532 
FOREST AND STREAM 
Oct. 26, 1912 
at Rustico, Tracadie, Malpeque, Summerside, 
Bedeque, Alberton, Kildare and Tignish. 
Woodcock and snipe are reported fully up 
to the average. 
Rabbits are fairly plentiful all through the 
Province. 
Rhode Island. 
BY C. E. PEIRCE, CHAIRMAN COMMISSIONERS OF 
BIRDS. 
We note an improvement in the condition 
of game in this State over that of previous years, 
especially bobwhite. Ruffed grouse are not so 
plentiful. Very few woodcock are found. Good 
shooting has been reported of blackduck, wood- 
duck, peep, plover, snipe and yellowlegs. These 
can be found in Charlestown Pond, Point Judith 
and Newport county. 
The best hunting for upland birds is in the 
South county. Rabbits, hares and gray squirrels 
are also very plentiful. 
CHICAGO ARCHERY CLUB RANGE IN WASHINGTON PARK. 
South Carolina. 
BY JAMES HENRY RICE, JR., CHIEF GAME WARDEN. 
Although impaired by long neglect, the game 
resources of South Carolina are still consider¬ 
able. With adequate protection they would be 
enormous. 
As it is, good hunting may be had in many 
parts of the State by parties who go for it and 
exercise a little judgment and patience. 
The rivers and marshes of Georgetown, 
Charleston and Beaufort afford abundant duck 
shooting, the best being mallard and blackduck. 
The counties that furnish deer and turkey 
•shooting are: Horry, Georgetown, Charleston, 
Berkeley, Colleton, Hampton, Beaufort and 
Jasper on the eastern side. Further inland there 
is good deer and turkey hunting in portions of 
Chesterfield, Darlington, Marion, Kershaw, 
Orangeburg, Williamsburg and Dorchester. 
In nearly all counties partridges (bobwhite) 
are abundant. The bag limit is twenty-five per 
day to each gun, and may be made whenever 
desired. Doves (turtle doves) furnish abundant 
sport. 
Woodcock abound in Horry county. 
Snipe are found in abundance only after 
Christmas when they are returning to the breed¬ 
ing grounds. 
Shore birds are numerous anywhere on the 
coast line. 
Canada geese are still fairly numerous on 
Broad, Catawba and Saluda rivers. The greater 
snow goose is sometimes found. 
Of cottontail rabbits, opossums, gray squir¬ 
rels and fox squirrels and raccoons there is no 
limit. 
Deer suffered during last season with “black 
tongue,” but none has been reported this year, 
and in some sections farmers are complaining 
of damage done to crops by deer being too 
•numerous. 
The river swamps on Santee, Peedee, Wac- 
camaw, Savannah and lower Edisto contain a 
good many black bear, and they are apparentlv 
increasing in numbers. There are a few ruffed 
grouse in the mountain counties. 
Tennessee. 
BY V. M. CRIBBLE, SECRETARY DEPARTMENT OF GAME, 
FISH AND FORESTRY. 
Game conditions in Tennessee are unusually 
good the present season. It is reported to this 
department from all sections of the State that 
we will have an unusually large number of quail. 
Our principal duck shooting is at Reelfoot 
Lake. There is already a large flight of teal. 
Reelfoot Lake will afford great sport during the 
months of November and December. 
Almost at any point in Tennessee good quail 
shooting can be secured. 
Non-residents contemplating visiting Ten¬ 
nessee to shoot should send their applications to 
this department, and in addition any specific in¬ 
formation requested will be cheerfully furnished. 
Texas. 
BY JEFF D. COX, CHIEF DEPUTY. 
The game situation in the State of Texas 
may be said to be better than it has been for 
several years past. This is especially true of 
deer in south and west Texas, and quail in the 
central western portion of the State. There is 
a great abundance of wild doves over the entire 
State. Geese and ducks are already coming in 
and old hunters says that the signs indicate that 
there will be a great flight of all kinds of water- 
fowl this season. 
Vermont. 
BY JOHN W. TITCOMB, COMMISSIONER. 
There are probably as many partridges in 
Vermont as there were ten years ago when this 
State was a “great” partridge State. Woodcock 
are scarce. 
Deer never were more abundant than now. 
During 1911, 2,644 deer were killed, average 
weight being 194 pounds. In 1910, 3609 deer 
were killed, but in that year there was no close 
season. During 1911 no does were lawfully 
killed. The best deer counties are Rochester, 
Plymouth, Bridgewater, Chester, Stockbridge, 
Norwich, Bethel, Barnard, Hartford, Ludlow, 
Reading, Royalton, Sharon, Springfield, 
Weathersfield, Weston and Woodstock. 
Wisconsin. 
BY JOHN A. SHOLTS, STATE FISH AND GAME WARDEN 
The north half of the State has an abundance 
of game. Plenty of deer in nearly every county 
of the northern half of the State, with number¬ 
less partridges and fur-bearing animals. 
Extraordinary Archery. 
Chicago, Ill., Oct. 12.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: After the Columbus Day country-wide 
archery contest had been finished, and Mrs. Wit- 
wer Taylor had completed her Columbia Round, 
she shot another twenty-four arrows at 30 yards. 
The shooting was in Washington Park. 
The woman champion was at her best, and 
made a score which we believe has never been 
equalled by a woman archer. It was 24 hits, 204 
score. 
If she had made all golds, a “possible”— 
which is a thing never considered in archery, 
for it is never done—she would have made 216, 
only 12 score more than she actually made. 
V ith the first end, or 6 arrows, she made 3 
golds, 2 reds and a blue, scoring 46. With the 
second end, 5 golds and a red were made, scor¬ 
ing 5 2 >' the third end was like the second. The 
last six arrows all struck the gold, three of them 
within an inch of the pinhole, and the others 
not far off. 
Put of the 24 shots there were 19 golds, 4 
reds and 1 blue. 
Only a few days before Mrs. Witwer-Taylor 
had made an end of 6 golds. 
The shooting was done before a number of 
spectators, and though only a practice score, 
should be publicly recorded. Edward E. Weston. 
Archery in Pittsburgh. 
Scores of the archers of Pittsburgh for 
the past week are as follows: 
Team round, 96 arrows, 60 vards: 
TT Hits. Score. Hits. Score. 
Hertig . 87 451 8(3 41,5 
Holmes . 78 378 . 
pies . 55 217 67 296 
Haines . 50 190 . 
American round, 30 arrows at GO, 50 and 40 yards: 
60yds. 50yds. 40yds. ’ Total. 
Hertig . 29 149 30 158 28 ' 180 87 4S7 
28 110 28 130 30 178 86 418 
Jiles . 24 80 25 127 25 129 74 336 
19 83 21 111 26 114 66 308 
Holmes .... 28 142 25 107 30 142 83 391 
Haines . 17 59 18 82 19 83 54 224 
In one end of six arrows at 60 yards Dr. 
Hertig made 99997 7=50. 
Probably a dozen archers around and about 
Pittsburgh are shooting regularly, but fail to 
send in their scores. J. S. Jiles. 
