Oct. 20, 1906.] 
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Massachusetts Game. 
The eighteenth annual field trials of the 
Brunswick Fur Club, at Barre, the past week 
brought together a goodly number of the men 
who love the baying of the hounds. Monday 
was Derby day, when the puppies had their 
innings. The judges were C. J. Prouty, of 
Scituate; Id. L. Morrill, of Boston; Otis Daniel, 
of Tilton. N. Id., and Messrs. Eastman and 
Walker, of Virginia. F. M. Gilbert, of Newton, 
received a fall, but although unconscious for a 
few moments, was not seriously injured. At the 
show Z. E. Call, of Northport, N. Y., won a 
prize for the best dog, and N. I. Bowditch, for 
the best bitch. Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton Perkins, 
of Boston; Admiral W. S. Cowles and Mrs. 
Cowles (President Roosevelt’s sister), of Wash¬ 
ington, D. C., and Capt. F. St. G. O. Colby, of 
Boston, were some of the distinguished guests 
of the club on Monday. The Derby was not 
concluded till Wednesday, and first prize was 
won by bitch Mat, owned by W. S. Walker, of 
Kentucky. On Wednesday a niece of the Presi¬ 
dent, Miss Katherine Roosevelt, was in at¬ 
tendance. 
On Friday weather conditions were good. A 
pack of nine hounds started at. 6 A. M. The 
party consisting of L. O. Denison, Mr. Perkins 
and about a dozen others, of whom several were 
women, was on hand for the final run. The 
one fox started was driven to earth and the chase 
was called off. Mr. Walker, of Kentucky; A. B. 
F. Kinney, and O. S. Joslin, had quite a hunt 
for Mr. Walker’s dog Scrapper, known as “The 
Skiddoo,” but at last accounts the dog had not 
been found. Among the entries Framingham 
sportsmen represented were Messrs. N. I. 
Bowditch, C. H. Macomber, W. F. Welch and 
C. F. Perkins (S. Framingham). From other 
Bay State towns were Paul Within, North- 
bridge; Dr. A. S. Lamb, Burlington; L. O. 
Denison, Waltham; C. T. Brownell. New Bed¬ 
ford; J. T. Burnett, Southboro; C. H. Alley, 
Burlington. 
The Middlesex Hunt Club held its seventeenth 
annual horse show Oct. 13 at the Kennels, S. 
Lincoln. The Sporting Parson, ridden by the 
owner, R. B. Barrett, of Concord, took the first 
two jumps, but refused the third. For the 
third successive year the president’s cup was 
won by A. Henry Higginson, M. F. H., and 
thus becomes his property. Mr. Higginson also 
secured first honors in several other compe¬ 
titions. Mrs. Edward H. Fay, Miss M. W. 
Pope, Miss Harriet S. Jaques. Miss Allen and 
Miss Penhallow, Mrs. Phillip H. Sears and Miss 
Alice Bowker won prizes. 
With a report as loud as a pistol shot, a 
partridge crashed through a plate glass window 
in the store of C. S. Henry in Westboro re¬ 
cently, the bird being killed instantly and caus¬ 
ing considerable damage to store fixtures. Some 
of the hunters report the killing of but a few 
birds as yet, on account of the heavy foliage, 
but most of those who have been out say there 
are quite a number of grouse. George M. 
Poland reports that friends have seen a num¬ 
ber of flight woodcock evidently impelled to 
move on southward by the recent frost. 
So many of the board of management of the 
association are now away that the secretary 
had difficulty in getting together enough for a 
quorum yesterday. Ex-president Reed, Mr. N. 
C. Nash. Dr. Norris and several others are in 
the big-game country. Dana Flanders recently 
returned from New Brunswick with a wonder¬ 
fully fine moose head. 
Acting under notification of Canadian officials, 
Warden Neal, at Bangor, seized a moose 
brought from New Brunswick, the hunter not 
having the permit required by the New Bruns¬ 
wick laws. 
