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FOREST AND STREAM 
Live Notes From The Field 
Being Weekly Reports From Our Local Correspondents 
HUNTING IN MAINE. 
A Closed Season for Moose Advocated—Record 
of Deer Shows Good Shooting in Prospect. 
Portland, Me., Nov. 2, 1914. 
The law was raised on bull moose in the state 
of Maine, Sunday night at midnight. The law 
allows these kings of the Maine forests to be 
shot at for only 30 days. There are few non¬ 
resident hunters now in the woods. But few 
bull moose with good heads are to be found 
although they are considered as plentiful as a 
year ago. It is believed that there will be a 
close time advocated at the next session of the 
Maine legislature on moose. If such action is 
taken it is believed that there will be a further 
effort made to reduce the non-resident fee to 
the old rate of $15.00. Up to and including 1912, 
moose shipments from Maine ranged from 200 to 
300 for many years but in 1913 the number de¬ 
creased to 92 bulls. There is believed to be a 
grave danger of the extinction of moose in this 
state if a law is not passed protecting these ani¬ 
mals for five years. 
Among the successful hunters who had game 
on the trains returning from the Maine woods 
Friday and Saturday were the following: Dr. 
Olin C. Moulton of South Windham, one buck 
deer; Walter Eagans, one deer; Roy Hilton. 
Bridgton, one deer; B. Hilton, Bridgton, one 
deer; W. S. Thompson, Jefferson, N. H., 2 deer; 
L. W. Cory, Dover, Me., 2 deer; H. A. Gay, 
Readfield, 1 deer, shipped to Boston; S. H. 
McKee, 1 deer; Oscar Martin, Mattocks, one 
deer and two bear; Mrs. H. E. Sanborn, Port¬ 
land, 2 deer; Mr. H. E. Sanborn, 2 deer; L. C. 
Douglass, 1 buck deer; Ben Barker, 1 deer. 
Deer are plentiful enough in the wilds of 
Maine, but they are hard to hunt as they are not 
roaming about in the more open country. They 
are to be found in the swamps and swales and 
the denser thickets where they are not hunted 
except by the more expert woodsmen who are 
familiar with their hiding places. At night, how¬ 
ever, the deer come out of their hiding places 
and seek food in the clearings and deserted or¬ 
chards. 
AN AFTERNOON’S HUNT IN THE SAND¬ 
HILLS. 
When I hung up my good old Winchester .30 
last April, it was because I would be too busy 
to hunt, with the spring work and summer hay¬ 
ing coming on, and—I was out of shells. 
Well, sir, the next time I made the thirty-four 
miles to town was Oct. 28, and by George! the 
first thing I bought was a box of 30-30’s. The 
old gun got a good cleaning next Sunday, and I 
started out for a coyote. 
I knew of an old abandoned ranch three miles 
away, and I headed for that because the place 
is jamful of the critters, the cane brake especially 
being their “hide out.” I had a hunch that 
something was going to happen, so I sharpened 
my knife and took my knapsack along. You 
fellow hunters know all about that hunch busi¬ 
ness, I guess, so no need to explain. This ranch 
being north of home I edged around the west 
side, going over ’till I got on the north side of 
the place, so as to come up the wind, which was 
in the south. I knew that was my only show. 
Sneaking along the low places as much as 
possible, and walking slow, with my rifle in my 
hand so as to be inconspicuous, I hadn’t any more 
than started to turn south again than there was 
Mr. Coyote “scrouching” along in the grass fully 
350 yards away. I came very near letting him 
have it then—in fact I had a bead on him once, 
but there was a four or five mile breeze, and 
besides at that distance a coyote doesn’t look as 
big as a barn door. 
The old boy saw me alright, but I kept perfectly 
still ’till he got a small ridge between us and then 
everlastingly beat it across a narrow valley so as 
to cut down the distance. As I came up on the 
next ridge I throw off my hat and crawled up on 
my belly and looked between two bunches of 
grass- There he was, 250 yards away, looking 
over his shoulder. Allowing six inches drift for 
the wind I cut loose at him with the soft point 
bullet, but there was where I was off. The 
breeze wasn’t blowing down in the valley, just 
up 'on the knoll where I was. As the bullet 
plowed up the sod six inches to the right of 
him he whirled and looked at the groove in the 
ground and then tried to locate where that 
“dange’ some” thing came from, but I don’t think 
he saw me that time. 
