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open and in which many peas are planted. Several 
farmers said they had never seeh more birds. 
The only statement of scarcity of birds of which 
the writer has heard comes from Mecklenburg 
county, where it is claimed there are a few, the 
statement being that the wet weather drowned 
them out. Fred A. Olds. 
Game Notes. 
Sayre, Pa., Sept. 29.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: A letter from Tompkins county, New 
York, leads one to suspect that sportsmen are 
having a good bit of shooting this fall. Joseph 
Hughes, of Ithaca, one day this week shot five 
ruffed grouse and eight woodcock, while other 
University City sportsmen have succeeded at 
various times nearly as well. Woodcock are re¬ 
ported plentiful in most parts of the southern 
tier 'where good covers continue to exist, which 
is exceedingly welcome news to the man who for 
numerous seasons past has looked in vain for 
the mysterious long-hills. Grouse are also said 
to be more plentiful than last season,, with gray 
scptirrels to be found numerously in all likely 
timber. 
Coming into Pennsylvania where the season re¬ 
mains closed for the better part of three weeks 
yet, it is said among these who have been abroad 
lately, that gray squirrels are plentiful. Wood¬ 
cock have not been heard front to any extent, 
although vigilant fielders make bold to claim that 
the birds are with us in greater numbers than 
for some years past. Ruffed grouse are likewise 
said to be abundant, and of rabbits, like books, 
there is no end. M. Chill. 
A Pioneer Woman of To-day. 
Merrill, Sept. 24.— Editor Forest and Stream: 
I saw in the Sept. 22d number of your interest¬ 
ing paper an account of some of the pioneer 
women of early days. I will tell you of one of 
the present-day pioneer women, whom I know, a 
Mrs. Anderson, of Parrish, Langlade county, 
Wisconsin. Last November, while I was in a 
camp hunting deer three miles south of Parrish, 
Mrs. Anderson, who lives on the bank of the 
Prairie river, two miles north of our camp, saw 
a deer across the river; she took her husband’s 
rifle, shot the deer, crossed the stream on a log, 
fastened a clothes line to the deer and drew it 
across the stream, dressed it, and when her hus¬ 
band came home from work, had venison for his 
supper. That same night at 12 o’clock she gave 
birth to a fine baby girl. A few days after, while 
lying in bed, she saw a deer in the garden; she 
begged .the woman who was caring for her to 
bring her the rifle and raise the window and let 
her shoot the deer. But the woman did not think 
her strong enough to hold the rifle. 
I think we have as brave and capable women as 
in the earlier days. I read the Forest and 
Stream with great pleasure every week. 
Lloyd BIiecic 
Quail Abundant Again. 
Lincoln, Neb., Sept. 29.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: Grouse and prairie chicken are reported 
more plentiful than for a number of years, due 
to rigid enforcement of the law with relation 
to the shipment and sale of them, and also to 
the favorable hatching conditions during the 
early months of the season. 'These birds are 
found principally in the territory north of the 
Platte river, and in the central and western 
portion of the state, where reasonably good 
shooting may be expected. Quail have increased 
very rapidly during the past two years, and we 
hardly realize that they were practically extermi¬ 
nated by weather conditions during-the winter 
of 1903. We have only fifteen days open season 
for quail shooting, which is Nov. 15 to 30, in¬ 
clusive, but our sportsmen anticipate excellent 
results during that time. 
Geo. L. Carter, Chief Warden. 
The Forest and Stream may be obtained from 
any newsdealer on order. Ask your dealer to 
supply you regularly. 
Quail Tame Under Protection. 
Las Animas, Colo., Sept. 27. — Editor Forest 
and Stream: Our game laws are loosely en¬ 
forced. There are a few antelope in Colorado, 
but they are gradually being exterminated. In 
J907 quail and other small birds lose the pro¬ 
tection of the laws and they will soon go unless 
there is an extension of the laws now in force. 
We have here Boh White and the California 
quail, but as they range along the irrigating 
canals and the narrow stretches of farming- 
country between the ditches and the rivers,' they 
are easily found and will not live long unless 
protected. It is very interesting to see them 
now. They barely get out of your way as you 
FROM OUR FRONT DOOR. 
Camp photo in Louisiana by Jo Bo. 
pass, them with a team. To slaughter them now, 
after having gained their friendship, would he 
a shame. You will think a change of heart has 
taken place with a hide hunter; but don’t you 
know it is many a year since • I have killed a 
thing, and I lay it principally to the disgust oc¬ 
casioned by thoughts of the old slaughter. If 
there is a God this will be one of the things.it 
will be hard for him to forgive. 
