RED DEER

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 24, 23 October 1907, Page 5

RED DEER

IMPROVING '. HERDS.;' ' J from /engla-nd.:; '■) ''■■\ Some 'time' !igo, :, ,s_ir;' I 'lcoiVard President of.' ' tlio -Wellington " Acclimatisation/Society,!: coii'ceived : .-the idea tbnt it: aUvanlageoiis W bur red deer herds 1 to : 'int'rorliico some new bloddV 'After' careful inquiry 'lie. decided ,to write, to Mr. J. G. ,Millaisy''of' Siissex," one ! of '■■ tlfe' 'firsfc : authorities'.in England'. 1 oh ' red'cleer, 'asking' him' jvrhicli ho considered'-(Jio ' best bred.deer in .tho United Kingdom from which' 1 they could: .pick a few animals for tho purpose mentioned. Mr. ■ Millais very kindly wrote out. 1 Mr. Tripp<,thafc,, in, his, opinion, the ',best 'bred deer'was Mr:' 'I/u'ca'sV AVarnham Court i{Sussex),•,lie.rd,, i aii(l :jt ...was decided to take' steps' to "'secure' some for liberation ■ in tho '.Walrarapa. ' v Mr; TV.- Wakeham; of Eke-', tahuria,' who 'is'vgreatly interested , ' in: accli-r matisation matters, 1 , promised when he .wont/ Home some months ago.'to do what, he .could,;: and, both he. land Mr.. .^Millais.' used, .their. in^ ; fluenccf with Mr. Liicas, and 'that'geri'tlcniaii ' at' longtlv "agreed"to 'supply' the' : \VcllinEtbn Society'-with, tiwo 'stags :.'aiia> four .hinds' at;.n 'greatly reduced pricc.-;.:;,;'o;!' ;■:. '■.; i Adyicevhasi noiv.ffbcen ..received ;j tnat the. ■deer .■were shipped,.,'to' iTVelllngton ".. by .tho", Tongariro. on ;potober 3,., the New Zealand Shipping'j Company haying".kindly ; ; consented, io ,;brii)g tho.deer put; free of ■charge. ''~',":.', Eficst of.Mitratcs on '; ( , ;'!',: ' 'Writing .of! the , Warnham Court. herd in. ;"Country/ Life,", , Mr.;i. S/tfi. 'Millais .deals with the value of' the seientific: feeding, as, follows:—'.'ln■ proof:,of tho, ; supreme; imports, anco. of top-dressing- it i; iriay,,;.be mentioned, that'the* Wbrnham Gourtfherd, ,in spite;of. .'the.'ifr'cqiient'.introdnction-':"of tho best blood in ;.Englaiid,i »nch> as.that, of; toke ,and,;Aruri T , del, showedno : sign;,of higlvjjuality. until .tha, year ,'1881,; when.!artificial, manuring in tlijs-, shape. , of ■ bono-dnst :and. nitrates -,n;as .resorted; to. •>:lni:fact,i the- deer, .which, were introduced,! if. anything, i showed a. detcrior 7 , ation ;if .wcnarn to: judge by, .old : lioads,.'in ; AVarnhani , ! Cou/t ./killed! prior, to this, date. The effect of tho dressing was at once apparent, and the grass grew so' richly! and in such abmidaiicethnt. one-half; of; the park (100 acres) wan. set aside; for .which, purpose.'it • has .been kept • over since.. .Thus we find ; at• the;present day a hord.of;,lso, red 'deer,\ together with'.about .thirty ■head, ofOinrses arid cattle', thri/ingion lOO.acres-, of -park-land, a: number* which is far in.cx..cess' rtfithat:of most .English parks. ; More-, over they get: no -'winter-feeding except,such, stores of acorns,: ;as the rplace r itself -affords, togethei" with ;tho-usual spring atonic pf';.un-r dofgrowth cut from .tho!.-covorts."l ~-,,,,. , .. Speaking of- the AVarnhaiir,.Court., deer: he sayS herd had. always.,; have, a , , great delight and interest to'me, arid ,I'.-.have followed the 1 careor.'of.each; monarch with .nil the pleasure -which •■ a, naturalist, -takes in, "'studying'tho lifo history of somo. animal that jcorniHJ coiistaritly-iiiider ..his, eye at ■ all sea T■sons." ■"•'• ■;■•■:'' *~' : -' : : ■■:-'■-. ■-.;:::.■'•'..■., ;. !.,.,' Moßgblian Phsasants-'fop.Paraparauinu..','.' , ' It..is also, intoresting loarn'.ithat : -Mr/ W. ;';AVnkoliani:'. brought out ■ three dock and tliroo. hen Mongolian pheasants,.' which'tire' to ;be .'placet] in,, the -iVellington 'Society's, game • farm'..at- P.arapar.aiitiiu;.. This : byijed is said to bo nior.e Jiardy' and "sporty , , , - than the English'■ pheasant..; ... .'.,;',.■ . :;'.' ' : . ; ' V/liile jrft: : Y/il!inms, of Chebo.Vßani Jficlii:gan linapiinisliini licr sdvcii-ypnr-old son wil.li, a strap, a rlynaiiiito c.ip in .tho lad's: ncekotwpioJedi The boywnu .killcil.-'antl tho. mother severely, injured:' -; -.-:.-.; .- -■■-" ■ -.-,..",■. I ... .. . "'he; modern dpfmitirm of p. bore is'a: person who talks .of his discaso wliqn you want to talk f>l yours.'—''Vi'.orhl.niiiillisl Wife, ,, . , Borne /striking figures "as to the ages of lioir.lon : ciib'rricn 'aro contained iii t-lu; roport of the 'Chief Commissioner of Mice, Lohdpii. Ho: states' thnt' there are - cight ; caljnieiv over eighty "years of; af;e"ilnviiii;.'-the streets; , 2-19 over sevonty, and' under''eighty; and V2'M over sixtj- and nrAn seventy.. There is nho one omnibus driver over tighty years of ago." '•'.••■.-■•-.