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man’s Show, which opens in February. The ex¬ 
hibits will consist largely of live and mounted 
caribou, foxes, lynx, salmon trout, and other 
articles representative of the game facilities of 
Newfoundland.” 
As a result of a suggestion made in the 
columns of Forest and Stream some time ago; 
it is said that an American bioscopic company 
intends sending a staff of men and equipments 
to secure some good moving caribou pictures, 
for exhibition purposes in the United States. 
The latter end of January or early in February 
would be the best season to procure pictures, 
as they mass in countless herds at that season 
on the south coast. Last year they were re¬ 
ported for over 100 miles along the southern 
sea coast, and trappers and others reported them 
as extending from thirty to forty miles back 
on the barrens. 
A unique chance to get a series of moving 
pictures is offered, as I pointed out before, at 
the seal fishery. Here may be seen hundreds of 
thousands of seals, white coats, harps and hoods. 
The illimitable field of ice, the sealing fleet, the 
hr.ndieds of hunters, killing, fanning, skinning, 
hauling and stowing seals, would make a most 
unique and attractive picture, while it would 
illustrate the dangers and vicissitudes of our 
hardy fishermen, in the annual seal hunt in the 
month of March each year. 
For the hunter with gun or camera, who is 
tired of the commonplace and is seeking a new 
thrill, my advice is that he get a "berth to ice" 
the coming year. W. J. Carroll. 
Washington Game. 
Seattle, Wash., Nov. 1 .—Editor Forest and 
Stream: Reports from different parts of Wash¬ 
ington furnish a variety of opinion as to the con¬ 
dition of duck hunting. The only point on which 
there is unanimity of judgment is that one must 
have the freedom of a preserve in order to get 
any kind of shooting. 
With the exception of the usual morning and 
evening scurry there -was little movement among 
the waterfowl at down - sound points during the 
past week. Joe Schlumpf, of Seattle, visited 
his preserve near Port Williams, not far from 
Dungeness, but soon came home disgusted. Paul 
Heiner credits Joe with bringing in two sawbills, 
but others say that the story is an exaggeration. 
On the trip before this one, Lou Smith was along 
with Schlumpf. They had fair luck, but were 
still inside the- limit. 
"On most of the sound preserves,” said W. 
B. Taft, "the boys have been getting the limit 
recently where the club was taking the trouble 
to feed. The surprising feature of the year has 
been the early arrival of the sprigs, and the fine 
condition in which they have arrived. As a rule 
they get pretty thin during the journey down 
from their breeding grounds in Alaska, but this 
year it has been different for some reason or 
other. Even the young birds, which are making 
their first flight have been plump. The old timers 
say that this means a severe winter.” 
Grand Forks, B. C., has another sign to in¬ 
dicate cold blasts. Hunters up in that country 
report that the woods are full of chipmunks. 
One man counted until he fell asleep, and on 
awaking found that the colony had increased so 
much that he gave up the job in disgust. 
Bige Hall is afraid that the White river, valley 
is falling off in its importance as a duck hunt¬ 
ing ground. He had a talk with Walter Mess 
recently and got discouraging reports. Mess lives 
eight or ten miles south of Seattle, and has one 
of the best preserves in the entire valley. In 
years past it was no job to get fifteen or twenty 
a day. If anything like that happens now it is 
looked upon as a banner day. It may be, how¬ 
ever, that the shooting will improve as the season 
advances. 
In view of the wonderful increase in popula¬ 
tion along the shores of Lake Washington one 
would hardly expect that the ducks would con¬ 
tinue to inhabit their old grounds at the head of 
the lake and along the south end near Captain 
Burroughs’ boat house. Several of the local 
sportsmen have been out to Burroughs’ place re¬ 
cently and on two or three occasions they have 
had pretty good shooting in the evening. 
During the evening flight it is common for the 
White river valley ducks to swing to the east 
near Orillia and pass over Renton to Lake Wash¬ 
ington. A good bunch of decoys in the water 
near Burroughs’ may bring them down. If it is 
very windy on the sound, the ducks fly over into 
Lake Washington, and there is always a chance 
of getting a little shooting at some of the best 
points. Mercer slough is one of the best natural 
retreats for waterfowl in the State, but it has 
been shot so- hard in time past that there is little 
use of going there unless the conditions happen 
to be just right. Deputy Sheriff Chet Beldiug 
was over in the Mercer slough country a few 
days ago. It was stormy and he said that a 
hunter would have had fine shooting. 
Some of the California clubs have adopted the 
plan of renting part-of their lands to farmers 
who raise barley. The Los Angeles Times' says 
that the result is that the birds find everything 
they want right on the grounds of such wise 
clubs. Only one improvement could be sug¬ 
gested, and that would be to- have threshed out 
the grain where it stood and left it—a form of 
philanthropy too stupendous to be practicable. 
Portus Baxter. 
Death of a Pioneer Maine Guide. 
Nathan B. Moore, who died recently at his 
home in Maine, was one of the pioneer guides 
and trappers of that State. Indeed, lie claimed 
to be the first guide in Maine, saying that he 
took his first patron on a hunting trip shortly 
after the close of the Civil War, 
The Vermont Deer Season. 
Hyde Park, Vt., Nov. 5. —Editor Forest and 
Stream: The Vermont deer season of six days 
closed Oct. 27. Up to date about 300 deer are 
reported to have been killed in the State. The 
total’ number killed will probably fall considerably 
short of last year’s. The dry weather, with many 
leaves on the trees and bushes as well as on the 
ground, made hunting difficult, and then it can¬ 
not be denied that "deer with horns” are becom¬ 
ing fewer and harder to find each year. This 
is borne out by the fact that quite a proportion 
of the deer killed had the marks of other wounds 
received this year or in previous seasons. 
However, the number of hunters in the woods 
was larger than ever. A friend of mine, who 
was out opening day, tells me that in covering a 
piece of woods two or three miles square. he 
met twenty-eight different hunters and thinks 
there were as many more he did not meet. I.f 
this is the case, the proportion of men to buck 
deer in that territory must have been about four¬ 
teen to one. 
Does are very plenty, and it would seem that 
the killing off of the bucks so closely must ser¬ 
iously disturb the balance of nature. That such 
a condition exists and is appreciated by the deer 
themselves is said to be proven by the killing of 
a doe with horns' in the south part of the State. 
This doe evidently tried to help out the bucks. 
We have never had a finer fall for hunting, 
but partridges have been pretty scarce. The rea¬ 
sons for such poor seasons, which seem to occur of 
late years* with more frequency, are hard to find. 
DEERHOUND—by LANDSEER. 
