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North Carolina Shooting. 
Raleigh, N. C., Dec. ii. — Mention has been made of 
the fact that the deer hunting in eastern Carolina is 
especially good this season. This news is confirmed 
by that which comes from a hunting party in Jones 
county last week, which in two days got twenty-nine 
deer._ Unquestionably, game of all kinds is now in- 
creasing in North Carolina. Protection is doing a great 
deal for it and the general symyathy shown by the 
public, particularly people in the country, in the work 
of the Audubon Society, is a sign that even better things 
are to be in the future. 
There will probably be more sportsmen in the State 
this winter than there were last. In certain counties 
last season there were many, but they have a habit of 
going in a sort of beaten track, thinking that most of 
the birds are west of Greensboro, while there are prob- 
ably as many, if not more, east of it. Very good bags 
are being made and the best hunting is coming on now, 
rains and frosts having taken the edge off the weeds 
and also made the cover less thick. There is a world 
of bird-food ever3'where, and a great many peas are 
left ungleaned. 
There are many birds at Pinehurst, not only in the 
preserves, but in the outlying fields which come under 
the jurisdiction of the estate by lease of hunting privi- 
leges, etc. North of Raleigh there is good shooting all 
the way to the Virginia line. 
The winter has been open so far, with only one or 
two cold snaps and a few morning freezes, and the fish- 
ing has been quite good, particularly in the ponds. A 
car of fish arrived here last week, for use in stocking 
ponds in this vicinity. The black bass is the favorite 
fish, nothing being considered to equal it. Here it is 
always called by the local people, “chub.” 
News from the club-houses on the North Carolina 
sounds is that they will be well filled during the season. 
As yet the duck shooting in that section has not 
amounted to much, because of the fact that the weather 
has been too open and fine, and several parties of hunt- 
ers who went there have been disappointed. Thc’ very 
strictest efforts are to be made to keep down fire-light- 
ing, and orders have been given to make arrests of 
every offender. The swift patrol boats will be able to 
do good work, though there are some men in that 
part of the State who have long defied the law in re- 
gard to this matter and who will have to be sternly 
repre.ssed. The game warden on Currituck Sound is 
one of the most determined men in the State, with 
twenty-five years’ experience as a deputy sheriff, and 
never loses his nerve or fails to do his duty. 
John P. Sousa, the great band leader, has been hunt- 
ing in Vance county, about forty miles north of Raleigh, 
several members of his family being with him, and has 
had fine sport among the partridges. Both Vance and 
Granville counties are excellent shooting places, as 
some northern men have already discovered. William 
H. Vanderbilt and Mr. Mackay have been for some days 
on their preserves near High Point, and have had very 
good shooting indeed. All the partridges are now 
growni Not many woodcock have been killed this 
season. They are not shot in this State in the summer 
at all. There was a small fall flight of snipe, and a few 
yet linger here and there in the marshes, but none were 
killed. Fred. A. Olds. 
The Massachusetts Association. 
Boston, Mass., Dec. 12. — Editor Forest and Stream: 
At the meeting of the board of management of the 
Massachusetts Fish and Game Protective Association on, 
Nov. 9 it was voted that a committee of five be appointed 
with full powers to arrange to meet the delegates to the 
convention of the North American Fish and Game Pro- 
tective Association, to be held in Boston in January, 1906. 
Ex-President George W. Wiggin, ex-President B. C. ' 
Clark,-. Dr. George H. Payne and Mr. A. D. Thayer were 
appointed as the committee, to which the name of Presi- 
dent Hinman was added. At the meeting of the board on 
Dec. 8 Chairman Wiggin submitted a report of his com- 
mittee setting forth that inasmuch as it appears that the 
North American Association is one having aims and pur- 
poses similar to our own, and that during its sessions in 
January, addresses are to be made and members of our 
Association and other similar organizations are to be 
admitted to the meetings, the committee is of the opinion 
that at some time during their stay in Boston it would 
be an act of courtesy on . the part of the Massachusetts 
Fish and Game Protective Association to invite the mem- 
bers of the North American Association to a banquet to 
be given by our Association, and the committee there- 
fore recommends that the State Association extend to 
members of the North American Association a cordial 
invitation to dine with us while in Boston. The com- 
mittee also recommend that a similar invitation be ex- 
tended to the presidents of the various kindred associa- 
tions in Massachusetts to be present on the above named 
occasion. The committee further recommended that 
measures be taken at once to raise the necessary funds 
to defray the expenses of the banquet. 
