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THE GAME BREEDER 



Game and the Motor. 



In some States complaints are heard 

 about those who run about in automo- 

 biles, stopping here and there to take a 

 shot at the game in places where any is- 

 known to occur. Michigan recently has 

 prohibited the use of automobiles in hunt- 

 ing partridges. Since game laws are con- 

 tagious and automobiles are numerous 

 in many States, it seems likely the activi- 

 ties of those who put in their time secur- 

 ing "more laws" may be directed to stop- 

 ping the use of automobiles for shooting. 

 Next ! 



An Automobile and a Deer. 



Charles C. Nobles, in Maine Woods, 

 says : 



"For the first time in my life I bagged a 

 deer with an automobile. This automobile, I 

 may assure you, lest you have a disposition 

 to doubt the existence and the capabilities of 

 Violet, is not trained. It is just an ordinary 

 car, and Fleming and I, one night before the 

 hunting season was on, were driving up from 

 Masardis. All of a sudden something streaked 

 In front of our headlights and struck on our 

 windshield. We saw at once that it was a 

 ■deer. It was so much injured that we killed 

 it to put it out of its misery. 



"Next arose a quandary. Was it illegal to 

 eat a deer killed by this means out of season? 

 Although I was nearly famished for lack of 

 fresh meat, having been living off salt bacon 

 for four or five days, I agreed with Fleming 

 that on this delicate point appeal should be 

 made to the game warden of the county. His 

 reply, after due deliberation, was that it was 

 not illegal and that was about the best veni- 

 son I ever tasted. 



Fatalities. 



Reports of the usual number of fatal- 

 ities due to people being mistaken for 

 deer in public woods are published from 

 time to time in the daily papers. Eleven 

 persons, including one woman, lost their 

 lives in Maine. Maine has a law making 

 the killing of persons by mistake when 

 hunting, a crime punishable by a fine of 

 $1,000 or imprisonment, and it is said 

 there will be a number of prosecutions 

 this year. 



Many deplorable accidents which re- 

 sulted in those handling guns being killed 

 or seriously injured also are reported. 

 Thus far we have not heard of a single 

 accident of any kind in the deer parks 



and preserves owned by readers of The 

 Game Breeder. 



Massachusetts does not' permit the 

 shooting of high-power rifles at deer and 

 it seems reasonable that such shooting 

 should be prohibited in farming regions 

 in other States. The time will come, no 

 doubt, when it will be necessary to regu- 

 late the deer shooting in public forests 

 and parks so that it will proceed in a 

 more orderly manner and gunners in the 

 woods may not be obliged to face un- 

 known dangers. 



A Shot at the Teacher. 



A reader sends this about the danger 

 in Minnesota: 



Carrie Brown, a school teacher in Aitkin 

 County, just across the Mille Lacs County line, 

 was on her way home from the school house 

 when a city deer hunter took a shot at her, 

 but missed her by a small margin. He was 

 the third man to shoot at her since the big 

 game season opened, November 10. 



Now Miss Brown has laid away her giddy 

 masquerade suit as "no use." 



One chrome yellow waist with large black 

 spots. 



One red and white striped skirt. 



One snow white felt hat with feather of 

 robiri's-egg blue. 



One black silver spangled belt. 



One pair magenta gloves. 



One pair gray suede shoes. 



One parasol of sea green, bound with mauve 

 ribbon. 



One black fox muff . with lavender ribbon 

 neck support. 



John Elmhurst, a forest ranger, says, in 

 addition to an outfit that looked like a riot in 

 color Miss Brown carried tied around her muff 

 a bell which tinkled loudly as she walked. 



He said that all over Northern Minnesota 

 women school teachers and others who have 

 had to be about much, have worn the "loud- 

 est" obtainable colors as a means of saving 

 their lives. 



Miss Brown, he said, kept adding a bit of 

 color, from day to day, but nevertheless, when 

 she had taken nearly everything in the rain- 

 bow, a hunter still shot at her. 



"It's a wonder, there aren't dead men all 

 over Northern Minnesota," Mr. Elmhurst 

 said. "The Woods were full of city hunters 

 shooting at each other and at everything that 

 stirred. And the kill of deer was the smallest 

 for a long time, though the woods were full 

 of deer."— N. Y. World. 



Vermont. 



A fishing license law has been enacted 

 in Vermont. Since much of the revenue 



