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Show "posted" against their trespass, using no weapon other than a shotgun and resorting neither to the use of hounds uor the lure of salt licks. Only legal citizens of Massachusetts may hunt mid they may not sell the venlsou tney secure. Deer are very plentiful, but much If.iid has been posted 'laglnst the ! hunters by farmer. It U estimated that warning slims so far placed affect af-fect nearlv 250,(100 acres of prescribed prescrib-ed territory. " MassachiiHctts has not enjoyed an open season on deer since IS'.iS. Mcan-l.Jin; Mcan-l.Jin; the aninuils have increased in number uud have grown hold under protection. They have indirectly placed tidy sums In the pockets of fanners through their Inroads among '.he crops, for which the state has been compensating the fanners at practically practi-cally their own valuation DEER HUNTING IN MASSACHUSETTS Boston. Nov. 21 Virtually a vast deer preserve, through a dozen years cf legal prohibition against deer-tiiootlng, deer-tiiootlng, the five counties of western Massachusetts were thrown open at runrlsc today to a tmiall army of hunters hunt-ers for six days' sport. Sportsmen will be allowed until sunset next ydi. urday to secure one deer In any part, of this territory, which h.13 not ber |