The failure of an express agent to attach a 
tag to a legally killed deer caused the hunter 
some annoyance, but as he had his license with 
him. he was allowed to take the deer along. 
W. F. Crabtree. Chas. Johnson, F. H. Ball 
and J. E. Briggs, all of Boston, have returned 
from Maine with deer; also Messrs. Kilgore and 
Sprague, of Lexington, and A. J. Bigelow, of 
Worcester. So far the Bangor record is not up 
to last year. 
A prominent city official of Lynn, Mr. Belfield, 
related to- me his experience on a recent hunting 
trip to Nova Scotia. 
At Yarmouth he was met by Warden K., who 
accosted him with the inquiry, “Are you going 
hunting?” Mr. Belfield replied that he was, and 
was dominatingly. told by the warden that he 
must buy a license from him, as he had licenses 
to sell. Mr. B. informed him that he was go¬ 
ing to Shelburne, where he proposed to buy his 
license. This he did and was successful in 
killing a moose. He gave away most of the 
meat, but had one of the hind quarters shipped 
out of Shelborne for Boston. After the meat 
was put in the refrigerator on the Dominion 
Atlantic steamer, Warden K. came on board 
and seized the meat, in spite of the hunter’s 
protests. Mr. Belfield had paid for its trans¬ 
portation from Shelborne to Boston, a receipt 
for which he still holds and which, as well as 
the license, he showed to me. He was sent to 
me by an officer of the Lynn Fish' and Game 
Protective Association, which he tells me stands 
ready to back him up in an attempt to secure 
redress which he says he is determined to have. 
Of course he felt great disappointment not to 
be able on his arrival home to give a few 
friends a piece of moose meat. His trip had 
cost him some two hundred dollars, and by the 
action of the warden, he had to return without 
the meat which he had obtained legitimately, 
having complied with the laws of the province 
in every particular. He says a police officer in 
Yarmouth told him the reason for the warden’s 
conduct was simply that the license was not 
purchased of him, and further, that it was the 
custom of Warden Iv. to approach all Americans 
landing from the steamers in a manner designed 
to force them to buy a license of him. As Mr. 
Belfield expressed it, his game is to bulldoze 
strangers into buying licenses of him. Mr. Bel¬ 
field says he has been into the same region for 
moose several times, and he considers it no 
more than courtesy to buy his license in the 
region to which he goes. 
It would seem to be well for all sportsmen go¬ 
ing to the moose grounds of Nova Scotia via 
Yarmouth to insist on their rights. The chief 
game warden, Mr. Knight, of Halifax, has been 
informed of the above facts. 
H. H. Kimball. 
North Dakota Ducks Abundant. 
Sioux Falls, S. D.. Oct. 6. —Editor Forest and 
Stream: The condition of the game birds of 
this season are encouraging in some respects 
and very discouraging in others. Owing to the 
vast amount of rain during the early summei 
months and continuing to the present time, all 
the sloughs are well filled with water. Ducks 
hatched their broods and continued with us 
all summer, consequently we have a great num¬ 
ber of local birds. Old hunters say that when 
the flight commences (which will be as soon as 
the cold, stormy weather sets in), there will be 
the best shooting we have had in ten years. 
Prairie chickens are not plentiful, nor have 
they been for a number of years. Few hunters 
have killed more than six or seven in any one 
day. However, the best hunting is in the 
northern part of the state. The cause for the 
scarcity of chickens when the season opens is 
apparent. The farmers kill them before the sea¬ 
son opens. 
There seems to be a lack of interest in the 
protection of game birds. The season opens 
Sept. 1, and continues until Jan. 1. Restaurants 
are allowed to sell and serve them in season, 
which should be prohibited. The number of 
birds that may be killed in any one day is fifteen. 
There should be some federal legislation on 
the sale of game; also in game protection in 
general. 
