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DEER CHUMS WITH COWS AND SHEEP SHEEPA A I RAX Y X Y March Ki Many are the inter ¬ esting idiosyncrasies of wild life met with by the Conservation Commissions field force as a result of the many hours spent in the open Innsual or noteworthy occurrences an thus constantly being brought to the attention of the commission An oddity of this kind which was of particular interest was recently reported by D W Rose a game pro locior of Richfield Springs Otsego County who old of a handsome eight point buck that could be seen almost any day grazing in company with cows and sheep on a certain farm in his territory territoryAccounts Accounts are not uncommon of doer which in the stress of winter have entered barn yards and then satisfied tlio pangs of hunger But a deer which i summer when food is abundant had so far parted from its natural instincts of seclusion and lfobliteration as to chum up with farm ani i als and graze in an open pasture was surely orthy of a record
