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FOREST AND STREAM 
Nov. 9, 1912 
but the time for shooting is so short that no 
stated round can be finished. Mr. James Patch, 
Mr. T. R. Hartly, Drs. Haimes, Howard and 
Holroyed are promising well. 
On Thanksgiving Day a team round will be 
shot on the club range. All the archers in the 
vicinity are invited to take part. 
The scores of this meet will be sent to 
national headquarters at Boston for comparison. 
O. L. Hertig. 
Fenway Archery Club. 
Following are the scores of the Fenway 
Archery Club which 
were held on 
Oct. 26 
Columbia round: 
Score. Handicap. 
Total. 
Miss Ivinnon . 
. 284 
111 
395 
Mrs. B. I’. Grav. 
. 375 
Scratch 
375 
Miss Mathes . 
. 266 
100 
366 
Miss Anderson . 
. 198 
155 
353 
Miss Guiot . 
. 166 
176 
342 
Miss Wesson . 
.. 292 
33 
325 
Miss Norma Pierce ... 
. 265 
56 
321 
Mrs. L. C Smith. 
. 293 
9 
302 
Miss Dorothy Smith . 
182 
243 
American round: 
L. C. Smith. 
. 378 
135 
513 
H. B. Richardson. 
Scratch 
494 
B. P. Gray .. 
. 363 
124 
487 
S. W. Wilder. 
. 333 
115 
448 
Handicaps were 
reckoned on 
scores 
made 
on Oct. 19. 
SHOOTING CONDITIONS IN DIFFERENT 
STATES. 
Continued from page 594. 
are plentiful in all wooded sections of the State. 
Black bear are to be found in all the mountains 
of our State. Randolph, Pendleton, Pocahontas, 
Greenbrier, Webster and Hardy counties are 
good for deer, bear, turkey, grouse and squirrel. 
I am sending you under separate cover copy 
of law, biennial report, copy of annual of West 
Virginia Fish and Game Protective Association 
and cloth poster, the latter having been of great 
advantage in checking violations, being more 
easily understood than the game laws themselves. 
I post about 10,000 of these each year. We are 
establishing a game and fish preserve in our 
State at the present time and have already 
stocked same with elk, deer and other game. 
J. A. Viquesney, 
Forest, Game and Fish Warden. 
Quebec. 
Quebec, Canada, Oct. 28. — Editor Forest and 
Stream: Game conditions are much better than 
last year, and moose, caribou and deer are found 
in this province. Deer and moose are most 
abundant. Ottawa, Pontiac, Chicoutimi, Lake St. 
John, Rimouski and Matone counties offer the 
best shooting. J. A. Bellisle, 
Inspector General Fish and Game. 
New Brunswick. 
Fredericton, N. B., Oct. 21 —Editor Forest 
arid Stream: The game conditions in New 
Brunswick are perhaps better this year than ever 
before. This might be said more particularly as 
regards big game, which is increasing year by 
year. So far this season sportsmen have been 
most successful in getting their quota of game. 
One record moose head having a spread of sixty- 
four inches has been reported. 
It is somewhat difficult to say where the best 
hunting conditions prevail, as some of the best 
shooting has been found adjacent to settlements 
and railway lines. To give an instance of this, 
only a few days ago seven moose were called up 
on the line of the Canadian Pacific Railway some 
three miles from McAdam Junction, where there 
is a town of considerable size, and where the 
shops of the Atlantic Division of tlfe Canadian 
Pacific Railway are located. The great game 
country is in the interior of the Province remote 
from railway lines and settlement. Moose are 
found in every county of the Province, but cari¬ 
bou, a more timid animal, generally makes its 
home in the least accessible localities, such as 
the headwaters of the Nepisiguit River in the 
counties of Restigouche, Gloucester and North¬ 
umberland and some fifty miles from railway 
lines. 
The big-game season ends the 30th of No¬ 
vember. Sportsmen coming into the Province 
will have no trouble in securing licenses, as ven¬ 
dors are appointed in nearly every small town 
and village. A non-resident big-game license 
costs $50, bird licenses, which includes wildfowl, 
$10. Splendid arrangements for greatest con¬ 
venience of visiting sportsmen have been made 
with the custom officials regarding guns brought 
into the Province. Splendid guides can be se¬ 
cured, though it is well to arrange ahead so that 
the guides and teams will be on hand at the train. 
Many of the guides have hunting camps fully 
equipped, so practically all the sportsman has to 
bring with him is his rifle and personal luggage. 
