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pheasants in the covers of the State and allow¬ 
ing them to be killed off in the fall, which is the 
English and French method. With the sports¬ 
men of the State paying into the State Treasury 
approximately $160000 for hunting licenses an¬ 
nually, there is no reason why the State should 
not own at least five game farms given over to 
the raising of different species of game birds 
to be distributed throughout the State, under the 
same conditions in vogue at the present time in 
distributing pheasants. 
From what I can ascertain from the reports 
of the protectors throughout the State, the ruffed 
grouse is being found in their old haunts again, 
and in increased numbers. I do not know that 
this applies to any particular part of the State, 
hut wherever the cover is good, they seem to be 
increasing. 
Llewellyn Legge, Chief Game Protector. 
Maryland. 
Baltimore, Md., Oct. 14.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: Good duck shooting can still be ob¬ 
tained on the Susquehanna Flats, and non-resi¬ 
dents of the State can arrange with the gunners 
holding sink box licenses to give them pretty 
good sport when the weather is right. Shoot¬ 
ing days are on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. 
During the spring shooting, Saturday is added. 
The ducking shores from Miller’s Island to 
the flats are owned by private parties, and an 
invitation from owners is necessary. 
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 
of the closed seasons. Some sections of the 
State, notably the lower counties, still have some 
good partridge shooting. Local licenses are re¬ 
quired in each county. Some permit non-resi¬ 
dents to hunt without license, provided they have 
the permission of the landowner. It will be 
necessary for the sportsman to inform himself 
of the laws covering the special point in which 
he is interested. 
Wild turkeys and ruffed grouse are only 
found in the three westernmost counties, while 
deer are too scarce to mention. Several clubs in 
Western Maryland have especially fine turkey 
shooting, notably the Woodmont Rod and Gun 
Club, in Washington county, where every mem¬ 
ber or guest obtains the club limit most every 
time they hunt. 
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. 
This narrow strip runs clear over into Virginia, 
and on the beach and around the ponds can be 
found the yellowlegs, willet, curlew, robin, snipe, 
gray backs, calico backs, black-breasted plover, 
dowitcher, ring-neck and other birds of like 
character. 
The non-resident need have no fear of the 
law to hunt these birds at this place. No license 
is required of the non-resident to hunt them, and 
there is no closed season for shore birds. Nu¬ 
merous hotels will accommodate the sportsmen, 
and Captain Quillan will take them far enough 
down the beach in his launch to get away from 
the city and find birds. Good ducking can be had 
here also, but non-residents must have license. 
The season for wildfowl is from Nov. 1 to April 
10, State law. 
Last but not least we have the rail and reed 
bird shooting on the great wild oat marshes of 
the Patuxent River. There the reed birds and 
rail are found in great quantities, and the sports¬ 
men from Washington, Philadelphia, as well as 
from Baltimore, will be found on these marshes 
when the season opens on Sept. 13 every year, 
being pushed over the marshes by experienced 
pushers after the fat rail or sora. This is an 
easy bird to hit on the wing, but the sport is fas¬ 
cinating, and the pushers know their business. 
I have seen them accurately mark five and six 
dead birds down at one time and find every one. 
The bag limit of seventy-five rail birds per day 
can easily be reached during the first part of the 
season if the tide is moderately high. Of course 
when the tide is low, the marsh is too high to 
push the boats over and “bounce” the rail. 
License for non-residents of the State is $11. 
Talbott Denmead, 
For State Game Warden Cox. 
New Mexico. 
Santa Fe, N. M., Oct. 21.— Editor Forest 
and Stream: Game conditions are better than 
last year. Bear, deer, turkey, grouse and quail 
are found in this State. There is an abundance 
of turkey, quail, grouse and doves in the north¬ 
ern and southern parts of this State. 
Trinidad C. de Baca, Warden. 
Prince Edward Island. 
Charlottetown, P. E. Island, Oct. 12.— 
Editor Forest and Stream: The game birds in 
Prince Edward Island are increasing in numbers, 
each year finding them more abundant than in 
the previous year. This season the black ducks 
and mergansers were very plentiful and were 
about equally distributed throughout the 
Province. Golden plover also put in their 
appearance after an absence of several years. 
Bartramian sandpipers are fairly numerous, 
while Hudsonian curlew and gray field plover 
are to be found in large flocks. 
At the time of writing wild geese are very 
abundant; it is by no means a rare sight to 
behold pods of from 400 to 500 of these beauti¬ 
ful birds leisurely swimming in the rivers or 
bays and sometimes even resting on the shores. 
Yesterday a reliable sportsman who had just 
returned from Flat River informed me that 
game birds were very abundant there, and that 
he had never before seen so many wild geese 
or such quantities of gray land plover. 
Wild geese are abundant in Hillsboro and 
Elliott and York rivers. They are also plentiful 
Cruising in the Caribbean. 
BY J. HOBART EGBERT. 
One might readily be excused for not recog¬ 
nizing the old aspirant for international yachting 
honors as she lay off the wharf at Bluff, the en¬ 
trance to Bluefields lagoon on the Caribbean 
at Rustico, Tracadie, Malpeque, Summerside, 
Bedeque, Alberton, Kildare and Tignish. 
Brant were exceedingly abundant last 
spring, but owing to the curtailing of the open 
season comparatively few were killed, and as a 
natural consequence, a much larger showing 
is expected this fall than in other years. They 
trequent the same waters as the wild geese. 
Woodcock and snipe are reported fully up 
to the average and are in prime condition. 
Partridges, under judicious protection, are 
rapidly increasing in numbers. This year is a 
close season for these birds, so next year, in 
the natural course of events, will doubtless be 
a banner year for partridge shooting. 
Rabbits are fairly plentiful all through the 
Province. 
E. T. Carbonell, Game Inspector. 
North Carolina. 
Raleigh, N. C., Oct. 20.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: Game conditions are better than last 
year. Quail, pheasant, turkey and deer are found 
in this State. Quail is most abundant in Pied¬ 
mont or central section. 
P. D. Gold, Jr., 
Secretary Audubon Society of North Carolina. 
Oklahoma. 
Oklahoma City, Okla., Oct. 21.— Editor 
Forest and Stream: Game conditions are better 
than last year. Deer, turkey, bear and prairie 
chicken are found in this State. Quail is 
abundant. Good shooting is found in all sec¬ 
tions of this State. 
John B. Doolin, Warden. 
Wyoming. 
Lander, Wyo., Oct. 22.— Editor Forest and 
Forest and Stream: Game conditions are better 
than last year. Elk, deer, moose, mountain sheep 
and game birds are found in this State. Elk and 
deer are most abundant. The best shooting is 
found in Uinta, Fremont and Park counties. 
D. F. Hudson, State Game Warden. 
Cheyenne, Wyo., Oct. 21.— Editor Forest 
and Stream: The game conditions this year are 
about the same as they were a year ago. Elk, 
deer, bear, mountain sheep, sage chicken, grouse, 
ducks, geese, etc., are the leading game animals 
and birds of Wyoming. Of the big game, elk 
are the most abundant. Big-game hunting is best 
in the counties of Uinta, Park and Fremont. 
Birds are plentiful everywhere. 
James D. LeCron, 
Executive Secretary. 
coast of Nicaragua, in schooner rig, down al¬ 
most to her gunwales with a cargo of cocoa- 
nuts, the bare timbers of her hull showing here 
and there through her white paint, her deck lit¬ 
tered with sacks of cocoanuts, barrels, tarpaulin, 
etc., and with an ununiformed (almost un¬ 
dressed) colored crew. And yet there was some- 
