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HUNTING, FISHING AND SPORT The deer season in the Catskills begins November 1. and this season deer are unusually plentiful. More have been seen during the last spring and summer than for many years. Recently at Provincetown. Mass., a deer was found swimming around a fish trap unable to get out. The animal was taken ashore, liberated and escaped into the adjacent woods. A bevy of quail, numbering about twenty-five birds, wandered into the city limits of Sterling, 111., a few days since and made friends, for a time, with a flock of domestic chickens. November 10 will, mark the opening of the season in New Jersey foe- rabbits, quail, squirrels, ruffed grouse, prairie chickens. Hungarian partridge, wild turkeys, and the male English ring-neck pheasants. Freshly-caught fish have been conveyed by aeroplane from Fleetwood to Manchester Market, in England, and live lobsters are now being transported by aeroplane between Brussels and Paris. Five hundred pounds thus carried recently arrived in excellent condition. The federal fish hatchery at Spearfish has hundreds of thousands of young trout which are being transported as rapidly as possible to the streams in the Black Hills district. The planting of 45,000 small trout at different places along Iron Creek will make it one of the leading trout fishing resorts of the west. Miss Phvllis Spender Clay, aged 13. daughter of Lieut. -Colonel Spender Clay, 51. I., for the Ton-bridge division, fishing at Fochabers, on the river Spey. Scotland, with" a fly. caught a salmon weighing forty-seven pounds. This is believejl to be the largest salmon taken in the river for over forty years. Anglers News. The English partridge, a fine game bird, was imported into British Columbia several years ago and has increased rapidly, the climate being similar to that of England. They were placed on several districts of Vancouver Island. Last year for- the first time sportsmen were allowed to shoot at them for the last two days of the season. a
