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Illegal Acts. — There were some contraventions of the Game Act, and in each 

 ca.se the offenders were treated to a visit to the Police Court, and were fined more 

 or less severely. He says there are many who will not listen, and it is the ignoramus 

 who does not, or cannot, read, and has no conscience or moral sense to which one 

 can appeal. 



Deer and Moose. — Last Xovember he found a lot of deer that had come to Ham- 

 ilton to 'be 'distributed there on the trains to other places. xVifter some trouble in 

 several cases, he foimd he had to hold the deer that did not have proper shipping 

 coupons, but on investigatio]i he straightened out every case. 



Wild Ducks in Burldngton Bay. — Some good bags were taken in October, one 

 man getting 39 in one day, and others 22 and 25 daily, and still others 11 and 17 

 on various days. The water being liigh this year resulted in better shooting on the 

 bay. He received a number of complaints of screening — that is, the placing of decoys 

 strung out from the shore to the Limit oif 200 yards, and when a flock settles at the 

 outer end, the shooter, who is in his boat at the shore, hidden by screens, shoots out 

 at these ducks with pump guns, with the result that he fairly slaughters them. 

 The distance from shore should be 50 yards to decoys, and no farther. This would do 

 away with the so-called screening. There are only four shooters on Burlington Bay 

 who screen, and if these four men are out on the hay sihooting and screening on the 

 same day, no one else will get anything. There are lots of oomplaints about these 

 men. 



The traffic in ducks from Port Rowan is of large dimensions already this fall, 

 and things look bright for good eating for everybody. 



He has a, number of licensed game dealers in Hamilton, as weli as clul)s and 

 hotels, and collected $100 during the year from them. 



Snipe, Woodcock and Partridges. — He has made some fair bags of snipe himself 

 this fall, knowing where to get them. He alsio saw some woodcock. Reports say 

 that partridges are fairly numerous this fall in the back parts of the towns'hips. 

 This short season is of great benefit to them. He has shot woodcock, snipe and 

 partridge over thoroughbred dogs for the last 40 years, and is doing so at the 

 present day, and can say that this year has been the best for these birds to his 

 knowledge for a number of years. 



Mill Dams. — ^There are two mill dam® in the county of Halton — one at Zim- 

 merman Mills on the Twelve Mile Creek, or, as some call it, the Bronte Creek. 

 He strongly recommends a fisihway to be put in this dam. This creek is what is 

 called a live spring creek — ^always running, and if a fi^ pass was in this dam, bass 

 would go seven miles up in the country and be a bless'ing to the people there. The 

 other is on the Oakville Creek, above the G.T.R. bridge. If this dam had a pass 

 in it, fish could ascend as far as the Town of Georgetown. 



York County. 



Overseer Albert E. Tarry, of Toronto, reports that during the past year the 

 fishing has been very poor, both angling and net fishing in the lake. The fishermen 

 say it is the worst year they have ever had. Some of the fishermen have had to 

 quit fishing early in the season and seek other employment. There practically 

 seems to be no fish in the waters. He can give no definite reason why fish are so 

 scarce — as far as he has seen or known for salmon trout and white fish. The close 

 season has been wdll observed. 



