Oct. 13, 1906.] 
FOREST AND STREAM. 
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Canadian Wild Goose Eggs for France. 
Nova Scotia Game and Inland Fishery 
Protection Society, Halifax, N. S., Sept. n.— 
Editor Forest and Stream: I send you the inclosed 
copy of a letter I received from the secretary of 
the Fish and Game Association of Prince Edward 
Island, as it interests all sportsmen. I thought 
a letter in the Forest and Stream would help 
to abolish such wholesale destruction of such 
fine birds. Geo. Piers. 
P. E. I. Fish and Game Protection Society, 
Charlottetown, P. E. I., Sept. 3.—George Piers, 
Esq., Secretary Game and Inland Fishery Pro¬ 
tection Society.-—Dear Sir: Our association has 
received reliable information that carloads of' 
wild goose eggs have been shipped from Anti¬ 
costi to France. If this practice is allowed to 
go on, it means that wild goose shooting will 
soon become a thing of the past. 
I am instructed to ask your society to use 
its influence in putting an end to such a detri¬ 
mental business. We are addressing a letter to 
the Secretary of State, Ottawa, asking the gov¬ 
ernment to take steps to prevent its recurrence. 
Yours truly, 
(Signed) E. T. Carbonell, 
Secy. F. & G. P. A. 
Injured by Elk and Deer. 
The vicio-usness of male elk and deer in the 
autumn months is well known, and two cases at 
least have come to our attention within a few 
days. 
While Chauncey B. McCormick, of Baltimore, 
and Fleming H. Revel, Jr., of Evanston, Ill., both 
Yale students, were walking through the' game 
preserve of Percy R. Geist, near New Haven, 
Conn., last Sunday, they were attacked by a young 
bull elk, which knocked Mr. McCormick down 
and used him very roughly before Mr. Geist and 
several men, who were attracted by the students’ 
calls for help, drove the bull away. Young 
McCormick was injured about the body, and one 
arm was hurt by the elk’s hoofs or antlers, but 
the surgeon who attended him could find no 
serious injury. 
Near Greenfield, Mass., a buck deer has been 
frightening timid persons of late, and it is even 
credited with killing or crippling sheep in the 
hillside pastures. 
A Valuable Asset. 
Mohawk, Fla., Oct. 3. — Editor Forest and 
Stream: Winter will soon be with us and I have 
no doubt many of your readers are thinking of 
the sunny South, Florida and oranges. Perhaps 
many who have never been to the land of flowers 
would be glad to get some information as to 
where to go for the various kinds of game and 
fish, what to bring, and the cost of board, guides, 
etc. Northern sportsmen have been very good 
in giving me this information, and I will be glad 
to return the compliment, provided they will be 
as brief as possible and enclose a stamp for reply. 
Am glad to report that we have had an excellent 
summer, and game of all kinds is fully up to 
the average. Our game wardens and the people 
generally are beginning to see that the game is 
one of our most valuable assets, and so far as 
I can learn no game has been killed out of sea¬ 
son, or game laws broken in this section. 
C. H. Stokes, Postmaster. 
The Adirondack Deer Season. 
Winsted, Conn.— Editor Forest and Stream: 
The season on deer in the Adirondacks has been 
changed from Sept. 1 to Oct. 1. While the 
change might be best for the deer, is is not for 
those of us who cannot be away from home in 
October. It is all right for those who can, but 
those of us who have been spending our vaca¬ 
tion in the woods for forty years don't like to 
have all our sport taken away from us. Chas. 
Hallock says that deer are not fit to eat in 
October and November. We may not all agree 
with him, but with the law changed, it might 
just as well have been to December. 
C. S. F. 
Game in Texas. 
Guffey, Texas, Oct. 3. — Editor Forest and 
Stream: Quail and prairie chickens show large 
increase this year, and while spending two days 
in the forest last week I noticed lots of deer signs. 
Squirrels are also plentiful. Ducks and snipe 
are coming in in large numbers, and as the sea¬ 
son is always open for shooting ducks, snipe, 
squirrels and rabbits, the hunters never have any 
cause to break the law. 
The only dissastisfaction that we have had over 
existing laws was the law passed in igo2 allow¬ 
ing the hunters to kill twenty-five ducks each 
day, but prohibiting the sale of any kind of game. 
This law has been fought by the people until it 
has been declared unconstitutional. For no one 
family can consume twenty-five ducks each day. 
If it is unlawful to sell one duck, it should be 
unlawful to- kill so many each day, but as this 
has been changed the people are satisfied. 
W. H. Hawkins. 
People Leaving the Adirondacks. 
Loon Lake, N. Y., Oct. 4. — Editor Forest and 
Stream: The game shows an increase. Deer 
are found anywhere one may go, and the law is 
well observed by most hunters. There is a cei- 
tain class of men in this section that hound a 
little. I have heard dogs this week. The cutting 
off of thirty days from the hunting season was 
bad for the Adirondack hotels and guides. Very 
few deer are killed by sportsmen, I mean the 
city people who come to the hotels, yet they are 
willing to spend their money for guides, even if 
they get no deer; but this year they all went 
home. Since 1880 I have never known people to 
leave this section so early before. The forest 
commission should see to it and have the game 
keepers travel over the country more, and not 
spend so much time digging potatoes or buying 
hops. F. F. Smith. 
