Outdoor Georgia, 1940 - 1941

Shake hands with OUTDOOR GEORGIA. This magazine has been created for the purpose of presenting to hunters, fishermen, farmers, campers and the thousands who m:e interested in Georgia's out of doors, a wholesome ration composed of news, information, features and art in keeping with the common interests of its readers. The policy of OUTDOOR GEORGIA if, aimed at the creation of a better understanding among sportsmen, and a greater appreciation of our state's conservation problems.-The Editor.

Volume 1 Outdoor Georgia Number 1

CHARLES N. ELLIOTT, Editor

JOHN MARTIN, Managing Editor

E. L. GI BSON, Business Manager

CONTENTS FOR MAY, 1940

Cover Painting, Rainbow Trout

Edward Lane Gibson

Authors

2

Editorial

.3

The Old Clay Hole

.

. Elmer Ransom .

. ..... 4

Nature Scores a Double.

.John Martin ..

6

Bait, Plug, or Fly?

B. C. (Fishin' Bill) Schoen.

7

Trout Don't Just Happen

.

8

Dawn Hunter.

.Charles Newton Elliott ..

.10

Top Is Tops..

.Fred Jordan. . .

.11

Tackling Trout. . . . . . .

...........

. .. 14

Fishing Seasons and Regulations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . 15

A Peek Under the lily Pads

Jeff McCord

.18

DEPARTMENTS

CIRCUIT WRITER

John Martin

ABOUT DOGS

John Woodward

AROUND THE RANGERS' CAMPFIRE

John W. Beall

YOUR GUN AND MINE

Charlie Hamby

NATURAL HISTORY PAGE

Edwin H. Gaither

WHERE TO GO..... . . . . . . . . . . .. .. .. .. . . .

. . .. . . . .. ..

LETTERS

JUNIOR RANGER TRAIL

Earl V. Lord ' "

13 , .17
19 21 23 25 28 29

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AUTHORS
ELMER RANSOM ELMER RA SOM, who e fir t con-
tribution to OUTDOOR GEORGI is THE OLD CLAY HOLE, occupies the front row of noted Georgia authors. Augu ta i his home, but he spend most of his time in the woods and on the streams and lakes. While doing this he carries along his pen cil and pad. His notes provide a rich store house of outdoor information. His name has by-lined many out tanding tories in leading magazine of thi country and England. He i widely known for his editorial in THIS WEEK. His "Perfect Fi hermen" stories in FIELD A D TREAM are outstanding examples of hi craftsmanship. There are few sportsmen who would not gladly lead an existence similar to the one enjoyed by this famous sportsmanauthor who live by rod and gun and pen.

B. C. SCHOEN, "Fi hing Bill", a he prefer to be called, is one Ii herman who fishes by every known method and is adept at none. His close as ociate doubt that statement and they say also that he not only knows fish, but the heart of fi hermen as well. Bill Schoen was editor of FOREST AND CREEL, until that map;a zine merged with SOUTHER SPORT 111A ,after which he became outhea tern representative of the latter magazine. The name of "Fishing Bill" choen is known where Ii hermen meet for any purpo e.

It has been said that Georgia contuins more miles of Ii hing stream than 'my
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Bears

Don't

Den


In

T HE fir t game la\ in Georgia \ a pa ed in 1790. Thi law prohibited the killing of deer by firelight at night. The penalty for offenders wa a twenty. five dollar fine or thirty-nine la he "well laid on" the bare back.
The fir t general et of la\ for the tate was pa ed in 1911. These law et up the state department, impo ed license fee and regulated hunting and hunter. ince 1911 the hunting law have undergone many change.
eason, bag limits and other restriction have been set locally to fit the convenience of those who had the most political power. Today our game laws are a conglomerate kaleido cope of regulation. They are not clear-cut and forceful. They carry orne dignity and weight, but not enough. orne of them re trict the taking of game in one ection and remove all imilar re triction in orne other part of the state.
Game law are not intended for the inconvenience of portsmen, but for their protection. The theory of the game code is that all game will be protected during the nesting and breeding ea ons of the year, and that in open seasons only enough game will be taken to insure a perpetual supply. That i the theory of a game code. To be succe sful in practi e, game law mu t be \ ritten to fit conditions that exi t; they mu t have the upport of hunters and fishermen and they must be strictly enforced without political or other fa or. The must have the unqualified support of jurie and juri t .
GEORGIA need a new game code. Eery game law since the first one to appear on the tatute book , should be aboli hed and a new game code \ ritten to fit condition a they exi t in thi tate. Innumerable examples may be cited of the inconsi tencie of game law now on the books. They are filled with loophole. They do not command the proper respect. There is one law which allows eining for fi h in certain ections of Georgia. Fish are protected in Wilke County, with the exception of waters ben een the bridge on the WashingtonElberton highway and the avannah River.
La t fall the quail sea on in 18 South Georgia countie opened twenty day ahead of the ea on in the remainder of the tate. Hunter who vi ited the section reported that young quail \ ere hardly off the nest. everal returned to their homes after half a day's hunting. Th quail were too mall to fly \ ith porting speed.
Georgia' game fi h are old in the market place of the tate. Black ba , bream, perch and other porting fi hes bring a few cent a pound. This practice encourage law violation. It provoke the u e of fish ba ket and eine and trap. The e device cut down the number of game fi h in a tream, and at the arne time eliminate port pur ued by hone t port men.
Rabbit, which are declared in orne section to be de tructive to crop and orchard are not protected by a clo ed eason. The are hunted throughout the year. Iany female rabbit are killed in the pring, while they carry young. Thi i against all the la\ and principle

of nature. Rabbit do erve a useful purpo e. They perhaps are the mo t economically important wild animal in the state. They provide more meat for rural families than any other wild bird or animal. They provide food for hawks, predatory bird and predator animal thu protecting quail and mall bird which are 0 valuable to the farmer.
T HE game laws do not contain a regulation to allow the closing of countie or ections in time of emergency. La t winter the entire northern portion of the tate was blanketed in now. While the bitter cold did not cause a much destruction of Georgia' wildlife a ranger first e timated, counties hardest hit by the cold weather should have been closed to all hunting for the remainder of the ea on. Jo law on the statute book provided for such an emergency.
The sportsmen of the tatc; gradually are beginning to realize that without adequate laws, all the entiment in the world will not save the game. Judges and court cannot enforce laws which do not exist. The work done bone portsman' club for an entire ear to bring back fishing to a tream may be wiped out in a ingle night by one commercial plant which dump poi on into the current and kill ever living creature in the waters. And yet there i no law which allows the protection of this tream by the Divi ion of Wildlife. Indi idual landowner living along the tream may take action, but they cannot, or will not, jeopardize the livelihood of the community by bringing legal action and clo ing down the plant.
Without a strong foundation any building will collapse. Men do not build citie on hifting and. B the arne token, the laws and regulation which are the vel', foundation of any agency or organization, must be a nearly flawle a pos ible. They mu t be strong without being tyrannical, just without overbearance, and simple without the tigma of inadequacy. They must cover features of game protection and propagation which are important to the game and fish of Georgia and to its port men.
The code hould be 0 closel \ oven that no violator could e cape through it me hes. Enforcement of laws which have no power i imilar to firing blanks at quail. The noise is there but the bird oon know it can do no harm and they are no lODger frightened.
W HO E re ponsibility i thi new propo ed game code? It may be prepared by any lawyer, but to make it into law will require the upport of every portsman who i intere ted in impro ing the hunting and fi hing condition in Georgia.
Thi la\ affect not onl the man who carries his gun into the woods two or three time each season. It is important to the man on the farm who ha a potential income from hi game. It i important to all of u who have any intere t in the economic and ocial welfare of our tate.

OUTDOOR GEORGIA' May 1940

THE OLD CLAY HOLE

By ELMER RANSOM

~~w E ain't been snake-bit yet," The Perfect Fisherman replied to my gloomy
resume of our two day on the Ogeechee.
ow the Ogeechee is a good river, one of those attractive, black, freshwater, tidal streams of the southern Low Country. The barometer was steady, the moon in the dark, the weather perfect. Only, the bass hadn't heard about it. They had been on the wrong kind of a strike. The kind that keeps them shy of the silver doctor or the crippled minnow.
Oh, we'd used everything we had. We'd even resorted to live bait, and had spit on it for luck. All but a jig-
4

gel', that killing devilment devised of atan, and darned if we'd use that.
I'm not too good a fisherman m elf. I'm as liable as not to stop fishing, and watch a big blue heron tab minnow with his pointed bill, or look around for an Osprey, hoping to ee a Bald Eagle rob the fish hawk. I'm that way, much to the disgust of The Perfect Fi herman, and there's nothing I want to do about it.
But The Perfect Fisherman is all efficiency. His parents baptized him as "Sam" (Samuel, really!) but then you couldn't blame them. Who, I ask you, could look at a lob ter-like bawling brat and know that he was going to be bad news to a fish? The other title came later.

May 1940 OUTDOOR GEORGIA

You have heard of fishermen who claimed to be snake-bit-some of them really are
Illustrated by JIM SPRINGER

As he had remarked, we hadn't been bitten by a snake, but that wa the only adversity the red gods had spared us. You know how it is; the wife gives you leave of ab ence, expecting bass for the inlaw's dinner Sunday, and everything goes haywire. Well, there'd be no smell of hard liquor on my breath. I'd dropped it overboard (the liquor, not the breath! ) while pawing around the boat for a sure-fire bucktail. Sam held that again t me, too.
"I'd hanker for a chance to get bitten by a snake if I could catch some fish," I said.
S AM was silent in the only two Ian guages he knew-American and profane. Augusta, ahead, dozed under a hazy smoke, and the windows of the taller buildings were aflame from the late sun. The spires of the Southern Finance Building loomed against the afternoon sky. Deep borrow pits, on

each side of the road, reflected a steelblue water.
"Turn left ahead." I looked at am out of the corner of my eye. Traffic was heavy. "Turn left," he said petulantly. "We're going to fish."
ow, I ask you, ain't that just like a fool fisherman who doesn't know when he's had enough? Dead tired. The canoe joggled and bounced on the trailer behind, one tire of the trailer going soft on us. And, aside from mud cats in the river, not a fish for miles around-or 0 I thought.
But I turned left over as ornery and rutty a road as ever a loose-living jallopy complained about. The road wound and twisted for half a mile, and gave every indication of petering out up a tree but it didn't. It brought u to a series of old clay diggings, relic of the brick.industry days. The shores were rank with vegetation. The water late blue with springs hidden

deep beneath the surface.
WE decided against the boat on account of the precipitous, slippery banks. We put our casting rods together - no room here for a back cast with a fly rod. Within a few hundred yards of u the e ter n a 1 traffic lumbered north and south. Within a mile the busy sleepiness of Georgia's third largest city spoke in smokestacks, fac tory whistles and the lovely,
(Turn to page 22)

"My heart stopped for a moment and then fought with my tongue for a place in my mouth"

OUTDOOR GEORGIA May 7940

5

Nature Scores a Double

NATURE poured Rain, Snow and Drought through the fields and scored a lop-sided victory

Rain, Snow and Drought silenced big guns of

Hunters and outdoorsmen predict that the quail population will increase at a con iderably fa tel' rate than that

over Georgia's army of hunters who lugged their weapon on their shoul

Georgia hunters

of 1939. It's all because of the helping hand

del's and never got close enough to

<Yiven by ature's triplethreat trouble

burn their powder during the 193940 season.

By JOH N MARTI N

hooter , Rain, Ice and Drought.

In the first heat it was hot and dry and Drought hoved over an early score to put ature and its proteges ahead. imrods tramped over the parched fields and woods and limped back out without a feather or a fowl. Dog couldn't even

SOME portions of orth Georgia had Ie s time than thi for shoot ing, while in outh Georgia, in areas unaffected by the snow, condition were more favorable. And it was in thi ection that the most succe sful hooting of quail dove, turkey and

P;O'S;T'PO~N'E.D"HI ~

deer occurred.

Outdoor observers e timate that

find a grass sparrow for false points. They couldn't smell as far a the grasshoppers jumped from underneath their noses.

weather conditions reduced the number of hunterdays, used in the same sense as manhours, approximately 50 per cent during the campaign. This of course deprived arms and ammunition dealers of a normal trade and likewise curtailed sale of licen es.
The season was one of the poorest in the history of the state, despite an

The pa t season gave the new staff of Wildlife Ranger , set up in Sep tember, their first chance to function as a unit for, with and against hunt ers. The rangers performed meritori ous work both in the educational and protective fields.
A s E FORCEME T officers they made cases again t nearly 1,000

The only difference in quail hunt- increa e in intere t and in number alleged violatel's. Approximately 650

ing and dog walking in ovember of licensed hunters. Thi , however, i of these were against hunters and

and early December wa the scenery so much powder gone into smoke, half of this number were charged

and traffic. Hunting produced more but augurs more sport for the 1940- with violating the laws regulating

scenery, less traffic and no birds.

41 sea on. It mean an increase in dove shooting.

Just when conditions began to game unless unforeseen developments

Dove shooting, mainly because it

break for the hunter Snow came interfere with the hatching and rear generally involves large groups, wa

from all direction, and when it ing ea ons thi spring and ummer. the o. 1 enforcement problem. Sev

it halted half of

eral shoots result-

the tate wa

ed in blanket

buried under the

ca e being made

heavie t blanket

against a man:

in 40odd years.

as 20 persons.

It was 0 severe

They were cited

that ature al

for shooting over

mot double-

baited areas.

crossed itself and tepped on it lit tel's. In some ec tion quail and rabbit perished. Guns went back on the shelf and were just getting their barrels warm again when the rains came to cool them.
When the dead line on hunting came March 1 a summary of the season would have shown Ie s less than 25 da ys

Several deer poachers were apprehended in South Georgia counties and many more sidestepped the law. Deer hunters and quail peddler again proved to be the mast elusive violateI' . Two orth Geor-
<Yia quail hunters,
shooting 0 u t 0 f
eason, were
brough t to justice
after the had

of ideal weather

thrown awa a

over the state as a whole.

