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Up-to-date game laws for the United 
States and Canada appear on pages 536 
and 537 of this issue. Save your Sep- 
tember copy as a ready reference. 
554 
In writing to Advertisers mention Forest and Stream, 
Dog, Gun and Raccoon 
Notes on the Habits of the ’Coon 
By JAMES MILTON BENNET 
ESS than forty miles 
IL from a great city of 
a half million peo- 
ple lies a hunting ground 
which is probably unex- 
celled by any other in the 
United States. The va- 
riety of small, fur-bear- 
ing animals is quite ex- 
tensive and the fur they 
yield is of superior qual- 
ity. The geography of 
the place is very enticing, 
first because of the beau- 
ty of winding streams 
and heavily wooded hills, 
and secondly because it 
affords a splendid oppor- 
tunity for the shy little 
animals to live and move 
in their native fashion. 
The most interesting spe- 
cies of this wild life is 
perhaps the raccoon. 
Evidently this territory 
is quite undiscovered by 
many hunters, otherwise 
these little animals would 
ere long become extinct. 
The habitation of the 
raccoon is known only to 
those who have had some 
experience in the search for them. In 
many instances they live in burrows 
bored by the ground hog and other ani- 
mals. Rocky caverns caused by water 
flow and subsequently covered by fall- 
ing earth form a convenient haunt for 
them. They often live under the rocks 
promiscuously thrown about the abut- 
ments of railway bridges. 
HEIR peculiar instinct seems to 
inform them that passing freight 
and express trains will do them no 
harm, so they live beneath this rum- 
ble and sleep away the days in perfect 
comfort. In summer they live largely 
out of doors spending their time lying 
snugly upon the limbs of large trees 
or cozily coiled in leafy nests usually 
constructed by squirrels. However, it 
should be stated that it is poor econ- 
omy and almost cruelty to hunt such 
game in summer as the fur is then 
practically worthless. The hollow 
limbs and trunks of big trees are the 
favorite homes of the raccoon. They 
often ascend to the top of a large tree 
and then descend on the inside to the 
very roots of the tree where they 
sometimes hibernate for many weeks 
with apparently no need of fresh 

Billy Coon, a study in expression. 
air and subsist upon the fat which 
they have accumulated during the 
warmer weather. Creek banks are a 
great attraction to them. They usu- 
ally occupy a tree near a stream in 
preference to one on the hill top. 
EECH, 
of other varieties. However, this may 
be merely incidental since these trees 
are so numerous, and so many of them, 
being hollow, provide convenient dens, 
No animals have more interesting 
They are almost entirely noc-— 
habits. 
turnal, some exception being made 
during dark, rainy days in summer. 
Warm, foggy nights seem to be their 
choice time for long journeys in search 
of food and pleasure. Cornfields are 
attractive f eding grounds, green or 
mature grain being eaten with gay 
relish. 
pe times they make themselves de- 
structive to the farmer’s crop. 
Furthermore, if hard pressed for food, 
they do not hesitate to visit a chicken 
roost and feed upon a large fowl even 
seemingly are 
j 
though the chickens 
safely housed. 
It will identify you. 
SP sd i ae ee” “Gas 
i me a 
elm and sycamore are fre-— 
quented by them more than trees 
