WHERE TO HUNT 



ALABAMA 



LABAMA, with the strip of land between 

 Florida and Mississippi, is 336 miles 

 long. Its breadth east and west is from 

 148 to 200 miles, and the whole state 

 contains an area of 50,722 square miles. 

 The northeastern portion of the state 

 is traversed by several offshoots of the 

 Alleghany Mountains, which terminate in this state. 

 South of this mountainous ridge there is a general 

 declivity toward the Gulf of Mexico, and the extreme 

 southern portion of the state is very level, but a little 

 above the water surface of the ocean. The southern 

 half of the state is made up largely of prairies and 

 pine-barrens, interspersed with some river bottoms 

 which are quite fertile. The middle portion of the 

 state is covered with a rich soil. 



The furred game to be found in Alabama consists of 

 Virginia deer, bear, cougar, lynx rufus or wildcat, rac- 

 coon, beaver, otter, mink, opossum, fox, and squirrel of 

 several species. 



Perhaps the most highly prized game to be found in 

 this state is the wild turkey, which is very plentiful in 

 parts of the state. In point of abundance it is safe to 

 say that wild fowl are first; wild geese are numerous; 

 duck swarm the rivers and lakes literally by the mil- 