A small herd of white-tail fawns gather at a U. S. Forest feed trough. Some of them likely will provide trophies this winter.

gun and two
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May 1940 OUTDOOR GEORGIA

ALL angler fall into one or more of three cla e -live bait, casting and fly. Live bait fi hermen in ist that their method are be t. They have no expen ive

Fly Fishermen Are Easiest to Spot But They Run Risk of Being Shot by Mistake

A hook and worm, a shade tree andanything might happen.
tackle, ju t a hook and trong line a can of worm or bucket of minnow, pring lizard or cra, fi h, a
a jug of 'roa tin'ear wine," a plug
of tobacco or good old corn cob pipe. They find a deep hole on the lake, river or tream, keeping in mind that it is of utmo t importance to have a big tree ca ting a lazy hadow nearby_ The live bait fi herman is ready for hi day' fishing. If a little ultra bait fi hi ng i on the program, two or even three poles are set up, but thi i not entirely atisfactory a it i difficult to get all those cane pole under the hade of one tree. Every known pecie of fish i caught in thi manner. Of cour e, the "roastin' ear wine" is not nece sary, but it help.
Fi hermen in the bait ca ting clas tolerate live bait fishermen in bu ines but never on trip or ociall. The bait caster' tackle box may coni t of any type from an old cigar box up to a large steamer trunk. On fir t appearance he i taken for a king on tour, but when the lid of his tackle box pops open-which is often o that one may see he is a real fi herman-an array of colors pray the atmosphere, sometimes cau ing

rainbow to retire in confu ion. Thi color come only from the upper trays of the box. Mter a careful survey of some hundred or so colored chunks of wood, he announce in a loud and doleful voice that his favorite and sure fi h-catching lure has been left at home. This confession, however, is nearly always made after the fishing waters are reached.
T HE better bait ca ter generally manage to pill their a sortment
Tackle boxes carry everything from pins to gaffs.
once or twice in orne good dry pot. Thi i accompli hed by leaving the clamp of the box 100 e and pu hino- the lock down h ly with the fore fino-er. Thi alway makes a member of the party very popular with hi companion, e pecially if he ha the large t election of plugs. From the innermo t reces es of the box may come almo t anything from a minnow hook to a tarpon gaff.
Once when I wa tuck in the mud

one of my companions produced a pair of tire chain from his tackle box. While uch equipment is not ab olutely ne e sary, it is impres ive for the weight and bulk it add to the box.
After taking everal makes of reel out of boxe and bags six or even time , the fi herman selects an old one from the innermost recess of his trunk. nsheathing a rod from a cloth carrying bag, makes him almost ready, but not quite. The color of the water, ca t of the sky, prediction of a fi bing calendar, all
must be taken into con ideration. By thi time other member of the party have bailed out the boat, at tached the outboard and filled it with ga oline, rigged up their out fit and mayhap caught a fi h or two. ! row come the big moment of electing jilt the right plug. It mu t not be too large or too mall, too bright or too dull. Fi h, par ticularly ba have a peculiar nature and insi t on everything being jut right.
Thi is an old truth well known
to every bait caster. In some case
and on mo t lakes it is nece ary
to experiment with various lures
lures until the right one is found.
t times it i even neces ary to try
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By B. C. (Fishin' Bill) Schoen
OUTDOOR GEORGIA May 1940

Fly fishermen are usually all wet from the neck down--Qnd up.
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mistakes and fall for artificial flies. This specimen did, and that was the end of another rainbow.

Rainbow fingerlings leap into cold running water, where they must shuffle for themselves. Water in the containers must be of the same temperature as that in the stream. The young fish grow under the protection of a closed season. But some make

Behind those rap:ds lies a favorite hole of Georgia trout fishermen. Opening day (April 1) found many of them here early, some casting, others "worming."

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Salt water fishing attracts thousands to Georgia's coast. This 29-pound channel bass was taken off Tybee Island by the modest angler at attention.

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proved he k perch and in a.,. goes

new how t

m/IJutes

o take them.

Watch out panfish! This young lady is willing to angle for perch, but "oh those worltls! You fix it, please." And her guide obeys.

Tab slunk to her belly and began the long stalk upwind,

T AB wandered upwind, unhurriedly, picking her way with silent ease among the dead leaves and dried grass stalks. Occasionally she paused and thrust her delicate ears up into the passing air currents. Once when dry leaves rustled ahead of her, she flattened her body to the ground and wa motionless for many minutes. The noise wa not repeated and Tab resumed her ilent, inister way upwind_ Thi dawn she was the hunter.
Tab looked, in the dim light, like a miniature reproduction of some fierce, feline ancestor of another age. Her stealthiness, her oft gray body marked with almost imperceptible black stripes, her green, unwinking eyes, all might have been born in the dawn of creation and handed down through the centuries to Tab.
The ca,t's presence in the wilderness swamp and meadow did not portend good for the smaller creature that' made their homes there. Many times during the day and night did she hunt like this, and so sure wa her stalk, so wift and certain was her spring, and so keen were her claw , that she took heavy toll among the furred and feathered inhabitants of the tiny swamp where she ranged.
Suddenly she paused in the very act of lifting her foot and in the same movement became invisible against the ground. A small, white-footed mouse, eater of seeds, insect and rootlets, came down one of his tiny swamp trails, leaving bird-like tracks behind him.
As the mou e scampered in front of her, Tab shot out a lightning-like paw from her body. Her blow was quick and hard. 0 gasp of breath came from the white-fool's body, no
10

Dawn Hunter

Tab was a cat with two lives-one a purring pet, the other a dark destroyer
By CHARLES NEWTON ELLIOTT

cream. Death had been too swift, too sudden.
Tab was disdainful of the choice morsel. She killed for sport, making no pretense of the fact that he was on her way to a more regal breakfast.
he knew where a covey of quail lived in a field beyond the wamp, and she wanted one, perhaps two, for her morning meal. he was hungr , but the hunt had not been completed.
D ARK ESS grew thinner in the swamp, and full daylight fell upon Tab when she gained the brown, open sedge field beyond. Here was her favorite hunting ground. Many rabbits, many of the smaller birds and rodents lived here, and Tab could talk them under the cover of the brown sedge. She pushed up her head

into the wind. It was against her right cheek, so she turned left and followed the edge of the field until she came directly across it from the way in which the wind was blowing.
She stood for a long time with her ears in the air, exhibiting the remarkable patience of the wild. Her sense of
mell was rudimentary, hardly harper than that of the human to whom she belonged, and Tab hunted altogether by her ears and eyes. 0 sound coming across the field escaped her. 0 movement went unseen.
Presently she growled oftly in her throat. To her sensitive ear had come the faint language of quail. Tab slunk to her belly and began the long stalk upwind. She did not hurry, for
(Continued on page 27)

The covey rose on roaring, startling wings. May 1940 OUTDOOR GEORGIA

By FRED JORDAN

F ROM Moosejaw, askatchewan, to Waynesboro, Burke County, Georgia, and on through Mi sis ippi and western Tennessee, the trial circuit of 1939-40 moved. It wa the same annual route. But it wa rough most of the way. Dry weather, wind, rain and now played havoc with dogs, owner and handler .
When they were not scouring dry field they were working into head ,yjnds that handicapped dog on ever curve. Or they were having their feet and ear bitten by frost and snow. In spots it wa too, et and rainy to go onto the cour e .
everal postponement were forced. Weather delayed both the ational and the Free-forAll.
But Georgia completed it five trials on schedule. From the Georgia Field Trial Association' event through the spring trials of the Coweta County portsmen's Club the weather played a fair game, and although it went out of bound several times, not once did it hold up a bird dog event.
Young's Billie Wins
Georgia All-Age
A LARGE part of the country wa hivering in ub-freezing tern perature when the Georgia Trial opened January 15 at Wayne boro. Thi ,as the 40th annual trial of the a ociation, and ,a preceded by a dinner at "The Hut," home of the Burke County American Legion Post.
Riding in the addle a judges were two of the country's mo t competent bird dog men, G. W. tanbery of Jeffer on City, Tenn., and George
uttle of ewport ews, Virginia. A big Texas dog, Young's Billie, ignored such hindrances as change of water, nippy weather and a strange Cour e and swept through the field in the Open All-Age. Billie is owned by
H. J. Yoakum of Houston, and han
OUTDOOR GEORGIA May 1940

Tip's Topsy's Top, Georgia's outstanding dog of the year, and Owner Raymond Hoagland

dled by V. E. Humphrey of Goliad. He was perfect on three find , all of which were well earned after intelligent searching.
Raymond Hoagland's Tip's Topsy's Top, one of the outstanding entries of the year, placed econd in this take. He wa handled by the veteran George Crangle, and hi peed and ground work were feature of the trial. Third place wa plit between
ioux Bacon hoal' Jake, pointer dog, owned by W. R. Plowden and handled by Luther mith, and Bill' Doctor Ricks C. F. Gaine ' pointer handled by George Crangle.
SUMMARY
Waynesboro, Ga., January 15 Judges: G. W. Stanbery and Geor&,e Suttle
MEMBERS ALL-AGE-19 Pointers and 9 Setters
1st--WILLI G'S DOCTOR SAM, 256752, point. er dog, by Joe Willing-Maplebrook Tillie. Dr. S. O. Black, owner and handler.
2nd-HOMEWOOD HILLBILLY, 216905, pointer dog, by Muscle Shoals' Jake-Mias Lawton, Euclid Claussen, owner and handler.
3rd-TIP'S MANITOBA JAKE, 19 279, pointer dog, by Bristol's Manitoba Rap--Muscle

Sboals Betty. Mrs. Glenna Collett Vare, owner ; E. H. Vare, handler.

MRMBERS' DERBY-5 Pointers and 6 Setters

Ist- OR'EASTER FRANK, unreg., setter dog,

by Beau Essig-

.__. Earl H. Rob

erts, owner; Fred C. Jordan, bandler.

2nd-COTTON PICKER, 292564, pointer bitcb, by Claussen's Jack-Butterfield imp. Euclid Claussen, owner and bandler.

3rd-BELLVIEW NUGYM, 2&(013, wetter dog, by Nugym Mobawk Sport--Bellview Queen. H. 1. B. Spector, owner and handler.

OPE ALL-AGE--40 Pointers and 9 /?etters
1st-YOUNG'S BILLIE, 255047, pointer dog, by Jim Peters-Frost's Wbite Boots. H. J. Yoakum, owner; V. E. Humphreys, ha.ndler.
2nd-TIP'S TOPSY'S TOP, 225122, pointer dog, by Village Boy-Tip's Topsy. Raymond Hoagland, owner; George Crangle, handler.
Equal3rd-SIO X BACO SHOAL'S JAKE, 21952ji, pointer dog, by Baconrind--Queen Bess Stewart. W. R. Plowden, owner; Luther Smitb, handler.
EquaI3rd-BILL'S DOCTOR RICKS, 216157, pointer dog, by Nepken Carolina Bill-Butterfield Belinda. C. F. Gaines, owner; George Crangle, bandler. OPEN DERBY-ll Pointers and 4 Setters
lst-GROOMSTER, 2 6127, pointer do&" by Icbaway-Bob's Harvester Lady. Dr. E. R. Hays, owner; Prather Robinson, handler.
2nd-PATHFI DER HIGHLAND REX, 2 912, pointer dog, by Rex's Tarheel Jack-Highland Bimpkins Girl. F. C. Ash, owner; George M. Cran&,le, handler.
3rd-BRIGHTHURST TWINGO, 276705, setter dog, by Outacite-Knighthood Lady. W. L. Getting, owner; Casey Black. handler.

Weather played fair game and state's five annual trials ran on schedule
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Tip's Topsy's Top
Stars in Continental
W HAT he didn't do at Wayne bol'o and in the Continental Trial in Januar of 1939, Tip' Tops' Top accomplished in the 1940 event on Gerald Living ton' Dixie Plantation near Quitman. He won the champion hip in a field of 21 point. er and one etter with a fine all round performance in view of the adver e weather condition.
Living ton' tar entry, Ray' Jin go Joe, white and liver pointer, pushed Top hard for fir t honor. The final heat was a two-hour grind.
The Open Derby launched the trial and it was Jorias Kremlin's Joe owned by W. C. Teagle and handled by C. H. Harris, that came through with a fine show and handled well to take the event.
Judges for the Continental Trial were Dr. T. Benton King, of Brown ville, Tenn., and Henry Bank, of Guerryville, Ala.
SUMMARY
Quitman, Ga., January 22 Judges: Dr. T. Benton King and Henry Banks
OPEN DERBY-13 Pointers and I Setter Ist-NORlAS KREMLIN'S JOE, 2 3926, point.
er dog, by Norias KremJin-Norias Betty. W. C. Teagle. owner; C. H. Harris, handler. 2nd-HOMERUN DIXIE MILLlGA , 2 403. pointer bitch, by Homerun Dixie Dan-Kate Keeting. Miss Claudia L. Phelps. owner; Charles Prickett, handler. 3rd-FARMWOOD FLEECE, 2 90 7, pointer bitch. by Farmwood Yanke Radio Beam. U. M. Fleischmann, owner; Sam Yount, handler.
CHAMPIONSHIP-21 Pointers and 1 Setter Winner-TIP'S TOPSY'S TOP. 225122. pointer
dog, by Village Boy-Tip'. Topsy. Raymond Hoagland owner; George Crangle. handler. Runner.up-RAY'S JINGO JOE, 243747, pointer dog, by Alfalfa Bill-Jingo Sam's Jingolita. G. M. Livingston, owner; Fred Wilson. handler.
Seabrite Boy Sets Pace
In Southern Amateur
A OTHER pointer, Harry B. Goodrich' eabrite Bo, ap tured the AllAge take and et the pace in the Southern Amateur Field Trial at Albany. Thi Tampa dog wa ju t ahead of another Florida entry, Jake's eaview Mi s , pointer, owned and handled by John Ru h of Orlando.
This influx of Florida dog boomed \ hen Bob ealy, president of the club, decided the entrie were com ing in too slowly. He offet:ed Goodrich, ecretary of the Florida We t Coa t Field Trial Club, use of hi be t saddle hoI' e if he would help swell the field. Goodrich accommo dated Sealy and showed his enthusiasm by walking off with the big silver goblet.
Rider's Greymist Jake, owned and handled by Lester White, annexed
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the Member Derby, and Billy Ricks owned by Clarence Gaine and handled by Raymond Hoagland, won the Puppy take. Judge were George W.
tanbery and D. Roy Persons of Monticello.
SUMMARY
Albany, Ga., February 19
Judges: George W. Stanbery and D. Roy Persons
MEMBERS' PUPPY-6 Pointers and 4 Setters 1st-BILLY RICKS, unreg., pointer dog. by
Bill's Doctor Ricks-Tarheel Jane. Clarence Gaines, owner; Raymond Hoagland, handler. 2nd-HILLBRIGHT ROY, unreg., setter dog, by Hillbright Peerless Dan-Hillbright Peggy. M. G. Dudley, owner; Raymond Hoagland, handler. 3rd-MERCER MILL JAKE. 295613, pointer dog, by Mississippi Broomhill Jake-Hal's Village Anne. Col. B. C. Goss, owner and handler. MEMBERS' DERBY-9 Pointers and 5 Setters
1st-RIDER'S GREYMIST JAKE, 2 5060, pointer dog, by Bronco--Mad Anthony's Lady. Lester White. owner and handler.
2nd-ICHAUWAY'S LITTLE GOOBER, 283909, pointer dog, by lchauway's Mik andy Ridge Belle. R. W. Woodruff, owner; Tram mell Scott, handler.
3rd-BLUE SPRINGS PEGGY, unreg., pointer bitch, breeding not given. W. C. Potter. owner and handler.
MEMBERS' ALL-AGE-26 Pointers and 7 Setters
lst-SEABRITE BOY. 263169, pointer dog, by Village Boy-Mad Anthony'. Babe. H. B. Goodrich. owner and handler.
2nd-JAKE'S SEAVIEW MISSY, 276220, pointer bitch, by Rex's Tarheel Jake-Zig's Carolina Lady. John A. Rush, owner and handler.
3rd-MERCER MILLIE. 2 1 00. pointer bitch, by Smokshot Willing-Cane Brake Nell. Mrs. B. C. Goss, owner; Col. B. C. Goss, handler.
Hoagland's Dog Repeats
In Regional Classic
T IP'S TOP Y' TOP repeated hi 1939 victory in the outheastern States Amateur Championship for Region 3. Thi wa run following the Southern Amateur. Top won over a field of unusually good dogs and showed his best form of the eason to take the silver bo\ I awarded by Bob Woodruff.
Rosetime, 0\ ned and handled by Fred Jordan, placed second to Top.
SUMMARY
Albany, Ga., February 21 Judges: Henry Banks and D. Roy Persons
(Region 3)-16 Pointers and 10 etters Winner-TIP'S TOPSY'S TOP, 225122, pointer
dog, by Village Boy-Tipsy Topsy. Raymond Hoagland, owner and handler.
Runner-up-ROSETIME, 2 0141. setter bitch, by Timerson-Georgia Rose Piedmont. Fred C. Jordan, owner and handler.
Bimplcins and Bess
Top Atlanta Trial
I PECTOR BIMPKI J and Altoona Be Dungavel won the hooting Dog and Junior All.Age takes in the spring trial of the Atlanta Field Trial Club at Fear' Farm near Hampton.
Ray Carter's large white and liver pointer turned in almost perfect work on game and combined it with a rangy earch to win the Shooting

