Philadelphia Record
From Kentucky comes a curious story about the appearance near Parris in that part of the State of two deer supposed to be part of a herd formerly kept in a private park there, but which some time ago were shipped to a forest preserve near Philadelphia. It is believed that these two made their escape and traveled 700 miles back to their old home over numerous mountain ranges and forests in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Kentucky. This would be a remarkable yarn in itself, but still more arresting is this statement:
“No other deer exist in Kentucky, all having been cleared out of the mountain country over half a century ago.”
Civilization is considerably older in the Eastern States than in Kentucky and the Middle West, but deer still flourish here in great numbers, not to mention bear, elk, wild cats, beavers, etc. A ride of 25 miles from Philadelphia will carry one into the midst of a famous deer district of New Jersey, and the animals are to be found within an equal distance of New York. With the possible exception of Rhode Island, they are abundant in all the New England States. So numerous are they in Pennsylvania that every hunting season sees 5,000 to 6,000 bucks killed, the does being protected by law.
Not a deer in Kentucky though that State was once a favorite hunting ground of the Indians because of the superabundance of every kind of wild life! Clearly they need a Game Commission down there and a rigid enforcement of the laws in order to bring ack the animals driven out by thoughtless hunters. This absence of animal life strikes us as being rather a serious indictment of the kind of civilization now to be found in Kentucky.
From page 4 of The Concord Daily Tribune, Nov. 25, 1924
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