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FOREST AND STREAM„ 
[Nov. 14, 1896. 
THE LONG ISLAND DEER SEASON. 
It is estimated that at least 150 deer were killed on Long 
Island Wednesday, Nov. 4, which was the first day of the 
open season. Twenty-nine deer were brought into Say- 
ville as a result of this one day's shooting, and about forty 
are credited to Patchogue hunters. This of course does 
not include the deer killed by the Stnithtown, Hauppauge 
and other parties who came down from the north of the 
deer grounds, and it is safe to say that the large estimate 
given above is not exaggerated. This is a remarkable 
showing, and it is a question whether, from the stand- 
point of numbers, there is any better deer hunting in the 
United States. The entire deer country only occupies an 
area of about twenty- five square miles, and much of this 
is included in the grounds of the South Side Club and 
those of Messrs. Vanderbilt, Cutting and R )bert8, where 
no shooting whatever is permitted. The open territory is 
therefore extremely limited, and at the best points 
twenty or thirty deer are killed in a day. Oa a good 
stand the hunter wiU see more deer before 8 o'clock in the 
morning than he will see in open season in a month in 
some parts of the country that have reputations as deer 
hunting sections. But whether he kills a deer or is killed 
himself is beyond human forethought to predict. 
There are three more days of open season on Long 
Island this year, the llth, 18th and 25th. Judging from 
previous experience it is safe to predict that the total bag 
of these three days will not exceed that of last Wednes- 
day. No doubt some deer will- be killed in the close sea- 
son which intervenes, and local papers hint that there 
were hunters who did not wait for the opening day to 
begin the slaughter. 
But the main reason why the other open days will not 
be 80 good as the first is that most of the deer that were 
then started were killed. Very few indeed escaped to the 
refuge afforded by club grounds or posted property, and 
those killed hereafter will be animals that wpre on safe 
ground when the first gun was fired. J. B. Burnham. 
With the Quail on Long' Island. 
Nov. 2 dawned bright and clear, an ideal day for the 
fiirst of quaU shooting. After a hearty breakfast at Har- 
rison Rogers's, my guide and I jumped into our wagon 
and with guns and dogs hastened to our shooting ground, 
about a mile and a half east of Eistport. We were ac- 
companied by a well-broken Eaglish setter, over anxious 
to get in the field again after a lazy summer. Upon ar- 
riving at our destination we tied the horse in the woods 
and started out with high spirits for our first quail of the 
season. 
Unfortunately we found that a party of sportsmen 
had already covered the ground near by and had flushed a 
bevy only a short while before. Our luck during the 
forenoon was rather discouraging, as we only flished 
three single birds, killing two of these in spite of the 
dense woods in which they rose. 
By 12 o'clock the bracing air had put a keen edge on 
our appetites and we decided to lunch. After emptying 
a good-sized pail of good tLings and enj lying a cigar we 
drove a mile further on and started out with fresh hopes 
to try another section. After covering considerable, 
ground with no success our dog came to a grand point at 
the edge of a field of stubble. We flushed a bevy of 
about thirty birds and surely it was a sight worth going 
miles to see. We killed three as they rose and marked 
the rest down in an adjoining field of low brush. 
During the remainder of the afternoon we had fine 
sport, flushing singles and pairs all around us, with very 
little walking, as the birds lay very close. I soon had my 
hand in again and made good scores, including two very 
neat doubles. The birds were all large and fat, and with 
a bag of seventeen quail and one partridge I was well 
content. 
I had to return to New York next morning to vote, but 
hope to have another day or so with these fine game birds 
before the season closes. G. P. Granbery. 
Our Native Fur. 
Lansing, Mich., Oct. 18.— Yesterday a young man 
from Delhi called at my oflBce and showed me several 
skins of the fox squirrel and rabbit and woodchuck, 
which he had tanned himself, and I was greatly sur- 
prised to see such fine large skins, and find them so tough 
and so strong and well furred. In Europe the skm of 
the squirrel is used extensively in the fur trade, and in 
this country the rabBit of Australia is used largely in the 
manufacture of caps and gloves and mittens under the 
name of Australian bear. It is a wonder to me that there 
8 no home market for such fur as that of the fox squir- 
rel and the different rabbits which are so abundant in 
this country. Certainly the skins of the Northern equir- 
rels of the larger variety, and the rabbit, especially the 
big white rabbit of Michigan, is as fine for manufacturing 
purposes as any animal's of its kind in the world. And 
then, too, they are so abundant and so many of them are 
killed that if the fur could be used it would be a matter 
of great commercial importance. Can you give us any 
light upon this subject, and its relation to the fur trade? 
