The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-11-06
THE WOODS FULL OF EN-.
The HUNTING SEASON FULLY ON
AND GAME PLENTY.

Deer Hunters Bringing in Fine Sad
dies Every Day-rhe Heavy Flight
OF Ducks Not Yet Begun, and the
Choice Varieties of Fowl Scarce and
Hard to Find-The Kinds Of Ducks
Shot Around Savannah-What 1t
Costs to Eat Duck.
The crack Of the gun and the bAying Of
hounds are a familiar sound in the woods
and underground around Savannah now.
and the hunters game is kept scurrying for
safety.
Tne principal hunting near Savannah is
by amateur sportsmen. The deer season is
now fully on, and the woods are full of
crack shots.
The professional hunter, though is the one
who can tell the best story and who ought
to be as well posted on game as it is pcs
sibie to be.
Duck hunting is where the professional
hunter comes in at his best. Ward Allen is
bringing in from three to six score Of ducks
three or four times week now.
DUCKS SCARCE NOW
Ducks are very scarce and hard to find
this early in the season and very few hunters
besides Allen are bringing in any. He came
in yesterday afternoon from the river with
seysnty-six Mallards, wood ducks and broad
bills for the De Soto. He has a contract to
keep the De Soto supplied with ducks during
the season.
A MORNING NEWS reporter had a talk
with Mr.. Allen last night and learned some
thing about the conditions and prospects Of
Savannah's duck supply this season. Allen
says ducks will continue TO be scarce until
cold weather sends them down from
the north in greater numbers. A
or English ducks, summer or wood
ducks, teal widgeon and broad bills
nave arrived and are in hiding on the rice
plantations and in the swamps At night
they fly into the rice fields and feed, and ia
the morning return to the river swamps
They seek the most impenetrable swamps
in lonely and unfrequented spots, where
The ordinary hunter or amateur sportsmen
might spend a whole day on the river with
OUT seeing single duck.
DoN'r LIKE COLD WEATHER.
The first spell of nasty weather at the
north win send the ducks down in uuanti-
ties, and then they will be easier to fiud
and more plentiful on the market. There is
every prospect of fine season, as the iudi-
cations are for cold weather at the north.
and the fields are in the most
inviting condition. The swamps are full of
mast and there is everything TO attract the
ducks appetite.
The cold weather will soon be sending
down the ruddy ducks or the hard heads,
the butter balls and the blus bills The
broad bills, commonly called raft ducks,
from the manner in which they move TO-
Rether on the water in large numbers, come
here in the largest quantities.
1T COSTS TO EAT DUCK.
The Mallard and summer ducks are thu
most preferred. however, and bring from
81 to 81 so pair. The teal is a very DELI
cate duck and Is highly priced by epicures,
but is not suited to hotels on account of its
small size.
Very few canvas-back ducks are killed
here. They come down in December ard
bring high prices $40 pair for instance in
New York and 81 or IS pair here. The
red heads are also very scarce and very high,
and bring S. to So pair in New York aud
baltimore They have been very scarce
here for the last five or six years.
The general run Of ducks Ia now bringing
from IS cents 70 81 so pair, according to
variety. ..
A duck hunter who brings in ducks now
has got to be q hustler aud get up early in
the morning, both literally and fguratively
MIR. Allen stays on the river in bis boat all
night TO watch the flight e the ducks in
the early morning and to locate the swamps
in which they settle.