New Britain herald., 1927-10-19
KILL 25O DUCKS
 ON TEN.DAY TRIP
PlalnYllle and Huntsville Men
 Tell Hunting Experiences
IW0-H0UR COURT SESSION
Harold Stevens Fined $7 After Long
 Battle - "Searchught Minstrels" - Tonght-P. J. Prior Stricken
 Dusty Bowling Begins.

1 DuSIS Eo"unR Begins.
 ! A record of 25o ducks in one day was made by J. J. McNauy and
 George Lindstrom Of Plainville and holie and Louis Thompson of Plantsville. OH ten-day hunting ; trip along the Miramichi river.
 NorthuHbertand county, New Bruns- WICK, from which they have just re- i turned. Their best days shooting resulted in the bringing down of 50 ducks, two fish hawks, and a brue heron. The four men have many in lereS'lng experiences to retail re-
 garding their stay in the northern
 woods. while another incident which
 lhey Will long remember will be
 'heir stop at Old Orchard, Me, to
 see the Dawn" Mrs. Gravson's
 plane now waiting an opportunity to
 hop across the Atlantic.
 The country through which tho
 men passed. MT. McNally says. was so wild and thickly wooded that at
 times 1t was absolutely impossible
 and they could go for 50 miles with
 cut seeing a house. They were aft CT black ducks, and they found enough 10 satisfy their widest
 dreams. Locating their cover on the shore of Miramichi bay and setting out their decoys.. the men found no trouble in bagging great numbers of the birds.
 The tlocks of ducks. Mir. McNa]ly states are so large and closely pack ed that they actually darken the sun as they fly overhead. To miss these huge focks was impossible and the men could not even retrieve all they shot, leaving many wounded ducks houndering around in the deeper water beyond wading radius. Some of the specimens they shot weighed as much as six and seven pounds apiece. Many of them had brass leg tags, which upon exam lnatlon were found 10 have been placed there by the United States Biological survey. The tags re- that the hunters shooting the ducks return the tags 10 Wash lngton in order that the government might check up on the haunts of the ducks at various times of the year. The local men compiled with this request.
 Last year 5000 moose were shot and taken out of this country. but the Connecticut quartet did not go after these and did not penetrate far enough into the woods to see any. The lone specimen they found was a baby moose, so tame that it allow cd them to take several photographs of it.
 There were hundreds of gray seals along the river and bay, and, be- cause of the havoc they do to the salmon fishing industry, the Cana Ian government has placed a houn- y of s3.5O a head on them. The To- 'al men took along a heavier gun in m effort 10 collect some money on he side, but their weapon was ound to be still too light. The col ecting of the money is difficult | natter, anyway, Mr. McNally says, | IS seal sinks 10 the bottom when 1 lilled and the body cannot be re- | rieved. The Indians, after wound | ne the animals. harpoon them be- ore they can sink and are thus ble to bring the carcasses ashore nd collect the bounty. The water vas thickly dotted with the black eads of the animals, Mir McNally avs. and their roaring echoed long the waters throughout the ay.
 Northumberland county was found 9 be "dry" except at government torres. The party went into q aloon and called for beer Upon eing served near beer. they learned nat the government store was the nly place where the real stuff