Oct. 4, 1913. 
FOREST AND STREAM 
431 
District of Columbia. 
BY RICHARD SLYVESTER, MAJOR AND SUPERINTEND¬ 
ENT METROPOLITAN POLICE DEPARTMENT. 
Game conditions are better than last year. 
Quail, ducks, geese, squirrels, rabbits, ortolan 
and reedbirds are found here. No shooting is 
allowed. I am endeavoring to make the District 
of Columbia a game preserve and am succeeding. 
Florida. 
BY E. Z. JONES, COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND GAME. 
Game conditions are better than last year. 
Deer, turkey, bear, quail, ducks and wild hogs 
are found in this State, deer, turkey and quail 
being most abundant. Lee, LaFayette, Wakulla, 
Dade and Manatee counties offer best shooting. 
Quail are plentiful all over Florida. 
Georgia. 
BY JESSE E. MERCER, COMMISSIONER OF DEPARTMENT 
OF FISH AND GAME. 
Game conditions are much better than last 
year. Deer, turkey, quail and doves are found 
in this State, quail being most abundant. Cen¬ 
tral and Southern Georgia offer fine shooting. 
Illinois. 
BY C. J. DITTMAR, CHAIRMAN GAME AND FISH 
COMMISSION. 
Game conditions are better than last year. 
Turkey, grouse, woodcock, quail, pheasant and 
squirrel are found in this State, quail being 
most abundant. Difficult to answer in which 
section shooting is best. 
Iowa. 
BY E. C. HINSHAW, FISH AND GAME WARDEN. 
Game conditions are much better than last 
year. Quail, prairie chicken, ducks, geese, snipe 
and plover are found plentifully here. Best 
shooting is found in the northern half of State. 
Indiana. 
Game conditions are better than last year. 
Quail, rabbits and squirrels are found in this 
State. Quail and rabbits are most abundant. 
Best shooting is found in the southern half of 
the State. 
Kentucky. 
BY JOSEPH G. SACHS, CHAIRMAN GAME AND FISH 
COMMISSION. 
Game conditions are much better owing to 
the dry season. Quail, rabbits, doves, squirrels, 
ducks and woodcock are found in this State. 
Doves and quail are most abundant. Shooting 
is best in the southwestern and southern sections. 
Louisiana. 
BY M. L. ALEXANDER, PRESIDENT CONSERVATION 
COMMISSION. 
That game conditions will be better in Louis¬ 
iana this year is due to more food and more 
favorable weather and better protection measures. 
Birds are principally river and sea ducks, teal 
and Florida ducks, geese, brant, poule d’eau, galli- 
nules, prairie chickens, rails, woodcock, plover, 
papabotte, snipe and quail. Wild turkey and deer 
are the principal game. In addition to which are 
rabbits, squirrels, mink, ’coons and opossums and 
some few otter. 
Game most abundant are ducks, geese, snipe 
and quail. 
The parishes in which the shooting is best 
are St. Bernard, Plaquemines, Jefferson, Terre¬ 
bonne, Vermillion, Cameron and Calcasieu. Ex¬ 
cept for quail, shooting is found best in the 
northern or upland parishes of the State, in¬ 
cluded in which would be Rapides, Grant, Cata¬ 
houla. Wild turkeys are getting scarce, but 
there are still a number of deer, particularly 
in the parishes of St. Bernard, Plaquemines and 
Jefferson. 
Maine. 
BY J. S. P. H. WILSON, COMMISSIONER OF INLAND 
FISHERIES AND GAME. 
Deer and game birds of all kinds are very 
numerous this year. Moose, deer, partridge, 
woodcock and ducks are our principal game and 
birds. I cannot recommend any particular sec¬ 
tion for hunting, as there are so many localities 
where good hunting can be obtained. 
Maryland. 
BY JAMES P. CURLEY, STATE GAME WARDEN. 
I can report game conditions in Maryland 
far better than last year; in fact, better than 
for some years, as all small game is unusually 
plentiful. 
The principal game is quail, rabbits, squir¬ 
rels, woodcock, plover, snipe, reedbirds, ducks, 
pheasant, wild turkey and deer. 
