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There are a number of brook trout, but they are all in rented streams. He 

 saw one that was caught in the open season weighing six pounds. 



Black and grey squirrels are becoming fewer every year, and he thinks that 

 there should be a close season for squirrels in the County of Waterloo for a few 

 years to give them a chance to increase. 



Cotton-tail rabbits are becoming very plentiful and are causing a great deal 

 of damage. The farmers are complaining all the time. 



Coons are very numerous and a great many are caught. Mink are very scarce. 

 Muskrats are plentiful and a number are trapped. 



Partridge are quite plentiful, they had a good spring for hatching. 



Welland County. 



Overseer 0. J. Briggs, of Bridgeburg, reports that the early angling in 

 Niagara Eiver for blue pickerel was very good, and for perch fairly good. Black 

 bass fishing was very satisfactory except in the vicinity of Crystal Beach, where it 

 was very poor. 



There were very few squirrels last year, but pheasants were more plentiful 

 than usual. 



Wellington County, 



Overseer Colin Roherison, of HiUshurg, reports that the fish in his territory 

 are mostly brook trout. Early in the season he had the laws and regulations 

 posted up round the ponds and in public places. 



The regulations re sawdust and refuse have been well observed by the mill 

 owners. 



Mink, foxes and rabbits are plentiful. Muskrats, partridge, wild duck and 

 wild geese are scarce. There are not many otter, deer, beaver, bear or other large 

 game in his district. There is scarcely any shooting of large game on account 

 of its being so scarce. 



Wentwoeth County. 



Overseer C. J. Kerr, of Hamilton, reports that the licensed fishermen front- 

 ing Wentworth County state that the fishing was fair during last summer and 

 there was great promise of a large catch of herring this fall. 



Last April he received one million whitefish fry from the Sandwich hatchery, 

 which he took to Winona and placed in Lake Ontario, one mile from the shore 

 on the whitefish bar and in May about 6,000,000 lake trout fry which he also 

 took to Winona and placed in the lake there. Both the whitefish and the trout 

 fry were in excellent condition and were given the most careful attention. 



Angling and trolling in Burlington Bay was fair. 



Duck shooting on the bay was very good last fall, many men shooting the 

 legal limit of 200. The overseer received some complaints of moonlight or night 

 shooting and he had to seize and confiscate the ducks, guns and boats of two 

 parties who were persistent in this work. Others complained that the sunrise 

 and sunset clause is drawing the line too fine, and that half an hour before 

 sunrise and half an hour after sunset would be fairer. He agrees with this 

 himself, and he can speak from long experience on this point;- he is also of the 

 opinion that the season should be extended to the 1st January. This would 

 proTide shooting during the Christmas holidays, and a great many coweens and 