Dog championship over Jack Tway's Air Master, which had three find but 10 t in a clo e decision to Bimp kins' superior form. Tway's Air Devil wa third.
ltoona Bes , pointer bitch, owned and handled by J. H. Geffken, ran a fa t heat and climaxed it with a tyli h point in the Junior All-Age. he handled well and this allround show brought her in ahead of tyli h Bell Proctor, white and liver pointer 0\ ned b C. J. Crawford. Apexior Bob, owned by John Halliburton and handled by Happ Lovern, took third place.
Alabama Jack C, another pointer entered by Carter, gave the president of thi growing club his econd winner in the Derby. It remained for the puppie to ave the day for the set tel's. T. R. Atkinson's Beau Hawk Hen on captured the Junior Puppy Stake, and 1. D. Crump's Edgefield Kanza Don, a Macon entry, showed the way in the enior Puppy take.
A large gallery, cheered by perfect weather and at times outstanding work, made tbi the mo t succe ful trial in the short hi tory of the t lanta club.
SUMMARY
Fears' Farm, Hampton, Ga., March 9 Judges: Bunter Pope and Roy Persons
JU lOR P PPY-3 Pointers and 4 etters
lst--BEAU HAWK HE SON, setter dog, by Georgia Cracker Beau peckled Sport Queen. T. R. Atkinson, owner and handle.r.
2nd-MR. BEA ,setter dog, by Georgia Cracker Beau-Lady Luck Southern. H. W. Bray, owner and handler.
3rd-GA GB STER, pointer dog, by Backwood'. Chief-Schoolfield Lottie. Wallace Gray, owner and handler.
SENIOR PUPPY-9 Pointers and 3 Setters
1st-EDGEFIELD KANZA DON, setter dog, by Kanza-Dashing Drake's Pride. J. D. Crump, owner and handler.
2nd-GEORGIA CRACKER, pointer dog, by Apexior Bob---B1ackwood Pal. John H. Halliburton, owner: Happy Lovery, handler.
3rd-GLAMMERGAL. pointer bitch, by Jabs Big Boy-Elsies uzy Q. W. F. Floyd, owner and handl r.
DERBY-12 Pointers and 4 Setter
1st-ALABAMA JACK C. pointer dog, by Enjoy-Misty Jake's Nell. Ray W. Carter, owner and handler.
2nd-VINELA D LAD, setter dog, by Winter Haven Gator-Leazar's Molemon Beauty. Gus Leazar, owner and handler.
3rd-ALTOONA BESS D NGAVEL. pointer bitch, by Rumson Farm Dewey-Nira Dungavel's Beauty. J. H. Geffken, owner and handler.
J lOR ALL AGE-9 Pointers and 6 Setters
I t--ALTOO A BESS DUNGAVEL, pointer bitch, by Rumson Farm Dewey-Nira Dungavel's Beauty. J. H. Geffken, owner and handler.
2nd-STYLISH BELL PROCTOR, pointer bitch, by Brooksie's Jake-Lady Stylish Proctor. C. N. Crawford, owner and handler.
3rd-APEXIOR BOB, pointer dog, by Detector's Bimpkins-Bourbon Ann. John H. Hallibur. ton, owner; Happy Lovern, handler.
SHOOTING DOG-14 Pointers and 4 Setters
Ist--lNSPECTOR BIMPKINS, pointer dog, by Ferris Proctor Bimpkins-Radio Detector. Ray W. Carter, owner and handler.
2nd-AIR MASTER. pointer dog. by Air PilotBottie Baby. Jack L. Tway. owner and handler.
3rd-AIR DEVIL, pointer dog, hy Air Pilo Frexiana. Jack L. Tway, owner and handler.
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May 1940 OUTDOOR GEORGIA

73 Million lor 7938 Hunting Licenses
The Bureau of Biological Survey, which has all the answers to everything in the woods and tI'eams, reported this month that sportsmen of this country paid over $12,600,000 for approximately 7,500,000 hunting licenses or combination hunting-fishing or hunting-trapping licenses in 1938. This i the latest year for which the figures for the whole country are available. The
Nimrods Stack Smoke Higher
figures included hunting licenses alone in 22 tate, includi))g Georgia, and in the others, only the fishing and trapping licenses that were combined with tho e of hunting.
Michigan, led the country, with 682,605 licenses which brought a revenue of 934,660.. Pennsylvania was second with 661,443, and ew York third with 657,810. Pennsylvania, however, with higher fees, collected $1,361,196.10, while New York was second in money returns with $1,239,619.79.
Georgia was near the bottom of the list. This state di tributed 64,901 re ident licenses (county and state) and 752 non-resident license (county and state), for a total of 65,653. This was below that of every adjoining state except Florida. orth Carolina i sued 158,870 resident and 2,089 non-resident licenses and other bordering states reported the following figures: South Carolina, 91,590 resident; 3,072 non-resident; Tennessee, 77,714 resident; 497 non-resident; Alabama, 113 resi-
OUTDOOR GEORGIA May 1940

dent; 548 non-re ident; and Florida, 57,152 resident and 773 non-resident. Georgia's' money return total was
116,197.50. Federal migratory-bird hunting stamps (duck stamps)
brought 1,002,000 for the season, making a total of 13,500,000 for state and federal licenses. These returns show that hunting and the number of hunters have continued to increa~e. Since 1935 the increase for the nation has been approximately a million a year.
Dove Shooters Pay $7.89 a Minute
Until a better one comes along the story of a Miller County dove hunt and disposition of cases against six violators on the hunt holds the speed record in Georgia wildlife. Rangers Earl Lord and Joe Glaw on will tell you that this is the era of peed. They were discussing peed as they cornered a group of hunters on an early morning shoot over a baited area. It was too late to run when Lord and Glawson appeared from oppo ite directions. Or maybe the hunters ju t didn't want to run.
It was too late for the hunters to deny they were shooting over bait. The grain was there and it stayed for the doves while the rangers swung into their record breaking stride. The hunters agreed to plead guilty and Lord and Clawson got the cases OILt of the way in two 'hours and 25 minutes after the last shot was fired.
They drove to Colquitt, six miles away, in 10 minutes. They roused the justice oi the peace, a fellow who had
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Just Call Us "Speedy"
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PERHAP the mo t uc e sful book ever written about trout fishing was I aak Walton's "Compleat Angler," which has been publi hed in more than 100 edition ince it first appeared almo t 300 years ago. ince then whole librarie have been written on the subject of fishing for trout, and thousands of magazine article have appeared
on the ubject.

TACKLING
TROUT

Royal Rainbow and Battling Brook Are Big Business

i more ati factor and durable than the cheaper grade. Any good tackle salesman can show the novice
angler more acro s the counter than could be written here in ten thousand ,ord. And almost every sporting

out of the way. Your automobile i parked beside the tream a mile or two below where you stand kneedeep in water. Immediately below you lie a pool almo t hidden in the laurel. You ee the water boil clo e to hore and know that a trout is feeding there. He may be under legal ize, but the big swirl he ha made convince you he i fourteen, fifteen or maybe eighteen inches long. Upon
your skill alone depends whether he will be present at your evening meal. First of all-be patient! Do

"" Any fisherman,

cOI1l'P/et
e

tOc~/e

looking over the vol-

alit!"

urninous works devoted to

' ProPer!.

the deception of trout, might be . inclined to con ider the art of anO'hng

'J' /'olldl.
eo; II-i//

as something comparable to the com-

Prodll

plexity of a time machine. Boiled

Ce lis/, .

down to word, trout fi hing is a

'II

imple, wholehearted sport, to which good store ha

a few imple rules apply.

at lea tone enthu i-

Arthur Woody, United State For- a tic trout fi herman among

est Service Ranger, declares that all it personnel.

he needs is a string, hook, worm and AFTER the purchase of equip-

a deep pool on one of his favorite

ment, the next important item

creeks. With enough of this equip- i locating the stream and selecting

ment he can hook and land any color- a de irable tretch of water. The Blue

ful beauty of his beloved mountain . Ridge mountain of north Georgia

Many fishermen, however, prefer to contain many excellent trout stream,

use artificial lures.

most of which have been stocked by

Equipment in trout fishing is an the U. . Forest ervice and the State

important item. A complete outfit, Divi ion of Wildlife. Tallulah River,

con isting of rod, reel, line, net, lead Mocca in Creek, Hiawassee River,

er , flies and other nece ary equip- Cooper Creek, oontootly Creek, Toc-

ment, may be purcha ed anywhere coa River, Rock Creek, Jack' River

in a price range of from a few to and Connasauga River are just some

many hundred of dollars. Equip- of them. Information and maps of

ment i either expensi e or inexpen- the north Georgia roads and trout

sive, depending upon the ta te and treams may be ecured either from

pocketbook of the individual fi her- the Fore t ervice in Atlanta or

man. Artificial flie of the same pat- Gainesville or from the Wildlife Di-

tern, for instance, range in price vision.

from ten or fifteen cent to two dol-

The preliminary steps of buying

lars each. Good equipment, however, tackle and selecting the stream i

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not go splashing down the creek, tumbling over rock and log. The trout will remain where he i and continue to feed a long a he is not disturbed.
UMI G that you have put A our outfit together, trung your line through the guides and soaked your leader. The leader, as you know, is that very thin gut string between the end of the line and your hook or fly. It is invisible in the water and makes the fly appear as separated from the end of the line. In lake or large pools a 9 or 12 foot leader is required; in running water a 6 or 71,12 foot leader is long enough. Leaders are made a small
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May 1940 OUTDOOR GEORGIA

F'ISHING SEASONS AND REGULATIONS

APRIL

STREAM Jacks River and Tributaries. . . . . . . . . . .
Smith Creek

OPEN

AREA

. . April 13 - 28

Cohutta

April

13

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Chattahoochee28. . . . . . . . . . .. Chestatee

Moccasin Creek

April 13 - 28

Baggs Creek ........................... April 13 - 28

Lake Burton
ChC~:sht:~~~ee-

Chestatee River (Frogtown Creek)

April 13 - 28 ........... Chc~t:s~:~~~ee-

Jones Creek

April 13 - 28

Blue Ridge

MAY

Dicks Creek Noontootly Creek

. ................. May 4 - 19 May 4 - 19

Lake Burton Blue Ridge

Lovingood Creek

May 4 - 19

Blue Ridge

Stover Creek Long Creek

May 4 - 19 ............. Blue Ridge

May 4 - 19

Blue Ridge

Fricks Creek *Rock Creek Lake

May 4 - 19 ............. Blue Ridge

May 10 - Sept. 2

Blue Ridge

D',cks Creek an d TfI'butafl.es

.M.ay 11 - June 7

. . . ChCahtteashtaotoecehee-

Conasauga River and Tributaries

May 11 - June 16........ ChCahtteashtaotoeechee-

Wildcat Creek

May 25 - June 9

Lake Burton

JUNE

Chattahoochee River and Tributaries
Jacks River and Tributaries Rock Creek Little Rock Creek Mill Creek (Rock Creek)

June 8 - July 7. . . . .
June 28 - July 15 June 29 - July 7 June 29 - July 7 June 29 - July 7

Chc~t:sht:~~~ee-
, Cohutta Blue Ridge Blue Ridge Blue Ridge

JULY

Moccasin Creek Dukes Creek and Tributaries

July 3 - 21 July 27 - Sept. 2

Lake Burton
ChC~~s~:~~ee-

AUGUST

Lovingood Creek ....................... August 17 - Sept. 2

Stover Creek ......................... August 17 - Sept. 2

Long Creek

August 17 - Sept. 2

Fricks Creek

August 17 - Sept. 2

Conasauga River and Tributaries

August 3 - 11

Rough Creek

August 17 - Sept. 2

Blue Ridge Blue Ridge Blue Ridge Blue Ridge Cohutta Cohutta

*Open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays and July 3, 4 and September 2.

INLAND FISHING
Open season on all species of fresh water fish except rainbow and brook trout in Georgia is June 1 through April 14 of the following year. Dates of the closed seasons are April 15-May 31. Open season in the trout waters of North Georgia is April I-November 15 outside the Georgia Fish and Game Management Areas. In streams and lakes within the Management Area the season is April 13September 2.
The creel limit for Rainbow and Brown trout is 20 daily; for Brook or Speckled trout it is 25. Rainbow and Brown trout must be eight inches long and Brook must be seven inches. The limit in Management Area streams is 10 daily. There is no limit on other species of fresh water fish.
COASTAL FISHING
The season on all salt water fish except Shad remains open the year-round. These fish may be taken from all waters January 23March 23 inclusive (extended to April 1 this yead. Shad may be taken from the St. Mary's River from January 1 until April 20.
MANAGEMENT AREA
SIZE LIMIT-Minimum size limit for all trout is' seven inches.
CREEL LI MIT-Maximum catch in any day and maximilm possession for one person is 10 of anyone or all species.
FEES AND MANNER OF FISHIN~Per mits are $1 per person a day or $10 a season. Permits are valid on any stream or lake during the regulated season and must be obtained before fishing is begun. They must be accompanied by a state fishing license. Permits may be obtained from Wildlife Rangers or from the following addresses:
Division of Wildlife, State Capitol, Atlanta.
Division of Wildlife, Canton.
Forest Supervisor, U. S. Forest Service, Gainesville.
District Forest Ranger, U. S. Forest Service, Blue Ridge.
District Forest Ranger, U. S. Forest Service, Suches.
District Forest Ranger, U. S. Forest Service, Clayton.
FISHING TIME-Fishing is permitted only between the hours of 5 a. m. and 7 p. m., standard time for the area concerned. (Cohutta Area, central time, all other areas eastern time).
CREEL CENSUS-Fishermen are required to report their catches on a government post card addressed to the Forest Supervisor, or to the ranger at the checking station.

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the Shimmr. Wiggler." says this Florida fisherman. 'It seems to have everything that appeals to fish appetite. "- ~e proves it with this 14 lb. 1 oz. p.r,ze winner. Shimmy Wiggler No.5. wt. 0/8 oz. with bucktail fly isonly 1.00.The best inwestment in fishing resuJtsyou can make.

