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FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Oct. 21, 1911. 
Virginia Game Prospects. 
New York City, Oct. 16.— Editor Forest and 
St> cam: During the last days of September I 
visited the southeastern corner of Virginia to 
observe the chances of sport during the coming 
season. The country had suffered from the ex¬ 
treme drouth that was so general this past sum¬ 
mer. There were no sora to speak of; the large 
swamps of wild grain where heretofore I have 
shot many sora were dry. The drouth seemed 
to be beneficial to upland birds and I saw many 
more quail than usual and many in unexpected 
places. The only pheasants are those reared in 
preserves, and they have done remarkably well. 
The keeper of one preserve told me he had not 
lost a bird except one taken by a hawk. He has 
the hawk. And by the way, he said he had taken 
sixteen hawks on a single pole trap. The super¬ 
visors do not permit quail shooting till Decem¬ 
ber, but the present prospect for good sport is 
encouraging. 
The prospect for wildfowl shooting is also 
good. The grasses in the various waters were 
very fine, with an abundance of wild celery, and' 
I saw a great deal of “smart grass’’ on the 
marshes. There were a good many woodducks 
in evidence, and on one preserve I saw in a single 
pond a large number of woodducks, quite a num¬ 
ber of widgeon and several small rafts of mal¬ 
lards and blackducks—quite an unusual sight for 
so early in the season. 
There is much hard feeling against Northern 
sportsmen, as some of the natives think the stop¬ 
page of the sale of game in New York was 
brmught about by the few sportsmen who own 
or rent shooting preserves in this portion of Vir¬ 
ginia, and they counsel the market gunners to 
avenge themselves by destroying the property of 
non-resident sportsmen. This advice is given 
by hoodlums or those seeking popularity either 
for power or votes, and not by good citizens or 
those who have the welfare of the people really 
at heart. The humor of the situation is that they 
overlook the fact that the laws of Virginia pro¬ 
hibit the export of game from the State and per¬ 
mit non-residents to take with them as their per¬ 
sonal baggage only a limited quantity. 
Xper. 
Mistaken for Game. 
The results of recklessness with firearms in 
the woods have begun to come in. 
Press dispatches from Adirondack towns say 
that Fred Dean, of Alder Creek, while watching 
for deer, saw some bushes move and fired, kill¬ 
ing Fred Allen, of Conquest. The body was 
found by the latter’s friends. Judging from the 
wound, he was probably killed with a soft-point 
bullet. Allen wore a flaming red sweater and 
a cap with a red band. 
Guide Harold Hight was mistaken for a deer 
by a Dr. Brooks, of New York city, and instant¬ 
ly killed. They were hunting near Moxie Pond, 
Maine. The doctor returned to camp and with 
a party attempted to find the body, but failed. 
James Whitcomb, of Skerry, N. Y., was shot 
through the arm and shoulder by John Manning, 
a companion, near Twin Ponds, in the Adiron- 
dacks. The victim wore a tan-c V)f“d shirt and 
was mistaken for a deer V 
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by John Minnette, of Plattsburg. Dam was mak¬ 
ing a circuit of the woods, hoping to drive deer 
toward several friends who had taken stands 
near runways. 
Ernest Salisbury, while with a party of deer 
hunters in the Fulton Chain section of the Adi- 
rondacks, was shot through the body by some 
person, and although the wounded man fired his 
rifle repeatedly to attract attention to his plight, 
he was compelled to make his way home alone, 
and covered the three miles partly by crawling. 
Through accident the following men were in¬ 
jured while hunting: L. E. McConnell, of 
Wichita Falls, Tex., shot through the foot while 
removing a rifle from a buggy; Roy Masker, of 
Stillwater, N. D., arm mangled by a charge of 
shot .in taking a gun from a buggy; Bart Scan¬ 
lon, of Springfield, Ohio, killed by a charge of 
shot from a loaded gun carried in his motor 
car. 
Shore Birds—Deer. 
Boston, Mass., Oct. 12. — Editor Forest and 
Stream: For a summer outing of several weeks 
George D. Loud took a party of friends on his 
yacht. -At several points his guests got an abund¬ 
ance of shore birds. On some days they saw 
immense flocks of them. This is absolutely re¬ 
liable, for Mr. Loud is well known as a game 
protectionist. 
