The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-09-21

| fetch the dead birds, at the same time
| throwing couple of small stones into the
| CANYON near where the grouse fell. The
| dogs. true to their teaching, dashed into
| the covert and were out again In rev
seconds, each dog carrying rock IN It's
| mouth.
| sCumming was angry and talked strong
| Gaelic to his pets, but they were true to
| their teaching, as previously stated, ana
refused to retrieve anything less soId
| than a rock. They may be good duck
retrievers but grouse is evidently beneath
their notice. Friend Al will give you
fuller particulars on his return to the
City,"
Judge Hale Rix, F. Joost, Fred Felsel,
George Muller and Pete Walsh had q
most successful rabbit shoot few days
ago near Half Moon Bay. Walsh relates
the following story of a new style of rabbit
hunting: ssThe game were under cover
and we did not know how to get them out
of their holes. The Judge proposed to
smoke them out. Feisel suggested shoot
ing guns in the hope that the noise would
startle them, but when it came to George
Mriler's turn to speak expected to hear
something good and was not mistaken:
Muller moved that the company must
tramp to the beach, capture NUMBER OF
small crabs and then return to the rabbit
grounds.
''This was done, and Muller quickly took
from an old box half dozen candles.
These were cut into small pieces, and every
crab packed on his back an inch OF Hgnteo
candle.
.sWell, when the crabs crawled to the hid
ing places of the game with the naming
candles on their shells there was rumble
underneath our feet, and presently RADIUS
were seen running in all directions. Shoot
ing was lively that afternoon, and the total
bag amounted to 125 cotton-talls, with MI.
Joost as the leader of the string. Judge
Rix saws that Muller's scheme of unearth-
ing rabbits beats ferrets all to pieces. Try
it some time. You will find it great sport
The Game Warden OF Alameda County
has evidently an eye to business. Last
Saturday The CALL stated that poachers
were killing rail and duck on the Alviso
and Alvarado marshes, and on the follow
ing day the Warden captured one OF the
breakers who had rail in his possess
sion. There were as many as thirty men
shooting rail last Sunday on the San Ma
teo marshes.
The following letter from Game Warden
Donovan of Alameda County speaks for
itself:
Lastweek l succeeded in making two arrests.
One party had $50 pounds of salmon in his
possession out of season. He claimed that the
salmon was caught in Santa Cruz and shipped
to the American Union Fish Company, San
Francisco, then to him. The other party / ar
rested near the bridges at Alviso for illegal rail-
shooting. Both parties pleaded guilty and paid
'''''- ''-,'-' ]. L. DONOVAN.
Frank Angonnet is target for his
friends, who have been teasing him ever
since his return from the mountains east
of Cioverdale. Angonnet purchased the
half Of goat from professional hunter,
eral steaks to his friends and then had his
hunting experiences written up in Clover
dale paper. The best part of the joke is
that those who ate the goat meat pro-
nouneed it the sweetest venison they
had ever tasted. Angonnet contends,
however, that it was the meat of the black
tail deer, but the professional hunter says
different.
The yacht Rover will cast anchor on the
18th of October in Midshipmans Slough,
Suisun marsh. The craft has been en-
gagged for the duck-shooting season by a
club of duck-shooters, and Billy Rice,
alias Friar Tuck, is authority for the state
ment that next year the Rover will be
drydocked, trimmed up in good shape and
sent to England in charge of Commodore
Bruce. who will sail her against many of
the leading yachts of Old England in the
race for the Prince of Wales cup. Rice says
that the Rover can't be beaten, and Jack
Sammi, another great yachtsman, is of the
same opinion.
small birds are not useful as destroyers Of
insects. an extended plea for their preser-
walton has been published by Jonathan
Perlam in recent issue of the Chicago
Inter Ocean. The writer asserts that the
robin, the crow, the much-berated English |
sparrow, in fact, many of the birds that
farmers decry and destroy as enemies OF
their crops of fruit and grain, are really |
vast consumers of insects that would |
nearly exterminate the crops were not |
their numbers decimated by those very
birds. The article is illustrated by cuts |
of the weevil, Hessian fly wheat nudge, !
jointworm and other insects destructive to |
grain, and of the curcnlio, codling moth |
and peach-tree borer. The writer makes |
good his plea for the birds, and his indiet- |
ment of all persons DESTROYS of destroying |
the birds is based upon facts regarding the |
usefulness of the winged workers which |
have been demonstrated by investigation. |
1t is shown that the agriculturist or fruit |
grower is greatly indebted to birds and |
should be their protector.