Jdlian. 
[Tame rabbit skins average 3 cents, wild 1 cent; wood- 
chuck and American squirrel skixis have no market 
value.] 
In Ontario Covers. 
Petrolia, Ontario, Oct. 26, — Ten years ago everyone 
said there would soon be no partridges around here to 
shoot; but this year there are more than there were ten 
or twelve years ago. Last summer was a good season for 
everything aroimd here; the rain came on about June 1, 
and we had nice rsins all summer which seemed to suit 
the rearing of young birds. That is the only reason I 
can give for such an abundance of birds, I was very 
much interested in your article on the ruffed grouse; I 
have had many of the experiences mentioned therein. 
Quail are scarce in this locality for some reason unknown 
to me. 
A friend while out one day last week for partridge shot 
a white red equirrel; it was pure white all over. One of 
my men informed me that his little boy also saw a white 
squirrel. Please let me know if they are common or 
not. By the way, coons appear to be quite plentiful this 
fall, also black squirrels. Shot what I thought to be a 
gray squirrel, others said it was a fox squirrel, but I do 
not know what the difference is between a fox and gray 
squirrel. I know I never saw anything like it in this 
locality and I have shot here for years. 
An Old SuBSORffiEB. 
[White or albino squirrels have been recorded. The 
fox squirrel was not named for Ontario in the recent re- 
port of the special game commission,] 
Belleville, Ont., Nov. 7 — Ducks have been quite 
numerous, but so shy that hunters have done poorly. 
Plover have been with us in large numbers and many 
good bags were made. 
Squirrels — black and gray — and partridges have been 
more than usually plentiful this season and afforded fine 
sport. Partridges are generally got in this district by 
treeing them with dogs. 
Daer hunters have gone forth to the woods in legions, 
but the weather has been too warm and wet for sport, and 
reports are conseq iently unfavorable. 
1 imagine that Antoine Gardapee, of whom Mr. Mather 
has written so entertainingly in your columns, was named 
"Gardapui" — a name quite common among our French- 
Canadians and the metis of our Northwest. R. S. B. 
A Maine Game Record. 
Ban(K)r, Me. — Editor Forest and Stream: I send you 
the record of game shipped over one B ingor & Aroostook 
Riilroad during the month of October, 189(}: 
Shipped from Deer. Moose. Caribou. 
Fort Fairfield 11.. 
Easton , , i 
Mars Hill and Blaine , '.' . i 
Islai.d Falls 5 
Orjsial.,.., 3 
Patten 41 7 7 
Sberman &1 S 1 
Stacyville 58 4 9 
Grindstone , 71 6 4 
Mlllinockett, , 34 8 8 
Twin Dam S8' 4 8 
Korcross 280 13 4 
Perkins's Siding S8 
Insalln'6 Siding. 39 1 
West Spboois 82 1 
Schoodic , 19 1 
Brownville 15 
JUilo 2 
Lasrraoge ......n....... ,, 2 
Asbland 17 1 2 
Maflords ,, •.. 27 14 9 
St. Croix , 6 1.. 
Katahdin Iron Works ,. 35 
Brownville Junction...,, 7 
Monson , 6 
O'eenvUle .....i. 306 80 15 
Shirley... 6 1.. 
Guilford 1 .. .. 
Sebec.,... '. i 
Total game shipped 1,029 79 57 
The totals for October of this year compared with the 
same month in 1895 and 1894 are as follows: 
Deer. Moose. Caribou, 
Total for October, 18 6 1,039 79 57 
Total for October, 1^95 669 53 87 
Total for October, 1894 479 S4 10 
The above statement, compiled from records kept by 
station agents, comprises only game shipped by visiting 
sportsmen, and does not include that killed by native 
hunters, nor the large quantity consumed in camps. 
There were also shipped during October, 18U6 eleven 
bears, one lynx and a large number of dunks and par- 
tridges. Geo M. Hovghton, 
Gdn. Pass, and Ticket Agent. 
Deer in Southern New Jersey. 
Egg Harbor City, Oct. 3l.-^The deer season opened Oct. 
25 My brother, myself and four others placed our dogs 
in the wagon and drove to Reed's Neck, where signs of 
deer were plenty. As soon as the men had their stands 
the drive was commenced, one man working the dogs 
until game was started. This was not done until near 
noon, when the deer were started in a p nnt of a large 
cedar swamp. The wind b^gan to blow pretty hard in 
the afternoon, making it impossible to hear the dogs; but 
one doe headed straight for the water about five miles from 
where she started. Lake Lenape, naar Mdy's Landing, 
where were another party of hunters, who shot some ten 
or a dozen times at the deser, but failed to kill her. 