I cannot forbear declaring my great pleasure 
in reading the extracts you printed in a recent 
issue from the 1910 report of Mrs. Emmons 
Crocker, of Fitchburg, and the deserved recog¬ 
nition of the efforts of women in your editorial. 
“Honor to whom honor is due” should be the 
motto of every sportsman. That is the spirit 
which for the past thirty years to my knowledge 
Forest and Stream has manifested toward ali 
the workers in the good cause for which it 
stands. This State has many women whose 
hearts are enlisted in the work of conservation 
and should not hesitate to extend to them the 
right hand of fellowship. 
Several Boston sportsmen are taking advant¬ 
age of the opening of the Maine deer season. 
Charles Black, of Boston, shot a fine buck in 
the Moosehead region. The first woman to bring 
down a buck was Mrs. E. E. Smith, of Bangor. 
Abundant rains have improved the hunting 
conditions and deer are plentiful. 
Monday morning two Italian fishermen brought 
a live deer to one of the wharves in their boat 
and did not know what to do with him. State 
commission deputies took the deer, a two-year- 
old buck, to the Blue Hill Reservation, where he 
was liberated. When first seen he was swim¬ 
ming near Boston Light. Henry H. Kimball. 
Trapping Opportunity. 
New York City, Oct. 4.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: For some years the animals and birds 
on my country property at Stamford, Conn., have 
been protected. One of the results is that rab¬ 
bits and the red and gray squirrels have become 
pests. 
I cannot allow shooting on the place because 
of the temptation of men with a gun to shp^t- 
partridges and quail. Anyone who y ,: ~ 
trap rabbits and squirrels, " 1 
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Conservation. 
Groton, Mass., Oct. 9. — Editor Forest and 
Stream: The followimng resolutions adopted at 
the recent National Conservation Congress, held 
at Kansas City, may be of interest to your 
readers: 
“The third National Conservation Congress is 
deeply concerned at the rapid disappearance of 
wild life from the continent of North America, 
and the large economic loss that the continued 
destruction of that life is bound to entail; and 
we call upon the people of America to adopt 
more stringent measures to stop the excessive 
killing of birds, fishes and quadrupeds, and to 
enact more drastic and far-reaching laws for the 
protection of the remnant from the extermina¬ 
tion that threatens it. 
“The problem of the preservation of migra¬ 
tory birds, fishes and quadrupeds is an interstate 
one, therefore this Congress emphatically en¬ 
dorses the resolution of the second National 
Conservation Congress to the effect that the Na¬ 
tional Government supplement the laws of the 
States with comprehensive National laws for the 
protection of migratory animals.” 
William P. Wharton. 
At the recent conservation congress the sub¬ 
ject of wild life protection was not wholly ig¬ 
nored. The convention passed the following 
resolution prepared by Dr. W. T. Hornaday: 
“Resolved, That the third annual National 
Conservation Congress is deeply concerned at 
the rapid disappearance of wild life from the 
continent of North America and the large eco¬ 
nomic loss that continued destruction of that 
life is bound to entail, and we call upon the 
people of America to adopt more stringent 
measures to stop the excessive killing of birds, 
quadrupeds and fish, and enact more drastic 
and far-reaching laws for the protection of the 
remnant from the extermination which threatens 
it.” 
Looking Forward. 
New Orleans, La., Oct. 5.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: A number of the local hunters are pre¬ 
paring for a great fall and winter crusade. It 
is believed that game of all kinds will be plenti¬ 
ful this winter. Reports from the various game 
wardens are very reassuring. Quail, doves, 
wild turkeys, deer and other game abound in 
many localities. It is believed the ducks will 
come here in abundance late this fall, as it is 
known that wild rice and other seed on which 
they feed is growing luxuriantly now. Along 
the Gulf coast and the Barataria section and 
the mouth of the Mississippi River and the 
prairies in extreme Southern Mississippi ducks 
will be plentiful. In the center and northern 
portions of Louisiana wild turkeys have shown 
a decided increase in the past two years, while 
there are many deer in the eastern-central 
parishes. F. G. G. 
Not Loaded, 
"Did you hear what happened at Bagley’s to- 
■what was it?” “He took down an 
'’'ont the house for years, 
’gger at his wife, 
food heavens!” 
