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HUNTING, FISHING AND SPORT. An English fishing trawler recently landed a royal sturgeon weighing 1.301 pounds and measuring six feet in length at Lowestoft on the east coast. A weasel, an animal rarely seen in these parts, a few days ago invaeh-el a Consett. V.i.. poultry house anil was killeel after a sharp fight by a buff Orpington cockerel. During the year 1919 the following game f ah were placed in the lakes and streams of Minnesota: Pike-perch, 208,306.000; brook treat, 5.798.-7.".!: brown trout. 1,001.300; whitefish, t;i 3.i ou: lake trout, 220,809; sfceclbead trout. 101,700; bass, 00,349; sunfish. 06,285; nappies, 63,71a; rainbow trout. 27,700- peach, 7.390. An American eagle, having a wing spread of nearly eight feet, is in captivity at the farm of Byron Btrattoa in Hartlanel Hollow, near Wiu-slead. Coaa., having been caught in a trap set for a raccoon. Btrattoa, who has the eagle in a crated box at his place, has offered the bird to the eity of Springfield. Mass.. for Forest Paifc. One of the- numerous benefits Maryland will derive from its recently established game farm at Gwyn-brook will be the- re-stocking of the depleted C o.rr-with wilil turkeys. These, majestic birds in farmer years roamed Maryland woodlands in countless thousands, but. ilne to the nearsightedness of many individuals, game hogs and market banters, they are at the present time, with the exception of private shooting preserves in the state, almost extinct. A story of live rats being swallowed by pike is related in a letter to the Eaglish Pishiag Gaaette. A rat was driven into a river by elogs. The pike Canse slowly "up. opened its month wide, and took in the rat wtthOUt any hurry. Six or seven moR rats met tin- same fate. The keeper responsible- for tin* story added that he tried to catch a pike with i dead rat as bait, bill failed. The editor states that the writer assures him that this is not a "fish story."