Another Labrador Expedition Completed. 
Last June, shortly after their marriage, Mr. 
and Mrs. Stephen P. M. Tasker, of Philadelphia, 
went to the Hudson Bay coast of Labrador, and 
procuring dogs and sleds, started across country 
en route to the east coast. Since then nothing 
has been heard from them until last week, when 
Mr. Tasker’s mother received a telegram from 
him at Domino and sent via Cape Race, Oct. 4, 
stating that he and his wife had crossed Labrador 
and all was well. The native who took his mes¬ 
sage to the nearest telegraph office said that the 
Taskers had lost their way when only a few days 
out from Hudson Bay, a§d their provisions giv¬ 
ing out, they were compelled to shoot their 
sledge dogs one by one for food until all were 
gone, and to push on without their outfit. For¬ 
tunately they came to a native village where they 
were given food and shelter and evidently they 
are awaiting a- ship to bring them home. 
Mr. Tasker is a marine engineer in the navy, 
stationed at the Cramp ship yard, and is away on 
furlough. 
Ignoring the Law in Cecil County. 
The new law relating to rail and reedbirds 
has not been enforced in Cecil county, Maryland, 
a famous place for them, and the old law is being 
observed. The latter made Sept. 5 opening day, 
whereas the new law makes the open season Nov. 
15 to Dec. 25 inclusive in that county. Mr. 
William B. Davis, the author of the present law, 
has notified the state game warden that the dates 
of the Cecil county season were erroneously 
changed by him and in that shape the law passed. 
His intention w ; as to make the opening date Sept. 
5, and this is being observed in Cecil county. 
The Wild Rice Crop a Failure. 
Port Hope, Ont., Oct. 3. — Editor Forest and 
Stream: The wild rice crop is a failure this fall 
on account -of the hot and dry weather. The 
Indians could not gather a pound. Every fourth 
year there is a short crop, and this is the fourth 
year. Charles Gilchrist. 
The Outlook in Northern Ohio. 
Steubenville, O., Oct. 5 .—Editor Forest and 
Stream: Our quail wintered well this year and 
in certain portions of our county are fairly 
abundant. However, it is noticeable that when 
hunters want to go out for a week or two, they 
travel thirty to fifty or more miles away. They 
report quite a number of pheasant which, how¬ 
ever, are protected for a year or two more. 
There are a few gray squirrels, but they do not 
seem to be plentiful. The woodchuck, as eastern 
people call him, or ground hog, as he is known 
m this section, is very plentiful and not much 
hunted. It is good fun shooting these pests with 
the rifle. George S. Hawkins. 
Game Laws Too General. 
Alpine, Texas, Oct. 3.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: All kinds of game, except blue quail 
and doves, show marked decrease. The game 
laws are not strictly enforced, and the authorities 
pay but little attention to their enforcement in 
this section of the state. Texas game laws are 
the best that we have ever had, but are not satis¬ 
factory in the matter of open seasons. We have 
time enough, but Texas is so large that the open 
seasons do- not suit all. 
Rev. Geo. W. Baines. 
Prairie Chickens Abundant. 
Farmington, Minn., Oct. 1. — Editor Forest 
and Stream: I was surprised when, on the open¬ 
ing of the prairie chicken season here, we bagged 
twenty-three birds on opening day, after getting 
just four a year ago. A couple of days later we 
got seventeen and s^w nearly 200. I do not know 
what was the reason, but it certainly looked good 
to me. 
There are more deer in Minnesota to-day than 
in the rest of the United States. 
Norman PI. Crowell. 
The Adirondack Outlook. 
Adirondack hotel and camp keepers say they 
are receiving a much larger number of orders 
for accommodations during the deer shooting 
season than usual; guides and resident sports¬ 
men claim the deer have increased materially, 
the leaves will be down, and other reasons are 
given for the belief that the present open sea¬ 
son for deer will be a lively one. Last winter’s 
mild weather and absence of much snow favored 
them. They are reported to be in good con¬ 
dition, and any man who gets an Adirondack 
buck this month should be happy. 
Baltimore Flickers Protected. 
State Game Warden Dennis, of Baltimore, has 
served notice on all shooters that flickers can¬ 
not be shot in Baltimore county. ’ The local laws 
of Baltimore and Cecil counties do not refer to 
flickers directly, but protect at all times “hang¬ 
ing birds or woodpeckers,” and Warden Dennis 
holds that “flickers come under the head of the 
species known as woodpecker.” Therefore his 
deputies have been instructed to enforce the law 
accordingly. 
Game Scarce in Iowa. 
Garden Grove, Iowa, Sept. 29. — Editor Forest 
and Stream: There is not much to hunt here. 
If I were going out for sport I would go- to some 
other point. We see a few rabbits and occas¬ 
ionally a squirrel, but I have not seen a quail, 
duck or wild* goose this season. Prairie chickens 
are as scarce as the proverbial hen’s teeth. 
H. P. Flanagan. 
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