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THE WAYNES1TLLE MOUNTAINEER t PAGE SEVEN fThIf SceiksJ T Ug Not Answer Esses Of Deer fill!' Page Six) one deer iclll'l H 111 II Ill'IV -j myself were forest- furrently the region. u Has and hut I was sign. It in abun- It ' l kept say b,v..;l, With all ,. ihundance of .1 there should ".'Jntv as well as coon tracks v .(l,i !vls now ana j hie, but no j until we itself that j U.I .-I l l,Miie , : 1 1 ark. ill. a little grump I ily, "there's at least the country!" ! They came running. That's the I Didnity)Qnt ilnm. TU aismuvuii.. iiiey nun led over to see what should have been commonplace. We found droppim-s and evidence that the vihiu-iail had clipped shoots from the ever present succulent browse, and when I asked them why the deul we hadn't seen such sign every where they said it was lack ol law enforcement. They chorused the answer. "Poaching!" They said in the same breath: "The herds just !,,h i get a chance. Every other ,: : family has dogs and lives mi' u. country, as they have for ; ( n .ra. tions. That holds the deer p... lation down close to a surwx,,; level." I COULDN'T believe it. We had i driven r,v.!e alter mile without see i nil', human or human habitation.! l Ue'd -lopped on high points and i locked at tens of thousands of ; '" " v ;i' a lick, with no evidence of ; , '''- rks and abuses. Thin pop u'atinn. hie country. Even if every- ! : body tlii'it hunted constantly, Mm'd be tempted to bet that the too ! JLAFF-A-DAY llet ma" Son: tj , (lessee I ! :v .1 the way iUi s! ion ll " l'i oil liavi A.'.iiu in:,!" And -nil ou!dn't have been i! on deer supplies, 'w mylits alter I was talk a cliupter of the American 1 I oresters over in Ten-i'-H telling them how Stream" and I got to be we are. and 1 put the o the group. lie," I asked, "why don't more deer in these hills?" came the chorus: ' i'oat h- agaiii I couldn't believe it. LITE GUARD All Mash lay. ing Ration is a complete feed in itself. No grain or other feed is necessary when you use it. Just keep the hoppers full of LIFE GUARD All Mash and your birds will get everything they need to maintain both maximum egg production and health. Thoroughly economical; saves labor; prevents waste. Drop in and get particular! about this great feed. tiltO ) to I) wa lland SupplypX Phone 4,'J II' WAS NO new answer, of ' ,l" e, !ra (iabriclson. in ' his -land hook on wildlife manage ment. !is pointed to the Southern M'l'.dai liians as an example of "lial o, rlumlmg will do to game I'1'" far he it from me lo challenge anything (.la he says about came allairs. hut I guess, after all H'c M n .. I'u. developed the habit ": ' ' h away from what seems ' c a. rnswers. You get that hen '. o.i'e looked ml,, l,a !"'''! ai, that harry and bc !ndd! -,).)' u and listen lo the -"'-i''ia!imis that normally arc 1' ri (I w !., n trouble (irst pops: :!"':l- ' walrhing developments Ul 1 !"HL period, you learn that 11,11 b o! ih-.. time those explana- are. oi reality , a mile or mere n't' laruel. ""I going to dispute '-! Ihesr lads and authorities end that deer scarcity in hcasiern mountains is due mi: c trifled luinling. I'm ; to a-.k them to show me 1 i ' nijieteiit and extensive joh "' '" h lhal's been done down ' w hich might have had the I'" -i1' :n of turning up other l ulm-. 1 ni going to call attention " if' cul inroads which disease 1 -!! on deer herds in Ten nessee and wonder in print if this n" Have been going on for Mime time. finally I'm going to suggest that it '.s I he business of every earnest oul.li.orsnian in the country lo uant to see the last stone turned i:i an attempt to dig up the facts "No, I didn't get a commission in the army I worked on a straight salary!" I v.l ! raoucS irley Tobacco Market wmu. Pes. Zero THE lIS(i All is mnnauemcut area of roughly 1 (10. 