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Tackling Trout
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a 6 which i .005 inche in diam-
eter a~d which ha a ten ile trength
of lfz pound.
You have tied on your leader and decide to fish with flie . Examine the water carefull . If it contain live flie or bu a of an kind, scoop on,e or two up with your trout net and examine them carefully. Then select the artificial fly from your tackle bo, which seem to be mo t imilar to the live fly you have taken off the water. Tie thi on in the approved method.
Nm work our elf carefully into a position for casting. pace i 0 limited here that a de cription of the most correct methods of castin a i impracticable. Any good book on trout and most porting good catalogs will give the correct technique. To become expert with a fly rod i a matter of practice and practice alone.
While ou are attaining the best ca ting po ition, be careful not to tumble over rock. ound carrie a long way through water. Remember al 0 that a fi h can ee in a 90-degree cir Ie above hi head and that once he glimp e a fi herman, he top ri ing, at lea t for a while.
Place your fly on the water several feet in front of where you have een the /ish ri e. Allow it to float naturall down tream~ following the natural swirls of the water. If it i dragged acro s the current in an unnatural manner, then the fish become u piciou and will not rise to take it. In water that i not 0 active the fly may be retrieved slowly in hort jerk, as though it were making a la t de perate effort to live. Thi movement will often excite the fish into triking.
I F THE trout does not ri e to the first ca t, try everal over the arne spot. If none of the ca ts produ e , pull in your line and change f1ie . Allow 10 or even 15 minute for this change. The fi h may re ume feeding in the meantime. fter all you know there is a trout in the pool
ou are fi hing. It might be the only one in the tream. Fi h the pool thoroughly before you leave.
Many fi hermen will try as many a half a dozen f1ie on one pool where they have een a trout rise. When fish feed in top of the water, dry f1ie , or flies which float on the 'urface, are be t. When the fi hare feeding deep, wet or drowned flie and nymph are be t.
You an see a trout take a dry fly.
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A1ay 1940 OUTDOOR GEORGIA

ABOUT
DOGS
/" EDITED BY JOHN WOODWARD
':S-."';_ ~. -:=- ..

LOYALTY
A man may lose his house and lot, His friends may pass him by,
He may not have a thin dime left To rent a slab of pie;
But if he owns the homeliest And saddest dog in town,
He has one pal whose honest love Will never throw him down.
A man may kick his mangy pup And cuss him day and night,
Still will the faithful mut be true And greet him with delight..
Life long he sits upon the porch And wags his happy tail,
To greet his lord when he shall come From congress or from jail.
-DW.
***
Season 01 Activity
I THIS neck of the woods, hunting, field trials and bench shows are just about over until next fall, but that doesn't mean a season to hibernate for dogs and those who love them.
In fact, now is the time when dog folks should be checking on the condition of their kennels. Don't wait until there i a tick or flea epidemic in your back yard. An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
A lot of that bedding which served as a winter necessity ought to be burned. If it was an old blanket, rug, or suggin, replace it with clean straw or fresh cedar shavings until the cool days are over. \Vhen the hot days et in in earnest you can well do away with even that.
***
Mat or Basket
Clean, bare boards then will make a mighty good beautyrest for his majesty the dog. But sleeping on brick, cement, or concrete floors is ~ot a good thing. Almost invariably It causes callous places-they are really corns-to come on the elbows
OUTDOOR GEORGIA May 1940

of heavy dogs. And these places not infrequently become sore, crack open and even develop into eats of infection that eventually cost time, trouble and money.

If your dog must sleep on one of these hard floors, supply him with a suitable mat. They can be obtained for little or nothing from most kennel supply houses. Small dogs of the indoor variety can be cared for in wicker baskets. Or a neat, clean box from your corner grocery will do. The thing is, keep it clean.

From time to time, the wood work

of your dog premises should be thoroughly scoured with a strong solution of lye, rinsed in clear water. And be sure to leave no puddles standing about for the chance dog to lap up. It will mean his certain death. There are several effective

commercial disinfectants on the mar-

ket that can be used with effectiveness as spray to guard against vermin infestation.
Fleas breed most prolifically in sand, gra s, and refuse heaps. You can't do much about ridding the front or back lawn of them without also ridding yourself of the grass. But you can do a lot about the sand and refuse

heaps.

***

Salt Chases Fleas

Coarse salt sprinkled in sand will drive away fleas. othing, is better than that for dirt floors in the basement. If your back yard is sandy, cover it with black loam and there will be no more fleas. Lime strewn in fence corner is a good disinfectant and puts fleas on the run.

"Stop-to-Flush"
TERMS used in speaking of dogs, at field trials, and in kennel af-
fairs, always have interested me greatly. However, I am no Soloman when it comes to such things. Constantly I turn to others for enlightenment and just as many turn to me. At the spring meet of the Atlanta Field Trial Club near Hampton I ran across Fred Jordan-it wouldn't be a field trial without Fred-and asked him what f'stop-to-flush" meant.
"There's one now," he said. We were facing the bird field, when Zach's Pal, a leggy, white setter with tan ears, topped a rise. Pal is owned and handled by E. B. Zachry. It was brace o. 2 on the afternoon card. Coupled with Pal was Inspector Birnpkins, a big, stream-lined pointer, owned and handled by Ray Carter and a dog, incidentally, that won the Shooting Dog Stake. Well, Bimpkins and Pal had just taken the first part of the three-mile course neck and neck. It is doubtful if there was a nickel's worth of difference in their work at that time. Abreast they reached the bird lot where live quail had been liberated. Both dogs worked that corn patch faultlessly. either produced birdsfor a while. Then, Birnpkins went off by himself to investigate a plum thicket. Almost at once Ray Carter called, "Point!" Judgment was recorded on this one. Bimpkins back tracked, skirted the thicket quickly on the North, pnd came down on a second bird on the other side. "Point!" called Ray again.
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T o the average fisherman who goe out to fish for bass or trout or bream, a stream is just a body of water that either has fish or do not have fi h in it. If he is a "Cracker pole" fisherman-and there are thouand of them-he will keep the few catfi h and suckers he i lucky enough to catch.
But few of us realize the teeming life that goes on in the smalle t tream or even in a stagnant rain pool. How few of u know the fi h, other than bream, catfish, ucker and carp, found in the streams of Georgia. There are over a hundred kinds and orne of them are interesting little beggar. Fresh water shrimp, too, and sponge ; crawfish (dozen kind ), frogs and turtles and "Spring lizard "; mussels and shell fish, water flea and water insects. There are hundred of different protozoa 0 mall that a microscope is necessar in order to ee them.
As we become more and more intere ted, the e pools and streams take on a different and far more intere ting meaning. Each one will be found to contain a colony of life; mall inhabitant of a mall world, living a life cycle to themselve. Each one play its part in thi world of water and erve orne purpo e in the balance of nature. We study them and find that they have very definite food habits, preferences to the type of water and temperature in which they live.

by
JEFF McCORD
D ID you ever ask your elf what the newly hatched ba feed upon? He i a little haver about the size of a pencil lead and not a long as your thumb nail. In order to grow and become large enough for you to catch on a hook he mu t have food and more food. Day and night he feed constantly upon the very small protozoa and microscopic organi ms in the water until he i large enough to change to a diet of worms and f1ie and bugs and then to small minnows and frogs. Water fleas and shrimp serve as food for other fish, too, and the lowly minnow feeds the larger game fish.
And getting back to the e minnows, we find a very interesting array of them in this state. Georgia is very fortunate in having treams that empty into the Mi sis ippi River ba in, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic Ocean. All the e sources have their influence on the Georgia treams. It has mountain treams and coastal plains and wamp areas and tidewater mar he . All the e factors give thi tate a very v~ried and
tudent of streams has identi.
fied 353 species of fish in
Georgia waters

interesting as ortment of life in its waters.
obody ha ever made a complete urvey of the fish in Georgia, but 353 different species have been collected, to date, in the fresh and salt waters of the state. Probably several other pecies will come to light as the work goe on.
A D even to tho e who know nothing of 11 h, orne of them are ver intere ting. Did you ever watch the little mo quito lish in some South Georgia pond a he wills in and out of the grass and weed near the shore, in search of food? Its food is principally the larvae, or young, of the mosquito. It is different from many other fish as the male is only onehalf as large as the female and the young are born alive--some six or eight litters a year-depending on the food upply and the warmth of the water.
Then there' the Everglades or pygmy sunfish-found in the Okefenokee Swamp. He i the dwarf of the unli h family and when full grown i carcely larger than a five cent piece.
If you are Ii hing for trout in the colder mountain treams, you are liable to catch a little gentleman that eem at fir t glance to be all head and fin. It i the miller' thumb. A ide from the fact that it is ugly and a mon tro ity, it i intere ting becau e
(Continued on page 34)

with JOHN w. BEALL

A RANGER is not a warden. He's not merely an enforcement offi cer. Instead he' a disciple of the outdoor . He is a fellow who e duty is to assi t farmers, land owner and portsmen (the fair hunt er and fishermen) in the protection and propagation of wildlife. Another duty, of cour e, is to enforce the game and fish laws.
Georgia ha a relatively small taff of 66 rangers operating in 159 coun tie. They were selected under what ha been de cribed a the merit ytern, a plan which reduced a field of 3,000 applicants to the present taff. It consisted of examinations on conservation and outdoor life, as well as physical examination de igned to determine the applicant' fitne for

THE GAME WARDEN'S LAMENT
By GILBERT RUSSELL BRACKETT
If the game warden uo to see your license, he's
insulting. If he takes your word for having one. he's eor
rupt. IC he arrests a violator, he's showing how tough
he can be. Ir he gives the culprit another chance, he's
showing favoritism. II he labors night and day to enforce the law,
he's a tyrant. If he relaxes at all, he's a shirker and a crook. H he talks 6sh and game conversation, he's a
Maudlin. If he keeps quiet, he's not interested in his work. If he accepts Bugge tions or advice, he's incom-
petent. If he works out problems for himself, he's a
know all. If he acts like a gentleman, he's too easy. If he acts firm, he's unfair and a rascal.
Ashes to ashes, Dust to dust, If the sportsmen won't do it, The game warden must.
-Hunting Annual, 1939-40.

have not met the ranger in your district notify the Atlanta office and give your address. He has a pecial me age for you and may be able to help with your fish and game problem .
Georgia citizen particularly the hunter and the fi hermen, alread have bem introduced to the work of the rangers. However, various inquirie indicate that there are many per on till unfamiliar with the work the boy in the big hat and green hirt have been carrying on. Too often mention of a ranger brings up the thought of violation. For this rea on I am Ii ting orne of the actual undertakings handled by rangers during the past six months.


hard, outdoor work and an occa iona) foot race with a violator.
The state i divided into four di trict, the Mountain District with headquarter at Canton; Plain District, Swainsboro; Piedmont District, Macon and Flint Ri ver Di trict, ylveter. The ix coa t al countie form a separate. unit known a the Coastal Area. Headquarters for this area are at Brunswick.
ince the e uni formed wildlife rangers went into the woods last

tion clubs, including junior and enior organization , have been formed and an attempt ha been made to contact every farmer, landowner and port man in Georgia. If you

Duties Are Numerous
BE IDE enforcing the laws ranger have the following dutie : aking survey of farm and plan. ning game management area ; upervi ing and giving advice on building or repairing fi h pond; restocking and planting fish in the streams of Georgia ano private pond which are best adapted to these water ; taking fi h out of
streams when
they get too low

eptemher more fi hing and hunting licenses have been checked than in any imi lar period in the hi tory of the tate. Three hun dred and eighty. even con erva

Rangers using net to rescue fish from drying slough in South Georgia.

or dry and planting them in afe waters; a si ting landowners in trapping quail on their own land and distributing to the p I ace
(Turn to page 31)

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Tackling Trout
(Continued from page 16)
He flashe brilliantly for an instant on the urface. Watch clo el when ),ou are fishing a wet flv or nymph beneath the surface. ometime the only indication of a strike i a movement of the line along the surface, You must trike mE , before the trout feel steel again t hi en itive mouth and pit out the artificial fI .
triking back become a matter of habit in time.
Many angler alway cut open the fir t fi h the catch and examine the contents of its tomach. They duplicate the flie found there, for tho e are the one upon which the fi h i feeding. ometime when a tream i muddy and full of food fi h do not trike flie at all. They take worm , pring lizard, crawfi h and other animal food which i wa hed out of the smaller stream. ometimes it i nece ary to u e natural bait, although the purists consider such practice a disgrace to any angler.
W HEI a trout is under the legal limit it should be returned to the tream. WET YOUR HA D BEFORE TO CHI G THE FI H. Handle it a gently as pos ible while removing the hook from its mouth. When fishing with worm or natural bait, use a o. 4 hook or larger. This size hook will take the large trout without killing the small one.
Bergman Ii t approximately 105 dry flies, 72 treamer f1ie and nymph and more than 440 wet flie which are favorite of angler in the nation. The tock of a beginner need not be so large. Favorite flies for Georgia tream miaht be Ii ted a the Black Gnat, Brown Hackle, Gray Hackle, Grizzly King, Profes or, Royal Coachman, Yellow May, Montreal, Queen of the Water, ilver Doctor and eth Green. Most of tho e flies come in both wet and dry pattern . Favorite nymphs are the Akle hrimp, Maggot, tone Creeper, Caddi Worm and ester.
Many fi hermen use spinners and pinner flie. The spinner come in many izes and shapes of the blade but the maller size pinners are u ually considered be t. Other good a sorted artificial bait include crayfi h, imitation frog and fly rod mice,
A landing net i a nece ary part of any trout angler's equipment, e pecially if he fishes with light leader . Tho e leader are generally not trong enough to lift a heavy fi h out of water and many times a landing net will ave a fi h at the tream's edge.
May 1940 OUTDOOR GEORGIA

Vermin Rifles Must Be Consistent

H E SAT defiant, atop the tallest pine, a black sentinel against the rJ<y and ever alert for danger to his rascally brethren in the lower branches. Then the far-away crack of a powerful rifle, a huge puff of feathers exploding in the air. Th at's the thrill of the ...._-'!"""~ r i fl e m ank-~~""'I~
armed with one of the modern uper accurate heavy barrelled vermin rifle equipped with a telescope sight, killing crows and the harmful species of hawks at extreme
ranges. There is nothing quite like the sat
isfaction of exterminating these pest at 200 and 300 yards. It is something you will remember for a long time. Beside the enjoyment it affords, a good deed has been accomplished in game conservation. These black marauders play havoc with bird nests and younglings, and it is estimated that the worst hawks will account for 50-odd game birds a season. Such preci ion work calls for a fairly expensive type of rifle and scope, a~ well as a certain amount of skill as a rifleman. It can be enjoyed fully as much with the cheapest of .22 caliber rifles using Hi-Speed hollow point ammunition, with shots taken at closer range, of course.
The high velocity vermin rifle with heavy barrel and target scope is more or less a specialized arm and is not what most hunters would care to lug around all day in search of other
OUTDOOR GEORGIA May 7940

game. The weights usually run from arms, cflpable of shooting into at

10 to 12 pounds with cope sight.

least a three-inch circle at 200 yards.

