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[Dec. i, 1906. 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
The Vermont Game Season. 
Sheldon, Vt., Nov. 19.' —Editor Forest and 
Stream: As we have here in northern Vermont 
at the time of writing about a foot of 
snow and with ice over the marshes and bays 
of the lake, we may conclude that bird shooting 
is over for this season. Ruffed grouse shooting 
was the poorest that we have ever known. 
The extremely wet weather in the early sum¬ 
mer killed off the young chicks. In all of our 
hunting we have only seen four young grouse. 
Woodcock shooting in the extreme northern 
part of the State was nearly as bad, as the birds 
migrated early before the open season. We 
have good breeding grounds, but poor feeding 
grounds, so the ’cock leave as soon as they are 
through moulting. There has been but little 
good sport with the duck and snipe. The fox- 
hunters, however, are reporting good success. 
Up to date over 625 deer have been reported 
as killed during the past open season. This 
slaughter of the innocents cannot be classified 
as sport, for our deer are semi-domesticated 
animals. They are salted and allowed to run 
with our cattle during the summer and then shot 
down before it is hardly daylight the morning 
of the open season. There are scenes here that 
rival those witnessed in Long Island during the 
open deer season there. A lot of “crazy loons” 
go out with an insane desire to kill something 
and blaze away at every moving object. One 
rattle-brained fellow in Swanton shot his neigh¬ 
bor’s hog before he had got outside of the 
village limits. The number of does and fawns 
that have been killed will never be known. We 
have just seen a doe brought in alive and totally 
blind. On examination we found fine shot im¬ 
bedded in the skin near the eyes, showing how 
she had lost her eyesight. 
Our Legislature is in session at the present 
time, and the Committee on Fish and Game has 
a large number of bills and amendments to act 
on, which will be duly reported to you should 
any of them become laws. Stanstead. 
Illinois Field Trials. 
Columbus, Ind., Nov. 15.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: The All Age Stake of the Illinois Field 
Trial Club was run on the club’s grounds at 
Robinson, Ill., Nov. 13 and 14. There were 
thirty starters in the race, pointers and setters 
competing on equal terms. The weather con¬ 
ditions were much the best on "the first day, 
which was even a bit too chilly for riding in 
comfort. The second day was quite blustery, and 
a light snow drifted down almost the entire day. 
Probably between twenty and twenty-five 
coveys of quail were found the first day, and 
much satisfactory bird work was gotten. Owing 
to the adverse weather prevailing the second 
day, but little bird work was to be had, as the 
birds had retreated from the open fields to the 
timber in gulleys and to the large cornfields. 
An interesting feature of the running on these 
grounds is the flushing of large numbers of 
prairie chickens; during the running of the 
first day probably from 500 to 1,000 of this fine 
game bird were found, a splendid testimonial to 
the efficiency of the five-year closed season on 
this bird. This law expires with the coming 
of another shooting season; but if the open 
date of the chicken season will be but made late 
enough, the birds will have all the protection 
they will need for some time. 
These trials are held on quail, and the work 
of the dogs on chicken is not counted, either 
for or against the dog. The chickens are 
pretty generally “packed” now, and it was very 
seldom any of the great numbers found came 
within shooting range. 
The present law in Indiana on chicken is 
proving a boon to the bird in that State. The 
season opens Nov. 10, and by that time the 
birds are grown strong and wary, and all 
through the Kankakee Marsh district of the 
Ploosier State the chicken are on the increase. 
The winners in the Illinois All Age Stake, 
1906: First, Fishel’s Frank (pointer); second, 
Prince Whitestone; third, Shot Wind’em; 
fourth. King Woolton (pointer), Tonapaugh, 
Oakley Hill’s King. 
For the benefit of a lot of stay-at-home wise¬ 
acres who write long dissertations on the rela¬ 
tive merits of a “Field trial dog or a shooting 
dog,” I will say that Prince Whitestone, the 
winner of second in this big stake, is a quail 
dog over whose points 3,000 birds have been 
shot, and the dog was handled admirably in this 
stake by Mr. Pace, an amateur. 
G. G. Williamson. 
Non-Residents Fined in North Corolina. 
Greensboro, N. C., Nov. 22.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: I would be very glad if you would 
make a notice of the inclosed clipping in Forest, 
and Stream, as we are troubled a great deal by 
men who seek to avoid paying the license as re¬ 
quired by law. 
T. Gilbert Pearson, Secretary. 
cut up antics of a more frightened nature than 
the deer at the Doyle Monument. 