It having been announced that the time for the meeting 
of the North American Association had been fixed for 
Jan. 24 and 25, on motion of Dr. George H. Payne it was 
voted that the date of the annual dinner of the State 
Association be Jan. 25, so that the banquet to be given 
the North American shall also be the annual dinner of 
the Massachusetts Fish and Game Protective Association. 
It was also voted that the president be authorized to 
increase the existing committee to a limit of eleven mem- 
bers and that the committee itself have power to add to 
its membership, and that it have full powers to arrange 
all the details in preparation for the banquet. Later in 
the evening it was voted that Col. C. W. Dimick, as 
chairman of the bird committee, be authorized to make 
necessary arrangements for the purchase, shipment and 
distribution of live quail. The success which has at- 
tended the December planting of quail by Mr. Taft in 
southern Worcester county, and the fact that the Asso- 
ciation was unable to secure birds in the latter part of 
winter last year has induced many clubs to resort to De- 
cember planting this year. The further fact that of 281 
reports frorn Massachusetts towns, as stated in my letter 
of last week, only eleven pronounce the conditions good, 
has stimulated many individuals and clubs to put out 
birds as soon as they can be obtained, and to arrange 
for providing them with food during the winter. 
Calls for birds are already in from Gloucester, Sutton, 
Rockland, Reading, Whitman, Middleton, Brockton, 
Bridgew'ater and several other localities, although no gen- 
eral announcement has been made of the fact that the 
Association has perfected its plans for securing the birds. 
We have come to the conclusion that the only way to 
make sure of birds is to get them when they are to- be 
had, and are governing ourselves accordingly. 
H. H. Kimball. 
New England Deer. 
^ Boston, Mass., Dec. 12. — Editor Forest and Stream: 
Commissioner Wentworth writes that hunters of deer in 
New Hampshire have had a remarkable season. He says 
he was informed by a railroad official that on one train 
forty-two deer were brought down from Colebrook. The 
official report of the Bangor & Aroostook Railway shows 
the shipment for November of 2,187 deer, eighty-six 
moose and fifteen bear. For October and November, 
3,728 deer as against 2,904 last year, 167 moose as against 
163 last year, and twenty-nine bear, as compared with 
twenty last year. 
The receipts of deer at Bangor on Wednesday, Dec. 6, 
were light, only numbering forty-five. Among Boston 
hunters with deer were Messrs. F. Crockett, R. K. Pratt, 
H. L. Cates and G. L. Hamilton. 
Shipments for the week at Bangor were 229 deer and 
eight moose. For the season, up to- Friday, 3.363 deer 
and 214 moose. To the same dates in 1904 shipments 
were 4,014 deer and 213 moose. For the entire season of 
1994 4 > 27 i deer and 220 moose. So it will be seen that 
this year s record to the present time is in excess of the 
entire shipments of last year. The few days remaining 
to- the 15th will make further additions to the deer record 
for the present season. It is said to be the opinion of not 
a few' of those interested in the protection of big game 
that the season should be shortened, or the taking out of 
more than one deer should be prohibited. 
Mr. Edward Lawrence, of -Boston, has just returned 
with a fine buck and a moose. In the vicinity of Frank- 
lin five big bull moose were killed the last week of the 
moose season. 
Dr. Styles, of New Britain, Conn., recently returned 
from the Rangeley region with a large moose, a fine buck 
and a doe. His companion, Dr. Johnston, of the same 
place, secured two deer. George E. Howe, Esq., of Bos- 
ton, brought out two deer. Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Pierce, 
of Boston, got two deer each. . Mr. and Mrs. Arthur W. 
Robinson, of Boston, w'ho have a camp at Chain of 
Ponds on the Megantic Preserve, have just returned from 
their annual trip. Mrs. Robinson shot two bucks and a 
cub bear, a record no other lady ha.s-made this year. 