F. T. Webber. 
[Wild turkeys, mountain sheep, antelope and 
elk are protected to 1907; but quail, as we under¬ 
stand the Colorado law, are protected always.— 
Editor.] 
Belgian Firearms. 
Consul J. McNally calls attention in his an¬ 
nual report to the production of firearms in 
Liege, Belgium. He says that 1905 was the 
banner year for the city, the aggregate number 
of firearms produced reaching 2,682,111 in 1905, 
against 2,479,936 in 1904. Of these totals, 891,- 
875 single barreled and 656.327 double-barreled 
guns were produced in 1904, and 949,631, and 
722,986 respectively, in 1905. 
For a Close Season on Guns. 
Greenville, Pa., Sept. 28.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: There is no increase in game with the 
exception of rabbits. Quail are very scarce. 
Fheasants are almost extinct. There are some 
woodcock and fairly good squirrel shooling. We 
are pretty- close to the Ohio state line, and as 
i s. laws differ with ours as to the open season 
(opening about Sept. 1 in Ohio, and Oct. 1 in 
Pennsylvania), the authorities have their troubles, 
but I think they do fairly well in keeping the 
laws observed. The laws are regarded as gen¬ 
erally satisfactory, but they do not meet 
altogether with my approval. 1 would like to 
see it arranged, if possible, to have an open sea- 
sen for twenty to thirty days once a year, say 
in October, and then any one carrying "a gun at 
ny other time to be prosecuted, as'he could have 
no excuse for shooting red squirrels, ground¬ 
hogs, ducks, etc., at any other time but the 
aforesaid twenty or thirty days. 
I placed some nice small-mouth bass here this 
fall, and by continually hammering away I ex¬ 
pect the fishing to be fairly good in the course of 
time. In fact it has already shown signs of im¬ 
provement during the past three years. 
Frank A. Maskrey. 
Mrs. Umstead’s Seventeen. 
Philadelphia, Sept. 21.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: One of the amusing features to an old 
reader of Forest and Stream is the discussion 
whether weasels kill chickens or get credit for 
the work of other marauders. I had thought 
that any one who had raised chickens in weasel 
territory had sooner or later learned facts— 
not necessarily from printed matter. If Stan- 
stead, who in your issue of Sept 1 says he has 
never had any positive proof of chicken killing 
by weasels, will write to Harrv Umstead, 
Schwenksville, Pa., he will learn how the latter 
lost seventeen fine broilers by the slippery ani¬ 
mal. The weasel was seen in broad daylight 
by Mrs. Umstead while carrying away the seven¬ 
teenth victim, and refused to be frightened from 
his prey. Although having never previously 
fired a gun, she was so indignant at the nerve 
of the animal, that she secured her husband’s 
shotgun and “got busy,” with the result of shoot¬ 
ing a hole in the fence and drawing blood from 
the weasel, which has not been seen since. Still 
I presume that until Stanstead et al. actually 
catch a weasel red-handed, the evidence will not 
be conclusive. Ocean. 
A Large Preserve for New Brunswick. 
The New Brunswick Fish and Game Com¬ 
pany, Limited, organized in Montreal, Canada, 
has completed arrangements whereby it becomes 
the lessee of a large tract of land in the 
Tobique river region in New Brunswick. There 
are 1,700,000 acres of land in the tract, embrac¬ 
ing some of the best forests and streams for 
big game hunting and fishing respectively in the 
province. Lord Strathcona is the honorary 
president of the organization, and the other 
officers are as named: President, Robert 
Meighon; vice-president. Colonel H. FI. Mc¬ 
Lean, of St. John; treasurer, Alfred Zeley, of 
St. John. Prominent sportsmen of New York 
city are named as directors with others from 
Montreal and several Canadian cities. 
“The Log.” 
. The Log, “a monthly magazine of living 
things and Long Island affairs,” as is quaintly 
set forth in the sub-title, is specially bright and 
racy in the September number. The editor is 
Mr. Will Graham. To appreciate the artistic 
and sparkling properties of The Log. it must be 
seen and heard. But Mr. Graham is better 
known to the majority of sportsmen as the 
urbane host of Ye Anchorage Inn, Blue Point, 
L. I., where shooters, particularly duck shooters, 
in season delight to congregate, first to enjoy 
the pervading comforts- of that famous hostelry, 
and second to shoot under the best conditions 
of expert equipment and thorough knowledge of 
the sport. 
