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i I I HUNTING, FISHING AND SPORT. An enterprising rice farmer-sportsman, s. Christ- eaeou of Willows. California, instead of hiring men ti. shoot tbe dm ks off bis rice fields, has used an airplane to shoo them off. He doesnt believe in the unnecessary slaughter of wildfowl and says .. gun was newr used on his plantation. An English fox running from hunters and hounds recently pissed through a farm yard and in doing saeeaaj ssase poultry, eae f Branch he chapped and. having its head on the ground, carried the carcass away. Poxes are seldom known to do this in fleeing front hounds, but he was not Closely 1 ri sd. It is often said by sportsmen that California steelbead trout do not take the ho k in open salt water. As contrary evidence a 3% pound cleaned weight steelbead was caught recently on the hook in the op, n Monterey Bay, and the fishermen of that place claim that such a catch is no gr at rarity . A pel deer, captured when exhausted la the a ods and revived and adopted by a Lake Tahoc. California, hunter, has adopted as friends the lciis.-cat, seven setter dogs and one Airedale dog. The deer appeared 1 1 he aboal eight months old -when captured. its state was round filer ly J. E. Pom in of idlev.ilil. near the Hellme.n property, partly den ared by coyotes. Inetead of attracting fish by fires Pnlaako Tar-s no. a Bndonde, California, fisherman u-es a waterproofed cable with large bulbs ,,t each end I ml lor power iisi-s a storage battery in his gasolene launch. He sinks bis electric lights into the water i;h tempt lag baits, soft sheU crabs, .lams. sail and fresh fish and tin- like. The fish can lake their choice. By a glass bottom watersc pe Tarseno ran see what fish are feeding and puis on b.it accordingly. r a. Poshay of Camel, Putaam Cooaty. N. Y.. killed a snow-white deer teceatly. It was one of the rnriotdtles of the Adirondack*. Tbe animal, a i.oi-. vwis entirely white with the exceptioa of a brown snot oa the tap of it; head, Poshay retained the skin. The deer is evidently tbe one thai the hunters • f Bt. Regis Palls named "The Phantom of the North Wood-." Several hunters bad shot the doe. but it remained for Poshay to bring home the skin. In the New England stales. New York. Ienn-syh inl :. Ohio. Michigan, Wisconsin and Minnesota, ere s gi od many "fur farms" where fox. skunk, mink, coon and "P**""* are being raised. AJong the shores of Chesapeake Bay and elsewhere in -. Jersey, Maryland and Virginia, hundreds of thousands of mu-krat i» Its are marketed each year irom "fur farms." Here the BMskrats raise themselves. Owners of the marsh land see that a certain number are trapped each year. In 1888, at the request of tbe Gnverasaeat of Argentina, the United states baceaa of fisheries donated eggs of several rarleties of fisii to the southern republic. A tetter receatly received by the bureau states thai thousands of eastern brook trout are now being eaughl annually, that ssase measure nlaeteea laches and have a weight of ten pounds. In the mountain range id Acoaquija in L7 degrees south latitude, sad in the Patagoaian region, as far south as 52 dcatrees latitude, the treat is doing well.