This ended our first dajr's hunt, all the rest of the week 
beine too dry to do anything with them. Another party 
killed a nice buck, this buck being one of the largest killed 
here in several years. 
Oar next trip was more successful. We started a fine 
large doe, and after a pretty long chase it was killed by 
Jacob Green. This ends deer shooting in New Jersey, as 
our season was only ten d ays long. R. B. P. 
Rhode Island Notes. 
Providence, E, I. , Nov. 6 —Officers Smith and Tobin, 
of Georgiaville, arrested last Sunday a band of hunters, 
equi ped with ten hounds and a keg of beer, for hunting 
on Sunday, and with f errets at that. The man who had 
a ferreted rabbit in his pocket paid a fine of $5. 
It is probable that other arrests will follow, as the re- 
mainder of the party are known, and the town authorities 
are determined to put a stop to further infringement of 
the laws in regard to Sunday hunting within its borders. 
Two gunners started off a few days ago, guns in hand, 
to shoot gray squirrels. Having arrived in the woods and 
tramped the entire forenoon without any success, tbey sat 
down to eat dinner. While they were busily engaged in 
satisfying the inner man their attention was called to some 
object away from the log on which they sat, and they 
went to investigate. When they returned to their dinner, 
behold their surprise at seeing the only squirrel of the day 
running away with one of their doughnuts, which they 
had laid by the side of the lunch pail. W. H, M. 
Black Game and Capercailzie for Vermont. 
Sheldon, Vt., Nov. Editor Forest and Stream: I 
have received from Sweden twenty black game and four- 
teen capercailzie for distribution in this State. We be- 
lieve that our Green Mountain forests are specially 
adapted for this kind of game. 
We are trying to get a law passed makings a penalty of 
$20 for Sunday-shooting, which will put a check to the 
work of the Sunday shooting young French pot-shooter 
who shoots everything that comes iu his way with his 
cheap breech-loading shotgun. W, P. Leach. 
Massachusetts and Maine. 
Boston, Nov. 6.— Mr. C. H. Cook and Mr. A. J. Nor- 
wood are off for a moose hunt. They will go to Big Fish 
Lake, in Upper Aroostook county. Orcutt's camps are 
their destination. A. S. Sleeper, of Chelsea, and Arthur 
Bucknam are at home from the neighborhood of the 
Katahdin Iron Works with a deer apiece, for which they 
had to work very hard indeed. The leaves were particu- 
larly bad in the rustling qualities, and but little rain fell 
in the section they visited. They were absent for nearly 
three weeks, and it took two weeks of hunting to get 
their game. E M Gillam started on his annual vacation 
and hunting trip to-day. He will go to Vineland, N, J,, 
there meet his brother, and hunt quail and partridges in 
the best section of that State and Pennsylvania. They 
also talk of a trip to North Carolina for more quail, or to 
Maine for a deer. 
Late Bangor reports seem to show that more big game 
is coming, though there has been a lull in the slaughter, 
with the hunting reported to be bad by reason of the 
fallen leaves. The report says that the shipment of game 
on Monday was the largest ever received in that city. 
There were sixty-three deer, two moose and five caribou. 
The largest previous shipment was on Monday, Oct. 19, 
when sixty-five deer and four caribou were received. I 
learn from the express people that nearly one-half of it 
does not go out of the State. A good deal goes beyond 
Boston. Bat after all Boston sportsmen get their share of 
Maine's big game. It is easy to make up the following 
rt-cord of big game brought here: H. B. Wellington, F. 
H. Talcott, two deer; Oliver P. Hoyt, one deer; G. K. 
Ruasell, one deer; N. S Manson, one deer; EdwardSalley, 
F. P. Smith and John Martin, six deer; G, H. Lanphier, 
one deer; R D. Jones and E. Da,na, two deer; F. A. 
Minn, one deer; H, A. Wood, A, R, Van Tassel, E D. 
Van Tasnel and J. L, Richards, seven deer; N. M. Oonant, 
one deer; D J. Flanders, one deer; W. S. Coggin and S. 
Mather«oa, Jr., two deer; L D Cameron, of Amesbury, 
one, deer; James Sirgent, of Waliham, one deer; C. S. 
