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SOUTHERN SPORTING GROUNDS One of the lK t sporting countries now remaining in the United States lies in parts of the states of Missouri Arkansas and Oklahoma with portions rf western Tennessee middle Mississippi and iipprr Louisiana Bear deer and wild turkey may still be found in certain parts of this region of course only in limited numbers today Abounding in birds wild fowl and game fishes this is the best country in America for the allround sportsman The uoutli has always for climatic reasons furnished gooil cover and good feed for game Southerners have m l been so avid as northern sportsmen Indeed the lessening of game in this once overflowing fields of tlii south is as much due to the inroads of northern hunters as to any overshooting on the pirl of the southern residents The game of the wuitl began to lessen when the railroads Ixgan to adver ¬ tise the southern states as good hunting country Since then tourists have done a great deal to shoot out regions which once seemed exhaustless in thrir plenty For instance take the quail country of Texas between San Antonio and the coast The northern man who goes there now will say he never saw so many birds Had lie gone there twentyfive years ago lie would have thought the supply in ¬ credible and altogether inexhaustible inexhaustibleMissouri Missouri has extraordinarily good angling for th bait caster of tho fly fisherman Such streams as the Current the Gasconade the Niangva and others of the more rapid streams are to be called among the lK st bass waters of America In parts of Missnuii you might turn out a deer or a turkey even yet As to wild fowl the state is especially endowed and retains in certain sections some of the bust quail country of the Union UnionLower Lower Mississippi twenty years ago was the wild ¬ est part of America Indeed this southern rrgiou above outlined is less known today than most of the Rockies or tho Sierras strange as that may seem Iii the Mississippi the deer have been shot ijowu and the bear have practically disappeared Diuk shooting along the bayous of the lowland streams is good in season In parts of the state quail shoot ¬ ing remains astonishingly good but for the most part you will have to hunt for good open quail country today in Mississippi rather assiduously One may get goose shooting along Uje Mississippi bars Mississippibars when wuiIUipu lire risut
