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FISHING AND HUNTING NOTES The Chase Benjamin Gun Club of Alpeni Mich lias planted 140000 brook trout in the streams of Alpena Alcoua aiid Kresijiie Isle counties Beaver are becoming so abundant in the Adiron dacks that residents are urging the conservation com ¬ mission to permit an open season for their killing killingFifty Fifty thousand pike and perch were placed in Canindaigua Lake New York recently through the efforts of the Canandafgua Sportsmens Club The lisli were received from a state hatchery hatcheryThe The Minnesota state game and fish commission has issued an order requiring aflshway to be con ¬ structed at the Oronco dam in the Mississippi IJiver at Winoiui to permit the free iiassage of fish upstream The old tishway which existed there at one time was demolished by ice brought over the dam by the spring freshets freshetsThe The streams of Louisiana have recently been en ¬ riched by more than 1 8000000 buffalo lish re ¬ ceived front the federal bureau of fisheries Sec ¬ retary Kedlield states that a portable hatchery sent to Louisiana liad taken the eggs from fish caught for the market The eggs thus conserved have been hatched and are now returned to the streams streamsThe The roughlegged or harefooted hawk commonly called the black hawk is n valuable bird accord ¬ ing to Dr A K Fisher of the Biological Survey He jsiys concerning this hawk The rough leg is one of mans most important allies against meadow mice feeding on little else during its six mouths sojourn in the United States Other mice rabbits and grown squirrels are taken occasionally occasionallyThe The state of Minnesota non has eight hatcheries either in operation or for which provision has been made The halchery most recently Opened is the one at Tower a pike hatchery This fall it is planned to open another hatchery on French Kiver near Duliith provision having been made for this bv the last legislature The legislature also pro ¬ vided for acquiring land in southern Minnesota for a nexv hatchery This plant however will not he oucnid until further appropriation Is made for its operation