Some of you may wonder why sll It must shoot flat enough, so that a

this weight and bother just to shoot miscalculation of 50 or 60 yards in

crow and hawks. But when the di tance estimation will be taken care

hooting is at a three or four-inch of. The velocity should be from 3000

ft. per second
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importance,it must consist-

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object at 125 to 300 yard the problem of the vermin hunter i to hit dependably time after time, allowing for errors in di tance e timation, aim and holding, and hot or cold weather. To do thi the rifle mu t b extremely accurate, ranking with the be t target

as it is a nuisance to have to sight the gun in before each hunt. Space does not permit a detailed discussion of why a rifle once sighted in does not stay that way. But rifles that stay ighted in are very scarce. Rarely ever can you get up from the firing point with the assurance that your

rifle will repeat the same performance

next week without sight adjustment.

Target fired at intervals by J. D. Phillips with
Model 70 Winchester Target Grade Rifle

O E of the finest examples of firing with a dependable rifle for this type of shooting i shown in the accompanying target. It was fired by
my good friend 1. D. Phillios, of At-
lant~ with a Model 70 Winchester Target Grade 220 Swift. Mr. Phillips fired two shots on April 25, 1939, at 100 yards rest, using handloaded ammunition with 55-grain Sisk bullets.
Then using the same target on each trip to the range, intervals varying anywhere from a few days up to two
weeks, he fired 10 shots, some from a clean oily bore and others previou Iy fouled. The la t shot was fired on July 24, 1939. There is only one shot out of the two-inch lO-ring of the 100-yard official small bore target, the entire group mea ures 1.87
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The Old Clay Hole

(Continued from page 5)

civilized double cro s of politicallyminded gentry.
o two fi hermen ever did a crazier thing. For two days we'd fished a well bass stream, and had netted just two fish, both too little to keep. We'd returned, and stopped within ca ting di tance, almo t, of our home - to Ii h.
The Perfect Fi herman took it to the left, while I plowed, right, through the countle small bushes which nature provides to heal the scars man put on mother earth with his steam shovels.
"How could any fish get in such a hole?" I grumbled.
"How? By the river overflow, you dope," The Perfect Fisherman replied. "There are some big bass here if you're good enough to take them."
"Yeah," I answered bitterly, "there were orne in the Ogeechee too. Still there, ain't they?"
He let this pa . Hi crippled minnow darted out over the water, dropped under the shade of a bush seventy feet away. He waited until you might have counted fifteen slowly, while the circle from the falling bait grew larger and larger to di appear entirel . Then he twitched it.
I took a tentative step into the bru h along hore.
Whang! !
I WAS petrified. My heart stopped for a moment and then fought with my tongue for a place in my mouth. There have been moments of terror in my life. Once, I lived through an airplane bombardment, without benefit of helter, with Ger man dropping everything they had, potting after the tuff I shepherded. I wa scared then, but I wa cool and relaxed to what I felt now.
It was a trike! The trike of a water mocca in. He hit me ju t above the ankle. I jumped back, tumbled into an opening, collapsed on a rotten log, disregarding the chigger it harbored. They would devour me. I'm particularly subject to chigger (red bugs) ; they give me fits.
Frantically, I tore at my boot lace. I don't recall crying out. I don't reo call anything except the certainty that the moccasin had truck to the ankle bone. My leg began to ache and well. I knew the ymptom. oon, my tomach would become rigid. I'd be violently nauseated. Already I wa a little sick. God, what a terror the poi on death strike in the heart of a white man!
Then am was there-old efficiency

am. He jerked my ~mblin.g fin~ers away. His lean huntmg kmfe slIced through the leather laces (and part of the boot, dern him!). He pulled
the boot off.
R EL CT TLY I forced my eyes downward expecting two miniature puncture, about a quarter of an inch apart, from \ hich the. blood would trickle and around whIch the blue would have begun alread. I don't recall groaning. And The Per fect Fisherman can kid me all he want to. That snake didn't ki rum.
But there wa notrung there. Relief flooded over me. The snake's fang had failed to get through the heavy
boot. "You said you wanted a chance to
get nake bit" he aid un ympa-
thetically. 'Yeah" I an \ ered. "That cotton
mouth to,ok me too eriou 1y." am tried to be nonchalant but I
could see that he was shaken too. Maybe you guy don't mind the mack of a cotton-mouth when it is gentle, but me-well, I've treated two guy bitten by venomous snakes and it i n't pretty, I tell you.
The Perfect Fi herman traightened up. Ju t to show he wasn't flu tered, he ca t hi lure to the middle of the pond where no fi h ever was.
Wham! !! The bottom of the pond ro e up and rna hed that crippled minnor. A ba s, many times bigger than a grandpa tarpon, came out of the water, shaking his head like an angry terrier. He zoomed to the left and the reel whined.
OW when I tell you The Perfect Fi herman i the be t fi herman in Georgia I tand pat on that tatement. He doesn't get excited. He doe everything ju t right. B mucular reflex, that come Hom long experience, he rai ed hi tip, et the hook. Old grandma bas came out again. The blue water howered away in a thousand jeweler points, and am made the one mistake of his fishing life. He neglected to slack hi line, giving that ba jut the purcha e he needed as he went back into the water. The line parted. am looked at me it long minute. I thought he was about to cry. Then hl" reeled in what wa left of the line, worked hi lip over with his tongue, and said: "Fellow, this ain't our day. Long as you've been snake-bit and everything, I guess we'd better go home before one of us falls in, gets cramp and drowns."

May 1940 OUTDOOR GEORGIA

Quail Hatching in an Eggshell
Simple Rules for Care and Treatment of Incubating Eggs
By EDWIN H. GAITHER

ARTIFICIAL propagation of quail may eem, at the outset, both complicated and difficult. In reality it is neither. Artificial propagation, thorougWy understood and faithfuUy carried out, offers to Georgian an opportunity to create within the border of their tate a new and fa cinating indu try. In addition, the per on ,ho live o intimately with wild bird wlll feel him elf almo t an ally of nature-al ways a field of unlimited interest and keen plea ure.
The weight of the average wild quail in Georgia i 6V2 ounce and it produces about 13 egg in each clutch. A prevalent idea that the hen brings off more than one clutch each year i incorrect. he doe thi only if her ne t ha been detroyed or if the first egg have met with mishap. When this occurs, the hen will move her nest elsewhere, to what she considers a safer place, and will continue laying.
Artificial propagation does away with these hazards which are always pre ent in the wild tate. The average yield of egg for each hen in artifi cial propagation is 60 eggs in a sea on, although there are records of 120-130 eggs in a single season. (Compare thi with the average 13 produced in the wild state!)
M CH depends on the quality of birds elected as breeder. Fir t, they hould be mature-at least nine months old. Second, quail used for breeding hould be tame, so that they will not be frighten~d by the persons who tend them. Third, they should be thoroughly acclimated to
OUTDOOR GEORGIA May 19MJ

the district in which they are to breed. The mo t successful method i to se lect your stock from that of ome other breeder in your own neighbor. hood.
Much consideration should be given the quality of eggs from which your new tock i to come. They hould come from quiet, contented
quail. Otherwise the fertility will be low. Eggs should come from your home locality; shipment or handling can be very harmful. Egg should be gathered at lea t once a week, and hould be kept in a DRY place with temperatures ranging between 50 and 60 degrees F. and should be turned at least once daily. The temperature must EVER go over 68 degrees F. and incubation should be started within ten days of the date on which the eggs are laid.
Incubation can be carried out in two ways; by the u e of bantam hens or with artificial appliance.
For hatching eggs in small quantities, it has been found that bantam hens are most atisfactory. Care hould be taken that the bantam foster-mother i "broody," that is, in a mood to tart sitting, before the egg are put under her. A suitable nest i mo t important; it hould be clean, of fresh material and free from ver min. It is a good idea to dust the bantam with some in ecticide so that her feather will not harbor mites or

other para ites which might later infest the baby quail. A supply of fresh, clean water should be available, and proper feed should be in reach of the hen ~t all times. The nest should be sheltered from the weather and protected again t mice and other enemies. In short, propagation of quail with bantam demand much the
arne care which i u ed in rai ing good chicken . Fifteen egg is the recommended number to et. These should begin pipping about the 22d day after et ting. The hen hould continue in cubation for 23 day or a long a i required for all the chick to be thorougWy dry.
Q AIL chick are different from dome tic chicks in that they will catter upon hatching in tead of staying clo e to the hen. To prevent los of newly-hatched quail the nestbox should be enclosed.
In artificial incubation, the breeder hould have his appliance well heated for several days before he places the eggs in it. In thi connection it i important that operation of the particular incubator, together with its tandard temperature, is thoroughly understood. In case you do not know the average temperature your incu. bator will maintain, get in touch with the manufacturer. Different types and brands of incubator may vary sev eral degrees. The temperatures usu-
ally vary from 98112 to 101112 de-
grees. The relative humidity should be set between 85 and 87.
Proper temperature, fresh air for
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ext month: Giving young quail a fast start

Nature Scores a Double
(Continued from page 6)
bird. Finger.printing figured in the ca e and the iolator were fined. A group of ix dove hunter were aught, tried and fined 45.70 each in less than three hour to et the season record for dis po ition of ca e . This wa in Miller County.
Judge and juries joined the conervation choir and clamped down on violateI' in rna t ca e . However, there were orne judge who refused to back ca e , and in one in tance a jurist announced that he would free unlicensed rabbit hunter a fa t a they ran before him. The port men of Georgia were thankful that others were not so demonstrative. uch a show encourages violation , they believe, and are a tep back toward the outlawed era of destruction.
J ~GES looking in ~rom the other SIde pIa tered VIolator with heavy fine and threatened traight jail entences for person hooting dove for the fun of it and too willing to pay for their fun in ca h. In Fannin County the grand jury e tabIi hed a record by returning true bill against eight alleged violatel's.
ever in the hi tory of the countv had such action been brought again~t game or fi hing law violateI' .
Effort to launch a dri e featuring quail a a ca h crop were topped by the weather. Reports hawed, how ever, that farmer in everal section profited from quail on their land. They charged hunter a much a
5 a day and both partie generally were atisfied. Georgia' fir t regulated quail hunt was attempted by the Rabun Gap Cooperative Fi hand Game Management Area on the Rabun Gap school farm. now, followed by rain, backfired the plan until the la t four day of the ea on.
Only a few hunter hot over the ground, but all were rewarded with the bag limit. The co t ,a 3 a day and the limit wa 10 bird. It will be reopened on a larger cale next eason.
It was in this same area and other Jorth Georgia countie that the 193940 season got off on the wrong foot. Although not the fault of the citizens of the orth Georgia area , the quirreI ea on opened in 18 countie on August 1 wben many ne tling were barely crawling.
GEORGIA' liding- cale hunting laws which in thi and many other instance are back- liding, provide for the ridiculously early ea on on grey squirrel .
nother big mi take materialized
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when the quail ea on opened 0vernber 1 in 18 "Chosen Countie ' of outh Georgia. a Ie an authority than Herbert toddard of Thoma ville, the ,orld' greatest quail expert, attacked thi law with the a ertion that he aw a quail in ubating egg jut three week before the shooting began. Thi paved the way for early de truction of birds that were little more tllan half grown. Intelligent hunter let the young cove flyaway unharmed but dog augbt many of them before they Au bed and thoughtIes hun tel' banged away for immature meat.
Deer hunting offered the arne target for pra tical can ervationi t . The e arne 'Chosen Countie" let down the gate ovember 1 and when the hunters took their tand they were ashamed to shoot at many
young bucks. The were jut yearling fawns and too tru tful to kno,;k down with lead pellet.
Turkey hunting wa one outdoor port iliat more than held it own in the face of ilie weather. Protection during the pa t several years ha brought back the big bronze gobbler and on outh Georgia preserve sev-
eral hundred were taken during the
winter.

The loggerhead hrike i kno, L1 a the 'butcher bird" becau e of its habit of impaling insects, mall bird and other form of it pre on thorn , barbwire and other harp intrument available.

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T HE true fi herman i not big enough of a liar to tell you the truth about the big one that got

II the e lake are famou for their ield of large catche and large fi h. Ba , bream and rainbow trout are

tacked with rainbO\ and brook trout. The e include Dicks Creek, oontootly Creek, Lovingood Creek, tover

away. Fi hermen, be they worm, the more abundant pecie found in Creek, Long Creek, Fricks Creek,

pinner, wet-fly or dry-fly, all speak the e water. Jackson Lake, 40 miles Dicks Creek and tributaries, Cona-

the arne language, a language all ollth of Atlanta, is consi tently kind sauga River and tributaries Wildcat

their own and they're all members of to fi hermen going after ba ,bream, Creek and Rock Creek Lake. Thi

the same strange Brotherhood of the crappie and catfish.

lake is open only on Friday, Sat-

Angle.

urday and unday and ince la t

A That fello\ over there and over
there and au and you are fisher-

LL the e lake will be open during the tatewide closed ea on ( pril

ea on it ha been re tacked with both pecie .

men-b nature if not b practice. IS-June 1) which affect practically

Fi hing' and touri t camps are itu-

That fellO\ gazing blankly out of the all the lake and tream in other ec- ated near the e tream. All are with-
office window i not ick. He' jut a tions of the tate. Lake Rabun, which in three hour of Atlanta, or 1"'h

fi herman. To him the roar of the city i not one of the fine t fi hing lakes, hour or Ie of Gainesville. The en-

is the murmur of a trout stream; the is the playground of orth Georgia tire ection urrounding the e water

rattle of the trolley car is a waterfall in the ummer. Accommodations for provides scenic beauty that itself is

and the siren of the fire engine i a individuals and partie are available unex elled in this country. So if the

granddaddy bas breaking tackle.

at or near all of the e lakes.

fish fail to trike, your trip won't

He want to go ome\ here and the

Trout fi hermen will work in be a 10 .

great outdoors i hi dream. There tream in ide and adjoining the

I may not be a trout in every pool. Game and Fi h Management Area.
Every hole may not hide a five-pound During Ma ten water \ ill be open

F you like your fi hing alty take a look at the Georgia coa tal water.

ba . But Georgia ha treams and in the re tricted area that are heavily

pril and May can titute the fine t

lake and waters that are

fishing eason in the salt

ielding fi h from perch

water river and bay. B

to muskie and even tar-

mid- ummel' these waters

pon and ailfi h.

are infe ted with catfi h

The main problem i

and shark and for thi

not what to do. It's \ here

reason fishermen give up

to go. Where to tryout

in favor of golf-until ea

tho e new plug and flie .

ba and trout chool be-

Where that fi bin' hole i

gin running in the fall.

that ha hade over it and

Whiting provide the

hungry bream and other

port for a majority of

pan fi h in it.

coa tal fi hennen in Ma .

II of this adds up to

Catching whiting i a

big crowd at the re art,

cinch. A tring, a inker,

parks and popular fishing

a couple of hook and a

place in Georgia. nti!

handful of raw shrimp are

June 1 most of the fi hing

all the equipment needed.

will be confined to orth

The whiting doe the rest.

