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good hinds. Count of Hinds and Calves, Feb., 1890, in Forest. time, but a good many must be yeld for a year, because on our best breeding district of Largy, if we can come up with a lot of 20 hornless deer we generally find 2 or 4 adult yeld hinds among them. No doubt some of these yeld hinds have lost their calves. The best and sleekest hinds are generally selected, of breeding age. My impression is, that I never knew a milk-hind shot that did not prove to be in-calf, happily our experience in this matter is small. We know less about the fertility of inferior hinds in exposed places, because we seldom shoot them, but it must be far less than is current with well conditioned hinds, or else there is an enor- mous early death rate among their calves. Probably both of these evils are at work. The subject is treated further on. It is impossible to doubt that far more calves born to poor hinds die, than such as belong to well-conditioned hinds. Inner, our most exposed breeding ground, shows 28 calves alive February to 100 hinds. Largy, our choicest and best sheltered ground shows 45 calves to 100 hinds. We reckon as "hinds," the female deer of i year old and upwards, and it is to 100 of these our rate of calves is calculated ; we think this method of reckon- ing less liable to error than an attempt to deduct the yearlings and 2 year old hinds, and to ascribe the calves to the balance left of

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