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DEER HUNTING SEASON AT HAND Opens November 10 in Michigan and a Day Later in the Other States The deer season opens next Sunday in Michigan and the following day in Vermont Arkansas and Minnesota In Mississippi the first day is No ¬ vember 15 in Florida November 20 and in Wis ¬ consin the day following In Pennsylvania and Massachusetts deer hunting begins December 1 In Vermont Arkansas Wisconsin and Pennsylvania only buck deer may be killed killedThe The season is already open in New York Maine New Hampshire and Connecticut One more day remains for hunting buck deer in New Jersey next Wednesday WednesdayFollowing Following are some facts about the Virginia or white tail deer deerThe The Virginia or white tail deer is the best known of all our hoofed animals because it is most widely distributed distributedIt It is a forest animal but is often found iu the brush grown regions of rivers throughout the great plains It derives its name from its long and wedge shaped bushy tail which is snow white un ¬ derneath derneathWhen When alarmed and running away this white brush is held stiffly aloft The flaglike waving tail has given it the name of flag tailed deer by many hunters esKcially in the West WestThere There are two points iu which this deer differs from all others mid by which it is easily recog ¬ nized Its antlers rise a short distance from the forehead then suddenly drop forward The antlers of all other deer point backward as they rise An ¬ other difference is the twisted tail bushy near the Iwdy and white underneath underneathThe The white tailed deer is a United States species for it inhabits at least a portion of every state and territory save Delaware Oregon Nevada Cali ¬ fornia and Arizona It is abundant in the Adiron dacks Maine Vermont northern Minnesota and Michigan Closely related forms of white tailed deer are found in Florida on the lower IJio Grande and in northeastern Washington WashingtonOf Of the subspecies is the dwarf Arizona white tailed deer and the Florida white tailed deer both small animals animalsIn In Canada the Virginia deer is called the red deer and in the northern portion of its range from Minnesota to the Adirondacks wliere it at ¬ tains its largest size it is next in size to the mule deer or Itocky Mountain black tail deer deerA A large Virginia deer buck stands thirtysix inches high at the shoulders body length fiftythree inches and spread of antlers eighteen inches A heavy Maine buck often weighs 27 27i i pounds