Georgia, the coastal waters

It i a fish that practically

and to private pond.

catche itself if given an

Trout tream and the

even chance. Boat, how-

Po\ er lake in orth

ever make whiting fi hing

Georgia will attra t the

more intere ting. They

large t annie .

rna be obtained at num-

The bo and girl who

erou places along the

go after b a and trout

river between avannah

will find the Georgia

and t. Marys at 50 cents

Power Company lakes to

and up.

their liking.

Anglers seeking fa s te r

Burton, Rabun, Tugalo,

action continue to cast for

Yo na, Tallulah and Seed.

Back of beyond ... you'll find a land of unsurpassed beauty.

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OUTDOOR GEORGIA May 1940

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Your Gun and Mine
(Continued from Page 21)
inches with 6 shots in the I-inch ring. During that time Mr. Phillips killed 80 per cent of the crow and hawk he fired at, up to 300 pace. On a recent trip to Florida he and
1. W. Boone, of Atlanta, killed over
50 crows and hawks hooting from the car and only when a afe shot wa afforded. When he bought the rifle I had occa ion to test it thoroughly ~vith every available factory load, USIng 46 and 48 grain bullet. While it came under the factory accuracy pecification, the groups ran from 1% up to lightly over 2 inches. We did not consider this good enough for tlle type of rifle or the hooting it , as intended for. It wa tried out on crow and only a comparable few were killed.
The gun was turned over to D. C. Casey, a ery skilled workman in both wood and metal and who al 0 under tand the proper method of bedding a rifle mechanism in a stock. He worked several days on the job and in the meantime custom handloaded ammunition wa procured. On the first test it showed a remarkable improvement. In tead of shooting in 2 inche at 100 yard a before, it hot groups of 1 inch and, as the illustrated target hows, it wa consi tent in group placement. Thi wa due to everal things, principally a fine modern bolt action with heavy barrel, properly bedded into a well eaoned stock, a finely balanced handload u ing the be t bullets obtainable. The ad antage of a rifle with uch tremendous muzzle velocity of 4140 feet per econd is obviou. Ver y little distance estimation is required up to 300 yard, and a crow or hawk hit with it is exploded a if a tick of dynamite wa u ed. Such high velocity rifle u ing light bullets are the afe t to use
ain such places a plowed field , where glancing bullet would be dangerous. These bullets di integrate into
tiny particle on impact. Probably
the best custom built outfit for ver-
min hooting is the .22 Varminter made from necking the 250-3000 case to .22 caliber. The .25 cali-
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ber Magnum, the 7 MM necked to

eil, Elmer Keith and Don Hop-

.22 caliber and the 224 uper Var- kins will permit increased velocities

minter. All the e cartridges may be in the e small caliber rifles with Ie

handled on the model 70 Winchester pres ure. p to now it still is a secret

or 30 Remington action. The iedner method of loading. With these "wild-

Arm Company i pecializing in cat" combination it would take a

uch rifle and their barrels are unexcelled.

rich man to keep up with the different cartridge and rifles that are so

F OR the hunter who does not care to go to the expense and bother of having a custom rifle made and is inexperienced in handloading, the best bet would be the model 70 Win-

rapidl de eloped. So it is best to go lowly and wait on developments. One or the other will stand head and shoulders above the rest. Then is the time to purchase uch an outfit.

che ter Target grade rifle in either of the following calibers, 220 Swift,

T o THE hooter who doe not care to put out 0 much hard earned

cash for such

a rifle as pre-

viously men-

Model 61 Winchester slide action repeater

tioned and is satisfied tak-

ing his shots at not over 125 yards

257 Roberts, 270 Winche tel' or the extreme range, just as much pleasure

250-3000. These are all good, and the may be gained from the .22 Long

advantage of having readily available Rifle HI- peed Hollow point car-

factory ammunition is some induce- tridge as from its bigger brothers. I

ment. For the shooter who would like a lighter rifle the model 30-
Remington in 257 Rem Robert caliber i an accurate and dependable outfit. It i a tried and proven cartridge. However, I would not expect quite the results the model 70 target grade is capable of producing. Very little ha been mentioned about the

am going to omit a discussion of the medium power vermin rifles-the .22 Hornet, 22-3000 and the 218 Bee are good examples and are fine rifles up to 200 yards. In the 25 class of .22 rifle for a variety of game a well as crows, the model 61 Winchester is hard to beat. It is a slide

ight equipment, but for thi preci- action hammerless repeater well

ion type of shooting it is e entiaI adapted to a telescope ight. It i

that a fine target type of scope be ide ejection and one of the reason

u ed, varying from 6 to 15 power; Fecker, Lyman, Unertl are all good. Take your preference.
There is no telling where the e mall arms experimenter will wind up. They likely will be taking car tridge the ize of a yrup can and necking them to .22 caliber, reaching into unknown field for the will of the wi p, one-inch group at 200

abl priced Weaver scopes can be mounted practically as low as iron ights. It well warrants a cope, a the accuracy i a tonishing for thi type of rifle, and all I have examined have, without exception, had good cri p trigger pull . The Savage model 29 and the Remington Field Master are both good. For those who prefer
a bolt action

the mod e I

341 Reming-

ton and the

a vag e

modelS- are good arms. While in

the 10 class the model 69 Winchester

yards and 5000 feet per econd veloc- bolt action repeater is a swell little

ity hooting a flat as a tring for lh rifle and worth more than the cost.

mile. And incidentall , it look a if There are many reasonably priced

the goal is in sight. The late t thing rifles on the market today to suit any

out i the Super 229 Thunderbolt one's pocketbook. For the .22 caliber

made by necking the great 300 Holland & Holland Magnum case down, and u ing the 90-grain isk bullet, which should give very high velocity with fine wind bucking pos ibilities. Regardles of what is tried, old man breech pre ure will hold them back to the limit of a brass ca e or 55,000

vermin rifle I would recommend the fixed type of hunting scope in low power. The Weaver i a good example, with prices varying from around 5 to 35. In low power correctly mounted it i easier to u e than any metallic sight and is a cheaply priced as a
good receiver sight. Bear in mind you

pounds pre ure, unle the new Du- are not hooting at extreme ranges

plex loading developed by Charles where a powerful cope i needed.

May 1940 OUTDOOR GEORGIA

Dawn Hunter
(Continued from page 10)

be knew he had plent of time before the bird left their roo t. h picked her \ a from clump to clump of the sedge gra ,driftina like a gray hadow nearer and nearer the quail. Her long tail t, itched almo t imperceptibly and her eye napped with fierce green light. he had not een the birds, but he knew where they were and her pulse beat fast.
A ,hite-throated parrow almo I flew into her, when it came down wind and dropped into the high grass, flying fa t. Tab slapped viciou Iy at it and lUis ed. The white-throat swung upward wildly and shot for the cover of the swamp. Tab crouched a moment before she continued her tealthy crawl.

A LOW, warning note from one of the quail brought them all clo e

to the earth just before Tab prang.

he knew that the bird were oun a

and inexperienced, for he had

preyed before on thi covey. he et

her bod, prang, and they ro e on

tartled, roaring wing. Even in th

air the cat made lightning jabs with

her paw. Her death blow were accu-

rate. Two bird fell. The remainder f

the covey roared away.

Tab crouched and made a hot meal

of the two plump bodie . When noth-

ing but a pile of feathers wa left, she

trotted acro the field, on her way

home.

usual, she followed the

fence row, but today he noticed

omething he had not seen before.

A mocking bird ang by one of the

honey uckle clumps. Tab stopped and

watched curiously.

Pre ently to her sharp ears came

the low chirp of young birds. Twice

before during the spring and um-

mer, Tab had broken up the home of

thi bird and the mocker had made

one la t de pairing effort to rai e a

family before the end of summer.

Without he itation, Tab climbed into

the hone uckle vine and to the ne t

he aw near the thick top. Three

young birds were only a mor el each,

but they were delicious. he calmly

ate them while the mother bird circled

around her, darting at her head utter-

ing creams of protest.

H ER belly full from the morning's hunt Tab climbed down and trotted up the fence row to her home.
he ought her warm ba ket on the back porch and wa there when the famil found her.
At breakfast, Mrs. Jones remarked, "Tab is the daintiest cat I have ever een. he hardly eat anything. We

OUTDOOR GEORGIA May 1940

feed her regularly, but he doe n't do more than ju t nibble at her food. Her appetite i very mall."
"It mu t be," decided Mr. Jone , judiciousl , ' becau e he i well bred, and quite a long di tance remo ed from her ance tor of the jungle. They must have had enormou appetite. All Tab do i to lie around and sleep all day and all night and for uch an inactive life a he leads, little food i required."
irs. Jone nodded wisely agreeing with her hu band.

rounding hill. He quickly but. deftly reache into orne pocket of hIS fishing coat and extracts a small container. From thi he 9ulls one or two wigaling long lender objecta, and thread them on a treble hook and pinner. Thi is gently placed in the tream and allowed to Ioat down with the current. "WHAM!' A trout take it. After the trout i netted and carefully noted to be 10 1/16 inche long, the fi herman hurries to find his other Iy fishing brethren and tell them how this particular big one took a Royal Coachman. 0 fly fisherman ever u e worms; "garden hackle" perhap , but worms? Perish the thought!

Bait, Plug or Fly?
(Continued from page 7)
every plug in the box and then finally thrm in the box and dig out a can of ,orms from the very' innermost pocket of the fi bing coat. The next procedure is to throw in the worms after carefully concealing a hook at- . tached to a trong line.
A D now for the ultra, ultra classification of fi hermen. It is claimed that there are two cla sifications in this cla sification, the wet fly and the dry fIy. However, close observation reveals that all fi hermen are wet from the neck down, at least after being around the stream for five minutes or more. This class of fishermen has ab olutely nothing in common with the live bait and plug fishermen, socially, in a busine sway, or fishing. A fly fisherman i the easiest of the three to distinguish.
His hat will look like a feather pillow that a tornado blew.through a paint store. He will have anywhere from 10 to 50 piece of various types of trictly fl fi hing equipment tied to various part of his torso and a pair of rubber boots that come up under his arm. Farmer and native have been known to hoot at Iy fishermen from ambu h having mi taken them for strange cre ted birds. He holds in his hand a slender rod of from 8 to 9 feet long and whips it back and forth, hooting his feather hither and yon, frequently changing fIys.
Thi may go on for hours but at last the big moment comes. Just watch him. He carefully urveys all water in sight, all bushes and sur-

N OW a to the actual lures themselves. First you must determine what class of fisherman under which you wish to qualify. If you like live bait, your problem i simple. A can of worm need not be dug any more. Ju t drop in your favorite tackle tore. Of course the clerk may
nub you,' but if you have money they can be persuaded to take it. Minnow do not have to be caught either. The are old in many place.
pring lizard and crawfiiOh are harder to get but they can be found.
The bait ca ting claiO ification can be reached in any well tocked ta kle tore. However, a well known tackle ale man a that after year of obervation he ha reached the concluion that the thou ands of brightly colored plug are to catch the fisherman and not the fi h. Hi own tackle box contain only a few surface lure with white and red color predominating, a few deep running lure of the same color and one or two spoon and larger type pinners.
If you want to be received with open arm and hout of joy in any and all tackle store, become a fly fisherman. ot only will it keep you away from the common, tobaccochewing herd but also will cla sify you a a rich man about town with everybody but your banker. It al 0 will keep you from depleting your fishing water of big fi h. Do not fail to ask your tackle dealer for hi very late t "garden hackle" container. All fi hing tackle manufacturers are far behind on thi important item for fl fi hermen. The afest plan for buying flie i to con ult the mo t truthful fly fisherman you know per onally , and get him to write down a list of
his favorite, hand it to a tackle sales-
man and impress on him that you
want everything in the store but the
ones listed. Only by such a method
will you be able to collect a satis-
factory a ortment of reliable flies.

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Circuit Writer
(Continued from Page 13)
never been shaken out of bed except by runaway couples, and obtained warrants. The sheriff was next and he served the papers with a hot cup of coffee. The solicitor was easy and the judge strolled onto the scene in time to paste the shooters with fines of 45.70 each. Lord and Glawson looked up at the big wooden clock on the courthouse. It was just 9:30.
The rangers were discussing speed again when they encountered a squirrel hunter in the swamps. But this fellow had wings on his heels and in less than a minute he had a creek between him and the rangers. The creek quickly swelled into a river and the squirrel hunter ran the rangers into the mud.
Saddest Story of the Season
Unthinking hunters and fishermen cause more damage than habitual and malicious violaters. One of the season's worst outdoor tragedies occurred when a basket fisherman accidentally trapped a covey of quail and left them to roast in a forest fire.
The fisherman lifted his wire mesh basket from the Chattahoochee River. near the mouth of Dog River, and concealed it in broom sedge near the bank of the larger stream. Bread crumbs left in the basket enticed the quail through the entrance. Fire and time completed the job.
A hunter who controlled the rights to the land failed to locate the 22 birds on three successive excursions into the area behind dogs that never missed. He had saved them for careful shooting near the end of the season.
On his fourth day out he found the smoked basket. It contained the charred remain of the whole bevy. This could and perhaps might precipitate a mild bitterness between basket fishermen and bird hunters. Such an occurrence is unusual, but it could happen again. Traps of all type are a menace to the game and fish of Georgia and sportsmen should destroy or report traps to rangers when they discover them in the field, woods or streams.
Queen of Fishermen
A half pound for every year. That's the motto of seven-year-old Lora Jean ~rater, of Atlanta. Thi blueeyed youngster can't get excited over it, but she has the distinction of catching a four-pound large mouth bass in Piedmont Lake with a fly rod.
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Lora Jean can't understand why the experts and would-be experts oj the fly-rod profession are whipping their arms of] at big bass in this AtLanta municipal park lake.
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4 Pounds, 7 Years
"It was fun," she laughs. "Daddy put on a little fish and I pulled out a bigger one."
The four-pounder pulled hard, Lora Jean admits.
"But daddy told me to pull too. So I walked up the bank and the fish followed me. Daddy took him off and we went home."
Lora Jean forgot to say that Atlanta's army of bass fi hermen went crazy. They tore out of their offices and churned the lake into a foam with bait. They rang the phones off learning the size and style of minnow Lora Jean used. "Was it a Baltimore. or just plain minnow? How many? What! Gulp!"
When Lora Jean walked up the bank she walked into the fishermen's hall of fame. She was honor guest at a meeting of the Atlanta Fly and Bait Casting Club (tnd the club was glad to get her as a member.
But instead of being a ma cot, he's queen and ace of the club.
Authors
(Continued from Page 2)
other state in the nation. The varietv of fi h and other aquatic life in our state'al 0 is great. Perhaps the man who knows more about Georgia streams and the life found in them is JEFF McCORD. The mysteries of running waters are no mysteries to him. The many species of living creatures of the currents and pools and ulJderwater stumps and le.dges all have been confined to bottle in his laboratory, labeled and catalogued. Through McCord many new pecies of aquatic life in Georgia have been reo corded. He tells you about some of them in his interesting article A PEEK U DER THE LILY PADS in tllis issue.
*** FRED JORDAN began hi "dog life"
in long dresse . That wa back when bovs wore dresse even after they could walk. A black Gordon etter was Fred's pride and joy, and he was broken to the saddle behind Sam when he had to lift his skirt over the pommel. Hi father, Charles D. Jordan, was one of the founders of the Georgia Field Trial Association in 1899. He went with "Uncle Charlie" to the first Waynesboro trial in 1900 and has attended every succeeding event except those of 1917-18-19. His first record with a winning dog wa in 1905, with Georgia Rose, and he still is sticking to this strain of setter. Ro etime, his star young dog, is a de cendant of his fir t winner.