A sad shooting accident occurred Dec. 6 at Jeny Pond, 
sixteen miles from Patten, Mr. S3dvanus Hussey, of 
that town, being mistaken for a deer and shot by his 
brother-in-law, Frank Leavitt, of Sherman. 
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., had the good fortune to bring- 
down a large elk in Corbin Park to-day. He was ac- 
companied by a classmate, Harold Edgell, and the famous 
guide of the Park, Mr. George Browm. Central. 
The Maine Season. 
Bangor, Me., Dec. 9. — Editor Forest and Stream: The 
big game season in Maine is not yet ended, but it is so 
nearly at its final day that one may determine the prac- 
tical results from the figures now at hand. There re- 
main but fiv'C days during which one may legally knock 
over a deer, and the season for moose hunting closed 
wfth the last day of November, after one of the most 
extensive list of results ever knowm in Maine’s history. 
During the month of November there were handled, on 
the trains centering in Bangor, 2,519 deer, ninety-five 
moose and fourteen bears, w'hich, together with the 1,663 
deer, 106 moose and twenty bears bandied by the same 
express messengers in October, and a further list of 256 
deer, eight moose and three bears in the first eight days 
of this month, makes the great total of 4,684 pieces of 
game handled on the trains of the eastern and northern 
Maine railroads. This is increased by a large number of 
partridges, which were not included in the records, the 
privilege of taking home a string of ten birds being ap- 
preciated by the visiting sportsmen, who, by a peculiar 
mistake in the office of the State Fish and Game Com- 
mission, were granted an increase in this privilege to 
twelve birds, although so scarce were the biddies that 
but few passed through the city with the full allowance 
of twelve grouse. One man only was seen at the Bangor 
station during the season with a considerable string of 
woodcock, and he had all the law allowed, which was his 
chief incentive for coming here to hunt. It seems he got 
the idea somewhere that he could ship ten or twelve of 
the birds for each of the bird coupons on his license, and 
was joyfully sending home the first installment of the 
newly-granted privilege. It was one of the finest strings 
of woodcock seen in the hands of an individual hunter 
around Bangor in a long time, and it fairly made the 
mouths of other sportsmen who were present water for 
a few samples of the birds. 
There are various explanations put forth as to the 
great record of game killed in a season when conditions 
have, almost throughout the season, been untoward. Some 
claim that it is due to an increase of at least twenty-five 
per cent, in the number of visiting sportsmen, others say 
it is due to a great increase in the number of deer, others 
yet say that tbe long drought has driven the game to the 
water, where the hunter could sit in his canoe and shoot 
at his leisure. Whatever may have been the causes, it is 
cert'ain that the months of October and November have 
exceeded in deer shipments any two months ever known 
since a record was kept of the game shipments through 
this city. 
After the awful list of casualties with which the hunt- 
ing season was ushered in it was sincerely hoped that no 
further accidents might occur to mar the rest of the sea- 
son, but this was evidently too much to hope. During 
the past week another fatality has been added to the 
dreadful list which blots the game season of 1905, and S. 
P. Hussey, a business man of Patten, was shot and in- 
stantly killed by his hunting companion. From reports 
it appears that Mr. Hussey saw and shot, from a kneeling 
position, at a deer. His companion was only a short dis- 
tance to his rear, and after he had fired the latter fired 
I'ight over his head at the same deer, just as Mr. Hussey 
arose to his feet, and the ball struck him in the back of 
the head. It was an awful thing, and reopens the entire 
question of what can be done to reduce this horror list, 
which is added to with each succeeding season, instead 
of decreasing as the years go by. 
The thirteenth annual meeting of the Maine Sports- 
men’s Fish and Game Association is to be held at the 
Penobscot Exchange Hotel, in this city, on Jan. 2. The 
meeting will be called to order at 4 o’clock in the after- 
noon for routine business, and after a supper adjourn- 
ment will be had to a convenient room where discus- 
sion of various important questions will be held. Among 
the questions to be discussed, according to the announce- 
ment just issued by Secretary E. S. Farrington, of Au- 
gusta, are the following: “Are any regulations needed 
regarding the carrying of firearms into the hunting sec- 
tions of the State, during close time?” “Ought non-resi- 
dents be allowed to carry firearms into the woods in open 
season without having first procured a permit, or a license 
to hunt birds or other game?” “What, if any, changes 
are necessary in the close time for fish and game?” Every 
one interested is invited to attend the meeting, whether, 
members of the Association or not. Herbert W. Rowe. 
