The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1921-01-07


smaller record can be made on this
side of the river.
Among the hunters will be an in
creased number Of women. During
the past two weeks sporting goods
houses have reported the largest sale
ever made by them to women. They
will come prepared to go into the tim
Der and take their places on the sands
with the men. What kind of a record
they will make no one seems to doubt.
1t is to be conceded, of course, that
most of the women shooters who will
hit the deer trails have had experience
in killing smaller game and are there
fore familiar with shot guns. Among
the fugitive facts connected with their
appearance in the ranks of the deer
slayers is the preference they show for
the pump gun.
Taht steps will be taken by the farm
ers to secure closed season of sew
eral years during which the quail will
be protected against hunters is as
sured. At the recent meeting of the
State Grange resolution was unani-
mously adopted calling for such action
on the part of the Legislature. The
theory is that the birds are needed on
the farms in protecting them against
insect pests more than on the broil-
ers of clubs and city home kitchens.
The quail kill this season is said to
have little less than exterminated the
birds. This happened despite the post
ing of thousands of acres of land by
farmers who undertook to prevent the
slaughter by excluding hunters from
their fields. 1t is understood that
should there develop a successful OPP
position to the closed season for quail
when the project comes up at Trenton
that he county oranges acting in CO.
operation will secure the closing of
practically every farm in South Jersey
to bird hunters. This would leave only
those tracts controlled by hunting
clubs open and as the latttr are really
limited in area as compared with the
the deer hunters as of those who do
up-country shooting. In addition many
licenses have been issued to non
resident hunters. There will large
NV York contingnt down while Penn
sylvania hunters will swell tn eranks.
It is impossible to estimate the num-
Der of men who will be on the deer
trails with the opening of the season,
but from what those interested in max
ing arrangements for the hunters are
giving out, it seems fair to suppose
that not less than 500 shooters will be
on hand when the season opens. Of
course, they will be scattered all over
South Jersey. This will reduce the
danger of accidents. 1t is not expected
however, that the season will close
without the usual number of hunters
being the victims of accidental shots
fired either by themselves or their
companions.
In this connection arrangements
have been made for quick service to
hospitals from all of the larger centers.
In addition the majority of the physi-
clans and surgeons will remain at
home or take turns in joining the hunt.
Many of the clubs include among their
members medical men who come to
camp prepared to render any surgical
services required.
One thing noted in South Jersey this
season is that, while in Pennsylvania
the number of hunters afoot since the
deer shooting season opened has been
greater than ever before, yet in COM
parison with this the number of acct
dent and especially those of fatal
character is seeminly below the aver
age This is due, it is understood to
the better management of the hunts
territory which has been open to hunt
ers in the past such action, it is said,
would result quite as satisfactorily as
would the enforcement of protective
game law.
What the small game kill this year
has been is uncertain. Little hunting
for rabbits, birds and squirrels is going
on now as the season ends the coming
week. One reason is that there is
very little game left. Hunters say 1t
has been shot out worse this season
than in years.
The duck kill has been satisfactory.
This has been true Of the small badies
of water as we'll as of the bays along
the coast Shooters from this section
who put in several days on Barnegat
Bay came back pretty we'll loaded with
ducks. They reported that the held
good all round and that there had betn