A. C. Hurlburt. 
[The deer referred to made its appearance in 
Fenner street, and being frightened at the crowd 
that collected, jumped through the plate glass 
window of a vacant store, and meeting the 
janitor, turned and smashed more glass in going 
out, and astonished four sportsmen who, with 
gun cases and supplies, were just starting on a 
shooting trip. In East Providence next day this 
deer or another one attracted attention, and in 
New London, Conn., Nov. 19, a buck swam 
across Shaw’s cove, to Bank street and jumped 
through the window of a jewelry store, frightened 
the proprietor’s wife, jumped back again, 
and made for a meat market, where the butcher, 
cleaver in hand, gazed at it in astonishment. It 
finally got away.— Ed.] 
Tarboro, N. C., Nov. 21.—Special Warden 
Haynes, of the Audubon Society, arrested five 
non-residents for hunting without license to-day. 
The men are Messrs. Guy Webster, of York, Pa.; 
J. S. Woodard, of Baltimore county, Md.; O. E. 
Thompson, Chester county, Pa.; T. B. Todd, Jr., 
Baltimore. They were fined and paid costs and 
were required additionally to take out license 
as required by the Audubon Society. 
Mr. M. W. Haynes, who was recently ap¬ 
pointed special warden, has been doing some ef¬ 
fective work, having had seven convictions 
already, and has four cases now on docket ready 
for trial. Mr. Haynes is no respecter of per¬ 
sons, as to-day’s arrests show, and is eager to 
prosecute all persons guilty of infringing on the 
Audubon law. — Raleigh News and Observer. 
Wisconsin Notes. 
Fond du I.ac, Wis., Nov. 10.- —Editor Forest and 
Stream: After the last day of November, which 
winds up the duck and deer shooting, there will 
be little to attract the sportsman. It will be prin¬ 
cipally talking over the season past, preparing 
for the one to come, with an occasional rabbit 
hunt and one or two fishing trips through the 
ice just for a fresh perch. The trout season was 
a good one out here and I had the pleasure of 
casting a fly every week through the season. My 
two best trout experiences during the season 
(the truth) was one in May on Pine River when 
I stood at the head of a reach and took seven 
trout in seven casts all better than 8pj inches, 
and never moved out of my tracks from where I 
took the first fish. The second was on White 
River. The first cast a 1P2 pound rainbow, and 
twenty feet further down stream with the second 
cast killed a 2M pound brown. Both of these 
fish killed on a 4 ounce rod of my own make 
and without landing net. When I went to the 
house with these two trout, my creel was full and 
heavy. I returned to the stream within an hour 
with fond "hopes of another big one and never 
got another rise. I took these two trout on a 
yellow dun, an English fly. 
The duck shooting has been fairly good this 
season, although the teal flight was not as good 
as usual. More hunters than ever are going to 
the northern part of the State for deer, which 
are reported as being plentiful. I am inclined to 
believe, however, that one reason why they are 
more plentiful is because the settlers are coming 
in more every year, clearing land and confining 
the deer to a smaller territory. 
Frederic Foster. 
Deer Coming to Town. 
Providence, R. I., Nov. 21. —Editor Forest and 
Stream: The inclosed armeared in the Evening 
Bulletin, Nov. 20, and may be of some interest 
regarding the game supply, of Rhode Island. It 
looks as though deer were itching for trouble! 
We hope, though, that before the law expires, 
another will he put into force and the animals 
protected. In fact, it would hardly be safe to 
allow deer shooting in this State. Imagine the 
result of having an open season for a week, with 
high power rifles and hundreds of them; there 
would be certain two-legged animals who would 
Quail Grounds of the South. 
We continue our series of articles begun last 
week on resorts in the south where game can be 
found. 
In the summaries that follow will be found 
the name of towns, hotels and their rates per 
day, the kind of game to be found, the names 
of persons who will furnish information, and 
whether lands are free or posted: 
Alabama. 
Akron.—One, $2. Birds, squirrel. D. B. Borden, C. E. 
Worms, Chas. Lichtmore. Free. 
Alabama Port. — Alabama Port Hotel. Quail, duck, fish. 
Bayou Labatre—Bayou Labatre Hotel. Quail, duck, fish. 
Burnsville. — M. E. Cole. Duck, etc. J. H. Burns, C. E. 
Golson, W. B. Taylor. Partly posted. 
