Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-31
ROD AND STREAM
BY PERRY MILLER.

take out as personal baggage two days
bag limit, but must produce his hunt
ing license when requested.
It Is unlawful to hunt at night. The
State law provides night time to be
one-half hour after sunset until one
half hour before sunrise the following
day. The Federal law Supersedes this
and provides 1t to be unlawful to hunt
between sunset and sunrise.
It Is unlawful to hunt wild fowl with
q gun larger than o No. 10 gauge, fred
from the shoulder.
It is unlawful to hunt wild fowl in
any section Of Maryland on Sunday.
TN Virginia the hunting laws are the
i same as in Maryland, with the ex-
ception that Wednesdays and Thurs
days Of every week have been closed to
hunting, and, of course, there Is no
hunting allowed on Sundays.
THE Biological Survey has estimated
i there are $4,000 ducks on the Po-
tomac River. This does not mean
there are more ducks this year than
heretofore, but, as stated last week,
ducks are present In larger numbers
With more than $500 900 hunters in
the fields and waters In various sections
of the country and with reports Of
shooting accidents already reported, the
American Game Protective Association
issues a warning aimed at "tenderfeet"
Unprecedented interest in hunting
and the increasing narrowness OF hunt
ing areas, combined with new hazards
created by the drought and by Gov
eminent efforts to preserve disappearing
game species all go to make 1t i'm
perative this season for every hunter to
observe the sportsmen's code of con-
duct.
It is urged above all that every
hunter before pulling the trigger be
absolutely sure he sees what he thinks
he does, and If he wants to kill that
game, to make sure that he is close
enough for his shot to kill it clearly.
The extreme dryneSs Of the woods
this year is said to make another rule
hardly less important. This Is careful
ness in extinguishing campfres and in
watching burned matches, cigarettes
and any other possible cause Of con-
f1agrations.
nROBABLY for the first time docket
I Of the country has carried charge
aimed at drunken hunters. Two
hunters were convicted recently In
Michigan under what Is known as the
drunken hunter law" They were fined
$40 and court costs. It seems to Rod
and Stream that this was very light
sentence for an offense of this kind.
We can't imagine anything more dam
gerous than a drunken man with q
gun, and that's that.
NOV for o little fishing news. The
IN month Of October passes away into
history tonight. Unless some
| big fish are landed between now and
midnight, and when I say big,
mean big, because this month entered
| in Rod and Streams fishing contest is
q small-mouth bass weighing 5 pounds
| 9Lz ounces for the fresh water prize
and q rockhsh weighing 1917 pounds
for the salt water prize. It's a 100-to-1
bet none larger will be caught. &c. II
we don't receive some belated report
of catches Of larger fish, Rod and
Stream will announce the winners in
Sundays Star, reproducing pictures OF
the catches.
The best report to reach US this
week came from the Eastern Shore
where Henry c. Ransom, employed by
the Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone
Co., had the time of his life. Ransor
Is one of the men who sees that every
thing runs smoothly with the telephone
system.
Says Ransom: at was Just remark
able. We landed 80 many fish that We
did not attempt to count them"
Ransom was accompanied by Geo
Knefley Of Baltimore. They we