If you want a nice pet, the Department of Agriculture has a lot of nice mule deer out in the Kaibab National Forest of Arizona, and they will gladly give you one if you have a place to accommodate a 250-pound animal and are willing to pay transportation charges from Arizona.
These deer, threatened with starvation during the coming winter, will all be placed with private individuals east of the Sierra Nevada and Cascade Ranges if the Department plans carry through.
When President Roosevelt sat the Forest aside as a national game preserve, it contained a few deer, which have increased in number until the herd numbers more than 30,000.
The vegetation in the forest being insufficient to feed that number of husky animals, starvation threatens unless they can be disposed of promptly. Write the Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C., if you are interested in getting a frisky pet.
From the front page of the Polk County News, Tryon, N.C., October 9, 1924
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