. Raising deer and other large game animals in the United States . Duke of 13, 14,22,23Worthington, Charles C 47,49,50,51 O. WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1910 LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL. U. S. Department of Agriculture, Biological, Survey,Washington, D. C, Oct. JH : I have the honor to transmit herewith, as Bulletin No. 36 ofthe Biological Survey, the results of an investigation by David concerning the practicability and desirability of raising deerand other large game animals in the United States. In most parts of the country the number of game animals issteadily


. Raising deer and other large game animals in the United States . Duke of 13, 14,22,23Worthington, Charles C 47,49,50,51 O. WASHINGTON GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE 1910 LETTER OF TRANSMITTAL. U. S. Department of Agriculture, Biological, Survey,Washington, D. C, Oct. JH : I have the honor to transmit herewith, as Bulletin No. 36 ofthe Biological Survey, the results of an investigation by David concerning the practicability and desirability of raising deerand other large game animals in the United States. In most parts of the country the number of game animals issteadily diminishing and game for table use has already become ahigh-priced luxury. Experiments have shown that some species,especially of the deer family, can be brought to a state of semidomes-tication with comparative ease and can be bred and raised at verysmall cost. The chief purpose of the present bulletin is to call atten-tion to the importance of raising elk and deer for venison, to indicatethe particular species most readily reared in preserves, and to empha-size the importance of so modifying state game laws as to encouragethe


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