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FOREST AND STREAM. 
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Moose Calling. 
Wanakena, N. Y., Nov. i6 .- — Editor Forest 
and Stream: Seeing an article in to-day’s issue 
by one Jas. Daly, entitled “Butchery of the 
Moose,” I very naturally take exception to a 
few of his statements in regard to thejiunting 
of moose in Canada. Having hunted the moose 
in his native haunts in New Brunswick, I know 
positively that the calling of moose in season 
is no work for a child. Calling moose is a 
difficult thing to do. I have known dozens who 
have tried to learn the trick and have failed. 
On Sept. 15, in New Brunswick, I called and 
killed a bull moose with a spread of sixty inches. 
It took me a long time to acquire the proper 
tones, and until I did get them, no moose 
would come or even answer. I have had them 
come to the call without noise and again they 
would come like a steam engine. I have seen 
them in their anger tear the ground up for yards 
until it resembled a pig-pen. I can also cite 
numerous cases where the hunters have been 
charged by angry moose and also of hunters 
being treed by them. A charging bull moose 
is hades let loose, as any number of hunters in 
New Brunswick will swear to. Now. when any 
man states that he can kill as many bull moose 
with an ax or revolver as a man can with a 
rifle—well, I leave it to the army of sportsmen 
who have hunted moose to judge if I am not 
right. Moose are very wary animals and as keen 
of scent as any deer. Moose meat is as fine as 
any wild meat I ever ate, and Canadian people 
are more than pleased to have it to eat. In 
St. John, N. B., during the open season for 
big game, you will find moose meat for sale in 
the markets for 20 cents per pound. Now, were 
it “coarse, dry and unnutritious,” as Mr. Daly 
says, would the markets handle it and would 
the people pay 20 cents per pound for it? 
Hardly. 
In one point I agree with him: The killing 
of moose and leaving the carcasses in the woods 
should be punishable by a heavy fine. 
The article also speaks of another article in 
which parties were lying in wait for moose at 
2 A. M. The Canadian game law states that 
the hunting or killing of moose and deer one 
hour after sunset and one hour before sunrise 
is punishable by a heavy fine. 
W. J. Baldwin. 
The Monmouth County (N. J.) Season. 
Asbury Park, Nov. 23.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: The covers of Monmouth county, New 
Jersey, famous in the past as pleasure grounds 
for the nimrcd, are certainly making good the 
present season. I spent several days, beginning 
with the opening day, through the central parts 
of the county and found game fairly plentiful in 
all districts. Quail are rather more plentiful than 
for many years past, while rabbits are about in 
normal- numbers. Woodcock have been found 
scattered liberally all over the county. While 
personally I killed but one of the latter, a friend 
who has made several trips specially for them 
has killed as many as eleven in a single day, find¬ 
ing them in the vicinity of Lakewood. The lib¬ 
eral stocking of quail the past winter is showing 
most gratifying result. The birds are well grown 
and good, strong flyers, but a peculiarity I noticed 
was their extreme low flight. Whether this is 
distinctive of southern birds I am unable to state. 
Certain it is, however, they put marksmanship to 
the test as we found foliage still adhering to tree 
and bush in very liberal quantities. 
Leonard Hu lit. 
Value of Restocking with Quail. 
Long Branch, N. J., Nov. 28.— Editor Forest 
and Stream: So far as New Jersey is concerned, 
we have found more quail in the southern part 
of the State this season than for many years 
past, and there is no question in our mind but 
what it is the direct result of stocking. We have 
proof of this: (1) we find the birds now where 
there were none before, in the same localities 
where we planted them last spring: (2) we know 
in many instances, parties who have seen the 
birds from the time they were liberated, almost 
daily during the season. It is safe to say that 
there are thirty per cent, more quail with us now 
than there were before stocking. All hunters are 
getting big bags. I have traveled through the 
State a great deal the last three years, and I feel 
justified in saying our woods and fields would 
be about depleted of quail if they had not been 
restocked. From present indications we will be 
unable to obtain any more birds for stocking 
purposes, and will then be able to tell very 
quickly whether stocking has been a success or 
not. 
Benj. P. Morris, Commissioner. 
Wisconsin Hunting License. 
Supplementary to what we have said editor¬ 
ially in relation to the proposed resident and 
nonresident license law for New York State, 
we give below the Wisconsin license application 
blank in condensed form: 
To the County Clerk of . County: 
I hereby apply for a resident’s license to hunt pro¬ 
tected game as provided by law, and declare the follow¬ 
ing statements by me made to be true: Name, __ 
No.Street . State of Wisconsin. 
Have you resided in Wisconsin for a period of one 
year immediately preceding the date of this application? 
. Age . Height. Weight. Color 
of eyes. Color of hair. Distinctive marks. 
Hunting season for which license is applied for. 
Dated, this .... day of ., A.D. 19.. 
STATE OF WISCONSIN, COUNTY OF.ss.: 
being Erst duly sworn, on oath, says he is the person 
making the application above and whose name is signed 
thereto, that he has not and will not make application 
for license of any other county clerk in the State of 
Wisconsin during the period covered by this application, 
and that the same is true: 
Subscribed and sworn to before me this. day of 
., A.D. 19.. 
STATE OF WISCONSIN, COUNTY OF.ss.: 
being first duly sworn, on oath says that he has resided 
in the county named in the application above more than 
cne year preceding this date; that he is acquainted with 
., the person making application above; that be has 
read the application above and the contents thereof are 
true of his own knowledge. 
