The Press., 1890-11-13
(Hartford Courant.) CONNECTICUT GAME.

Lovers of game find the markets now supplied with nearly all the varieties common at this season. The good effects of the efforts which have been made for year or two past to enforce the game laws, are apparent in the greater of game and lower prices. In the retail market the prices Partridge es, $1. 25 a pair quail, $8 50 g dozen wood cock, $4 dozen 'coons, $2 50 apiece {; squirrels, l5 cents each rabbits, 20 cents each.
 Some of the marketmen say that quail have not been coming in very plentifully, but Game Warden A. 0. Collins says there are plenty of them, and more will be brought to market little later in the sea- son, when the market hunters have the fields more exclusively to themselves. The average hunters do not know where to look for quail, but the regular market hunters find them plenty enough in shel- tered runways and along the hillsides.
 Cartridges and woodcock are very abun- dant. Although it is little early for ducks, the indications are that the season will be the best in 20 years, and already some of our we'll known sportsmen have brought in score or more from one day. shooting along the river. Snipe have also been unusually plenty and many have been secured in the direction of South Wethers6eid by hunters who have "got onto" their corkscrew flight. Owing prob ably to high water, both during the sum- mer and through the fall, the rail shooting has been poor and no rail have been offer ed in market.
 The general excellence of the hunting this season may be attributed in large s}a fC kho oQt1uskx of kho .lo,, and the Connecticut Association of Farm CTS and Sportsmen for the Protection of Game and Fish. Under the old laws there were two or more game wardens appointed in each town in the state, making in all perhaps 335 so appointed. Under that system poachers and violaters of the law fourlshed all over the state. Now, under the new law, there is one game warden in each county besides the wardens' depu. ties, and the work done by these eight men far surpasses that done by the more than 300 previous wardens. MT. A. 0. Collins, who is serving most ably, both as one of the game wardens and as the presi- dent of the Connecticut society with the long name, estimates that since this work began couple of years ago there have been driven from the state at least a thou sand persons who did snaring and syste- matic poaching in violation of the law. Partridges sell for S1 50 a pair in New York and other game at a corresponding figure and the temptation was great to kill birds and animals out of season as we'll as in season and send them to the New York market. It is probable that hundreds of persons made their living in this way. Of course the game grew scarce
 with such continual drain upon it all the year round. Almost every town furnished from two to ten poachers and these have as rule been effectually scared by the numerous convictions of the game law vio tlators.
 The higher price for game in New Yorl
 tended to raise the price in Connection
 just as long as game could be sent iron
 here to New York and the high price there obtained. The price had to be kept sui ficiently high in Connecticut to make i
 worth while for market hunters to sel their game here, for many of them did no
 hesitate to violate the law as long as they did not fear prosecution. They are now as rule, only too glad to sell their game in this state, as detection is almost certain
 if they try to send it away. The effect O
 this is seen in the reduced price of gam,
 in this state and the independence of tn,
 price in Connections from that in New
 York or any other state.
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