Uncle Dick and Lisa's Old Time Animal Tales

Bovine Morals Corrupted.
Catskill Cows Taught by Deer to Leap Fences.
Ever since the deer were released from the State park in the Catskill mountains several years ago they have more or less become a nuisance. The law prohibits the deer from being shot for five years, and game protectors are kept busy at a large cost looking after alleged violations of this law, says an eastern exchange.
In the State park the herd of deer was cared for and fed so long as that the animals became quite tame. When they were liberated from the park they had to be driven away to get rid of them. Then the large herd soon separated and the deer became lonely and sought the society of the cows in the surrounding farms.
Ever since the liberation of the deer farmers throughout the Catskills have complained that the deer, by their free and easy manner of leaping fences, have taught their cows bad habits. The cows, always tame and easily confined, have learned from association with the deer how to leap fences and cannot now be kept in pastures by any ordinary fence.
Notwithstanding that the Catskill deer are a nuisance, the farmers dare not use violence toward them, being restrained by the law.