X00 Vermont ,100 Pennsylvania -.013 j 1,230 ido i Massachusetts 8C3 New Jersey. 5outh Dakota 225 oo In Japan the women raic silk worms j and feed .Liciu. |