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party after another drove, to repeat the per- 
formance. The result is to make ten or a 
dozen coveys wild in place of getting all the 
shooting out of one. From a future supply 
standpoint, it is a very good thing, but it dis- 
rupts the habits of the quail, and has resulted 
in such discrepancies between the birds seen 
and those bagged that many hunters are ready 
to give up in disgust. The motor car makes 
every place within a hundred miles accessible, 
too. The result is that naturally to be ex- 
pected—there is not a spot left where the 
birds are too remote for some adventurous 
chap to ferret them out. Given the combina- 
tion of automobile parties first, and then foot 
soldiery to tramp out the birds scattered and 
left behind, aided perhaps with good dogs, and 
it will be seen that the quail situation is not 
encouraging.  Plentiful propagation, setting 
loose many birds in the spring, is suggested as 
the best remedy. Epwin L. HEDDERLY. 

Southern New Jersey Game. 
Aspury Park, N. J., Nov. 17.—Editor Forest 
and Stream: The three first days of the hunt- 
ing season I spent in tramping through covers 
and over fields of this Monmouth county in 
quest of game and recreation. 
Che foliage is still heavily on bush and tree, 
still that need be taken but little into considera- 
tion as regards quail shooting, as Bob White is 
practically extinct in the vicinity of Freehold and 
Millhurst, where I stopped, as with two good 
setters we were able to find but one small covey 
of eight birds and secured but two of them as 
the birds flushed wild and were not again located. 
This scarcity is greatly to be regretted and 
most unusual, as in former years the same covers 
nave always held many coveys of good strong 
pirds. The majority of hunters I met and talked 
with did not even tally this poor showing, as 
nearly everyone had not even seen a quail. Rab- 
its we found in fairly good numbers. They 
are well grown and in prime fettle. I have 
never seen them in better condition. Unless too 
ersistently hunted the sport should be better 

in about two weeks, as the foliage should by 
that time be nearly all down. 
Although I found no woodcock still I am con- 
vinced that they are more plentiful than usual, 
as nearly all I have talked with who hunted the 
lower parts of the county found from two to 
five birds each per day. This is better than ordi- 
nary and it is greatly to be hoped they will favor 
us with their former abundance. We did not 
visit the grounds where grouse are to be ex- 
pected, as the conditions are not yet the best 
for these birds. They are now fully grown and 
strong of wing, and the frosty nights appear to 
put fresh vigor in their muscles. It becomes 
essential to successful pursuit that tree and bush 
be as open as possible. 
Gray squirrels are quite plentiful in all quarters, 
but do not seem well grown; at least those we 
met with were not. There is a great lack of 
mast of all kinds, nuts being an almost un- 
known quantity, and acorns not at all abundant. 
Just what the little gray fellows will have for 
Christmas dinner I cannot guess, but squirrel 
folk are wise in their own way and will make 
a shift sufficient unto the evil. 
My old friend A. L. L. wrote to you some 
weeks since of game prospects in the very re- 
gion of which I am now writing, and I wish 
to compliment him on his accuracy. A prophet 
without honor, save in his own country, does not 
always hold good. I intended calling on him 
while in his bailiwick, but tired legs and the 
contentment of the after supper corncob, a glow- 
ing fire, and the presence of the brown and white 
setters curled up at my feet, not to mention 
other cheerful fellowship in the persons of re- 
latives whom I was visiting, completed a circle 
hard to break away from. 

LEonARD Hutrtr. 
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[Nov. 30, 1907. 


The Sportsmen’s Show. 
A SPORTSMEN’S exhibition is now being pre- 
pared for New York city by the Forest, Fish 
and Game Society of America, recently in- 
corporated under the laws of the State of New 
York. The exhibition is to take place in the 
Grand Central Palace from Dec. 21, 1907, to 
Jan. 4, 1908. 
Valuable exhibits are now being secured 
from all over the country, and are being as- 
sembled at nearby points, so that when posses- 
sion is taken of the building exhibits may be 
instalied without any delay. 
It is expected that different varieties of the 
deer family of the United States, including 
the western varieties, will be on exhibition. 
There will be a large variety of live game 
birds, both native and foreign, including live 
ruffed grouse raised in captivity. Fishes are 
being collected irom the Great Lakes, from 
the different parts of Maine and New Hamp- 
shore, and from the rivers of the South and 
West. Several carloads of live fishes will ar- 
rive in the city during the month of December. 
Much interest is being taken in this exhibi- 
tion by many well-known sportsmen and nat- 
uralists, as is shown by the list of committees. 
The societies that will be represented at the 
show are the United States Bureau of For- 
estry, the United States Fish Commission, the 
Maine Fish and Game Commission, Massa- 
chusetts Fish and Game Commission, Massa- 
chusetts Forestry Association, Society for the 
Protection of New Hampshire Forests, Asso- 
ciation for the Protection of Adirondack For- 
ests, National Audubon Society, Appalachian 
Mountain Club, Appilachian Mountain Re- 
serve. An entire floo1 will be devoted to the 
school boys’ rifle shooting tournament. 
This exhibition will be free from all com- 
mercial exhibits which are not strictly in ac- 
cord with the aims and objects of the society, 
and only a very limited number of trade ex- 
hibits will be permitted. 
The creatures of forest, field, lake and stream 
will be exhibited under the most natural and 
favorable conditions possible, and it is hoped 
that a new impetus will be given to a general 
and real public interest in the protection, cul- 
tivation and preservation of our forests, fish, 
birds and animals, which can be saved from 
destruction an: extinction only through public 
sentiment. 
Illustrated lectures will be given each day 
m forestry, fishes, birds, animals and out-of- 
door photography. Biograph pictures will be 
shown—actual reproductions of hunting big 
game in Newfoundland and New Brunswick, 
salmon fishing in New Brunswick, wild ani- 
male and birds in their native environment, 
and Jumbering. One of the scenes will show. 
the sluicing of one million feet of logs an 
hour on the western branch of the Penobscot 
River in Maine. 
The following is a list of the committees and 
advisory board: 
Forestry.—Arthur F. Rice, chairman; Allen 
Chamberlain, Boston, Mass.; Dr. Thomas C. 
Will, Washington, D. C.; Henry E. Howland, 
John C. Agar; Philip W. Ayres, Concord, 
Ne Es 
FrisH.—T. Charles Farrelly, chairman; Chas. 
H. Townsend; Dr. George W. Field, Boston; 
Herbert L. Pratt, Henry L. Batterman, Dr. 
Frank M. Johnson, Boston, Mass.; James W. 
Brackett, Phillips, Me. 
ANIMALS.—George D. Pratt, chairman; Dr. 
Hamilton Vreeland, Howard F. Whitney, Dr. 
Robert T. Morris, Leroy T. Carleton, Augusta, 
Maine. 
Birps.—T. Ferdinand Wilcox, chairman; C. 
William Beebe; Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore, 
New Jersey; Frank M. Chapman, William 
Dutcher, John E. Thayer, Bostav, Mass.: Prof. 
C. F. Hodge, Worcest Mass. 
INDIAN Exuipits.—George Bird Grinnell, 
chairman; George D. Pratt, Louis M. Gibb, 
William S. Champ, Robert A. Franks. 
ALLIED CLusgs anp CAmps.—Dan Beard, chair- 
man; Ernest Thompson Seton, Cos Cob, 
Conn.; Stuyvesant Fish, Jr. 
Art.—A. A. Anderson, 
Chairman; Sidney 

