Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1890-11-26
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Season
The quail crop on Long Island Is
not likely to be an abundant one
a correspondent at Stony Creek,
Connecticut, writes that quail and rab-
bits were never SO abundant in the
vicinity of that place as during this
autumn.
Now is the day of the gunner. For
the angler the season is about over,
and as the leaves begin to fall the de-
yotee of powder and shot turns to his
fayorite sport
A great many prairie chickens are
being killed in Montgomery
County, Ill. Quail are also very
abundant. The chickens are now
mostly in the corn, and are difficult to
catch.
On Sunday morning-Miss Travis
All, Johnny, I've caught you with a
fish pole over your shoulder. l shall
60 and tell your father. Where is he?
Johnny-Down at the foot of the
garden diggin' the bait.
a fine four-year-old buck was
brought into Bangor, Me, from Auro-
ra, where George Butler shot it in his
dooryard the dav before. The deer
was exploring Mr.. Buffers property,
and fell a prey to his rifle. He weigh
ed two hundred and four pounds.
Mr.. Newell Moreland, who was
camping out on the York (Pa.) hills
saw (as he supposedly wild beast
moving about in the bushes, and fired
at it. The moving object was Oscar
Schmeidel, aged twelve years, and he
was fatally injured.
Lest the young gunner may be too
elated by success, ii is not out of place
TO state that spOrtsmen are coming TO
realize that moderation is helping game
to increase, and it Is bad form now for
a sportsman 10 boast of the great
slaughter he has accomplished.
Besides birds and squirrel, the legal
period for deer hunting is now pro-
gressing in Maine and New Hamp-
shire In Vermont the antlered quarry
is protected by law until 1890, and in
Massachusetts he Is protected indefi-
nitely. Bears and wolves may be shot
ar any time in any place, thanks to
their savage propensities.
An association with a membership
of five hundred has been formed in
California for the purpose of infiuenc-
ing legislation to restrain the acquire
ment by individuals and clubs Of vast
tracts of land for shooting and fishing
purposes. 1t maintains that this is d
curtailment of the privileges of citizens
which all should share alike.
A word about caribou, the Ameri-
can representative of the reindeer
family. They are so migratory, not
SO say restless, in their habits, as to be
located only with extreme difficulty,
but wherever moose are found caribou
may be looked for, and high-class
sportsmen 90 not shrink from travels
ing all the way to Newfoundland.
where the worst steamboats, in the
world are found, in search of this
elusive animal.
The moose is the beau ideal of game,
and he has been the subject of much
discussion of late lie was protected
in the Province of Quebec, as most
sportsmen believed, until 1890, but it
has just been learned that the law was
amended last month on the suggestion
of the Canadian Minister of Agricul-
ture, and it is now lawful to shoot
moose in Quebec. In Maine, where
the season for moose Is from October
l to January /, they are believed to be
more plentiful than in the Provinces.
1t is generally supposed that the moose
is SO rare IL is hardly worth while for
sportsmen to hunt for them
As an illustration of the abundance
of deer, an instance is cited of a farm
er in New Hampshire, who during last
summer WAS anuOyed bv doe and
fawn coming regularly 10 his field Of
oats. At first they were shy and van
ished st the farmers approach, but
after time they became SO bold he
was forced to drive them away by hurl-
ing sticks and stones at them. Finally,
in despair, he wrote to Commissioner
Hodge, in charge of the deer of the
State, that if he didn't come and take
care of his deer they would be shot in
spite of the law Similar cases have
been reported to Commissioner Still
well, of Maine