000 acres, hunters had l!i days and took out 281 deer the biggest 'em all. It's In 1!)44, l..!i of shooting 1 13 of them Don'f Fail To Be There! More and Better Accommodations Than Ever. Eight Big, Well-Lighted Warehouses, hois Marked to Display Tobacco to the Host Advantage. A Modern Up-to-Date Redrying and Processing Plant. P Buyers Representing All the Big Buying Companies. Asheville's Reputation for Paying Highest Prices. a few of the many reasons why it will pay you an extra Profit to sell your entire crop in Ashcville this season. f TART YOUR TRUCKS AND TRAILERS HEADING FOR ASIIEVILLE! P BEST TOBACCO MARKET IN THE BURLEY STATES! R. S. WITHERINGTON, Sales Supervisor. heville Surley Tobacco Market does. Thai isn't a big yield. A deer for every Dal) plus acres is away under what will he taken in Penn sylvania. Michigan, Wisconsin or several other slates and all of em Northern Stales, too, where the whitetails have lo gel through tough winters that never bother these Soul hem herds. Biologists of the slate of North Carolina and the U. S. Purest Ser vice have been working on the I'isgah for years. We can't go into the detail here of what they've done, but lake it from me they've done much besides just keeping the poachers ui.der a certain amount of control. And the above figures, compared with (hose that went before, should indicate that it's been a good investment! Now it's true that not all this area was originally big-game coun try. Oldt inters will tell you that deer never were found in some of tile higher altitudes. And it's true that a lof of the slopes have been so badly denuded that the soil which would grow cover again has gone on down to the sea by the erosion route. Hut we hope that the worst of that is over. Forests grow with amazing rapidity in the whole region when given a chance, and the bet is that they're going to have a chance, too, because the foresters state, Federal and on the staff of TV A have done a bang-up job of education and sustained-yield logging is coming into rapid acceptance. OF COURSE, replenished food and cover alone wli! not do the job. A host of factors which have a bearing on game abundance must be identified and studied. It might be might ho. mind you that, despite the luxuriant ground cover which persists under big timber, deer need more and longer-lived openings. They close very quickly there. And what about disease? A year ago the folks around Norris were enthusiastic about their deer herd It was doing well: it had had a rather extended period of legal protection, and. although consid erable poaching was suspected, the whitetails were increasing nicely. Then that spring the boys began to find dead deer. And autopsies showed they had succumbed to Relief At Last For Your Cough Creomulsion relieves promptly be cause it goes right to tha seat of the trouble to help loosen and expel germ laden phlegm, and aid nature to soothe and heal raw, tender, In flamed bronchial mucoua mem branes. Tell your druggist to sell you a bottle of Creomulsion with the un derstanding you must like the way It quickly allays the cough or you are to have your money back. CREOMULSION for Coughs, Chest Colds, Bronchitis in the case. Why? Because not only do we have a stake in the country National Korests with a net acreage of over 2.000.000 al ready hut it should be one of the great game-producing regions of the land and isiit. Then, if the answer still remains poaching, it's high time something was done about it: ' I.KT'S LOOK 1 OK a moment at 'he yields of certain areas in this region. I'm talking, remember ibout tile hills, not the coastal plain. My figures are for 1!)4 be cause, as I write, (hose of the last reason are as y ol unavailable. .MAI. :J SOI 'Tiler ii 24 Sports line's the Mt Mitchell Wildlife Management Area in North Cam illa with an H-day season. Gill) liuntirs out and l!