Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1899-11-04
MAINE FISH AND GAME.

beautiful white doe was killed re-
Gently near Lake Onawa by Mr.. Nc
| Kinney of Willimantic.
| Some of Baths smelt fishermen
have already begun placing theil
| camps in readiness for the coming
| season.
Herring are cheap at Lamoine just
now. Eighty bushels of large ones
were caught in Dyer Young's weir at
Lamoine Point the other night.
Harry NJ. Briggs. Esq. of Houlton.
did a nice little job with his double
| barreled gun recently. when he cap
tured 10 English snipe and took them
all on the wing. Snipe are quite plen-
tiful in Hodgdon and vicinity
Smelt fishing in the coves in and
around East bay and Birch point.
Eastport, is becoming a very prosper
Gus business to several enterprising
young men in that vicinity. The fish
| are shipped to the Western markets.
Amos Hayward. on his way from
Lubec to Edmunds one afternoon, saw
a large buck deer having rifle with
him he determined to try a shot at
him. and he was successful in that his
shot !. brought down the deer, fine.
large fat buck.
One does not have to go far in any
direction in West Pembroke to secure
all the deer the law allows. Within a
week, hardly more than one mile from
the postofiice in the central part of
the village at West Pembroke. four
fine animals have been killed by local
sportsmen.
The open time on deer in Waldo
county ended Oct. 81. and the number
reported killed during the month is
much less than many imagined it
would be. The number probably does
not exceed so. though some may have
been killed and eaten at home which
have not been reported. The last one
was killed Tuesday by Fred Johnson
of Sears WIT.
Amos F. Abbott of Dexter, who
passes much of his time in the fall of
the year hunting woOdcock. says that
the birds this year are very scarce
He has been over the grounds where
he usually finds them most plentiful
each year and has shot but few COM
paratvely thus far. He thinks that
the drouth may have something to do
with it. but is looking for some good
shooting when the birds commence
their flight southwark. This will
commence right away now and the
first cold weather we have will be the
signal for the birds to commence to
leave in large numbers if such num-
bers exist at the north. cartridges,
Mr. Abbott says. are likewise scatter
ing. he having shot but few.
S A. Parsons, the proprietor of the
Mt Bigelow House. Dead River. oper-
ates a large farm in connection with
his hotel business but for several years
past the harvest has been a little dis
Amounting when one considers the Ia
Dor of planting and tending the crops
The farm is q very productive one and
the deer seem to know that they will
be sure of a variety of tender vege-
tables, and every year finds a greater
number of these animals gathered for
the summer crops. This year Mr..
Parsons planted n large piece to beets,
carrots and cabbages, hoping to at
least get enough for winter use, but he
didn't. however The deer grew fat
while the crop lasted. and Mr.. Par
sons got a very few of his vegetables.
Mrs. Chas Peterson of Ashland, wife
of the well-known guide, is the cham
pion lady hunter of that section.
After several Intellectual attempts of
her husband TO secure a deer for home
consumption. Mrs. Peterson walked
out the other afternoon, and shot n
fine doe. and to her husband on his
return from town was assigned the IN
glorious task of bringing home his
! wife's game. This is not by any
means the first deer Mrs. Peterson has
shot. and she expects to get another
! this season. Mrs. Peterson often ac-