STATE OF hAINE 
          DEPARTMENT OF INLAND FISHERIES AND GAME 
                      AUGUSTAtgi.INE 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                                 July 2, 1'.43 
 
 
TO ALL WARDENS: 
     I have already sent you on June 1, 1943, a sheet showing 
the state.-wide average on each of the 9 questions you answered 
on May 15th in regard to deer. 
     When I spoke to the recent Warden's School on this matter 
I showed you two large charts. Several wardens at this school 
asked to have a copy of the information on these charts.  I 
am therefore, sending it to each warden. 
     Ohart No. 1, showed the average answers to each question 
in each Supervisor's Division. 
 
     Ohart No, 2 shows a computation on the deer population 
from May 1, 1942 to May 1, 1943. 
 
     Warden annual estimate of deer population on May 1, 1942 
was (in round numbers) 108,000. 
     Applying to this 10,000 the percentages that have to do 
with increase we get a population of 140,550 at the beginning 
of the 1942 hunting season. 
 
     Applying to 140,550 the percentages that have to do with 
decrease, we get 109,720 Ra the population May I, 1943, Warden~s 
Annual Estimate of Deer Population kay l, 1943 was 117,615. 
 
 
 
                              Archer L. Grover 
ALG:L                         Deputy Commissioner