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the deer, Bill came stumbling up, and after look¬ 
ing around, had the nerve to ask me who shot 
it. He had been on the track all the time, and 
had just came to when I struck the track when 
he heard me shooting and shouting. It was the 
same deer I had admired so much in the morn¬ 
ing. Happy Jack. 
Deer in Rensselaer County. 
Berlin, N. Y., Jan. 20.—Editor Forest and 
Stream: Deer are numerous on the Berlin 
Mountains which form the border line between 
New York and Massachusetts. There was a 
close season of five years for deer in the county 
ending in 1906, a short open season in 1907, 
when a few were taken, and another close sea¬ 
son of five years was instituted from 1908 to 
1912, inclusive. 
Deer are very numerous on Petersburg Moun¬ 
tain which is on the western border of Williams- 
town. Mass. Henry Cummings saw a herd of 
twenty-one near his place and hunters say the 
ground in the woods is covered with deer tracks. 
In Cowdry liollow, in the town of Berlin, a 
small herd is wintering. The head of the hol¬ 
low lies well up on Mt. Macomber which is a 
few miles south of Petersburg Mountain. The 
hollow is only open to the west and the high 
mountains surrounding make it an ideal winter¬ 
ing place. 
There were two does, a fawn and a buck in 
the herd, and they were seen frequently by 
woodchoppers. Recently it was reported that 
the buck was missing and a search disclosed the 
body. Whether he was shot or killed by dogs 
is not known, as some flesh had been torn from 
the flank. The does and fawn had not been 
frightened away. There is an abandoned farm¬ 
house near where the deer were heading and a 
number of apple trees, the fruit of which had 
fallen to the ground. 
The deer were feeding on the small branches 
of the new growth of bushes on the edges of the 
wood and on the outlying haystacks and fallen 
apples. Their presence in the county in such 
numbers would seem to indicate a knowledge 
of the protection afforded by the law. 
Some years ago while walking in Prospect 
Park, Brooklyn, I came across a fisherman near 
one of the bridges and asked him what success 
he was having. Said he: “My permit allows 
me to fish until 9 A. M. I have been here since 
five and haven’t had a bite. I believe the fish 
know enough to postpone their breakfast till 
after nine, for yesterday I stood here and threw 
bread into the water, and the place was swarm¬ 
ing with fish, and I suppose it will be the same 
again as soon as my time limit expires.” 
Rob Saunderson. 
Quail in North Carolina. 
Hendersonville, N. C., Jan. 16.— Editor Forest 
and Stream: My last letter to you was written 
while I was in Hayesville, in December. The 
day before leaving there I was out at a farm¬ 
house with a friend who was interested in the 
property and to have a try at the quail. It rained 
all night, but at 10 A. M. it held up and not 
fearing a wetting I went out. 
My friend, Bumgarner, with our host, went 
one way and I another, each taking a setter dog. 
Inside of ten minutes Jack came to a steady 
point. Then began three hours of excellent 
sport. I only got one bird out of a double and 
then Jack and I followed the covey and I made 
a pretty double, bagging both birds. By the 
time we had put up the single birds of the first 
covey we were in the second covey and I bagged 
several of them. A little further on covey num¬ 
ber three was found and I made a double, drop¬ 
ping my two birds within ten feet of each other. 
Prom this lot I got several more, and then in 
looking for singles I got into a fourth covey. 
Jack worked well and I was quite satisfied at 
the end of three hours to stop with twenty-one 
quail in my pocket, a fraction over five to each 
covey. 
Meanwhile I heard my two friends also bang¬ 
ing away, and on reaching the house for din¬ 
ner they presented me with seven more birds, 
so that I had twenty-eight quail to bring home 
the next day. 
They do not claim to be good shots, but they 
are fond of the sport and good fellows, too, 
these friends of mine. At no time were either 
of us over a mile from the farmhouse. I feel 
quite sure that alone I could have bagged forty 
to fifty birds that day, but twenty-one was quite 
enough I thought. 
Several gentlemen were expected and have 
gone to Hayesville since I left, and they went 
because of information given through my letters 
in Forest and Stream. They are from King¬ 
ston, N. Y. I believe they are there now, and 
I feel sure are enjoying to the full some of 
the best partridge (quail) shooting they ever 
had in their lives. My friend, Wm. T. Bum¬ 
garner, with whom I stopped, is their host, and 
he has been appointed county game warden. 
Ernest L. Ewbank. 
Massachusetts Association. 
