20 THE EEPOET UPON No. 14 



Algoma Disteict. 



Fom Overseer P. W. Kent, of Kentvale, for the whole of St. Joseph's Island. 



Trout in this district are about the same as last season, but lake fishing^ 

 with net has been a little better. Bass are very scarce. A few more tourists 

 than usual came back this season. 



Game of small sorts such as rabbits, partridge, etc., are scarce. Owing to a 

 disease which took rabbits during the winter they were found dead everywhere, 

 and the season being wet the partridge eggs did not hatch properly. 



Beaver are doing damage everywhere, there being so many of them they 

 now are to be found on nearly every little stream on the island.' 



Bears remain about the same, also muskrats, mink and weasels. 



A few lynx and fisher have been seen. Foxes are very plentiful. 



Deer and moose are plentiful but we would be better without an extended 

 season this year. 



"From Overseer James Shappee, of SauU Ste. Marie, for the electoral District 

 of Sault Ste. Marie. 



The fishermen did fairly well and I have heard no complaints from them 

 though a number lost their nets during the month of November. 



The rabbits were plentiful, as also were wild ducks, especially on the north 

 shore of Lake Superior. 



Partridge were also plentiful on the same shore, but were very scarce on 

 St. Joes Island. 



Deer were fairly thick, but there were not so many as last year, the wolves 

 seemingly have killed a number of them. I saw five carcasses in a bunch partly 

 eaten by wolves. I would recommend the bounty on wolves be raised to $2? 

 as they are certainly destructive animals on deer. The trappers do not bother 

 much with them now, but if the bounty were raised they would trap more of 

 them. 



Moose are fairly thick. In regard to moose I would recommend that cows 

 be killed same as bulls as at present all the bulls are getting killed off and in a 

 few years moose will be very scarce. I personally saw this spring nine cows in a 

 bunch and no bull. 



Speckled trout were quite plentiful and a number of tourists who were up 

 the lake got good catches. 



Brant iCounty. 



From Overseer W. W. Jackson, of St. Oeorge, for South Dumfries, lying- 

 south of the Grand River. 



Game of all kinds such as squirrels (black and grey) and partridge and 

 cotton-tail rabbits show a large increase over other years. I do not remember 

 ever seeing so many black and grey squirrels. 



I would like to see a license put on all guns and a limit on squirrels, and 

 also a trapper's license. 



From Overseer Henry Johnson, of Brantford, for that part of Grand Eiver 

 lying between the southerly boundary of Town of Gait and the boundary line 

 between Tuscarora and Onondaga Townships in County Brant and the Town- 

 ships of Seneca and Oneida in Haldimand County. 



