FOREST AND STREAM. 
[Jan. 2, 1909. 
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One morning father took the lantern and went 
to Linsey Brook, while Mr. Wright and I ex¬ 
pected to stay at camp, but the cook produced 
a broken lantern which Mr. Wright and my 
uncle patched up with sticking plaster. We took 
the broken lantern and went down to the canoe. 
We were paddling slowly down the deadwater 
and were just getting ready to turn around and 
go back when in a small cove we saw a cow 
moose. Mr. Wright said, “Take off your gloves; 
there may be a bull in the woods.” I did as he 
told me and we paddled slowly toward the cow. 
In a moment she saw us and rushed into the 
woods like an express train. Just then I saw 
a pair of horns sticking up from behind an old 
stump. Drawing a bead on him I began say¬ 
ing, “Shall I shoot? Shall I shoot? Shall I 
shoot?” But as the horns were practically all 
we could see of him, Mr. Wright said, “Wait,” 
so we waited about five minutes before the 
moose decided to follow the cow, which had 
meanwhile returned and was running about try¬ 
ing to push him into the woods. As the bull 
turned, the guide said, “Give it to him,” and 
I fired. He started to run and I fired two more 
shots. The guide saw he would be out of sight 
in a moment, so he called like a cow, and that 
moose turned right around and came back. I 
fired again and this seemed to rattle him, as he 
ran away from us as fast as he could go, fol¬ 
lowing the water. I fired at him twice more, 
and as he went out of sight my guide said, “Give 
him another,” and I fired again. 
The last three cartridges I had to take from 
my pocket, as the gun was a .32 caliber carbine 
size and held only four cartridges. Jumping out 
of the canoe I ran up to the trail he had made 
and struck it just where he went out of sight. 
We followed it for about a couple of yards and 
saw a little blood, so Mr. Wright said we had 
better go back to camp and get Charley and my 
father, which we did. I had fired about seven 
shots, but those at the camp did not hear them 
at all. 
In the afternoon father, Mr. Wright, Charley, 
the cook and myself came down. Charley went 
ahead on striking the trail, I came next and last 
my father. Mr. Wright and the cook stayed 
by the canoe. After going about four rods, 
Charley said, “There he is,” and I looked and 
saw him lying dead. We skinned out the head 
and took some meat and the feet and returned 
to camp. The head measured fifty inches and 
had fifteen points in all. The web was about 
ten by twenty inches. I had hit the moose 
four times in the neck and once in the hind 
quarters. 
As the next day was Sunday my father did 
not hunt. On Monday he saw an old cow moose, 
but got nothing. The team came in that day 
and we went out on Tuesday. It rained all day, 
the first rain we had had in three weeks. 
The only reason my father did not get a head 
was because it was a bit too warm for the moose 
to come out. Galen Snow. 
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Hungarian Partridges in Michigan. 
The following letter, written recently by W. 
B. Mershon, of Saginaw, Mich., to John R. Fan¬ 
ning, of Rochester, N. Y., gives interesting in¬ 
formation about the Hungarian partridge; 
I think the Hungarian partridge is the foreign 
bird that is going to be introduced in this coun¬ 
try. I do not care much for the pheasants; they 
are attractive, but not particularly sporty and 
are hard to raise. A few years ago I planted 
about eighty around here and they were all gone 
in two years. 
I got one hundred pairs of Hungarian par¬ 
tridges, imported through Wenz & Mackensen, 
Yardley, Pa. They arrived in December, I think 
in 1906. Sixteen of them were sent to Mr. 
Wallace at Bay Port, a place about thirty miles 
from here, where he has a farm and a wood 
lot, and it is a country where lots of beets for 
the sugar factories are raised. It is quite an 
open country, but there is sufficient woodland 
for cover. He took the box out one evening 
and built around it a pen of cornstalks and then 
stood a row of cornstalks so as to make a little 
lane fifteen or twenty feet long that led to a 
brush heap. He scattered plenty of food along 
this and opened the box at night, and the birds 
came out and lived there all winter. In the 
spring they began to spread, and he told me 
that during the season of 1907 he counted two 
or three flocks of twenty or thirty birds. He 
was quite confident they went into the winter 
of 1907, increased at least six fold, or there 
were one hundred or more birds. They worked 
back into the neighborhood of where they had 
wintered the year before; in fact, they are quite 
local in their habits. One bird had been shot 
and another had a leg shot off, and in the sum¬ 
mer of 1908 this one-legged hen raised sixteen 
chicks. 