Good Times at Barnegat. 
Philadelphia, Pa., Dec. 5. — Editor Forest and 
Stream: Barnegat Bay is at present alive with brant 
and ducks ; geese j ust arriving. There seems to be any 
amount of young brant that stool very well, although 
the black duck and broadbill in flocks are shy. There 
are enough of stray ones (hat will come to make a fair 
bag. A good caller seems more important in getting 
geese than the decoys, although, of course, they are 
necessary. Remarkably good bags are being secured 
by sportsmen from Barnegat — just plain Barnegat, some- 
times called Old Barnegat or Barnegat Village, where 
there are several small but comfortable hotels, among 
them the Mullen House. Good accommodations can be 
had there for $2 per day, and meals are furnished at all 
hours; also a bus to take you to and from the water 
front without cost. A few guides, among many others 
that I can recommend, are W. H. and Charles Ridgway. 
A line written to the above house or else to the men will 
engage them. Their charges are very reasonable, being 
$2.50 per day, for which they furnish decoys and two 
first-class sneak boxes. They will also do shooting for 
you, charging only for the ammunition used. I believe 
better bags are being made from their vicinity than else- 
where in the bay at present, there being numerous good 
points, islands and seaweed that is almost covered by 
water at high tide. 
Anyone wanting a few days’ shooting for brant at a 
minimum of expense cannot do much better than by go- 
ing there. No license is required, and all the wildfowl 
can be taken out of the State. The Pennsylvania Rail- 
road from Philadelphia at 4 P. M. and a train from New 
York arrive in the early evening. Leaving in the after- 
noon or early morning give one little if any wasted time 
on the outing. Would advise novices to take plenty of 
warm clothing and some wind-proof overalls, either of 
canvas or leather, and be sure the color is buff, likewise 
that of the hat. Invariably men I have met have suf- 
fered on such trips with cold feet, even when perfectly 
warm otherwise, and it seems to be one of the most diffi- 
cult things to keep the feet warm if you are not walking. 
Leather or rubber shoes with any amount of socks will 
contract cold, and the most satisfactory furnishing I 
have found is the regular soft moccasin with four to six 
pairs of socks. But you must keep them dry. 
Besides the good shooting one is likely to find, the sail 
to and from the ground is a great part of the fun. Large 
guns are the favorite with the natives, almost all using 
eight bores with corresponding large sized shot, but a 
good shot with a twelve gauge, using No. 5 or 6, seem to 
get almost if not just as many. 
Stephen P. M. Tasker. 
What is a Minnow? 
Jackson, Tenn., Nov. 15. — Editor Forest and Stream: 
With several of my associates I have had a very heated 
discussion as to what constitutes a minnow. We have 
decided to ask you to kindly answer the question. I will 
be pleased to have you explain whether or not the young 
of larger fish are correctly called minnows, and also 
what the United States fisheries term a minnow? 
Y. M. R. 
[Minnow — sometimes spelled minow — is a general 
term meaning a small fish; and while sometimes applied 
to any small fish, even the young of larger species, the 
best usage does not sanction this. The word is allied 
to the word minute, small. 
Strictly the term minnow is applied to a small Euro- 
pean cyprinoid fish of the genus Phoxinus. In this coun- 
try there are a multitude of small fish known as min- 
nows, chubs, shiners and dace, most of which never at- 
tain a greater length- than six inches ; and most of them 
have no value as food. On the other hand, they furnish 
the greater part of the food of our carnivorous fishes, 
such as bass, perch, trout- and pike. There are a few 
species which reach a considerable size, and so may be- 
come food fish, but in all cases the flesh lacks flavor and 
is full of small bones. 
The carp, which is a cyprinoid, of course, grows to a 
large size and has a certain value as a food fish.] 
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