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HUNTING, FISHING AND SPORT The brook trout season closes throughout New-York State next Sunday, August 31. Good news comes from Louisiana .regarding the quail crop there. The hatchings this season have been large and already there are said to be many full-grown birds, which assures the sportsmen of that state and those from other states who can spare the time to go there some fine sport the coming autumn. AValter Houle, an employe of the Thomas resort on Lac Vieux Desert in Vilas County, Wis., claims the distinction of capturing the largest muskellunge taken from Wisconsin waters in twenty years. The monster weighed fifty-one pounds and three ounces. Many old anglers who viewed the fisli said that it was the most beautiful specimen of the- muskellunge tribe they had ever seen. Mr. Houle shipped ids prize to Chicago, where it will be mounted. The fish was fifty-four and one-half inches long and had a girth of twenty-four inthes. The season for big game shooting in Alaska opens this month for deer, moose caribou, goat and sheep. In September the season opens for grouse and ptarmigan. The bird season begins September 1 and ends on March 1. The open time for big game follows: Deer, August 15 to October 31; moose, August 20 to December 31; caribou, August 20 to December 31; goat, September 1 to October 31, and sheep, August. 20 to December 31. Males may be killed only of deer and moose. The bear season begins October 1 and closes July 1.
