Evening star., 1937-12-05

Dlneu are not circumstance to the
sensation created when the Vice Pres
ident gracefully twined that 1875
pound buck neckpiece across his
shoulders Doubtless the wives of the
miners down at Tygart, w. Va,
would have appreciated more the
homegrown skin of Mr.. Gamers
deer. than the imported articles worn
by the visiting ladies who were ex-
ploring the housing situation, for
most of them have noses trained to
. nicely to calculate the direction of
the wind and can spot game in the
under growth a hundred yards away.
No Canvasbacks for Christmas
Is the Word From Game WardenS.
Word has gone out from Federal
logical Survey that 4o,000,000 ducks,
geese and other waterfowl during the
next two months will leave their
Northern nesting grounds for their
winter flight South. While it is esti-
mated that the birds will face an army
of something like 100000 hunters on
their way down. it is reported that
there will be a plentiful supply of
mallards, pintails and other water
fowl. There is closed season this
year, as last. for the royal canvas
back, Notwithstanding it is estimated
that more than 100000 Of those ducks
will congregate in the Susquehanna
River flats, in Maryland. AS for
some time past, there will be daily
bag limit on all game The season in
the Southern zone for ducks, geese,
ETC., which opened on the 9th of last
month, will close the day after Christ
mas. BY the way, these dates include
the Vice Presidents home State.
The literature sent out by the Bu-
reau Of Biological Survey is delightful
reading, having bit of the tang of
adventure as well as most readable in
structlons anent regulations for the
game season. Notwithstanding the
eighteenth amendment and much
vaunted reverence for the Constitution
OF the United States men and women
in public life and the best class of citi-
8ens were most familiar with the
liquor bootleggers, but the Biological
Survey has interesting literature about
the duck bootleggers. which have been
and are menace to the preservation
OF game laws. In the time of William
Shakespeare-Whoi is said to have had
reason to know bit from experience
duck bootleggers would have been
called poachers, perhaps.
In the days of the immortal bard
. good, handy shotgun was used to
run down poachers and steel traps
were used, but the Biological Survey
warns that this season, as last. "Flving
squadrons of Federal game protectors
Will cover important concentration
areas. such as the Susquehanna River
f1ats in Maryland ito protect the can
Vasbacks), to prevent illegal killing
and trafflcking in BIRDS" and it con-
tinues: Many market hunters and
duck bootleggers have been .bagged'
IN recent years and heavy fines and
sentences were imposed by Federal
judges, SportSmen who will OBJ
serve the regulations-as most of them
do-will use shotguns not larger than
No. 10 gauge"
Christmas Time Whets
The Appetite for Duck.
QUITE so! Quite SO! But as the
Y Christmas season approaches-it
Is only two weeks and five days
away-it is wonderful what an ap-
petite one gets for game. turkeys and
other fowl. What memories of those
canvasbacks roasted to a turn with
the crimson life blood just a sus-
picion when they were brought to the
table and. served with burgundy, lust
At blood heat, and the dish of truffes
on the side. Or conjure up visions of
those wild turkeys from Tazewell
County, Va, that they serve down at
the university. They are stuffed with
observation-disclosures roasted-not boiled