Dec. 6. i g13• 
FOREST AND STREAM 
725 
THE AMERICAN 
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Game In New Jersey 
Ridgewood, N. J., Nov. 15. — Editor Forest and 
Stream. After a number of long rides round 
about this portion of the State, the one thing that 
impressed me most was the lack of evidences of 
woods fires; or, as more correctly applied, leaf 
fires. 
The very dry August days caused much of 
the foliage to wither, so that the beauty of the 
autumn colors was marred, but since late summer 
there have been so many copious rains that the 
little cover left to game has not been destroyed 
in the usual way. 
All of the ponds and brooks are full of water, 
springs that dried up completely two years ago 
are running merrily, and altogether the woods 
are now very attractive, whether one carries a 
gun on his jaunts or not. 
Because of the warm days in late September 
and early October, the number of rail on the salt 
meadows was large, and very satisfactory bags 
of these fine little birds were made. Woodcock, 
too, were picked up now and then on the flats, 
and judging from what was done in lower New 
York State in October, I have no doubt that a 
good many ruffed grouse will be shot at if not 
bagged during the season that opened on the 
10th. In fact, though there are more grouse in 
the rough hill country than usual, they are shot 
at so much that it is only on a very favorable 
day that one will get one or two shots at the 
first half-dozen birds he puts up. The random 
shooting at impossible ranges keeps the birds on 
tenter hooks, and away they go before one gets 
within sixty yards of them. 
The great depth of fallen leaves in the woods 
that have not been burned over recently helps 
the grouse very materially. I remember one 
windy November day when the only thing woith 
while was to follow wood roads or try to slip 
from one ledge of rock to another far up the 
hillsides, in the hope of finding a few birds in the 
scant growths of partridge berries. Elsewhere 
the leaves were so deep and dry that walking 
among them was indeed a noisy way of hunting 
birds. 
On the meadows a few black ducks may be 
picked up on favorable evenings. The shooting 
is peculiar. If you set out on a blustery day, ex¬ 
pecting to find ducks everywhere, not one may 
come to your decoys, and on a calm, warm even¬ 
ing you may have fair luck. But the Federal law 
puts an end to shooting after sunset, and on an 
average evening very few .If any ducks will come 
in until dusk. It may be satisfying to some men 
to see ducks coming in while they are storing 
their decoys in the old boat house, by the light 
of a lantern, but this is in the main disappointing 
in places where the few shots obtainable are had 
between sunset and dark. 
In this state the woodcock season opens 
earlier than the general season. This is very bad 
for other game, for while all fair-minded men 
may be trusted to obey the law, the fact is that 
so many shooters fire at any game they see while 
out for woodcock in October, that the law works 
a downright hardship on men who wait until 
Nov. 10 for their bit of hunting. And the soon- 
ers are always in the woods. They shoot all fall 
out of season, and they shoot when the season is 
open. Their neighbors know all about their hab¬ 
its, but it is mighty seldom that one of them is 
punished. The average warden has a very large 
district to cover, and even if he is active in his 
duties the average native sooner has nothing to 
fear at his hands. Your sooner makes his rounds 
while most people are taking their beauty sleep, 
or he is abroad on rainy days when he is not 
likely to be seen by the few people who are 
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abroad. He knows all -the highways and byways 
as well as he knows the game haunts, and he 
makes it his business to show himself as little 
as possible. 
On the other hand, one of the worst forms 
of lawbreaking is done openly in the closed sea¬ 
son. For example, I happened to be in lower 
New York State on a rainy Sunday last March. 
I rode along a fine macadamized highway, near 
by which ran an old-time trout stream. Fisher¬ 
men were abroad in numbers. At one place I 
counted five, all in plain sight of villages along the 
main road. These men were all fishing for trout, 
were equipped with fly rods, creels and landing 
nets, and were wading the brook. Could I have 
done the same thing at that time? Certainly not. 
I was a stranger in that section, and popular 
sentiment is against law-breaking by outlanders, 
just as all game and fish laws are a dead letter 
as applied to natives. Perry D. Frazier. 
Deer Killed In New Jersey 
Trenton, N. I., Nov. 28 .—Editor Forest and 
Stream : Replying to your letter of the 24th, re¬ 
questing a report of the number of deer killed 
in this State during the season just closed, I 
beg to say I have endeavored to ascertain the 
number of deer killed in this state during the 
four days of the open season, and from informa¬ 
tion received from the wardens I find there were 
145 bucks and one doe killed and gathered by the 
hunters, and three bucks were found dead in the 
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