Quail are increasing, due to the fact that 
they are not sought by the hunter as their more 
unfortunate neighbor, the chicken. 
The game laws are regarded as satisfactory by 
some and not by others. Personallly, I do not 
think they are sufficiently rigid, nor are they 
correct. For instance, the quail season opens 
Oct. 1, and that is too early. I talked with the 
nursery man the other day, and he told me that 
he had one covey on his place that were just 
able to fly well. 
There were a few arrests at the opening of the 
chicken season, but they were non-residents ana 
fined for not procuring the license that the law 
requires. Herbert Abbott. 
Game Abundant in Washington. 
Tacoma, Wash., Oct. 3. —Editor Forest and 
Stream: In this state there is very general satis¬ 
faction expressed among sportsmen with the game 
laws, which are rigidly enforced when it is con¬ 
sidered that so large a state is so sparsely settled. 
Last month one man was fined in Walla. Walla 
county in the sum of $50 for killing a deer out 
of season, and another is awaiting trial in the 
same locality for a similar offense. 
There is a noticeable increase throughout the 
state in the number of quail and Chinese pheas¬ 
ants. Many hundreds of the latter were brought 
here several years ago and they have increased 
rapidly in various sections of western Washing¬ 
ton and in Oregon. Grouse and partridges are 
quite plentiful. There is always good duck shoot¬ 
ing in this section of the state, the birds shot in 
the interior being of various varieties and fat 
and juicy. Ducks shot on the passes along the 
sound, however, are strong and fishy, even mal¬ 
lards and canvasbacks taking on the strong taste 
soon after arriving from the north. 
Deer are quite plentiful along the coasts, and 
many parties go out from here, every fall. One 
party of three last fall, out only four days, 
brought in seven fine deer which were shot not 
more than twenty miles, distant from this city. 
Mining prospectors along the Cascade Mountains 
report seeing numerous bands of elk, and there 
are quite a few mountain sheep, bear and cougar 
in the foothills and higher up the defiles of that 
unfrequented range. 
Last week a bear was seen on two successive 
nights in the southern'portion of Tacoma not a 
mile from the post-office. Night shirt hunters 
were out after Bruin, but be escaped through a 
small thicket. 
Nearly every vessel coming from Alaska re¬ 
ports seeing many deer swimming the channel in 
the vicinity of Wrangel narrows. On one trip, 
which I made to Alaska four years ago, on the 
steamer Dolphin (Capt. O’Brien, formerly of New 
York), we picked up three deer at Wrangel nar¬ 
rows as they were swimming across. Boats were 
lowered and the crew had little difficulty in cap¬ 
turing them alive. A. E. Ci-iantler. 
North Carolina Lacks Wardens. 
Statesville, N. C., Oct. 8 .—Editor Forest and 
Stream: This has been an unusually hard sea¬ 
son on young quail. It has rained continually 
since ihe first of June, but birds seem to be very 
plentiful; in fact, have shown an increase over 
last season. I have made inquiry in different 
sections and all report an abundance of quail on 
uplands. I suppose high water has destroyed 
most of the young ones in lowlands on creek and 
rivers. I think visiting sportsmen will find some 
goed shooting in this section. The wild turkeys 
in this section have about all been killed out. 
The game laws are not enforced at all. We have 
a plenty of laws to protect the game and fish, 
but they are not enforced as they should and 
must be. I am anxious to see a good warden on 
the ground, one that is not afraid to do his duty. 
I do not like one clause in our law for this 
county. It says if a man is a landowner he can 
sell birds killed on his own' place. This means a 
man can own ten acres of land and sell five 
hundred birds in a season and claim to kill every 
one on bis farm. I stand for 110 birds being sold 
under any condition. This is the only way to 
cut out the pot hunter, and he must be cut out 
once and for all if we want' to protect our game 
for sport. Our season opens Nov. 15, and closes 
Feb. 15. 
A good sportsmen’s journal is one of the very 
best means to awake sportsmen to a realization 
