The Penn's Grove record., 1923-10-26
Conference For Game
Law Harmony
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was an amendment. The old law rails
ed a storm Of protest from The hunt
ers and anglers.
State Museum at High Point
The commissioners of High Poin
Park, with aid and suggestions of
Colonel and Mrs. Anthony R. Kuser
Of Bernardsville, who donated the park
to the state, are arranging for a state
museum on the main floor OF the man
or house. Colonel Kuser has furnish
ed set Of rare books on pheasants.
prepared by Professor William Bee
be. curator of birds of the New York
Geological Park and an international
authority on bird life The books are
dedicated to Colonel and Mrs. Kuser.
and, according to John ]. Stanton,
member of the commission. there are
only three sets in New Jersey.
The commission will secure a large
collection of minerals from the New
Jersey Zinc Company mines, state
curios, mounted birds, native animals,
pictures, a collection of ancient and
modern firearms and deer and moose
heads
Plans are being made by the com
missioners for improvements at the
park next year, which will include the
construction Of three or four lakes on
the different streams running
through the reservation, the building
of an automobile road to the top of the
Point, completion Of the road around
Hadar Cuomn araction of r11stio caats
and picnic tables at convenient points
in the groves. finishing of the road
around Lake Marcia, establishment Of
parking spaces for automobiles, wild
ening of the road from the entrance to
the manor horse and tho cutting out
of the old trails through the wooded
section for horseback riders.
The commission also has under con-
sideration the establishment of per
manent camps for the different well
fare organizations in the state.
A herd of fourteen deer has been
discovered in the opened sections of
the reservation and an effort will be
made to corral the animals and place
them in the inclosed sections togeth-
er with those to he furnished from the
Fish and Game Farm at Forked River
this winter James E. Fuller, father
of Caretaker Morris Fuller. has re-
ported that he sighted black bear
one day recently on the shores of Lake
Marcia, opposite the manor house. A
lookout is being kept for the animal
and an effort will be made to get it
inside the inclosure for exhibition.
The Fish and Game Commission
will try raising pheasants next year on
an open tract in the reservation \
cottage on the park grounds is being
made ready for the representatives
who will have charge ef the breeding
Warren Game Farm
Negotiations have been concluded
for the purchase by the State Fish
and Game Commission of the Lyman
B. Dellicker property near Hacketts-
town, and it is now being put in
shape for its future use as a game
farm. By spring it is expected to b
running full blast
The purchase adds 144 acres to the
state-owned land under the jurisdc
ton of the Fish and Game Commits
sion. About forty acres of the new
property consist of timber land and
the remainder is under cultivation.
Two brooks run through it, as does
the Morris Canal also, and there are
several springs. The price involved
in the deal was $1,000.
Duncan Dunn, superintendent OF
the State Game Farm at Forked Riv-
er, will be in charge of the new farm,
while his son, Malcolm, will remain
at the Ocean county establishment.
The initial breeding stock of pleas
ants for the Hackettstown plant will
be picked from 5000 birds purchased
by the commission from commercial
pheasant farms.
Coon Hunting Popular
Protection given raccoons under
state game laws few years ago,
which prohibit hunting of these ami
mas except between October 1 and
December Is, las resulted in an in
crease in the numbers of Davy
CIOChSll > lIdulIlOudl quarry, WHICH
az one time were facing extermina-
ton in New Jersey, and coon hunting
is winning renewed popularity as a
fall sport among men who seek va
riety in their outdoor recreations.
Like many other animals Of the
woods, the raccoon of the present day
has learned from generations of eau
tious ancestors, the habit of hiding
during the day time and venturing
forth only at night to stalk his din
ner. Coon hunters must hunt the
game when the animal itself is hunting
and the frosty evenings of late autumn
have therefore come to have an I'M
portant place in the sportsmen's
diary.
Ferocious when cornered, the rae
coon IL worthy antagonist for any
dog. Hounds are specially trained for
this sport. The increasing popularity /
Of coon hunting has made an active /
market In New Jersey for well-train-
ed coon hounds and several fine packs .