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FOREST AND STREAM 
Oct. 26, 1912 
JOHN TITCOMB, FISH AND GAME COMMISSIONER, 
VERMONT. 
best hunting is in the southern part of the State, 
especially in the southwestern territory. 
It may be of interest to know that Indiana 
is said to have more prairie chickens at this time 
than any other State in the Union. However, 
there is no open season on them. 
Iowa. 
BY GEO. A. LINCOLN. STATE FISH AND GAME 
WARDEN. 
Quail are abundant over our entire State, 
especially in the central and northern part. 
Prairie chicken shooting has been good in the 
northern part, and in the larger lakes of the 
State ducks are found in great numbers and 
many are getting the bag limit. 
Kentucky. 
BY ROBERT R. BURNHAM, MEMBER OF KENTUCKY 
FISH AND GAME COMMISSION. 
Game throughout Kentucky is very scarce 
indeed. We have no large game at all. This 
has long ago been destroyed by lack of game 
laws. The only sport is quail shooting. The 
best shooting in this State is either in Western 
Kentucky or in the mountains. In the latter 
place birds are generally plentiful, but the walk¬ 
ing is very rough indeed. 
Kansas. 
BY L. L. DYCHE. WAKDEN. 
Kansas is essentially an agricultural State. 
The entire State is now in use either for agri- 
tulture, horticulture or stock-raising purposes. 
This is a serious drawback to nearly all kinds 
of game. 
Prairie chickens, formerly common in the 
eastern half of this State, are confined to a few 
localities in the western third of the State, par¬ 
ticularly to a few counties in the southwestern 
corner. In these localities there is still a con¬ 
siderable number of these birds. Quail are more 
or less common all over this State, except in the 
open prairie counties where there is little or no 
protection for them. 
Last winter was a very severe one, and in 
many parts of the State the birds had a hard 
time of it. Many were reported as frozen to 
death. One discouraging thing about this was 
that some of the birds reported frozen were re¬ 
ported to have had their crops full of food. How¬ 
ever, the conditions were unusual. Rain that wet 
the earth and the birds themselves was followed 
by snow and very cold weather. 
There are still ducks and geese that pass 
through the State during the migratory season. 
Rabbits, both cottontails and jack rabbits, 
can be found in every county. 
Maine. 
BY J. S. P. H. WILSON, CHAIRMAN COMMISSIONERS 
OF INLAND FISHERIES AND GAME. 
Up to the present time I think the hunters 
have been more successful than for a number 
of years. Game is reported to be very plentiful. 
For deer I would recommend the Dead River 
region, Rangeley section and Aroostook county; 
for moose, Washington county; for partridge, 
Somerset and Oxford counties. 
Maryland. 
BY TALBOTT DENMEAD. FOR STATE GAME WARDEN COX. 
Good duck shooting can still be obtained on 
the Susquehanna Flats. 
Partridge (bobwhite) shooting is not what 
it should be. There is shooting out of season. 
We have had severe winters. No respect has 
been paid to the bag limit and the game warden 
with limited means has been unable to properly 
attend to all reports of violations. The lower 
counties still have some good partridge shooting. 
Rabbits are everywhere, even in the city 
limits of Baltimore. Squirrel shooting can be 
obtained in almost any county. Wild turkeys 
and ruffed grouse are only found in the three 
westernmost counties, while deer are too scarce 
to mention. 
Maryland probably has in its thirty miles of 
coast the best shore bird shooting there is to 
be had. Ocean City, Md„ is situated on a strip 
of sand between the ocean and Sinepuxent Bay. 
I his narrow strip runs clear over into Virginia, 
and on the beach and around the ponds can be 
found the yellow legs, willet, curlew, robin snipe, 
gray backs, calico backs, black-breasted plover, 
dowitcher, ring-neck and other birds of like 
character. When the weather is just right and 
the ponds are filled with water, the yellowleg 
shooting over decoys is simply great. We also 
have reed bird shooting on the great wild oat 
marshes of the Patuxent River. 
Massachusetts. 
BY G. W. FIELD, CHAIRMAN COMMISSIONERS ON 
FISHERIES AND GAME. 
The general shooting conditions are appar¬ 
ently normal. There has been about the average 
number of partridges and woodcock, and more 
than an average number of quail. 
The number of ducks breeding in the interior 
of the State has increased rapidly in the last two 
years. The migratory ducks and geese are prac¬ 
tically confined to the eastern counties of the 
State as a result of excessive shooting in past 
years. 
Pheasants in the eastern section of the State 
have increased rapidly. 
Gray squirrels and rabbits are numerous. 
Foxes are very abundant. 
The best shooting for ruffed grouse and deer 
is west of Middlesex county; for ducks and quail 
in the counties east of this; for squirrels and 
rabbits in the central and eastern part of the 
State. 
Michigan. 
BY WILLIAM R. 'OATES, WARDEN. 
Game conditions in this State were never 
better than this season. From reports of my 
deputies in various parts of the State I am in¬ 
formed that partridge are most plentiful in every 
section of the L'pper Peninsula of Michigan, as 
well as the counties of the Lower Peninsula 
above the north line of Montcalm and Gratiot 
counties. 
Deer are also numerous in all that part of 
Michigan north of the Straits of Mackinac. If 
I should attempt to tell you in what part of 
Northern Michigan deer and partridge were most 
plentiful, it would be a matter of speculation, as 
they are plentiful in every section, except in the 
immediate vicinity of the larger cities and towns. 
There seems also to be a great number of 
black bear this year north of the Straits as well 
as a great number of fur-bearing animals, such 
as beaver, fox, mink, etc. Wolves and coyotes 
abound in great numbers. 
Owing to the severity of the winter of 1911- 
12 and the great abundance of snow in this State, 
quail are nearly exterminated. 
Minnesota. 
BY GEO. J. BRADLEY, PRESIDENT STATE GAME AND 
FISH COMMISSION. 
There is a good number of moose. The best 
hunting is in the vicinity of the Superior Forest 
Reserve in the counties of Cook, Lake, St. Louis, 
Itaska and Koochiching. 
Virginia deer are more or less abundant in 
all our counties north and west of Duluth. 
We had a larger crop of partridge last sea¬ 
son than we have had before in fifteen years. 
(Continued on page 531.) 
HON. JESSE A. TOLERTON, MISSOURI GAME AND FISH 
COMMISSIONER. 
