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son enjoyed by States adjoining the Canadian 
boundary, and two weeks at the end of the 
season allowed Florida and two adjoining South¬ 
ern States. 
The season in Texas is opened two weeks 
earlier than in other Gulf States in order to per¬ 
mit shooting in the northern part of the State. 
The discrepancy in the length of the season as 
compared with that of other Gulf States is due 
to the size of 'the State and the difficulty of 
meeting conditions in all sections with one set of 
regulations. The proposed change will afford 
some shooting in northern Texas without 
materially changing conditions in the southern 
part of the State. 
The Change in Each State Follow: 
Connecticut—Open season Oct. i—Jan. 16. 
The season is made to conform with that on 
Long Island and New York. 
District of Columbia—Open season Nov. i— 
Feb. i. 
The season is made to conform with that in 
Maryland and Virginia. 
Idaho—Open season Oct. i—Jan. 16. 
The season is changed to conform with that 
in Utah, Washington, and Oregon. 
Kansas—Open season Sept. 15—Feb. 1. 
The season is made uniform with that in Mis¬ 
souri and Oklahoma, and is longer than that in 
other States. 
Massachusetts—Open season Oct 1—Jan. 1. 
The opening date of the season is made two 
weeks later to conform with that in Connecticut 
and New York. 
Missouri—'Open season Sept. 15—Feb. 1. 
The season is made uniform with that in Kan¬ 
sas and Oklahoma. The proposed season is one 
month longer than that in any other States in 
the Union and is equal to the open season in 
the entire United States, with the exception of 
two weeks at the beginning and two weeks at the 
end of the season. 
Nevada—Open season Oct. 1—Jan. 16. 
The season is made two weeks later 
to conform with that of Utah, Idaho, and Ore¬ 
gon, thus making a uniform season for the Great 
Basin States. 
New Mexico—Open season Oct. 1—Jan. 16. 
The season is made one month later to con¬ 
form more nearly with conditions in adjoining 
States. 
New York—Open season Oct. 1—Jan. 16. 
The season is opened two weeks later and made 
uniform with that on Long Island and in Penn¬ 
sylvania. 
Oklahoma—Open season Sept. 15—Feb. 1. 
The season is made uniform with that in Kan¬ 
sas and Missouri. 
Pennsylvania.—Open season Oct. 1—Jan. 16. 
The season is made uniform with that in New 
York and West Virginia. 
Rhode Island—Open season Oct. 1—Jan. 1. 
The opening date is made the same as that in 
the adjoining states of Connecticut and Massa¬ 
chusetts. 
West Virginia—Open season Oct. 1—Jan. 16 
The season is made one month later to con¬ 
form with that in Pennsylvania and Kentucky. 
Texas—Open season Oct. 15—Feb. 1. 
The season is opened two weeks earlier to per¬ 
mit shooting in the northern part of the State. 
FOREST AND STREAM 
INDIANA NEWS LETTER. 
Greensburg, Ind., July 7.—Decatur and Jen¬ 
nings county streams long have been noted as a 
mecca for fishermen from Indianapolis, Cincin¬ 
nati and Louisville, as well as for local anglers. 
The streams abound with bass, crappies, and cat¬ 
fish. 
Two merchants, E. G. Linkart and U. H. Miles 
lay claim to having landed the finest string in 
the shortest time that has ever been caught from 
Muscatatuck. Five large bass were the result 
of the former’s efforts, while the latter secured 
142 pounds of catfish in eleven days. 
Mr. Linkart’s catch, shown in the accompany¬ 
ing illustration, comprised small mouthed bass, 
weighing (reading left to right), 2 pounds, 11 
ounces; 1 pound, 8 ounces; 1 pound, 4 ounces, 
and 1 pound. 
Skunk farming is being car-ried on at the out¬ 
skirts of this city, at considerable profit, by 
Charles E. Bridges, a newspaper man. Since he 
has engaged in the business, Mr. Bridges always 
has found ready market in the east. He raises 
skunks of the mixed stars and stripes variety 
and markets his products when they are young, 
getting never less than $8 for the pelt of an ani¬ 
mal of the star species and $5 for those of mixed 
variety. The kitten skunks are exceedingly easy 
to handle and at times are extremely playful. 
C. H. PARRISH. 
NEW RECORD FOR CASTING WITH 3 OR 
4-QZ LEAD. 
Midland Beach Fishing Club, June 29, 1914. 