LETTERS

EDITOR

It is with a great

Outdoor Georgia: deal of pleasure that

I learn of your monili-

Iy magazine which will be devoted to the

promotion of a closer relationship among

hunters and fishermen of Georgia.

In my opinion there is a definite need
for this type of publication, and I am sure that its value as an educational medium will more ilian offset the effort required in publishing it.

Best wishes for the success of your
magazine and the continued success of your program promoting a greater conservation in Georgia.-Cli,!t Davis, U. S. Forest Service.


EDITOR

May I congratulate

Outdoor Georgia: you upon your deci

sion to publish a

Georgia wildlife magazine. This is a step,

as you know, which has already been

taken by a number of the more progressive

states of the nation. It is my orivilege at

this time to receive a number of such mag

azines, including' the Pennsylvania Game

ews; lllinois Conservation; The Ohio

Conservation Bulletin, and several others.

In my judgment a magazine of this kind can do more than any other equal effort expended to create the proper attitude to ward wildlife on ilie part of the people of Georgia and to timulate a more active interest in adequate conservation.

With best wishes for success in this undertaking and with a pledge of co-opera-
tion to assist in any wav possihle in con nection with the work of your department. -Paul W. Chapman, dean 01 University of Georgia College 01 Agriculture.


EDITOR

Allow me to con

Outdoor Georgia: gratulate you on your

forward move in pub-

lishing this magazine on outdoor and wild-

life in connection with the Division of Wild-

life. In my opinion there is a very distinct

place for such a publication in our state.

All of us who are interested and enjoy being in t_he great outdoors always like to know what the other fellows of ilie same hreed are doi.ng, seeing and thinking about and this magazine is the finest means of
keeping us in touch with each other that I
know of. It should also be a means of stim-

ulating interest in conservation clubs over

the state.

Wishing you every success in the pub-

lication of this magazine and with kindest

personal regards.-Trammell Scott, presi

dent 01 Southern League.


EDITOR

I have just learned

Outdoor Georgia: that you are starting

a new magazine.

Please enter my subscription so that I will

receive the first issue, and end me a bill

for the year. Lots of luck to you in your

venture.-Paul Wienges, Augusta.

FISHING LICENSES
No Fu..-No Waitlnq. Give ua the money and qet receipt. Go Flahlnq Now-No Delay.
WE SELL PETERS SHELLS S~ortjng Goods D.~t.
L. A. THOMAS DRUG CO.
Corner Oqlethorpe and Broadway MACON. GA.
May 1940 OUTDOOR GEORGIA

What's on your mind? OUTDOOR GEORGIA would like to heal" about it

JUNIOR RAN(}ER
TRAil

CONTEST and ACTIVITIES

By EARL V. LORD

D o 'T look now. It' too late. We squandered our wildlife wealth. ow we've got to it on the back row and learn from the young ter. They're carrying the torch and doing a whale of a job.
The boy and girl have taken wildlife by the horns and are leading mamma and papa to the trough. It sounds too much like a stock lecture to discu what we could have had. We haven't got it. 0 all we can do i try to get it.
Georgia' boys and girl hold the big an wer. They ha e tarted on the right foot. They're coming up in a conservation-minded environment and when they get through mamma and papa will be fighting over which of them will kill the tray cat that caught the bird.
Junior rangers, FFA members and 4-H boys and girls have been organized into an army that might easily supply the links that have meant the difference between succe and partial failure of Georgia' variou programs of wildlife. Approximately 25,000 have officially joined thi organized drive to re tore game and fi h and at the ame time improve . oil and farm condition. Thi number greatly exceeded the mo t optimistic hopes of the Georgia Division of Wildlife. nd the Ii t is growing daily. 0 fa t, in fact, that official in charge have been unable to record them.

tional teacher and one count agent al 0 will be elected on a point ba is: Two wildlife ranger will complete the group, which will go to i consin to tudy the advanced method used by thi tate in the de e10pment of its va t con ervation program.
In establi hing a con ervation program on the farm, the main consideration is providing for food, cover and protection that may be of the, greate t support to the particular pecie of game bird ,animal and fish found on the area. Fir t work of the junior ranger is preparation of a urvey Ii ting the approximate number of bird and animal in hi area and a de cription of the food and cover condition.
Among the activitie for which points are awarded are: Making survey , 1000 point ; planting of lespedezas, vetch, bene, millet, beggar weed or mall grain a purely food crop ; planting of blackberr plum, honey uckle, dogwood, morning

glory or privet hedge as combination food and cover crop , and planting of khudzu, pine or chinaberry tree a permanent cover ClfopS. Point are given to encourage the destruction of vermin and predators.
N OW let's take a look at Wi conin, and the wonderful wildlife developments that winner of the contests will have an opportunity to oberve. A letter from H. W. McKenzie, director of the Wiscon in Conervation Department, provide a glimp e into what hi state offer in the way of entertainment and education for the winners.
The tour will begin in Madi on, tate capitol, and wind through fore ts, mines and fishing and game areas. The trip will include a visit to the "rough" fi h operations and torage ponds in which 500,000 to a million pounds of "rough" fish are held for market. On the econd day Devil' Lake Park at which one of the countr' most beautiful lake is ituated is on the program, followed by inspection of the Experimental Game and Fur Farm, ' here there are thousand of bird and animal of all pecies. The world famous Wi consin Dell, Big Green Lake, Trout Lake, the Menominee Indian Re ervation and many other attraction that lure all lover of the woods and treams will be ob er ed. A boat trip on the chain of lake, fi hing for mu kellunge in Trout Lake, a trek to Lake uperior and thence into Canada will climax thi eventful excur ion.
Here i a Ii t of orne of the fir t chools and vocational in titution , including the name of the \ ildlife ranger and chief junior ranger in charge, to enroll in the statewide CODer ation campaign;
Ranger H. E. Ash Preston High School. Preston, Gene Allen mith. chief junior ranger.
(Continued on Page 33)

EVERYBODY ha jumped on the "On to Wi con in ' contest move-
ment. even winner in the con ervation and wildlife conte t will be awarded a two-weeks trip to Wisconsin with all expenses paid by the Division of Wildlife. Two will be cho en from the FFA clubs, two from the 4-H club and the two out tanding voca-

Judge Gordon Chamber.s. of the Augusta City Court. swears in Junior Wildlife Rangers Hal Beeman, Dick Stearns and louis Brown. Ranger Ed Friend looks on.

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The work of Georgia farm boys and girls in loildlife already is a story of accomplishment

About Dogs
(Continued from page 17)
About this time Pal came tearing along through the corn talks fifty feet away. He got a whiff of bird and put on brake . But not before the bird had flushed.
"Of cour e that is not to Pal's di credit," explained Fred. "But it would have been more to his creditcertainly in the eyes of the judgesif he had stopped a second quicker. For chances are that bird wouldn't have flushed. And Pal would have had a nice find to his credit. Maybe handled it in tyle, too."
ext second Pal moved on to back up Bimpkins like a veteran-two grand gun dog strutting their stuff in a bird field.
***
Diet Combats Fits
Q -My shepherd 9 months old is suffering from fits. He had three hard ones yesterday. He bit me, J'et I know that normally he wouldn't do that for anything. When the convulsion passes he staggers about out of breath, eyes glassy, until he finally gets all right. I've treated for epilepsy according to a dog book, and given worm medicine. But without success. I feed table scraps including plenty of chicken bones, potatoes, bread, and an occasional can of dog food. Please tell me what to do.
R. H. Baker, Water Works Department, City Hall, Atlanta, Ga.
A.-The diet you name i so wrong it i a wonder your shepherd urvive. othing i wor e for a dog than potatoes, chicken bone, and fre hly-baked bread. Give a big do e milk of magnesia-two table spoon full every other morning for a week. And put your shepherd on a diet of old-fashioned boiled milk and egg custard. That and nothing else for a while. Then ee that he gets a portion of lean raw beef daily in his ration.
Top is Tops
(Continued from page 12)
Glamour Gal and Suzanne Triumph in Coweta EYent
A MALL but cIa y field ran in the annual spring trial of the Coweta County Sportsmen's Club March 21 at Tewnan. Glamour Gal and Atlanta Suzanne won first pIa es
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in the Puppy take and Derb take. It took a second serie to eparate
Glamour Gal and Georgia Cracker, and in her second trip out W. F. Floyd's little puppy ettled the issue with a wide searching heat. John Halliburton's Cracker wa handled in the fir t erie by Ray Carter and in the econd by Gu Leazer. T. R. Atkin on Beau Hawk Henson was third.
SUMMARY
Newnan, Ga. March 21 Judges: Jack L. Tway and Ralph Barris
DERBY-Eight Entries
1 t-ATLANTA SUZAN E, painter bitch. by Maplebrook Jak Milligan's Crazy Proctor. Dr. B. W. Ridley, owner; Ray Carter, handler.

2nd-VI ELAND LAD. pointer dog, by Winkr Haven Gator-Leazer's Maleman Beauty, Gus Leazer, owner and handler.
3rd-ALTOONA BESS D NGAVEL, pointer bitch, by Rumson Farm Dewey-Nira Dungavel's Beauty. G. H. GelIken, owner and handler.
PUPPY-Ten Entries 1st LAMOUR GAL, pointer bitch, by Jake's
Big Boy-Elsie Suzy Q. W. F. Floyd, owner and handler. 2nd-GEORGIA CRACKER, painter dog, by Apexior Bob--Blackburn's Pal. J. A. Halliburton, owner; Ray Carter, handler. 3rd-BEAU BAWK BENSON, setter dog, by Georgia Cracker Beau-Speckled Sport Queen. T. R. Atkinson, owner and handler.
In 1897 Georgia passed a game law cIo ing the eason on opossums from March 1 to October 1.

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Rangers' Campfire
(Continued from page 19)
where there is proper food and cover; advi ing how to control predators; organization of adult conservation clubs; organization of junior conser vation clubs and supervising the quail rai ing and fish culture projects spon ored by the Division of Wild life; planning and arranging fishing and hunting trips for visitors; study ing the fish and game problems of the various individuals and communi ties and reporting these to headquar. ters so they may be adjusted if po ible.
*** Policing or Education?
N OT many years ago wildlife wa plentiful. Food and cover were abundant, virgin timber extended in every direction. Streams moved peacefully and the water was as clear as crystals. If proper conservation laws had been made and enforced no patrolling would have ever been necessary.
Today we have a different picture ~ ith conditions almost reversed. It makes a sad story when we consider our present wildlife with the plentiful upply with which this state once was blessed. We must protect what small amount of natural resources and wildlife we have left and at the same time try to restore that part which can be brought back. To solve the prob lem it will take a carefully planned program including: First, educa tional programs on conservation for adults and youths; second, restocking, propagation and protection of wildlife, and third, a workable et of game and fish laws properly en forced.
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RANGER DIRECTORY

MOUNTAIN DISTRICT
C. E. Adams, Atlanta: Douglas, Cobb, Fulton. W. G. Bryant, Dalton: Gordon, Murray, Whit-
field. W. W. Dockery, Dahlonega: Ranger Woody Na
tional Forest. John L. Davis, Bremen: Carroll, Haralson,
Paulding. C. K. Douglas, Carnesville: Banks, Stephens,
Franklin. J. D. Foster, LaFayette: Chattooga, Walker,
Catoosa, Dade. C. H. Masters. Royston: Hart, Madison, Elbert. Wallace Martin. Rome: Floyd, Bartow, Polk. Pat McKinney, Jefferson: Barrow, Jackson,
Hall. H. H. Seabolt, Hidgon Store: National Forest. R. J. Vibbert, Dahlonega: Union. Lumpkin,
White. J. E. Wall, Clarkesville: Habersham, Towns.
Rabun. J. M. Peagler, Decatur: Gwinnett, DeKalb.
Rockdale. Clyde Wehunt, Suches: National Forest. R. W. Williams. Ellijay: Pickens, Gilmer. D. L. Rainey, Cantou: District Chief. R. L. Cornwell, Robertstown : Assistant District
Chief. C. S. Davis, Canton: District Educational Di-
rector.

PIEDMONT DISTRICT

Tom Abney, Hamilton: Harris, Talbot, Mus-

cogee.

Albert Douglas, Zebulon: Meriwether, Pike,

Upson.

Eadie, J. D., Macon: Macon, Houston, Bibb.

Geston Garner, McDonough: Clayton, Henry,

Fayette. Spalding.

J. C. Garrett. Butler: Taylor, Peach. Crawford.

Alex Lunsford, Quitman: Stewart. Chattahoo

chee.

.

M. A. Reid, Gordon: Baldwin. Twiggs, Wilkin-

son.

A. Me Smith, LaGrange: Heard, Coweta, Troup.

R. W. Surrency, Monroe: Morgan, Walton,

Newton.

A. E. Thornton, Forsyth: Lamar, Monroe, Butts.

W. Carver Turner, Lexington: Clarke, Oconee,

Greene, Oglethorpe.

M. D. McRae, Macon: District Chief.

W. G. Mitchell, Monticello: Assistant District

Chief.

H. E. Ashe, Buena Vista: District Educational

Director.

FLINT RIVER DISTRICT
A. F. Avey, Fitzgerald: Ben Hill, Irwin, Wilcox. orwood Cassels. Cuthbert: Randolph, Clay, Calhoun.
A. C. Dunn, Thomasville: Thomas, Brooks. D"avenport Edwards, Cordele: Dooly, Crisp,
Sumter. Roy A. Grizzell, Jr., Nashville: Cook, Berrien,
Lanier. Tom Hardy, Blakely: Early, Miller, Baker. C. L. Harrell, Waycross: Ware, Clinch. Robert Mays, Bainbridge: Seminole, Grady,
Decatur. J. H. Montford, Albany: Dougherty, Lee, Ter
rell. Dan C. Royal, Moultrie: Mitchell, Colquitt. R. B. Sasnett, Folkston: Brantley. Charlton. Charlie G. Young, Douglas: Coffee, Atkinson. J. F. Spooner. Sylvester: District Chief. Lewis Smith, Sylvester: Assistant District Chief. H. E. Atkins, District Educational Director. H. E. Atkins, Valdosta: District Educational
Director.

PLAINS DISTRICT
J. Emmett Bledsoe, Dublin: Laurens, Johnson. T. B. Brantley, Jr., McRae: Telfair, Wheeler,
Jeff Davis. A. B. Briscoe, Sylvania: Effingham, Screven. Ed Friend. Augusta: Columbia, McDuffie. Joe Glawson, Sparta: Glascock, Hancock, War-
ren. Charlie Harper, Waynesboro: Burke, Jenkins. J. W. Jones, Eastman: Bleckley, Pulaski, Dodge. S. B. LuCburrow, Sandersville: Washington,
Jefferson. R. J. Mays, Lyons: Montgomery, Toombs, Tatt-
nail. Ernest Shaw, Alma: Appling, Bacon, Pierce. C. J. Wright. Jesup: Wayne, Long. Fred Brewer, Swainsboro: District Chief. H. B. Butner, Swainsboro: Assistant District
Chief. E. L. Scott. Statesboro: Assistant District Chief. J. . Ross, Washington: District Educational
Director.

