our rate of calves is calculated ; we think this method of reckon- hinds die, than such as belong to well-conditioned hinds. The best and sleekest hinds are generally selected, of breeding age. mous early death rate among their calves. Probably both of ground shows 45 calves to 100 hinds. We reckon as "hinds," the them. No doubt some of these yeld hinds have lost their calves. time, but a good many must be yeld for a year, because on our good hinds. these evils are at work. The subject is treated further on. is current with well conditioned hinds, or else there is an enor- ing less liable to error than an attempt to deduct the yearlings and February to 100 hinds. Largy, our choicest and best sheltered places, because we seldom shoot them, but it must be far less than Hinds and Calves, female deer of i year old and upwards, and it is to 100 of these hornless deer we generally find 2 or 4 adult yeld hinds among 2 year old hinds, and to ascribe the calves to the balance left of It is impossible to doubt that far more calves born to poor best breeding district of Largy, if we can come up with a lot of 20 We know less about the fertility of inferior hinds in exposed 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. Inner, our most exposed breeding ground, shows 28 calves alive Count of Feb., 1890, in Forest.