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HUNTING, FJSHING AND SPORT. Robert Appleton of East Hampton, X. Y., recently landed a thirty-four pound striped bass -while flailing at Montauk, near Sag Harbor, Lone Island. David Leary captured a twenty-one pound bass while trying his luck at Otter Pond, Sag Harbor. Moose antlers with a fifty -one-inch spread and twenty-two points were brought back from Lake Evelyn in northern Canada recently and are the largest so far reported in the hunting season in Canada. The big moose was killed by C. 3. Martin of Jtiami, Fla. Meat packers at Nome, Alaska, according to Carl J. Lomen of that place, will be prepared to ship at least six thousand reindeer carcasses to American markets through Seattle next year, and the same party is authority for the statement that the reindeer herd owned by one company in the vicinity of Nome numbers more than 25,000 animals. Alexander McDougall of TreshnisU Isles, west of Hull, England, has captured a huge lobster ,on a flounder hook. The distance between its feelers when extended is exactly four feet, and the length from its tail to the tip of the feelers three feet four inches. Mr. McDougall has kept the lobster alive in safe confinement. London Sportsman. Tire New York State Conservation Commission reports that in spite of the tremendous slaughter of both sexes, which all authorities agree took place last season under the doe law, a sufficient supply of these animals remain in the woods to permit the more limited hunting under the present law. "So hardy is this sole surviving bifc game of New York State," says George D. Pratt, conservation commissioner, "that conservationists believe that under the present wise law it will soon regain its former abundance."
