The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-18
HUNTING IN MAINE
Deer Shooting Season Begins Oct.
 and Continues to Dec. IS.

Boston, Sept. 18.-Deer and moose are reported to be exceedingly plenti- ful in the Maine woods this year. Maine guides who have been cruising in canoes over the lakes and streams of the wild lands are sending word to city sportsmen that they have seen more deer this season than for some seasons past and advising them to be on hand October l. when the law goes off
 One party which spent 8 month, ca noeing and fishing in Maine this sum ner, reported that they had seen 167 deer in that period. In six day trip down the AI1egash, a party of five canoeists saw 2S deer
 The deer shooting season begins Oc- tober l and will continue to Decem- Der 15. The law on moose goes off October 15.
 Don't bother with the regulation hunting garb-like the pictures you see in magazines. Wear your old clothes. Take plenty of underwooIens for warmth. Provide for keeping dry. Take along a pair of hig rub Der boots-youn need them.
 The same you will find down in Maine includes the white-tailed. deer, black bear and the big hulky moose. Smaller game such as partridge and woodcock are exceedingly plentiful. Later on you will get wild-duck, rab-
 But the sportsman who doesn't want to work too hard for his game needs to get into the woods just as early in L116 SCdSO41 do ne pOSG1OIy Cc11, AO1, oo the season progresses, the deer leave the 1owlands and move up into the hills and ridges where it is harder to get them.
 Grouse are generally found anywhere along the old logging roads and the sportsman rarely fails to bring a brace or two to his game bags gsIn merely as an
 The ruffed grouse is a wise, crafty, inquisftive bird This is the bird of the field or woods that gets up with may seem like exaggeration to say thunder, but to a man in the silences of the field or near the fringe of a stream or woods, on the lookout for game. with ear and eye at tension, the sound of the whirring wings is sure to disconcert the amateur and even the regularly seasoned sports man until he gets into the swing of 1t.
 The ruffed grouse hattens it's body against the side or trunk of tres, and when it takes to flight 1t zig-zags like is the bird that drums and that caus- es so much entertainment for nature writers and sportsmen when winter has put a close time on all game
 It has dfsconcerting fashion of placing an obstacle between itself and the huntsman's gun. It is best always natter how, difficult they may seem. for the ruffed grouse is a shadoWy bird. A sportsman must never relax his vigilance and his gun must always
 
 ment, which always, in this kind or shooting, comes unexpectedly Si- lence, Particularly with the. dog is one of the most valuable assets one can possess in this kind of shooting
 Maine has always been a favorite abiding place for deer and moose ana and east of Bangor has made acces- sible the vast forest which extends to the Canadian frontier It is not so very long ago that a trip to the big T1F1~ h onI1T1 a n considerable hardship, but nowadays you can travel in parlor car from New York or Boston almost II to ,;sit the
 The law of the State Of Maine pro- vides that the nonresident sportsman who fishes, hunts or camps on the wild land of the state shall employ a guide licensed by the state. The In tent of this law is to protect the fish and game from depletion and the for ests from the dangers of fires. Tne wages asked by the guides are mod est indeed when you consider the ex- pert knowledge concerning hunung and woodcraft which he places at the sportsman's disposal
 These men are usually valuable as camp assistants. They know the GUS toms and desires of people of refine ing satisfactory to critical folks and they have knack of supplying com forts and even woods luxuries.
 Generally speaking, the plan and ar rangement Of the outing ought to be left to the superior judgment of the guide. Instances are easy to recall in which sportsmen entirely unaccus- toned to life in the wiTds have essay ed to determine important features of the trip, in opposition to the judgment serious trouble has resulted to the sportsmen If an expert is worth en- pIoying at all, it is wisdom to follow his judgment
 Outdoor experts all agree that the choicest moments in the woods life are those that are spent around the even- ing campfire, and here it is that the guide will be found a charming addi- ton, if not indeed the very center of the circle. His picturesque and in- genuous stories of experiences in the