Webster Fish, Dr. William T. Hornaday, J. Q. 
A. Ward. 
Press, PRoGRAMME, AND ADVERTISING. 
neth Fowler, Chairman; T. James 
Homer Davenport, Frederick M. Spiegle. 
Loan anp TropHy.—Arthur Robinson, chair- 
man; Madison Grant, George D. Pratt, George 
Bird Grinnell. 
Apvisory_ ComMMiTTEE.—Howard F. Whitney, 
Kenneth Fowler, Homer Davenport, William 
S. Champ, T. Ferdinand Wilcox, Dr. William 
T. Hornaday, Briton N. Busch, Herbert L. 
Pratt, Madison Grant, Dr. Robert T. Morris, 
Stuyvesant Fish, Jr., George Bird Grinnell, 
Louis M. Gibb, Henry L. Batterman, T. James 
Reilly, Sidney Webster Fish, L. Ashley Grace, 
Robert A. Franks, Dan Beard, Gen. James A. 
Drain, Irving Bacheller. 

Ken- 
Reilly, 
Quail Abundant in Florida. 
Monawk, Fla., Nov. 20—Editor Forest and 
Stream: It may be of interest to your many 
readers who have hunted in Florida to know 
that quail are unusually plentiful this year. This 
for two reasons. We have had an exception- 
ally good breeding season for feathered game. 
Our rainy season was comparatively light this 
summer and many ground-nesting birds like 
quail, snipe and turkey were not drowned out 
as is often the case when heavy rains prevail. 
In this county, especially, the game laws are 
closely observed, not because sportsmen are any 
better here than elsewhere, but because we have 
a very efficient game warden in C. G. Megargie, 
who is a terror to law breakers. We only hope 
that the next Legislature will create the office 
of State game warden and appoint this efficient 
officer to the place. 
If I can give any information to brother sports- 
men on this particular section I shall be glad to 
do so. C. H. Stokes, 
October. 
October is the one month golden, 
Haze about the hilltops olden, 
And the air is full of brown leaves falling round; 
Droning bees fly homeward slowly, 
With their honeyed wings hung lowly, 
Laden down with sweets from late flowers they have found, 
Red blossoms of the sumach nodding, 
To the stranger woodward plodding, 
Glow and glisten as the sun comes o’er the lea; 
Sprightly squirrels in treetops swinging 
Naught but shucks are ever flinging, 
While their eyes are closely watching you and me. 
The ruffed grouse struts with mien so stately 
Through the crisp leaves fallen lately, 
As they lie where autumn sunshine warms the hill; 
All the time he is a-listening 
For his mate to keep a trysting, 
Or the hunter who creeps up so very still. 
The jay his constant call emitting, 
While from tree to tree is flitting, 
Always seems as if he were in sore distress; 
Dodging loudly chatters 
As his winter store he gathers, 
chipmunk 
Slicking up his striped, furry, winter dress. 
October is the month for dreaming, 
Month of blended colors gleaming, 
When errant leaves in great disorder fill the air; 
When the hills are decorated, 
And the land is all elated 
With its robe of gorgeous colors everywhere. 
J. S. WHrIpprLe. 
Thanksgiving in Dixie. 
turn de punkins yeller, 
as sweet as sugar cane, 
er gittin’ ripe an’ meller, 
youse put by all yer ’taters an’ yer grain, 
de pa’tridges am whistling in de evenin’ 
de turkeys starts ter gobble an’ ter strut, 
de robins fer de south a-starts ter leavin’ 
de fireplace am roarin’ in de hut— 
Dat’s de time a nigger feels like he’s a-livin’, 
An’ he’s got de white folks skint er city block, 
Kaze he’s ready den ter celerbrate ‘Thanksgivin’ 
W’en he’s outer debt, wid money in de sock. 
Oxp River. 
W’en 
An’ 
W’en 
An’ 
W’en 
An’ 
W’en 
An’ 
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