(l bucks killed on -Ti.tKHI acres; and the Daniel Hoone rea will) (i days of hunting, t75 mns moving on 40.000 acres and 1!) deer taken. Oxer in Tennessee i:i hunters took la bucks from 00, 000 acres in days, and on the 19.000-ncre Ocoee Art a 210 hope- ! fills accounted lor only !) bucks. (Jeorgia cover didn't yield any better .either. There 1112 hunters on the Blue Hidge Management Area had 5 days to try their luck and came out with ;i(i deer, all bucks. Over 40.000 acres were in volved. Whi n you can't average a buck to 1,000 acres in country which looks as good as thjl does, somet hing's cock-eyed. "Hut," you may say to yourself, "he's quoting I he figures that make out his case. He hasn I even men tioned the Pisgah I'reserve! If he'd just lake a gander at the I'isgah, he'd - " Hold up a minute, brother. ' hemorrhagic septicemia, a disease which is a hazard to the local sheep industry. in early fall mortality from the same ailment showed up on the Ocoee Area of the Cherokee Na tional Forest, and 38 carcasses, found in a period of a few days, caused a cancellation of the pro posed open season there. How long has that been going on? And how widespread has it been or is it due to gel? And what might be done about it? I COl'LD take up a lot more space with similar questions, but I hope the point is established: we don't know much about deer man agement in that section. And this brings up one more: Why not? Well, one very goou reason is that the Southeast is badly equip ped with research personnel. I've encountered some Forest Service biologists who were bang-up ladn, well equipped, but 1 used that word "some" deliberately, There aren't enough of them, and never were. Funds for game affairs within the bureau never have been anywhere near sufficient. The old inertia generated by the saw log forester's indifference in animal-life forms is, praise be, pretty well overcome, but the Ser vice has a long road ahead of it before its staff of game men gets up to where it should be. The point is that the people t the Southeast want more of what their hills might otter; and if somebody can convince them t'.at there is a way, they'll accept the findings and go along. There's not too much time. A lot of wire and "No Hunting" signs are ap pearing in the Southern Appalach- Test Off Cape Cod j Sinks Nazi U-Boat j WASHINGTON A specially' equipped torpedo fired by an j American submarine sent a former! German U-Boat to the bottom in j 10 seconds in an experiment re-1 cently off Cape Cod, Mass., the Navy announced. The Nazi undersea boat, the 773 ton U-977, was hit amidships. It br.'ke in two and went down in uuout 900 feet of water. The 1,810-ton Atule, late model United States submarine, fired the torpedo, a steam-propelled type ians. More are due to appear. It's adjacent to great centers of pop ulation. It should be a hunters' paradise. And it can be, too, if enough insist that it shall be! similar to th ones iiwcl fains Japanese shipping during the war. It contained what the Navy .called "a recently developed feature." The Navy did no$ amplify thi cryptic reference except to say that it did not mean use of "homing, or remote control devices. , The U-977 was interned in Ar gentina on August 17, 1945, otm of 10 undersea boats turned over to the United States by the tripartite agreement with Britain and Bus sia. CARD OF THANKS We wish to thank our relative and friends for their many expres sions of sympathy and the flowers sent at the death of our husband and father, Seymour Nichols Clark. Mrs. Seymour Clark and Faimly. PDeoGp poooeksO .p.. DdaOODeSnoDca..:? This looks like a battlefield. But you can see the same thing in too many ol America's forest playgrounds. Over there it's bombs. Here it's forest and woods fires. Makes returned Serv icemen feel right at home. Yes, forest and woods fires! Fires that burn 31,000,000 acres every yeai more than the whole State of New York. Fires that kill bil lions of little trees tomorrow's timber and enough big ones to build 215,000 five-room homes. Fires that denude vital watersheds; cause floods and erosion; scar Nature's beauty. . But here's the payoff. Nine out of ten forest and woods fires CAN be prevented . . . be cause they are caused by good, law abiding citizens like youl So you can help save America's forests and jobs and homes for her Servicemen by being careful in all forest areas. Remember this: Preventing forest and woods fires is bettei far bettei than fighting them. So read the rules on this page then abide by them. Do your part . . . always. rTkjJ- Charles Underwood Grace Lumber Mills Champion Paper Fibre Co. Haywood County
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