Thrasher, of Taunton, one deer; S. Elmer, of Suerbern 
Falls, two deer; A. H. Sirgent, of Haverhill, two deer; 
Geo C. B 'sson, Jr., of Liwrence, and E Frank Lewis, 
two deer: H, E Eustis and A. P Hendrick, of Brookline, 
three deer; E C. Whitney, of Orange, two deer; N. A. 
Belcher, of Brockton, two deer; N. M Jones, of Ipswich, 
two deer; Dr. F A Townsend, of Wurcester, a moose; 
L L Martin, of Winchester, a caribou. 
H S Fisher and E. J. Mitton are out of the Maine 
woods with a moose apiece. Tnis is Mr. Fisher's sefond 
moose, and his many friends amorg sp )rtsmen are 
pleased with his remarkable success. Mr. 1" isher and Mr. 
Mitton are both interested in the Dry Goods Club at 
Subago Lake. Special, 
Ruffed Grouse and Rifle Ran^e. 
State of Washington, O t. 14 —h:ditor Forest and 
Stream: In an article in Forest and Stream ot St pt. 26 
you speak of the ruff d grouse nemg able to take care of 
themselves in Minnesota and Wisconsin. They can also 
do so here in this northwest corner of Uncle Samuel's pos- 
sessions, as was proved to my satisfaction the other day, 
when I took my 22 rifle to ffo up the creek and get a few 
ruffed grouse. My old dog Frank is at a neighbor's some 
125 miles away, and I have a youngster I call D ck, who 
is nood for ruffed and blue grouse, but of no account for 
th^ "barp-tails. 
We had not gone ipore than 100yds. before Dick flushed 
a grouse; but he could not tell wnere it went, and he will 
not bark unless he sees the bird alight; then if he flushes 
the bird by his barking he will quit unless he can locate 
it. We could not start the bird the second time, We kept 
on up to the base of Mount Bonaparte and hunted forever 
an hour before we started another, and it was like the 
first. Then I turned and came down the main cr^ek, and 
soon flushed four, not one of which treed. Soon I flushed 
a single, but it went off down the creek for at least a quar- 
ter of a mile. I markf-d it down and we flushed it again. 
I kept count of those I flushed until I came to where the 
cows were, which I had to drive home, as it was nearly 
sundown. There were nineteen birds, and not one could 
I get a shot at; so you see they are pretty well educated 
even here in tbe backwoods of Okanogan. 
Lew Wilmot. 
Florida Game Season. 
Jacksonville, Fla., Nov. 2. — Ducks were reported nu- 
merous at Ft. Thompson, Lake Flirt, on the Caloosahat- 
chie River, Oct. 19, They were the first flight from the 
North, which always pass over the upper part of the State 
and settle in South Florida. A few biuebillsor raft ducks 
are reported in the creeks around Jacksonville, but none 
stay on the river at this season. Later in the season there 
will be plenty of them on the river. . ^ 
The open season for quaU and turkeys commenced on 
the Ist inst. , and they promise to be very plentiful, es- 
pecially the former. 
The hammocks are full of squirrels. I shot thirteen last 
Saturday afternoon, with a dog, and a boy to shake the 
vines on the trees. In this State the squirrels hide in the 
luxuriant Spanish moss that fills the tree tops, and it is 
very difficult to see them after the dog has treed them; 
but with a boy to shake the vines that generally cover the 
the trees they run out of their hiding places, and can be 
seen and shot. Without a good dog, a person might hunt 
all day and hardly see one. J, F. Lb Baron. 
Maine and her Game Resources. 
Boston, Oct, 30. — Editor Forest and Stream: In look- 
ing over the pages of the November issue of the Maine 
Central 1 was astounded at the quantities of large game 
now passing through Bangor almost daily. It seems 
almost incredible, and it just made me wonder how long, 
even under the most fostering conditions, this region 
could stand such a tremendous drain. I quote from the 
above journal items picked up at random from Oat. 1 to 
15, giving a general idea for the whole month: Monday, 
O jt. 12, was a record so far as the amount of game which 
passed through B ingor is concerned. The exact figures 
for the day were 63 deer, 6 moose and 3 caribou, Tues- 
day: 51 deer, 3 moose, 1 caribou. Wpdnesday: 36 deer, 
2 moose, 3 caribou. Friday: 58 deer. 10 moose, 1 caribou. 
Saturday: 67 deer, 4 caribou. Total: 275 deer, 31 moose, 
12 caribou. And that is only a five days' record of what 
passed through Bangor. 
Well may Maine legislators and conservative sports 
