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HUNTING, FISHING AND SPORT The wood cock season opens in New Jersey on October 10. General John J. Pershing has gone to the Adiron-daeks for deer shooting and fishing. Recently Joseph Harp, angling in Lake Ontario, caught a pike thirty-three inches long and weighing fourteen pounds. The season for hare, rabbit, gray squirrel, quail, cock pheasant introduced, Hungarian partridge and woodcock opened in Connecticut on October 8. John G. Reuteinian of Milwaukee, Wis., in six days fishing in Pelican Lake, Oneida county, landed sixteen muskellunge weighing from eleven to thirty pounds each. Mr. Keuterman holds the record biggest muskie of this lake forty-three pounds. Robert J. Caldwell of New York is about to establish near Saranuc Lake in the Adirondacks the greatest private game preserve in the world. Several thousand acres of cut-over forest. land is being fenced, in which will be established great herds of elk and deer. The state of Maine for the first time since 1915 is to have an open season for bull moose, beginning November 21 and ending on November 30. The deer season opened on October 1 and closes November 30, with the exception that in Androscoggin, Cumberland, Kenebec, Knox, Lincoln, Sagadahoc, Waldo and York counties the opening date is November 1. The deer season has been cut fifteen dajs. One of the most important features of game legislation in 1919 say George A. Lawyer and Frank L. Earnshaw of the Biological Survey in their review of the work of fortj--one legislatures which made more or less extensive changes in the game laws, was the effort to maintain efficient organizations for the enforcement of the laws. A verj- general effort was made to keep pace with the increased cost of living, which necessitated the -payment of a living wage for warden work and competition with salaries and wages paid by private concerns.
