Daily Kennebec journal., 1896-11-16

killed six bears this fall and has hi
traps set FOR more.
J. B. Barrett Of Albany, recent,
! captured hawk that measured feet
inches from tip to tip.
The care taker of the Meganti
Club at Big Island Pond has 1000
trout eggs in the hatchery in frs
class condition.
The crane that has been catehins
the trout in the Winthrop brook ha,
, not been seen since Game Wardel
Berry offered reward of S. for hi.
head.
| Joseph Dignard of Sabattus, i.
known as the champion skunk hunter
One night recently he captured ir
| eight Of the varmints. He uses q clui
while his dog holds them at bay.
| Rockland bemoans the fact that i,
seldom gets supply of Deer Isle
scallops. unless the catch is an un.
| usually large one. They are shipped
| to the big cities where they sell fol
| high prices.
Gunners report birds very scarce
Woodcock have taken their departure
and only semi-occasionally is one of
these popular game birds seen. The
season has been an unsatisfactory one
for the gunners.
Trap shooting has become all the
rage up in Franklin and western Som
erset counties. The shooters are com
petng for badges and championships
and the air is thick with chollepges
between individuals. Next summer
viii see the liveliest interes. ever
shown in trap shooting in Maine.
a Nobleboro woman wants the far
niers' wives Of the State To petition
the legislature for n law Offering a
bounty on hawks. She thinks that af-
ter such Il Law had been in operation
a few years there would be a better
chance for hor to raise poultry without
having the hens ana chickens killed
of by the winged marauders.
II has been found that the Lake Au-
burn Fish Protective Association has
jurisdiction over Taylor Pond in Au-
burn aud SO the matter of stocking the
pond has been turned over To that or
ganization. This will save the trouble
scf organizing i new association. Fish
Commissioner Stanley has turn"d T.
900 salmon ana brook trout into the
pond.
Fish have been scarce in these vat
RS says the Rockland Courier Ca
2ette. the last month owing 10 the bad
weather. excepting haddock which are
found in good Quantities to the west
ward So small have been the catches
that the fish have gone to the markets
iii the larger cities, the fisherman
claiming that they obtain better prices
than here.
Rockland Courier Gazette: Mack
eiel are scarce and the catch in this
vicinity is practically nothing. Even
the fishermen who use the mackerel in
large quantities for food have to buy
them or go without. The indications
ore that there Will he quite a fleet
from here just as soon as the fish APP
pear. The bait traps in this vicinity
are fun which fact will have a ten
denoy to bring vessels to this port.
Some of the ladies OF the Sprague
family of Greene saw what they took
to be Jersey heifers in the pasture last
Friday. After admiring them for
awhile they called some of the men.
who told them at once that they We're
deer. and the guns We're taken down
at once. when some one remembered
Mr. n. b. Tracey's protective law and
the lives of the deer We're spared. 1t
was a very tempting sight. indeed TO
the young men.
The best story of the woods that has
been told this fall. comes from Nor
cross. The other night a man was
leading pair of horses through a
woods road and under his arm he
carried box of oats. while he held q
lantern in the other hand. Suddenly
something struck him in the face and
he was badly frightened. He made
an investigation and found that he
had come upon the deer lying down
and the animal jumped over the
horses. In doing SO the animal struck
the man in the face with its knee.