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When buck deer fight to the often as not it is starvation, not wounds that kills them. Their horns lock, and in the spring a woodsman will find such skeletal traces of the combat as the foxes and mice have left. Last week a railroad brakeman in Colorado came before spring did. He saw two big bucks fighting in the snow near the tracks, their horn locked. When he got to Steamboat Springs, the brakeman told the agent, who told some farmers, who took rope and saw, cut the deer apart, watched them bound off towards the woods side...
...stock to give him control. The other bid came from Mr. Josey, another good friend of Trustee Jones. After some court wrangling, Lumberman West sold his interest to Mr. Josey for $485,000, after which he went off with Governor Sterling to the latter's ranch to hunt deer...
Outside Congress: He lives with his wife, Louise Clarkson Connally, in an old-fashioned apartment house on Connecticut Avenue. He sidesteps Washington society, chums principally with Texans and Democrats from the West. He plays no golf, but shoots duck, hunts deer, fishes. He drives a 1930 Dodge sedan which takes him back to Marlin, Tex. between Senate sessions...
First State to start restocking its forests with game was Pennsylvania, which in 1906 bought from Michigan 50 deer, added more in subsequent years. A system of State-owned refuges was developed, each refuge surrounded by an area on which hunting could be regulated by State law. Under this protection Pennsylvania's deer multiplied rapidly. Last week, with 80,000 acres of refuges, 1,800,000 acres of hunting ground, and a herd estimated at 1,000,000, Pennsylvania had several hundred thousand deer too many...
Pennsylvania's Game Commissioner, Dr. T. E. Winecoff, wrote about it in American Game. An annual kill of 20,000 to 25,000 deer, he said, "cannot be missed in this State. The deer herd now far exceeds the carrying power of their wild range, and-forced by hunger-they have become appallingly destructive to crops, orchards, and the plantations' of young seedling trees set out by the Department of Forests & Waters for reforesting. And even after all their depredations on crops and orchards, large numbers of them, especially fawns, die every winter of starvation. . . . To increase game...