Birds, ducks, rabbits and squirrels are very 
plentiful. Squirrels and rabbits are found in 
about the same quantities in all our counties, 
while birds are more plentiful in the eastern and 
southern counties, and ducks on the Patuxent 
River, the Chesapeake Bay and tributaries. 
Massachusetts. 
BY GEORGE H. GRAHAM, COMMISSIONER OF FISH AND 
GAME. 
Game conditions are about the same. Ruffed 
grouse are reported more plentiful. Deer, 
grouse, quail, gray squirrel and ducks are found 
in this State. Best shooting is found in the 
western counties. 
Minnesota. 
BY GEORGE J. BRADLEY, PRESIDENT GAME AND FISH 
COMMISSION. 
Game conditions are better than last year. 
Moose, deer, geese, ducks, chicken, partridge and 
quail are found in this State, partridge being most 
abundant. Shooting is found best in the north¬ 
east for moose, deer and partridge; in the north¬ 
west for chickens; in the south and center part, 
for ducks, geese, chickens and quail. 
For the fiscal year ending July 31, 1913, the 
Game and Fish Commission of Minnesota ob¬ 
tained 722 convictions resulting in fines paid 
amounting to $9,954.85. Jail sentences 1,130 days 
and 412 seizures of contraband qame and illegal 
devices. Commercial value of fish fry propa¬ 
gated, $116,000, without cost of distribution. Re¬ 
ceived from hunting and fishing licenses issued, 
$63,973.49. We had available for this work 
$ii 8 , 855 - 57 - 
The Legislature at its session last winter 
cut the amount to $81,500. On this basis game 
protection and fish propagation will probably 
cost the taxpayers nothing the coming year, as 
the license money and fines will amount to fully 
as much as the appropriation. 
By adding two more fish hatcheries we are 
naturally expected to propagate more fry, and 
there is no doubt the people of our State want 
more fish. The protection game has received 
speaks for itself. Chickens are numerous in 
almost every county this season. 
It is up to each individual hunter and fisher¬ 
man to take the matter up with his member of 
the Legislature and see that game and fish gets 
a square deal. The amount spent in one season 
by tourists that come here to hunt and fish 
would finance the commission for twenty years. 
Hotel and railroad men ought to be interested. 
Michigan. 
BY WM. R. OATES, STATE WARDEN. 
Game conditions are not so good as last year. 
Deer, partridge, rabbits, shore birds and water- 
fowl only can be killed in this State. Deer, par¬ 
tridge and waterfowl are most abundant. Shoot¬ 
ing is best on waterfowl in the eastern part of 
the State along the waters of Lake Huron, St. 
Clair and St. Clair River. Deer in northern 
peninsula. All northern counties contain many 
partridge. 
Montana. 
by j. l. DeHart, state game warden. 
Game conditions are better than last year. 
Elk, deer, mountain sheep, mountain goat, bear 
and all varieties of birds are found here, elk, 
bear and deer being most abundant. Best shoot¬ 
ing is found in Gallatin, Madison, Teton and 
Flathead counties. 
Nebraska. 
BY HON. JOHN H. MOREHEAD, GAME AND FISH 
COMMISSIONER. 
Game conditions are about the same as last 
year. Prairie chickens, ducks and quail are 
found in this State, prairie chickens being most 
abundant. Shooting is best in the western part 
of the State. 
New Hampshire. 
BY FRANK J. BEAL, FISH AND GAME COMMISSIONER. 
Game conditions are better than last year. 
We have deer, bear, beaver, most all kinds of 
fur-bearing animals, ducks, partridge, woodcock 
and pheasant, most abundant being birds and 
deer. Shooting is best in the northern counties. 
New York. 
BY LLEWELLYN LEGGE, CHIEF GAME PROTECTOR. 
I can say without hesitation that the game 
conditions in the State at the present time are 
better than they have been in the last ten years 
at least. All reports from the northern part 
of the State go to show that deer were never 
as plentiful as they are at the present time. The 
ruffed grouse is again becoming very plentiful, 
and is found in the southern and central portions 
of the State in great numbers, particularly 
Broome. Tioga, Chemung, Delaware and Otsego 
counties, also in Rensselaer and Saratoga coun- 
