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FISHING, AND HUNTING NOTES Wvoming is the only state that permits sheep hunting. Four Canadian provinces tolerate similar sport. Under state and federal regulations waterfowl gunning is permitted in Rhode Island and Connecticut until January 15. The conservation commission of Maryland has captured three duck guns used illegally for night duck shooting in Chesapeake Bay. The barrels of the guns are six feet, in length. South Jersey sportsmen will ask the New .Tersey legislature to pass a bill asking for four successive davs in October as the open season for deer, instead of four days in as many Aveeks, the law at the present time. New Jersey permits shooting duck, goose, brant, coot, gallinules and WilsQn or jacksnipe until January 31. New York, on the contrary, stops the shooting of duck, goose and brant oh January 15, while the federal regulations permit their taking until January 31. Wilson W. Butler won the 191S award of the Canadian Northern Railway Systems competition for the record speckled trout of the season. The fish was twenty-five and one-half inches in length, and its girth measured fifteen and one-half inches. Mr. Butler took his trout from the Cincinnati pool of the Nepigou River. Foxes are said to be more numerous in Lee County, Illinois, this year than for several years. Within the last few weeks red foxes have been bagged bv William Ford and J. U. Weyant of Dixon, HI., while Mr. Ford recently had the satisfaction also of bowling, over a large gray fox. The presence of a large number of foxes means the destruction of many quail. . The game protectors in New York State in two months recently destroyed the following vermin: Ninety-nine cats, sixty-three crows, one. hundred and seventeen red squirrels, twelve kingfishers, sixty-two woodchucks, nineteen hawks, six dogs, one fox, sixteen porcupines, thre,e weasels, one owl, eight house rats, seventeen starlings, ten English sparrows, nine snckes, four water snakes and three great horned owls.