Cedar Bluff. — Cedar Bluff Hotel, $2. Quail, squirrel, 
turkey, fish. J. F. Slone, J. F. Burnett. Posted. 
Coatopa.—Honeycutt Hotel, $2. Deer, quail, squirrel. 
J. \V. McCarty. Partly posted. 
Coden.—Julian House. Quail, duck, fish. 
Covin.—Brock’s Hotel, $1. Quail, squirrel, hare, fox, 
coon, and possum. R. T. Brock, L. A. Weathers, 
Dr. J. S. 1-Iallis. Free. 
Heflin. — Alexandria Central. Quail, turkey, squirrel. W. 
G. Milligan. Free. 
Kennedy.—$2. Quail, squirrel, fishing. U. T. Prapst. 
Posted. 
Lynn.—W. M. Barton, $1. Deer, turkey, squirrel, quail. 
W. T. Long, W. A. Baughn, W. M. Barton, J. W. 
Hyde. W. R. Long. Free. 
Magnolia Springs. — Magnolia Springs Hot?!. — Quail, 
duck, fish. 
Manila. — E. W. Lott. Duck, etc. E. W. Lott. Partly . 
posted. 
Mobile. — Bienville Hotel, Cawthon Hotel. Quail, duck, 
fish. 
Montevallo. — St. George, $2. Squirrel, partridge. George 
Kroell. Partly posted. 
Nauvoo. — Romine, $2. Quail, turkey, deer. A. C. 
Routine. Partly posted. 
Pell City.—Carnett House, Mrs. M. Cameron, Cobb Hall. 
Fish, quail, duck, geese, turkey. S. Cogswell, W. A. 
Starnes. J. E. Harmon. Posted. 
Plantersville.—W. S. Driskill, $2. Quail, turkey. \V. S. 
Driskill, W. T. Coker, Partly posted. 
Paint Rock. — C. C. Kell. $2. Squirrel, birds. Free. 
Riverton.—One, $2. Quail. Dr. G. T. McWharton. 
Russellville.—Drake House, $2; Commercial Hotel, $2. 
Quail, squirrel, fish. W. S. Douglass, J. A. Wilson. 
Partly posted. 
Slade. — None. Bear, turkey, deer, fish. Walter Richard¬ 
son. Posted. 
Stevenson. — Stevenson Plotel, McGriff Hotel. Turkey, 
deer, duck, quail, squirrel. P. H. Woodall, W. R. 
Merritt, A. II. McKehon. Posted. 
Talladega. — Central Hotel. $2; Exchange Hotel, $2; 
Southern Hotel, $1.50; boarding houses. Trout and 
bream fishing. J. I. Hubbard, Felix Oglesby. Partly 
posted. 
Town Creek. — J. H. Hall and J. K. Clam, $2. Fishing, 
hunting. Houston & Co., J. P. Hall, R. N. Harris. 
Partly posted. 
Wagar.—Wagar Plotel. Fish, duck, deer, turkey. J. J. 
Garris. Partly posted. 
Odenville. — T. Bvers. W. C. Plarden. $1. Quail, turkey, 
squirrel. S. O. Fowler. Partly posted. 
Hardwick.—None. Few quail, turkey. Free. 
Ragland. — J. J. Teague. $1.50. Few quail. W. T. Brown. 
Partly posted. 
Chesson.—None. Few quail. J. T. Johnson. Posted. 
Ilurtsboro.—Powell, Renfroe, Mitchell, $2. Quail. S. A. 
Powell. Partly posted. 
Cottonton.—None. Ouail plentiful. Free. 
Harmen.-None. Quail. T. H. Reese. Free. 
South Carolina. 
Batesburg.—Batesburg Hotel, Timmons Hotel, Lexing¬ 
ton Hotel. Ouail, squirrel. W. C. Farber, A. 11- 
Waters, D. P. Plartlev, T. B. Kemoghan. Posted. 
Bamberg.—Mayflower Inn, Johnson House, Bamberg 
Hotel. Partridge. C. N. Brocker. Geo. Jennings, 
G. F. Bamberg, W. G. Hoffmer. Free. 
Blackville.—Southern Hotel, $20 to $30 per month; Rush 
House rates samt. Partridge, quail, squirrel. J. I 
Strobel, C. S. Wilson, Jno. Browning. Partly posted. 
Bovkins.—None. Duck, partrdge. L. W Boykin. B. H. 
' Boykin. A. H. Boykin. They may furnish informa¬ 
tion. Partly posted. 
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