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Interesting word comes down” Pennsylvania's big game country to those sportsmen whose thoughts a been turned upon the deer , the approach of winter, Deer ing is going to be better , next season, with prospects will be still better two or three hence information comes direct from Medix Run, the heart of the finest American deer country eat of the Rockies, and from several experienced observers who have spent the past week in a deer camp in that vie giving close attention to the deer sit uation. They report deer to be plen tiful, regardess of the wanton slaughter of dee fawne that pre vailed last fall of the epidemic of, “stock yards pneula” that killed many last spring. During the week somb deer were seen and bucks were out among the dees as a remarkable discovery these made was that there have unusually large number dropped this summer, fawns were spotted some reports were . mountaineers who have ten @ three fawns, all of which, healthy. Stony Jefferson, caretaker of rylvania Game Refuge No. 82, the opinion that buck hunting , the best it has been in as numbers are concerned. I been in close touch with the sit for years and is satisfied that by will be plentiful. Observers are convinced that this season's fawns will result in a crease in the backs of legal sise hunting three or four years he! when they attain their growth. This information will be welcomed by it hunters. Last year, it will be bored, bucks were protected by @ @ porary rule that lowered the bars on does and fawns without horns, — protection did not prevent the of many bucks along with and fawns because of the shooting that developed army of thousands of hunters who took to the w some @nsy Meat. Few veteran buck hunters ten the game fields, They eat — an i struction of their game, The « ton became so wanted “ie counties stopped the slaughter is the middle of the seven through process of injunctions. Later ii” winter, it developed that the were dying off in great Game authorities indicated that ation was the cause. Were declare these deaths were due epidemic of hemorrhaegic # iia, a disease of the nasal that was highly contagious, were entertained that it would cut the deer herd. Sportemen ed the deer die by hundreds to a time, but the deathy dwindled off and the eplemic subsided of its Own Age cord. The heavy inroads upon nord created a doubt among hunters over the likelihood: port for years to come. Appears that the ways of that took care of the epide mhe authorities were lost , took care of the supply of ani and will provide a plentitude for coming hunting season and ” or more for later years. Thousands of hunters who , away from their favorite sports hunting last season, are p return to their hunting cabins for season that will open within ® months .
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DuBois Courier
DuBois, Pennsylvania, US
Mon, Oct 07, 1929
Page 9
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