FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Oct. 20, 1906. 
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of what game protection means to a state or 
community. 
I wish you much succes in helping to establish 
laws all over this land of ours that will protect 
game and fish. J. A. Vaughan. 
Ohio Protectors Handicapped. 
Columbus, Ohio, Oct. 7.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: The outlook for fall shooting is not of 
the best. The quail have been scarce in most 
parts of Ohio for several years. About this time 
of the year you can hear of localities where the 
natives claim they see lots of birds, but when the 
season opens, you find them very scarce. I think 
from what I have observed the quail are steadily 
decreasing. 
J. C. Porterfield, our chief warden, is a very 
painstaking and hard working official, and does 
everything in his power for the protection of fish 
and game, but our laws are such that he is handi¬ 
capped in their enforcement. We have depart¬ 
ments in our state house where high salaried 
clerks are so thick they lack elbow room. They 
have absolutely nothing to do but look wise and 
draw their pay from the state; but when the 
sportsmen of the state ask our lawmakers for an 
appropriation for the benefit of fish and game 
protection, they cry economy. 
If our deputy wardens could be put on salary, 
instead of working for fees, we could get better 
men to act. The fee system puts some disrepu¬ 
table men in office who will arrest a small boy 
with an air gun for killing a robin if the boy's 
father is known to have money; then they will 
ignore reports from sportsmen that streams are 
being dynamited, or quail are being exposed for 
sale, if they regard it as doubtful whether they 
can collect fines from the perpetrators. 
A. A. Marriott. 
Oklahoma Overrun with Dogs. 
Muncie, Okla., Oct. 8.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: There is a tremendous number of quail 
here and any quantity of rabbits, both of the 
jack and cottontail varieties. The game laws 
are now fairly well observed, but heretofore the 
quail shipping business has been very hard to 
control. However, the greatest enemy of our 
game, especially the deer, is the domestic dog. 
Every family has from one to six half-starved 
dogs, and mixed all the way from staghound 
down to pug, and usually the poorest family have 
the greatest number. When one goes out in the 
timber he will see more sneaking dogs than any¬ 
thing else. What a grand thing it would be if 
a law was passed to kill off all those- mongrels 
and allow none but those of a pure breed to be 
kept, and tax them heavily too. This would pro¬ 
tect the poor innocent children from hydrophobia 
and our deer from all being chased out of the 
country. Within a few years we will hardly 
have a deer in Oklahoma if something is not 
done with these dogs. Our game laws are very 
well observed and but for these dogs everything 
would be as well as could be, but the present 
laws, of course, will not reach the dogs, unac¬ 
companied by their owners, as they usually are. 
J. G. Marshall. 
Game Near Oakland, Cal. 
Oakland. Cal., Oct. 9. — Editor Forest and 
Stream: Quail are more plentiful than usual. 
On account of the mild weather north the ducks 
have not come south yet. The game laws are 
observed to some extent, when the would-be 
sportsman cannot help himself. There is no dis¬ 
satisfaction from any fair-minded man. Dissatis¬ 
faction is caused by the monopoly of all the duck 
grounds by the different gun clubs. There is 
not one piece of ground within a moderate dis¬ 
tance of San Francisco that is not reserved, thus 
barring out all individuals not belonging to the 
clubs. 
I would advise visiting sportsmen to go to the 
upper end of the San Joaquin valley, say to 
Modesto, Merced, or any other small town where 
the farmers irrigate their land from the irrigating 
canals for that purpose any time after the ice 
begins to form in the north, and he will have 
nothing to complain, of. 
The disaster of April 18 has jarred the nerves 
of all of us, even the sportsmen, and 1 do not 
believe there will be so much done in that line 
this season as usual. Capt. George Scott. 
Hartford Show Association. 
The Hartford, Conn., Show Association was 
formed Sept. 25, with Mr. W. L. Davis, presi¬ 
dent; Mr. J. F. Crangle, vice-president; Mr. F. 
O. Groesbeck, secretary-treasurer. The secretary 
is empowered to incorporate the association and 
immediate steps will be taken in that direction, 
the Constitution, Article II., reads: "The 
objects of this association shall be the holding 
of annual dog shows, or field trials, or for the 
protection or benefit of dogs, the holding of 
poultry and pet stock exhibits and the improve¬ 
ment of live stock breeding.” 
The promoters are all well known to fanciers 
through the country. Mr. Davis being owner of 
now beginneth the hunting season. 
From the Milwaukee Journal. 
the Willow Brook Kennels, also Willow Brook 
Farm, Berlin, Conn. Mr. Crangle, superintendent 
of Valley Farm, Simsbury; Mr. Groesbeck, owner 
of Elm Poultry Yards, also Sky Farm. Mr. 
