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31 Stock of Stags, 1890 ... ... 136 (Estimate) 120 stags bagged, 5 allowed for wounded 2 is nearer the mark. Stock increased 35. Profits 225 (Estimate) Losses 190 Balance 35 Profit in 10 yrs, 35 Since writing this paper Tarbert has been very carefully counted with the valued assistance of Mr. D. Fletcher, who knows every bit of the ground. The result is 158 stags, July, 1890. Adding 12 stags for 1890, it is about 22 more than we had estimated by calculations carried on for ten years, without any count during the interval to guide us. We appear to have under-estimated the fertility of Tarbert hinds. It is reasonable to believe Tarbert contains more hinds than our estimate. Assuming the two stag counts of Tarbert are correct, 91 stags in 1880, and 158 stags in 1890, the increase has been 75 per cent, in ten years. At first sight this appears in- credible, as compared with the Forest increase of about 30 per cent, for the same 10 years. But we have shown that we did badly in the Forest down to the year 1884 inclusive ; we had 49 more stags in 1880 than we had in 1884, whilst in Tarbert there were about 7 more stags in 1884 than in 1880. This is calculated from the count of 1890.

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