A stretch of buckwheat, growing along a ditch 
for some considerable distance, was a great place 
for them. Mr. Wallace told me that during the 
fall of 1908 he could put up flocks of one hun¬ 
dred, and said he believed there were 600 to 
I, coo birds in that locality. 
Now, you see, they have passed through two 
winters and this is the third one, and in that 
time they have made this wonderful increase. 
Their habits are a good deal like the quail. They 
do not frequent the beet sugar fields as much 
as we expected them to, but are great lovers 
of cornfields and are quite an open country bird. 
The two pairs I sent to Merrill were wintered 
in confinement and turned out in the spring of 
1907, and a brood was noticed of nineteen birds, 
that grew to maturity as seventeen. I have 
heard of two large coveys having been seen 
there during the fall of 1908. 
A crate of eighteen was sent to the Cornwell 
farm in Clare county, sixty miles west of here, 
where the country is not so largely settled, and 
there are a good many pot-hunters and lots of 
vermin. They were liberated in the spring of 
1907, and in the fall of 1908 I had reported to 
me by a reliable party a bunch of nearly fifty 
and another of thirty. 
I sent ten to Freeland, Mich. These were 
wintered in a coop made of cornstalks and the 
green boughs of pines. The object was to make 
a protection'so the birds, if frightened and fly¬ 
ing up would not injure themselves by striking 
their heads against a hard substance, and they 
like to hide among the evergreens. They win¬ 
tered well, were turned out, and I never have 
heard anything more of them. Whether they 
thrived or have been exterminated the Lord 
only knows, but this is the way to protect them 
during the winter. They want plenty of water 
and will eat apples, lettuce, cabbage, buckwheat, 
wheat and corn. Scraps from the table they 
seem to like to pick at. They soon become tame 
in confinement and when liberated they should 
be put out in bunches of three or four or six 
because it is hard to distinguish the male from 
the females unless the birds are very old, so 
it is better to have enough of them put out in 
a locality so there will be pairs if something 
happens to one or two of them. 
In two instances, where I sent but two birds, 
something happened to them during the winter, 
so you have got to be sure that whoever keeps 
them during the winter is sufficiently interested 
to take good care of them. Other birds, a year 
after distributing, I have heard nothing about, 
and the parties were not sufficiently interested, 
I take it, to keep track of them, but there 
is enough to show they are a success 
and are going to make good birds for our 
country after the covers are cut off so much 
we cannot expect the ruffed grouse to longer 
thrive. A good many people talk of restock¬ 
ing with ruffed grouse. That is all right where 
the covers are not going to be destroyed, but 
the trouble with the ruffed grouse here in Michi¬ 
gan !s that its home places have been cut off 
to a large extent, narrowing the hunting ground 
so that the sportsmen, market hunters, hawks, 
weasels, etc., have concentrated their efforts 
upon them in the restricted locality and there 
is the end of them. Quail with us build them¬ 
selves up naturally about once in three or four 
years, and then a hard winter comes along and 
they pretty nearly all disappear. 
About Trapping. 
Oxford, Conn., Dec. 10.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: I want to do a little trapping this 
winter, but have got to learn it all from the 
beginning, for I know nothing about the work. 
Can you tell me how to learn something about 
traps, how to use them, baits and something 
about how to skin the animals that I may catch? 
Any information that you can give me will be 
gladly received. Inquirer. 
[The art of trapping is not one that can be 
taught offhand, though many facts may be 
learned from the books. After you have read 
everything that you can get hold of on the sub¬ 
ject, however, you will find that to put your 
theory into practice requires time and patience. 
There are two e.xcellent bocks on trapping; one 
of them, Gibson’s “Camp Life and the Tricks 
of Trapping,” which has many figures of traps 
and the animals that are caught in traps; the 
other, Newhouse’s “Trapper’s Guide,” the pro¬ 
duction'of an old trapper of great experience. 
The price of each is one dollar. 
Nowadays trapping is done chiefly with steel 
traps, which are inexpensive and durable. In 
old times the dead fall was the common trap 
for many animals. —Editor.] 
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