Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-10-15
FIELD AND KENNEL

of sport uronoses to give field sportSmen
and owners of field dogs their day in
court. Items of local interest are solicit
ed and questions rela ting to pointers and
settlers VIII ice cheerfully answered. Ad-
dress Communications to Field and Ken
mel. care Evening Star Washington, ID
! t.
Local field trial men have received
| notices from G7-ason II Gent. president
| OF the Maryland and District Of Column
bia Field and Trial Association, that an
| important ihcetin. viii be held at the
| Hotel Jc@ker. Ea!ti-lore. at pm. octo-
| Der IT, When Judges Will be c.,osen ana
! plans completed for the trials. Wash
| ington sportsmen aill have several rep
rescH;a;iVas ct the meeting All who are
interested ii t.eid trials vii! pe welcomed
| AS many Neutrality-suspicious. do their
| shooting IN Virginia. the following table
| of open seasons" Will Re Of interest:
! Rabbit, quail partridge. pheasant grouse.
woodcoak and wild TURKEY. November /
| February Cyust OF Blue Ridge season
closes January y. Deer. September !
December I. Duck. goose. hrant and
other winter water fowl. October lJ-May
l. flove~. Snipe ANA various surf and
marsh Birds Except Sorai. July @f-Ian-
uary !. Opossum in Halifax county.
| October 15-February l.
! In Brunswick and GreeneSVille counties
there are specia! laws which hunters
| would do well to consult.
| Residents may shoot ia b5its and squir
! rels OF their own land at any time, ard
may send out of the state as gift
deer. eighteen quail, six pheasants. three
Wild turkeys and thirty wafer fowl in
packages plainly marked and subject TO
| inspection.
No state in the Union has more liberal
game laws than Virginia. For non-res.-
/ dents the license Is Sio. and is state wide.
! Bona tide guests of land owners when
I hunting with their hosts are not required
| to have license. There is no bag limit
| except the conscience of the sportsman
| On his license 4 nonresident can bring
out of the state fifty quail three wild
turkeys. ten pfea SAINTS, thirty water fowl,
| one deer and a total o. 100 of plover
snipe. sandnioerS, willets. curlcw and
| 'tattlers," but not to exceed twenty-five
| of each.
| 1t will be seen Tat the law is extremely
| liberal, but dom try to fudge on the
wardens. The writer knows OF an in
| stanc" whore two local sportsmen had
| 1u1 quail a I the end of their hunt, ard
| attempted 10 bring them all home. The
result was s." in fines and short, but
| forced, detention.
In Halifax county. down by the Moth
Ca 'liny line. they have a closed season
| on possums. Well well. ole Brer
Postum A game bird. Years ago-per-
| haps now-down in Fluvanna county
| every farmer who owned a persimmon
orchard used to chain his dogs to the
| trees, and if he hadn't dogs enough to
go around he incased each tree in tin 10
keep the coons and possu.ns away from
their the iarnersD favorite fruit. And
now the possJm is game bird, o
Temporal, Q mcres,
Persimmons are all right though Few
hunters pass them by without testing
the vintage. Down in the Winder build
ing there is a popular chief OF section
who halls from Kentucky, and is said to
be a fine judge of simmons, pennyriie
and couple of other products for which
the state is famed. Last fall he crossed
| a quail hunt All went well until he
espied a simmon tree loaded with ripe
| fruit. His eyes fairly bulged and in an
| instant quail. settlers and all else was
| in old Kentuck.' One of the hunters
| shouted TO him that the dogs We're point
| Ing, but the only answer he heard was
| a far-off strain of My Old Kentucky
Home" He Rugged that tree all even
ing, although the others were shooting
all around him. When they returned he
hadn't killed bird, but nad far eX-
ceeded the limit" on persimmons.
r. V. Oil. the we'll known Philadelphia
sportsman and field shot, who is the
travelling secretary of the worlds cha M
pion Athletics. found time to take look
at Washington bird dogs and purcha sed
| a fine setter puppy that he says is sure to
be a winner. He viii be if Connie Mack
| works him.
Few sportsmen consider tie great WORT,
being done for the cause of game preser-
| walton by the biological survey of the
| Department OF Agriculture, and yet none
of them can afford to do without Bull
etin 40" Not only does it contain a
| complete digest Of all American and
| Canadian game laws, but it points ou'
all sins of omission and commission in
game legislation for the year previous
AS Field and Kennel does not know
personally a soul connected with the sur
vey, lie MAJ be pardoned for commencing
its Willingness to comply with all re-
quests for documents and information
y few days since he called at the division
OF game preservation for some docu-
ments. y full assortment was given him
accompanied with smile that added tc
their value. And unless they read The
Stars pink sheet down there she will
never know there was "a chiel amane
them taking notes.
Last weeks American Field records a
good score made on the Eastern branch
BIZ "l-ncie' Billy Wagner. the veteran
sportsman Of Capitol Hill. Using a 80
gauge gun. he killed g. reedoirds and II
ortoan out of 50 shots. In the same
| issue IS the OF the -AilaloStan Gun
Club shoot. in which he broke 81 out of
loo targets And Uncle Billy has been
| making just such scores for about half q
century.
| 4 party OF Spor:snen were recently re-
lating experiences when the writer told
of ailln.E a Whole coveE of quail they
rose. There was general lifting of
eyebrows, hut il is literal fac; Ills
| brother and he were hunting in the west
and their dogs pointed. Seven quail got
up and each hunter fred twice. Every
bird fell and was retrieved. Can any
one beat this record:
Slerlocko the Monk should visit Ar
| lin2ton aud investigate Visitors TO the
| national cemetery frequently remark OH
the great number of squirrels seen there.
! \ prominent official of the cemetery re
| Gently related to Field and Kennel two
| stories illustrating their cainiVerous ten
| denotes. It is generally believed that old
| squirrels destroy many of the young
! males OF their species. The official said
| that during the summer they looked into
| a squirrel nest and found -four young ones
| alive and well. They looked al them
| again the next day and every one had
been murdered by being bitten just back
of each ear. The othe. story shows
them in Ugh: new to Field ard Kennel
Many of the outbui1ines are covered with
ivy. in which vast numbers of sparrows
| make their nests. a number of people
nave seen squirrels crawl through the ivy
, reach into the nests. pull out the Young
It'll Hi Il