Boston, Mass., Jan. 23.— Editor Forest and 
Stream: The list of officers elected at the re¬ 
cent annual meeting of the Massachusetts Fish 
and Game Protective Association is as follows: 
President, Salem D. Charles; Vice-Presidents, 
George W. Wiggin, Benjamin C. Clark, James 
R. Reed, Wm. S. Hinman, Gordon Abbott, 
Homer L. Bigelow, Alpheus R. Brown, Francis 
B. Crowninshield, Joseph T. Herrick, B. Varnum 
How, Gardner M. Lane, Nathaniel C. Nash, 
Frank E. Peabody, Dudley L. Pickman, Maurice 
M. Richardson, Adelbert D. Thayer, Stephen M. 
Weld, John S. Ames, Heber Bishop, A. George 
Bullock, Frank Fallon, Plenry Hornblower, A. 
B. F. Kinney, Wm. A. Morse, Charles H. 
Nowell, John C. Phillips, George M. Poland, 
Charles E. Stratton, Arthur L. Walker, W. C. 
Woodward; Librarian, Edward W. Branigan; 
Secretary, Henry Hastings Kimball; Treasurer, 
Rollin Jones. 
Fund Committee—George W. Wiggin, Adel¬ 
bert D. Thayer, Ivers S. Adams. 
Membership Committee—Thomas II. Hall, 
Richard V. Joyce, B. V. How. 
Executive Committee — Salem D. Charles, 
George W. Wiggin, Ivers W. Adams, E. V. 
How, Wm. P. Wharton, Charles M. Bryant, 
Heber Bishop, M. A. Morris, A. R. Brown, 
Rollin Jones, Nathaniel C. Nash, Henry Hast¬ 
ings Kimball, ex-officio. 
Gov. Draper, who was named to head our 
list of vice-presidents, wrote a very admirable 
letter asking to be excused from serving from 
motives of delicacy, but expressing much in¬ 
terest in the association of which he has long 
been a member. Henry H. Kimball. 
New York Legislature. 
Senator Allen has introduced a bill to amend 
sections 104 and 105 of the game laws by strik¬ 
ing out all references to residents of the State, 
with the purpose of making the hunting license 
law apply only to unnaturalized persons, aliens 
and non-residents; the fee to be $20, as at pres¬ 
ent, and the penalties as in the existing law for 
non-residents and aliens. 
Assembly bills have been introduced as fol¬ 
lows : 
By Mr. Francis—Protecting all wild birds ex¬ 
cept the English sparrow, crow, sharp-shinned. 
Cooper hawk, goshawk, great horned owl and 
kingfisher; and prohibiting the sale of protected 
wild birds or parts thereof, whether taken with¬ 
in or without the State. No change is made 
in that part of section 241 which permits dealers 
tinder bond to hold through the closed season 
any game remaining undisposed of at the end 
of the open season. 
By Mr. Merritt—Appropriating $100,000 from 
the State treasury to pay for the work done in 
the forest fires last autumn. 
By Mr. Brady—Relating to tip-ups in the 
waters of Greene county. Also a bill relating 
to hares and rabbits in the same county. 
By Mr. Hawley—Amending the hunting license 
law so that applicants, whether residents, non¬ 
residents or aliens, may take out licenses for one, 
two or three years at their option, the fees to 
remain as at present for each year. 
By Mr. Hawley—Amending the present fire 
patrol section in the game laws so that the en¬ 
tire expense of fighting fires and patrolling shall 
be met by the State. At present the counties 
affected pay one-half, and the State one-half. 
By Mr. Hamm—Relating to hares and rabbits 
in certain counties. 
Excessive Killing. 
Georgetown, Wash., Jan. 20.— Editor Forest 
and Stream: The inclosed clipping from a late 
Seattle paper tells a sad story. Two hundred 
and eighteen ducks and twenty-two brant killed 
by three guns in three days seems a good many 
even if the law' is complied with. It is a mystery 
to one how three families can eat seventy-two 
ducks each before they would spoil in this mild 
climate where there is as yet no freezing weather. 
The families must be large and have good appe¬ 
tites. 
Waterfowl remain here the year through and 
can legally be killed six months in that year. 
They are here in abundance, but how long they 
can stand such slaughter it would not take even 
a fool a great while to figure out. The time 
will soon come when three men cannot kill 218 
waterfowl in three days. Senex. 
Wildfowl in Back Bay. 
The wildfowl shooting in Back Bay, Va., this 
season has been unusually good. The score 
book of the Pocahontas Fowling Club shows 
that up to Dec. 31, 1908, as many ducks had 
been bagged as during the two entire previous 
seasons from Oct. to March 31. On Thursday. 
Nov. 7, two members killed the limit, seventy- 
five ducks each! 
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