Groesbeck has for several years been secretary- 
treasurer of the Hartford-Manchester Poultry 
Association who gave annual exhibits, the last 
being a great success, and the combining dogs 
with poultry necessitated cancelling many entries; 
and by forming the Hartford Show Association 
with active membership to the American Kennel 
Club, also the American Poultry Association, will 
bring Hartford exhibits to highest possible stand¬ 
ard. drawing hundreds of breeders to the exhibit, 
as the winnings will count toward championship 
honors. F. O. Groesbeck, Secretary. 
Hartford, Conn. 
A Massachusetts Warden Shot. 
Last Sunday Adam Rausch, a game warden in 
Essex county, Massachusetts, attempted to arrest 
Patrick Cahill for violating the game laws when 
he found the latter in the woods with a gun. 
Cahill shot the warden in the right breast with a 
charge of bird shot, and then gave himself up to 
the authorities and was jailed at Newburyport, 
while Warden Rausch was taken to a hospital, 
where he is not expected to live. Cahill claimed 
he fired the shot in self-defense, not knowing 
Rausch was a game warden. 
Grouse in Chenango County, N. Y. 
Smithville Flats, N. Y., Oct. 12. — Editor 
Forest and Stream: There seem to be more 
partridges in the woods this year than there 
were last year. I have no trouble to flush from 
40 to 50 a day; only the leaves are not falling- 
very fast, and it is hard shooting on account of 
them. The game laws are closely observed by 
the shooters themselves. I think the game laws 
are satisfactory, but it would be better to cut 
off the fifteen days in September and add them 
in December, making the open season from Oct. 
1 to Dec. 15. The best time to hunt is when 
the leaves are off. 
We have very good trout fishing when the sea¬ 
son is open on the Geneganslet. I caught one 
this summer that weighed 3^/2 pounds and meas¬ 
ured 22 inches. F. Hansmann. 
California Deer Abundant. 
Fairbanks, Cal., Oct. 8.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: The game seems to hold its own in 
this section, and the game laws are fairly effec¬ 
tive, and give general satisfaction, so far as I 
know. Oui; deer shooting season expires on Oct. 
15. I have killed one so far, but have been too 
busy to hunt, and am afraid I will not find another 
opportunity to go again. I have a vineyard and 
an orchard almost adjoining the house, and the 
deer and raccoons are very destructive, deer 
being frequently seen in the vineyard, and last 
season I killed a fine buck in it in the middle 
of the day. I have a farm and stock ranch of 
840 acres through which the river runs for 1% 
miles. It is a fine trout stream. In the winter 
the salmon come up to it, a distance of about 20 
miles as the crow flies from the ocean opposite 
Point Arenas. Sportsmen coming here should 
go from San Francisco to Cloverdale by train, 
thence 27 miles by stage to this place. 
M. W. Fairbanks. 
New Hampshire Game Increasing. 
-Lyme, N. H., Oct. 8.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: The game seems to be more plentiful 
this season than for some years. Gray squirrels 
in this section are quite plentiful; ruffed grouse 
fairly, so. Deer are increasing very fast. The 
season opened Oct. 1 and three were killed in 
this town the first day, but no very large ones. 
I have seen them weighing 250 pounds (drawn). 
The game laws seem to be well observed, and 
all non-residents must have a license which costs 
$10 when hunting in the deer season, October and 
November. 
A large bear and two cubs were seen in an 
open field one day last week, but no one got a 
shot at them. George W. Lambert. 
Virginia Game Increasing. 
Osborn’s Gap, Va., Oct. 6. — Editor Forest and 
Stream; The game in this section (Cumberland 
Mountains) shows an increase over that of last 
year. Of course, there is not much large game, 
such as deer, bear, etc., but there are quail, pheas¬ 
ants, squirrels, rabbits, raccoons, opossums and 
some wild turkeys. The game laws are not 
closely observed, nor have these laws been en¬ 
forced by the authorities. There is a large area 
of wild lands in these mountains, and only our 
local sportsmen hunt over them—not that out¬ 
siders are forbidden, but that they do not come. 
Frank Monroe Beverly. 
North Carolina Quail Scarce. 
Concord, N. C., Oct. 8.-— Editor F'orest and 
Stream: The quail is about the only game that 
interests sportsmen in central North Carolina. 
They are not in as great abundance this year as 
last, owing to the heavy rains during the hatch¬ 
ing season. 
The game laws are observed by the shooters 
and the authorities are trying to enforce them. 
The present game laws seen to give general satis¬ 
faction and very few changes are being made. 
W. A. Foil. 
Good Duck Shooting in Illinois. 
Oquawka, Ill., Oct. 11.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: The outlook for the sportsman who is 
after ducks is, in this locality, simply magnifi¬ 
cent, especially in New Boston bay, _ which is 
merely a vast extent of sloughs and islands ex¬ 
tending nearly to Muscatine. Other game is not 
of much account. The laws are satisfactory, are 
strictly enforced, but not always obeyed, wherein 
a fine’ plays an important part. 
A. T. Bennauer, Jr. 
