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THE RUFFED GROUSE SCARCITY. 
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the grouse plentiful. Their bag was seven grouse 
and six rabbits. He said they could have killed 
seventeen as easily as seven, but the shortage of 
grouse stopped them. 
My idea of quail protection is to enact a law 
which shall interest the farmer. Have the far- 
mer who has a bevy of quail on his farm at the 
close of the season furnished with a net to net 
the birds; have net and farmer numbered and 
registered; he to net the quail, keep them through 
the winter, turn them out in the spring. Then 
let him go before a justice, make oath to what 
he has done with witness to verify same, and 
receive one dollar a pair for the birds so pro- 
tected. In one season that would double the 
number of quail in the State and all would be 
native stock. The native birds are much better 
than any imported birds. 
It is a fact well known to most shooters that 
a bevy of quail—say of fifteen birds—left over 
from the end of a shooting season will pan out 
in the spring about seven quail, and do well at 
that, when if the fifteen were sheltered and fed 
through the long cold winter and turned out 
fifteen strong healthy birds in the spring, they 
would increase so as to give good shooting in 
that section the next fall. 
A friend of mine in Wilkesbarre, Pa., told me 
of his club paying seventy dollars one season for 
southern quail which they turned out and the 
birds disappeared. The club shot none. That 
did not pan out very well. E. H. KNIsKERN. 
FARMINGTON, Me., Dec. 1.—Editor Forest and 
Stream: I have been much interested in the 
notes relative to the scarcity of the ruffed grouse 
this fall. I have made many inquiries of sports- 
men along my route of travel and find that all 
report that partridge are scarce. These inquiries 
have been made over a broad range of territory 
in Franklin, Androscoggin. Somerset. Kennebec 
and Penobscot counties. Personally I have had 
better success in shooting than any previous fall. 
My route takes me extensively from town to 
town, with a great deal of driving through the 
country, through many fine covers. Sometimes 
I go by team, at others by auto. My little horse 
is trained to shooting. and I take my gun along 
with the team. As the birds get up beside the 
roads I am on the alert and let fly at them as 
they get up. If others get up I leave my horse 
and take after them. In this way I do not use 
up much time, but soon return to my team to 
find the little horse waiting. She seems to enjoy 
the shooting nearly as much as her master, and 
soon got so she would slow down when we 
came to a good partridge cover. In this way I 
get from six to twelve birds during the trip of 
four and five days on the road. Of course the 
greater part of this time is used up in the stores 
in the towns I visit. The above numbers taken 
were all I cared for and have given me quite 
a lot of excellent Sunday dinners as well as fried 
partridge for supper at the hotel where I stopped 
over night. Of course I had ample opportunity 
to locate several good flocks of birds during my 
trips over the territory earlier in the season be- 
fore the shooting season began. 
J. Merton SWAIN. 
Brooktyn, N. Y., Dec. 2—Editor Forest and 
Stream: So much has been said regarding the 
scarcity of ruffed grouse this year I beg to add 
my experience with this season’s shooting at East 
Haddam, Conn. I have shot over this ground 
for several years and always found all the birds 
necessary to satisfy even a greedy gunner, but 
this year, alas, it was quite the reverse. In woods |! 
where before we could find a bird or two every 
half hour, not more than one or two could be 
found each day. One bird shot by a friend of 
mine had, buried in its skull, a grub-like parasite 
which had bored in close by the eye which on 
touching with a sharp instrument showed that 
it was full of blood. This I supposed was the 
woodtick we have all heard about. There are 
practically no quail except a couple of bevies 
that had been cared for by a friend of mine dur- 
ing the winter. Wie ale: IBY 
JoHNsTowN, Pa., Dec. 6.—Editor Forest and 

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