Results of the Third Casting Tournament held 
June 28, 1914, at the Staten Island Fair Grounds, 
brought our remarkable casting. Among other 
casts, the world’s record, for three or four ounce 
lead, made by W. J. Moran at Asbury Park Fish¬ 
ing Club Tournament about five years ago and 
which has stood repeated onslaughts was broken 
twice, once by Carleton Simon, Jr., he going 319 
feet in Class A of the Clubs Events with three 
ounces of lead and later in 'the Open Event by 
his father Dr. Carleton Simon who broke his 
son’s record by casting the lead 322 feet 6 inches, 
thus establishing a new world’s record. 
The summary of the events are as follows: 
Choice 3 or 4 ounce lead in all events: 
Open Ladies Event—First, Mrs- James W. 
Kane, average 152 feet, 9 inches; second, Mrs. 
W. Paul; third, Mrs. Kavanaugh. 
Class C. For members who have never cast 
over 200 feet. 
First—Carl Durand, average three casts—228 
feet; second, S. Rohes; third. David A. Kelly. 
Class B. For members who have never cast 
over 250 feet. First—J. Missel, average of four 
casts, 230 feet, 10 indhes; second, Fletcher Hicks; 
third, Dr. Jos. Levy. Longest cast won by Irv¬ 
ing Reed, 264 feet, n inches. 
Class A—For members who have cast 250 feet 
or more. First—William Paul, average of five 
casts, 265 feet, 5 inches; second, Edgar Stoeckel; 
third, Le Roy Kurtz. 
Longest Cast—Won by Carleton Simon, Jr., 
who broke W. J. Moran’s record of 314 feet, 10 
inches, by casting 319 feet. 
Open Event—Five casts in open field. First— 
William Paul, average 256 feet, 7 inches; second, 
Edgar Stoeckel; third, Alfred Stoeckel. 
Longest cast was made by Dr. Carleton Simon 
who broke his son’s record made in Class A, by 
casting 322 feet, 6 inches and thus establishing a 
new world’s record. 
LE ROY KURTZ 
Secretary Midland Beach Fishing Club, Mid¬ 
land Beach, S. I. 
PENNSYLVANIA NOTES. 
Hazleton, Pa., July 3.—Gunners of the Hazleton 
section of Pennsylvania regret that the activities 
of the state police this summer will be neces¬ 
sarily engaged in the preservation of order in 
the local trolley strike rather than in the enforce¬ 
ment of the game laws. 
The young rabbits suffer more at the hands of 
the foreigners who go out picking huckleberries 
in the summer than they do from the guns of 
the sportsmen in the fall. The huckleberry 
gatherers take along their dogs and children and 
they spend the day running down the young 
rabbits. Many are killed this way, although the 
state police in other years when not engaged in 
sterner work as at the present time, kept the 
practice down considerably by their arrests. 
Now that the bass season is in full swing, the 
sportsmen of the Hazleton section of the state 
are returning with their strings to show that 
there are some of the fish left in the lakes and 
streams after all. The first few days had been 
very discouraging. 
Dr. S. S. Hess, R. R. Herbst and Edgar Albert, 
all of Freeland, made good catches in a trip 
to Bradford county. 
Fred Wells and Harry Trowbridge, of Blooms- 
burg, landed a big string at Benscoter’s Pond. 
Among them was a bass angled by Trowbridge 
which weighed 3% pounds. It was the largest 
catch of the Bloomsburg section this season. 
Adam Harter, John Harter, Howard Pfeiffer, 
all of Nescopek, and Martin Harter, of Mt. Car¬ 
mel, returned from Promised Land Lake in the 
Poconoes with a good sized basket of bass and 
trout. 
George Soders and Bryan Spencer, of Berwick, 
caught a pair of black bass at Benscoter’s Pond, 
18 inches and 19% inches long, and six that were 
from 11 to 14 inches. 
Dynamiters who work by night driving to the 
creeks by automobile, are making big hauls of 
fish in the streams of Luzerne and Columbia 
counties which are the favorite haunts of Hazle¬ 
ton anglers. 
Sportsmen are making efforts to run down the 
dynamiters who have practially ruined Fishing 
Creek. That the dynamiting is going on is shown 
through the hundreds of dead fish which float 
down the creeks, with not a game variety among 
them. The trout and bass are picked out after 
they come to the surface, letting the eels, mullets, 
suckers and other kinds float away. 
The dynamiters were almost caught near Still¬ 
water when they set off a blast early in the evening 
and farmers nearby rushed to the creek suspect¬ 
ing what had occurred. The dynamiters were 
met but after a hard chase through the under¬ 
brush the illegal fishermen clambered into a wait¬ 
ing auto and made their escape. 
Gigging in the creeks around here is causing 
complaint and fishermen have been demanding 
that game and fish wardens act with the state 
police and put an end to this illegal method of 
fishing. The scarcity of game varieties is blamed 
upon this set of pot hunters. 
