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They bite best in June, when they are 
found “snapping” in their spawning 
grounds along the south shore. They 
will then bite at unbaited hooks, and 
sport is turned into arduous labor. They 
are far more ravenous at this time than 
our own harbor blues in September. 
'’"THE first Bermuda fish introduced to 
New York were brought by P. T. 
Barnum. Six hundred fish from Ber¬ 
muda were transported alive in 1862, 
and added to Barnum’s Ann Street 
Museum. These oddly formed and 
brilliantly colored fish from tropical 
waters were a great drawing card for 
the master showman. 
The New York and Detroit Aquariums 
have a number of Bermuda fish and it is 
to be regretted that the supply is no 
longer being replenished. The excellent 
aquarium formerly situated on Agar’s 
Island, Bermuda, has been discontinued, 
but the Government is planning to estab¬ 
lish a new and larger one. From this 
source about six hundred fish were 
formerly sent to New York every year, 
in iron tanks in which the temperature 
of the water was uniformly kept at that 
of Bermuda. 
No chronicle of Bermuda fish and 
fishing should be completed without 
mentioning the fact that many of the 
fish provide exceptionally good eating— 
and the native cooks can make a most 
appetizing dish from almost any kind— 
even from a cub shark, highly spiced. 
THIS MONTH IN THE 
OUTDOORS 
(Continued from page 65) 
low the suggestion of the Biological 
Survey and do this practical thing: build 
low hutches with roofs that will keep 
out snow and make wigwam-like stacks 
of grain sheaves with openings below. 
Keep the entrances free from snow and 
scatter within cracked corn or small 
grains or seeds. Putting out food on a 
bare spot on the ground is an easier 
method, but not so useful, as quail need 
the exercise of scratching for their food. 
Sportsmens’ Dinners 
F EBRUARY is a month for sports¬ 
mens’ dinners. It is a particularly 
good time for dinners because legisla¬ 
tive sessions are usually held or getting 
under way and there is hardly a state 
that does not have its laws on fish and 
game amended, rewritten, wiped off the 
statute books or have bills presented to 
embody new laws. It is always a good 
thing to invite the Governor, a United 
States Senator, a Representative or a 
State Senator or Assemblyman to come 
to a dinner of sportsmen for the truth 
of the matter is that, if they are not 
anglers or gunners, they are in a quan¬ 
dary regarding fish and game legislation. 
Thousands of bills are introduced in 
every legislature and only the most 
efficient legislator can read and com¬ 
prehend their nature. Ask any legis¬ 
lative man or woman if this statement 
is not true, if you question it. 
Dinners of sportsmens’ clubs always 
are pleasant, with their moving pictures 
of the outdoors and the yarns and ex¬ 
periences heard are usually interesting 
and informative. Four years ago this 
month, in New Brunswick, N. J., I at¬ 
tended the annual dinner of the Middle¬ 
sex County Sportsmens’ Association and 
Mr. Thorfin Tait, its President, was dis¬ 
cussing the Edgar Bill, which had the 
support of the Governor, and was in¬ 
tended to take the funds accruing from 
the fish and game licenses and placing 
them in the general funds of the State, 
which would have meant that the money 
so raised could have been used for gen¬ 
eral state purposes, and not, as hereto¬ 
fore had been the practice, using them 
entirely in the interest of fish and game. 
Mr. Tait spoke of the need of a state¬ 
wide organization which could fight 
such measures, having the sportsmen of 
the State behind such public opinion. 
The next speaker, John B. Burnham, 
president of the American Game Pro¬ 
tective Association, told of how New 
York had such an association, coordi¬ 
nating the views of the sportsmen on 
legislation affecting them and how suc¬ 
cessful it was in its undertakings. All 
of which as a good reporter I chronicled 
and the next day Kenneth F. Lockwood, 
who writes the entertaining “Out in the 
Open” of the Newark Evening News, 
pounced upon the idea, agitated it in his 
newspaper and among his angling and 
gunning friends, called a meeting and 
with the cooperation of Mr. Tait, Jack 
Schwinn, Arthur J. Neu and others the 
New Jersey Fish and Game Conserva¬ 
tion League was organized. It is func¬ 
tioning well to-day and last December 
at its annual meeting and dinner in 
Newark, N. J., issued as its mouthpiece 
the initial number of the New 1 Jersey 
Outdoorsman, a readable publication. 
’Possum Time 
S OUTH of the Mason Dixon line, 
now is ’possum time. Of course 
’possum hunting is not one of the top- 
notch sports but there is a bit of fun to 
it, and for midnight fun it is worth 
staying up all night for. It is certainly 
far more exciting than holding four aces 
in a poker game. And when the ’possum 
is dislodged from the tree, and the dogs 
are fighting to get the ’possum and the 
Negroes are fighting to capture the 
’possum from the dogs, the ’possum is 
trying to get away from both, the ex¬ 
citement of four aces fades into insig¬ 
nificance. 
“My Old Kentucky Home,” one of 
one hundred and twenty-five songs that 
fell from the pen of Stephen Collins 
Foster, whose sad fate was to die in a 
public institution, pays a tribute in its 
second stanza to the ’possum. Don’t you 
recall it? 
“They hunt no mo’ for the ’possum and 
the 'coon 
On the meadow, the hill and the shore ! 
They hunt no mo’ by the glimmer of the 
moon 
On the beach by the old cabin door.” 
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