Made by a Here to attempt the domestication of deer and elk on a logged-off Island in Puget Sound. There are several thousand acres of wild land thereon, covered with brush and young growth of timber, affording ideal cover for these animals. If made into a deer range, this land could produce enough venison to supply a large city with meat several months each year.

The shore land is to be fenced seven feet high, by heavy netting attached to trees. This will prevent escape of the deer and elk by swimming. The fencing will cost $200 per mile, and elk at $65 per head and deer at $35 each will be established there. The range is half mountain; and half vale, with abundance of grass, winter and summer. Fresh water streams and a tiny lake are on the island.

It is said deer are easily tamed, and in woodland will thrive and multiply. In five years, one creeper will produce 25 deer. They eat all kinds of vegetation, nuts, lily-pads, fallen leaves, lichens and maws. If pasture is scarce, they will eat coarse hay and straw.

Elk are more hardy than deer and breed as regular as cattle. They live and fatten on otherwise useless land, but in winter must have some rough age. The average weight of a dressed bull elk is between 1000 and 1,000 pounds, or more than the average steer.

The deer and elk farmers will be subjected to the game laws of the state, and I can only kill the deer.   domesticated animals during the open season and cannot market their product. If, however, the deer and elk farming should become statewide, a revision of the laws would likely be made. 