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November 5, and since that they have come every 
day. There are ten or twelve this year. 
I kept watch of the shelf one Sunday and 1 
don’t think there was five minutes all day when 
there was not a chickadee on it, eating or driv¬ 
ing the others away. 
There are two white breasted nut-hatches that 
come daily for food, and also a downy wood¬ 
pecker has made a number of calls. One day 
we had a surprise when a red breasted nut-hatch 
came onto the shelf. We had seen him on the 
apple trees but didn’t expect he would visit us. 
He is a regular visitor now and drives the chick¬ 
adees off while he eats. The chickadees can 
drive the white breasted nut-hatches and seem 
to scrap a great deal among themselves. 
Sometimes there will be four at once and as 
many more in the tree waiting their turn. 
We give them suet, bread, and doughnuts. 
It is surprising how short a time a doughnut 
will last; the birds eat all of the brown first, 
then eat the rest. The nuthatches prefer the 
doughnut to suet, altho they eat both. When 
my wife goes out to put a fresh doughnut on 
top, the chickadees will alight on it and allow 
her to bring the doughnut within six inches of 
her face. 
One chickadee sat on the edge of the shelf 
and scolded at her, while another sat on the 
doughnut she held in her hand. 
The red breasted nut-hatch almost alighted on 
the doughnut she held, but didn’t quite dare to. 
One of the chickadees is minus its tail. I sup¬ 
pose that shows how near he came to being 
caught by a cat. 
There is quite a flock of English sparrows here 
in the village and one day while we were eating 
our dinner and watching the chickadees eat 
theirs, they appeared and started to drive the 
other birds off the shelf, I took my .22 and shot 
at one but didn’t kill him. We didn’t see them 
again for three or four weeks; then a single one 
came into the yard, I got my .22 again and he 
didn’t go back to tell the other fellows about it 
Shooting a few of them or even shooting at 
them a few times, seems to discourage them and 
they cease to bother the other birds. One morn¬ 
ing a flock of partridges came into the apple 
tree nearest the house; there were three in it 
at on time and there were others in some of the 
other trees. Last spring I put out some bird 
houses built according to the government speci¬ 
fications but none of them were occupied this 
year. In our maple tree we discovered a red¬ 
eyed vireo’s net and we enjoyed hearing his 
song. This summer there were quite a number 
of scarlet tanagers seen. Partridges were plenty 
this fall; last summer I saw two fine partridge 
nests and knew of two others. I don’t think 
any one makes a mistake in taking care of the 
birds. If you wish to learn more about what 
can be done with birds read Mr. Bayne’s book, 
“Wild Bird Guests and How to Entertain 
Them.” Geo. H. Murphy. 
A FOREST AND STREAM TROPHY WINNER. 
Duxbury, Mass., Nov. 15, 1915. 
Editor Forest and, Stream: 
M. A. D. Thomas, proprietor of Milford 
House, South Milford, Annapolis County, Nova 
Scotia, presented me with the Silver Cup pre¬ 
sented by Forest and Stream for having caught 
the largest trout for the season of 1915. The 
trout weighing 2% pounds was caught Septem¬ 
ber 25 at Allisons. He was caught with a num¬ 
ber 10 Grizzly King fly. The fishing in this 
lake system, “Liverpool Chain of Lakes” was 
very good indeed as good as seventeen years 
ago when I first went there. 
I might add that in the first seventeen years 
spent at the Thomases I have had wonderful 
fishing. In the year 1910 I caught a trout in the 
same waters weighing 4 pounds 4 ounces. 
Roger Spalding. 
A student of fish culture says that two pounds 
of new born eels will yield in three years about 
six tons of edible fish, worth a thousand dollars. 
WISCONSIN DEER SEASON. 
Madison, Wis.—That the number of deer 
killed in Wisconsin this year was less than one- 
half the number killed in 1914 is evident from 
the record now being made up in the office of 
the conservation commission. 
The number reported to date for the season 
recently ended is 2,700, but reports yet to come, 
Commissioner Barber said, probably would bring 
the number above 3,000, all bucks, of course. 
The record for 1914 was 7,375, bucks and does. 
The total in 1913 was 6,969; in 1912 it was 5 . 853 . 