It didn’t take me long to pump another shell 
in, and then he got it, a heart shot, without anj 
allowance, and as sure as your born I saw the 
bottoms of that coyate’s hind feet. The force of 
the soft-nosed bullet threw him fully three feet 
Well, by the time I got him skinned it was moon¬ 
light, and as I started on the long tramp home I 
couldn’t help but think that these hunches are 
good things and made up my mini to “do it 
again.” 
JOHN W. DAVIS, Kola, Nebr. 
GAME WARDEN DIES. 
Newton, N. J., Nov. 4.—Jacob Britton Hender- 
shott, 77, for twenty-one years fish and game 
warden of Sussex county, died to-day at his 
home, 99 Liberty street, of acute indigestion. 
Mr. Hendershott had made more arrests for vio¬ 
lations of the game laws than any other warden 
in the history of the State. A veteran of the 
Civil War, he was wounded in both legs at the 
battle of Cold Harbor. He is survived by a 
widow, two sons and two sisters. 
HUNTING LAW DISREGARDED. 
Fergus Falls, Minn., Oct. 30.—A Federal game 
inspector has been in this locality looking up 
evidence against men who violate the law which 
forbids shooting before sunrise and after sunset. 
Many hunters openly disregarded the law at the 
opening of the season and some of them may 
have occasion to appear before the United States 
court when the term opens here in November. 
BOTTINEAU COUNTY LAKES STOCKED 
WITH BLACK BASS. 
Rolette, N. D., Oct. 27.—Through the personal 
efforts of C. J. Lord, of Cando, assisted by sub¬ 
scriptions from other owners of property at Fish 
Lake, 40 cans or three full wagon loads of black 
bass were placed in the lake during August and 
September. Mr. Lord is now making an effort 
to get a carload of young fish each year for three 
successive years. As Mr. Lord is working in 
conjunction with Congressmen Helgesen and 
Young, and State Game and Fish Commissioner, 
Capt. R. G. Main, it is likely that the effort will 
be successful. There has been a great scarcity 
of black bass in the lake for several seasons, and 
if this restocking is done, Fish Lake will again 
become one of the most noted black bass lakes 
in the northwest. 
PROTECTING THE SONG BIRDS. 
Providence, R. I, Oct. 28. 
Assurances that the Federal Government is to 
co-operate with the State of Rhode Island in 
punishing the killers of song birds are most 
gratifying. 
The five “hunters" who have been fined $200 
for shooting bluejays, robins, myrtle warblers, 
bluebirds and thrushes probably realize that they 
paid a high price for a day of “sport.” And it 
may be that they have -not heard the last word 
about their violations of the laws protecting these 
useful birds, the Federal inspector having been 
instructed to investigate the cases and to bring 
action under the migratory bird law which pro¬ 
vides a fine of $100 for each song bird or ninety 
days imprisonment or both. 
It is evident that appeals to humane feeling 
are wasted upon a large class of “hunters,” and 
that no heed is given by them to statements as 
to the great value of these birds as destroyers of 
insects. Results are to be secured only by vigor¬ 
ous enforcement of the law. The activity of the 
commissioners of birds and their deputies is 
worthy of the highest commendation, and the 
co-operation of the Federal inspectors also prom¬ 
ises to be a factor in putting a stop to the con¬ 
temptible slaughter of song birds in this State. 
HAS KILLED 48 BEARS. 
Olean, N. Y., Oct. 30. 
J. P. Carrier of Sheffield, shot his 48th bear 
last Thursday near Minister on the Sheffield and 
Tionesta road. He thinks he has shot more than 
48, but that is all he has kept count of. The bear 
shot Thursday is the first one in his many hunt¬ 
ing years that he could not take out of the woods 
for being too heavy to drag and the big bruin 
had to be cut up where it was felled and taken 
out in sections. 
GAME PLENTIFUL IN INDIANA. 
New Albany, Oct. 29. 
Dennis Gleason, of New Albany, and Herbert 
Crist, of Fordsville, Ind., State deputy game 
wardens, arrived in New Albany yesterday from 
