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HUNTING, FISHING AND SPORT The bull moose season in Maine opened November 20 and will remain open until November 30. The limit is one hull moose a season. Stocking Lake Gilead, N. Y., with lake trout lias met with success. Seventeen-inch fish have been caught there. These fish were introduced in the form of fry in 1909 and 1910. The deer season opens on December 1 in Massachusetts. Vermont and Pennsylvania. In New Jersey the hunting begins on December 1G and lasts for five days instead of four as in former years. A black bear, recently trapped on an estate near Saranac Lake, N. Y., carried a twelve-foot beech log and an eighty-pound trap a mile. The animal weighed 500 pounds and was eight feet in length. Twenty-nine of the forty-four states which held legislative sessions this year enacted laws relative to fur-bearing animals. The general tendency was to increase restrictions and afford greater protection to the animals. Decrease of muskrats as a result of slaughter for their pelts is said to have been the direct cause of poor duck shooting during the past season on ducking grounds in southern Canada aud the middle west, which was formerly famous for good sport.