Subscribed and sworn to before me this . day 
of ., A.D. 19.. 
A resident of this State desiring to hunt must apply 
for license in the county where he resides. 
Big Game in Canada. 
Montreal. Canada, Dec. i.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: Splendid moose trophies are coming 
out of New Brunswick this year. O. H. Ander¬ 
son brought out a moose from the Little Salmon 
River with antlers measuring 60 inches. W. S. 
Troop, of Digbv, shot a beauty in Digby county 
whose antlers also measured over 60 inches. 
Caribou are just beginning to come in. 
The best moose sections this year have been 
on the Soo Branch of the Canadian Pacific Rail¬ 
way. The country between that branch and the 
main line is one of the best fishing and shooting 
districts of Canada. 
The British Columbia season has been exceed¬ 
ingly satisfactory. One gentleman writes from 
the University Club, New York: “I have found 
that one is generally disappointed when he tries 
to take a trip the second time in the same terri¬ 
tory, but your British Columbia country and 
guides and outfits there are different from the 
others. Last year I thought I could not have a 
better time, but this year’s trip was. surely away 
ahead. 'The trip on the prairies was the best of 
my hunting in that kind of country, although of 
course I enjoyed every bit of the trip in the 
mountains. Then after the hunting trip, sitting 
around vour bungalow with that restful and satis¬ 
fied feeling was as good as any of the rest.” 
L. O. A. 
Wildfowlers in a Storm. 
A press dispatch from Sandusky, Ohio, says 
that Ottomar Zistel died and Fred K. Marshall 
suffered fearfully before he was cared for, after 
a night in a storm on the marshes near there. 
While they were hunting wildfowl their boat was 
cansized in a storm and they were so exhausted 
when they finally reached land that Mr. Zistel 
succumbed, and his companion did not obtain 
assistance until the following day. 
Treed by a Moose. 
Deux Rivieres, Canada, Nov. 30. — Editor 
Forest and Stream: Two years ago along with 
another guide we were portaging some provisions 
into a hunting camp about twenty miles from the 
track and north of the Ottawa River east of 
Maitavva town. There was a party of tourists 
going in within a few days and their intentions 
were to get a moose each before going home 
again. These sportsmen’s intentions are not 
always fulfilled. However, if some of them had 
been with us on this particular night they would 
have had a good opportunity of shooting a moose. 
We carried provisions across and canoed it in 
all day and had just one more portage to make 
of about half a mile between two small lakes. 
We had everything over except our canoe and 
the two of us doubled and carried it together. 
It being after dark, we were supplied with a 
small bullseye lantern, with a slide to open and 
clo^e' it. We had carried it about half-way when 
the other guide said the paddle was hurting his 
shoulder, so that we put it down and rested. We 
had no sooner laid it down there when I heard 
a noise in the brush not over fifty yards from 
us. I told Joe to turn on the light and he did 
so promptly, revealing the eyes of a huge bull 
moose. The moose, on seeing the bullseye 
lantern, made for it immediately. My first 
thought was to tell Joe 'to shut off his lantern, 
which he did at once and then hied him to a 
tree. Not one could we find and the moose (we 
felt a great amount of respect for him about 
then) by this time was getting uncomfortably 
close. Joe ran one way and I another. Fortu¬ 
nately for Joe, he got to a small cedar tree and 
crawled up it quicker than he usually moves in 
the morning when called. The moose evidently 
had his eyes on Joe on account of his having 
had the lantern, and this gave me a good oppor¬ 
tunity to find a tree for myself. I had just time 
to get. clear when he arrived at the foot of my 
tree; in fact, I was so close to him that I could 
have put my foot on his horns only I was afraid 
it might not be wise, so I climbed a little higher 
and called to Joe to turn on his lantern, but it 
was in the canoe and he could not get it. I 
told Joe we might as well make up our minds 
to slay there for the night. We had bough beds 
ready made up on those trees, which were springy 
but rather uncomfortable and we did not sleep 
very much. 
The moose stood guard until 2 A. M. wlien he 
left. Nobody was ever more anxious to see a 
moose arrive than we were to see ours disappear. 
We waited about another hour and came down, 
as it was getting daylight. We were pretty 
hungry for supper that morning I can assure you. 
Geo. Gibbons. 
International Exhibition in Belgium. 
During May and June, 1907, an International 
Exhibtion for Hunting and Fishing will be 
held in the halls of the Royal Society of Zoology 
at Antwerp, Belgium, under the patronage of the 
King. 
The exhibits will be classified as follows, each 
section to be in charge of a committee of well- 
known gentlemen : 
Section 1.—Hunting. 
Section 2.—Fishing. 
Section 3.—Sciences and applied arts. 
Section 4.—Industry and commerce. 
Everything that is of interest to sportsmen may 
be exhibited, but powders, fulminates, loaded 
cartridges and other dangerous matter will be 
excluded; All entries must be made before 
March 31 next in order to be entitled to the 
minimum charge of $8 per square meter for 
ordinary stands and $12 per square meter for 
isolated stands. After that date the charge may 
be increased. Exhibits may be installed April 
20 or later, but must be complete on or before 
May 9. The Belgian railway system will carry 
free of charge, and the kingdom will admit free 
all exhibits that are to be returned. Exhibits un¬ 
accompanied by personal representatives of the 
exhibitors will be taken care of by the committee. 
Application blanks and all information can be 
obtained by writing the general manager. Mr. 
G. Lequim, 63 Rue Van Luppen, Antwerp, Bel¬ 
gium. 