Special permits are granted to ship big game 
whole or in part on a non-resident license. Par¬ 
tridge, however, may not be transported. 
Telegraph or phone directly to the deputy 
surveyor general at Fredericton and every cour¬ 
tesy and attention will be given you. 
Wildfowl shooting, including geese, brant, 
ducks, etc., is to be had in abundance. The best 
grounds are along the Gulf of St. Lawrence at 
such points as Miscou, Tracadie, Tabusintac and 
Richibucto. Come to New Brunswick for the 
best big-game shooting in America. 
T. G. Loggie. 
Deputy Surveyor General 
Quebec. 
Quebec, Canada, Oct. 23.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: Game conditions are somewhat better 
than last year. Moose, caribou and deer are 
found in this Province. Deer are found in the 
south and moose in the north of this State. In 
the Lake St. John region are found moose and 
deer in Bruce and Dorchester counties; caribou 
are found in the National Park. 
Hector Caron, 
General Superintendent of Fisheries and Game. 
South Dakota. 
Watertown, S. D., Oct. 28.— Editor Forest 
and Stream: Am very sorry that I was not home 
when your letter of the 18th inst. was received, 
as I would have been glad to have given you the 
information desired relative to game matters in 
this State this season. 
However, I will now answer your questions, 
whether or not the replies will be of any use to 
you: First—Game conditions in this State are 
much better than last year, particularly as to 
waterfowl. Plenty of prairie chickens, but very 
few hunters bagged the limit at any time. Sec¬ 
ond—In this State we have ducks, geese, prairie 
chickens, grouse, quail and deer. Third—Ducks 
are most abundant this year. Fourth—The north¬ 
eastern part of the State is the best waterfowl 
hunting, as well as for prairie chickens. Along 
the Missouri River and also the Jim River may 
be found many quail. The grouse are mostly 
in the Black Hills as also the deer. 
W. F. Bancroft, 
State Game Warden. 
Vancouver. 
Vancouver, B. C., Oct. 23.— Editor Forest 
and Stream Game conditions are infinitely bet¬ 
ter than last year. With the exception of ante¬ 
lope and musk ox, every species of game that 
exists or ever did exist in the continent of North 
America is still to be found in British Columbia; 
most species in good numbers. There are even 
a few buffalo still to be found. It is hard to 
state which species of game is most abundant, 
but probably moose and caribou in the north 
and goats and deer in the south are especially 
plentiful. In the Lillooet district sheep are also 
quite numerous. 
The Cassiar district is by far the best big- 
game country; moose, caribou, goats, stone sheep 
and both black and grizzly bear are all still very 
numerous. 
For bird shooting, the southern part of Van¬ 
couver Island abounds in grouse, pheasants and 
quail. There are also any number of Columbia 
deer. 
A. Bryan Williams, 
Provincial Game Warden. 
New York. 
Albany, N. Y., Oct. 14.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: I can say without hesitancy that the 
number of deer in the Adirondack Mountains at 
the present time is greater than in the past 
twenty-five years. This information comes first 
hand from the protectors of the Adirondack re¬ 
gion. This is partly due to the fact that last 
winter was very mild, and very few of the deer 
winter-killed, and also that this commission has 
been experimenting with cutting hay in the 
beaver meadows for the deer to, feed on during 
the more severe weather. This hay is salted 
and stacked in small cocks on a crib above the 
snow level in places where the deer are liable 
to yard. At every meadow where the deer hay 
was cut the fall of 1911, it looked like a sheep 
pasture from the congregating of the deer 
around the stacks of hay. Every morsel was 
eaten up. This year the commission has gone 
into the proposition of cutting hay throughout 
the Adirondacks for feeding deer very exten¬ 
sively, and there has been cut about $600 worth 
of hay scattered throughout the Adirondacks. 
There is no doubt from the reports received 
that our native ruffed grouse are again becoming 
more plentiful, and I thoroughly believe that the 
bag limit of four a day as provided in the law 
at the present time will be the means of increas¬ 
ing the supply. 
The pheasants are also increasing through¬ 
out the State. This year the department had 
applications for about 125,000 pheasant eggs and 
28,000 pheasants. Of course the one game farm 
owned by the State was unable to furnish that 
amount, but the department did furnish about 
4,000 pheasants and 20,000 eggs. I am in hopes 
to see the time come when we will have in the 
State at least five game farms, as in my opinion 
it is coming to the proposition of placing the 