The settlement of Georgia began when Oglethorpe landed at Yama craw Bluff in 1733.

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Beginning about June 15, guides will be available at the head of the gorge at Tallulah Falls plant-just a mile this side of the town of Tallulah Falls-just a little less than a hundred miles north of Atlanta, out over the broad, smooth new Buford Highway.
o appointment is needed in advance-there is no admission c h a r g e - the guides are there to serve you. It'~ a visit you will remember.
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Quail Hatching in an Eggshell
(Continued from Page 23)
the chick and proper evaporation from the egg are the mo t important con iderations in incubation. Be careful to put your incubator where air condition out ide will make it po ible to get the right condition inside. Put your incubator' here the temperature, ill not vary widely. Ideal temperature are 65 to 70 degree. cellar is u ually about right for thi , and almo t any clean cellar with a window or two will provide enough fre h air for two or three mall incubator. If windows admit drafts,

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creen them with chee e cloth or install wind deflector . If the sun hines in directly on your incubators, put
hade of ome ort on the windows.

I IC BATOR hould be on a firm surface, and should be level. Incubator placed directly on the earth ~f

your cellar floor give good re ult. A concrete cellar I

not e ential.

Place the eggs mall end down in the incubator tray.

chedule hould be 'orked 0 the egg can be turned

every four hour. Thi routine is important and should

be followed trictly. If the egg are turned after 10

o clock at night the next turning can be at 6 o'clock in

the morning with atisfactor re ult .

.

Durina incubation, humidit (moi ture control I very

importa;t. Way of determining thi humidity differ

with the type of incubator. An important point in turn-

ing Egg

theoiela~ad

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thi grea

be y or

ure your HAND du ty hands will n?t

a~raetcC~L. E

. An-

other ource of 10 in ne, ly hatched quaIl I failure to

dry them properly or quickly enough.. .

From this point on, method of handhng chicks, wheth-

er hen-hatched or incubator-hatched i the ame. They

go into brooder unle the breeder wishes the bantam

foster-mother to continue her job. If you u e incuba-

tors, remember one very big thing about them: They

are machines. They cannot think or choose.

Incubator provide right condition for hatching, but a

ucce sful hatch depend chiefly upon the following:

1. election of good, hatchable egg from vigorou

tock.

2. Proper care of egg before setting.

3. Proper and exact regulation of the machine to ee

that heat, , ater and air are upplied and that the ap

pliance is in order.

4. Turning egg regularly and gently.

5. Right care of the hatched chicks.

6. Maintaining anitary condition a a preventive of

disea e which may re ult in 10 s, trouble and expen e.

Where to Go
(Continued from Page 25)
the peckled or winter" trout. These fi h formerly were taken only in the fall and early winter, but now they provide a lively year-round sport. Late in the ummer the big drum will be triking and the aIted down aIt-water fi hermen pull out their heavy tackle and begin playing line for the e big, but lazy battlers.
Then there are heepshead, croakers, angel fish, eddy fish and flounder adding variety to the angler's program.
Brunswick, t. Simons and ea Island insist that there i no better pIa e to go than to the water in their section of the Georgia coa t. The Brunswick Board of Trade ays that over 125,000 person vi it Glynn County annually. early half of them either fish or hunt.
Fi hing i done from the numerou bridge on the t. imons high, a and from the pier at t.. imons. The float in Blacks Bank River near the Cloister Hotel al 0 i a favorite pot. Fishing in the miles of protected inland waterway is done from boats and ome of the recommended camp are ea Island Fishing Camp, at the end of ea I land Beach; Taylor Brothers Fishing Camp, near Hampton River; Oak Grove Island, on the mainland; and Cottage Point, al 0 on the mainland south of Humpback Bridge on Route 17.
Fi hing i done on a maIler cale at two of the tate' park , Vogel, at eal Gap in the Blue Ridge mountain , and Pine Mountain two mile from Chipley. The big lake at ogel i tocked with ba and rainbow, while Pine Mountain' brag fi h are bream and bas.
May 7940 OUTDOOR GEORGIA

Junior Ranger Trail
(Continued from Page 29)
Union Consolidated School, Preston, Alvin Cook, chief junior ranger; Weston High School, Luther Foreman, chief junior ranger. Ranger A. F. Avey-Pitts High School, Pitts, R. A. Finch, chief junior ranger; Mystic High School, Mystic, T. W. Tomlin, chief junior ranger; Ashton High School, Ashton, Bradley Fussell, chief junior ranger; Ocilla High School, Ocilla, Virgil Spicer, chief iunior ranger. Ranger J. E. Bledsoe--Crawfordvile District, Crawfordville, Billy Edwards, Billy Winstead and Clem Rhodes, chief junior rangers: Robinson, Alvin Harwell, chief junior ranger; Tignall, John Lindsay Smith, chief junior ranger; Rayle, Billie Neal Cofer, chief junior ranger; Amity, Jack Boyd, chief junior ranger; Lincolnton, Harris Denham. chief junior ranger. Ranger Norwood Cassel Fort Gaines, Leon Griffith, chief junior ranger; Morgan, Ross
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Nix, chief junior ranger; pringvale, Calvin Pearce, chief junior ranger: Benevolence, J. B. WilBon, chief junior ranger.
Ranger S. B. Lufburrow-Sandersville High School, Sandersville, Perrian Padgett, chief junior ranger; Wrens District, Wrens, Hubert Anderson and Billie Cato, chief junior rangers.
Ranger Pat McKinney-Lula District, Lula, Clyde Echols, chief junior ranger; Winder District, Winder, Vernon Hammond, chief junior ranger; Bethlehem District, Bethlehem, Lamar Ridgeway, chief junior ranger; Oakwood District, Oakwood, William Hanes, chief junior ranger: Mayfield Dis trict, Mayfield, Horace Irwin, chief junior ranger; Plain View School, Mayfield, Junior cott, . chief junior ranger; Pendergrass District, Pendergrass, Hugh Lee Thomas, chief junior ranger.
Ranger J. B. Montford-Doerun District, Doerun, Adrian Jenkins, chief jtInior ranger.
Ranger Dan C. Royal--eamilla District, Camilla, Dewey Parkman, chie junior ranger.
Ranger R. B. Sasnett t. George's School, St. George, Ralph Chism and Miss Fairy Griner, chief junior rangers.
Ranger A. E. Thornton-Tussohaw School, Butts County, Ray Hamlin, chief junior ranger; Indian Springs District, Indian Springs, James Long, chi f junior ranger; Towaliga School, Butts County, Thomas B. Fletcher, chief junior ranger; Mary Per sons High School, Monroe County, Jay McMullan, chief junior ranger.
Ranger Joe GJawson--8parta High School, Sparta, Jack Grimsley, chief junior ranger; Sparta Grammar School, Sparta, Cecil Martin, chief junior ranger; Mitchell School, Mitchell, Ralph Kelly, chief junior ranger; Devereux School, Carrs Station, Lewis Thompson, chief junior ranger: Linton School, Linton, Lewis Peller, chief junior ranger; Culverton School, Mayfield, Hugh Fowler, chief junior ranger; Edgehill chool, Mitchell, Aubry Allen, chief junior ranger; Gibson Scbool, tapleton, J. C. Brooks, chief junior ranger; Bethel School, Gibson, Macon Welch, chief junior ranger; Bastonville School, Warrenton, Bennie Laugham, chief junior ranger; Warrenton School, Warrenton, Wirt Wilhoit, chief junior ranger.
Ranger C. J. Wright creven District Screven, Lankford Griffin and Willie Glenn Plunkett, chief junior rangers; Oquin School, Screven, Jack Smith, chief junior ranger; Oak Ridge School, Screven, Hubert Mikell, chief junior ranger; Farm Life School, Screven, James Rogers, chief junior ranger: Gardi School. Gardi, John Horton, chief junior ranger: Empire School, Jesup, J. D. Tillman, cbief junior ranger: Odum School, Odum, Winton Jones, chief junior ranger; Pine Grov, Odum, Jack Poppell, chief junior ranger.

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A Peek Under Lily Pads
(Continued from page 18)
It 1 de cended from a family of alt water fishe that entered fre h water hundred of year ago and et up fre h water habit.
You wouldn't expect to find the little he hwater hrimp in a pot.hole on tone Mountain. I ha e found it there. Jut how it reached it lofty home, whether by the bird or the wind or by man, I'll leave it up to you to decide.
T HERE are thou and of other in tere ting things taking place in Georgia treams every day-the eel going to salt water to pawn and the had coming out of salt water to fre h water for the siune purpose-the darters, who build little tone nest in which to lay their eggs-and many other thing too numerou to men tion. Far too many and varied fact for anyone per on ever to know or try to know, but an entertaining and instructive hobby for anyone who like the outof-door .
A ou go about your daily work or go into the wood hunting and fi hing, keep our eye open' tud the nature about you and a ou learn

more about our pond and treams even a hort walk on unday afternoon will become filled with intere t and appreciation for Georgia, her con ervation program, and God' great outdoor.

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The word can ervation i often misinterpreted. Coner ation doe n't mean re tricti e legi lation b halfbaked theori ts, of quack who have never learned to

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port men will want to know how to burn co ert if the are to be burned; which predator are harmful and

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of u know that the intelligent u e of commercial ferti-

lizer around uch a pond will increa e the fishing? How

should the pond be t cked' \ ith what kinds of fi h? In what year i a ba s pond at it best and ho\ can it be brouaht back to its best? It can be don e, and at the arne time take a lot of fi hing, too. Con ervaLion i n t ju t self denial. ot h a whale of a lot. Maybe ou'd like an authoritati e article on the building and handling of fish pond and ma be th editors can give ou uch an arti Ie if you a k for it. I knO\ one farmer that make a lot m re than taxe b chargio a a mall fee to fi h in hi pond. Plea ure and profit!

WE PORT ME-I h a v e a definite obligation. It is an obligation, not of force, but 0 f persua ive example and education.
o warden group that i po ible to Georgia could enforce tlle game tatute again t a lawIe mob of killers. There i a difference b t\ een the man who leave seed in the co ey and the pot hunter who ruthle 1 take the Ja t bird. The difference i largel a matter of edu ation. The
port man doe not invariabl in i t on taking hi "limit."
OUTDOOR GEORGIA June 1940

Field hooting to a port man i not a comp titi e adventure. Hi friend must have the fir t hot, the best tand on the d er dri e, the left hand side when the covey rises.
He obeys the la\ not becau e he is afraid, hut becau e he is the ort of a gu who learns the rule of any game and pIa accordingl. hould the law be undul re trictive, he doe not Hout them and ulk like a child. He follow the American Way of Representative Democracy .and use hi influence as a free man to ha e them modi fied.
o few farmer and land-owners realize the potential value of our wildlife. La t ear, thirteen million fi hermen took to the stream in the e nited tates. dd to that the hunter, camera addict, nature lovers, omithologi t and other devotee of the outdoor and your friendly army might tretch acros the continent. The e outdoor men and outdoor women eek place \ here they may hoot, fi h, ob erve. Their aggregate expenditure would equal the value of the wheat and cotton crop and would be more than i pent, gro s, for baseball, football and all other organized ports ombined.
I believe that any southern tate, with it year-round proaram, could 0 develop it game and fish resource that it would attract more revenzte than could be obtained from its agricultlral crops. Doubt it, do you? The n look at what the little Province of TO a . cotia does in it abbreviated sea on. What i the greate t attraction i n Florida? The an wer is unmistakably its fi hing.

FI HI IG and hWltis still goo d in Georgia only becau e nature i fruitful; because the wild life, in spite of man, replen-
ishe it elf. and not be-

cau e \ e have ever before handled 0 u r resource willi high intelligence and patriotism. Georgia i potentiall a fi ne a section in which to hoot and fish a an tate in the

umon.

L t' in i t on a

square deal for tho e

of u who 10 v e the

wooel and the tream.

Let' abide by the law, and let' make OUTDOOR GEOR-

GIA the pokesman of our wi he .

Tight line to you all.-ELMER

OM:.

3

MY $300 BASS

A :\OR:\I L thin lY_ the no ice at angling-wh perhap ha more mon y than j udlYement - pend a large sum to quip him self to catch, hat he fervently hOI e will be the III n tel' fi h of all ti me. In one instan e, at lea t. the fish paid for the rookie' tackle ampin lY upplie, outdoor equipm nl-and ju t about evel') thinlY needed for a um-
From Dame's Pond to Blackburn's Studio Dean went to obtain this pictorial evidence of his record catch. This II-pounder won for its
captor $300 in cash and prizes.

mer of potted outing on the ri er bank, and about the lake of unny
outh Georgia-the home of fighting bla'k ba .
B fore I caught the grand-daddy of all the mall-mouth black ba landed in 1939, I wa ju t another of those no i e. nd, to tell the truth, m fi hin lY tackle, while repres nting quite a littl layout of cold, hardearned cash, could have stood ome improvement.
But m day arrived, at lea t on e. It i marked with a red circle on all the alendar in my home now and
no one dares remove the reminder of that day in eptember, 1939, when I , ent , ith a party of veteran fi hermen 0 v e r to Dame' Pond, in Clinch County, and came back the "big hot" of the outing. I broulYht back with me a mon tel' mall-mouth that tipped the cale at more than eleven pounds-a .Ii h that had me uffering \ ith the jitter from the time he truck at that deadly combination, pork rind 011 a popping frog, un til after ,e had him packed in ice. It, a here that I knew it had actually happened, and ,a not a dream.
I entered m catch in a number of conte ts and the fruit of my effort at Dame's Pond began to roll in. I won a ilver cup and a 35 selection of fi hing tackle in e tern uto
u P PI Company' conte t. I won first prize of <75 in Field & Stream's contest, and first prize of 50 in the
ational portsman, Hunting & Fishin lY conte t. Being a prize winner in Jational p rt -

man conte t I \ a eligible to enter a tory of catching the prize \ inner, and doggone if the tor didn t up and win top place-and bring in another 50 bucks.
I had so mu h tackle that I th ught of lYoin lY into the bu in s . There weI' l\ 0 lifetime reel in m election, a n w outboard motor, pOltabl cabin heater, ju t about every kind of luI' you can name, a camp tove and lots 0- other equipment to provide ease and comfort on camp and outing. I had man th I' things I had alway \ anted, but had little hope of ever getting.
I till get a lot of mail from fi hermen wanting to kno\ all about atchin lY thi monster black ba . All I can tell them i ju t what happened. I don't kno\ hO\, or wh it happened.
We \ ent over to Dame' Pond for a week-end outin lY. The oth I' memo bel' of the part \ ere Paul Myddelton, ClilT Lyon and Dr. Charlie Hill -all eteran fi hermen who knew th pond, and had "moke-hou e " picked out where the fish were waiting in chool -ju t to nap at their lure. They had a lot of fun at my expen e, laulYhing at the "greenhorn," the uninitiated follower of Izaak Walton, who pre umed to match kill with uch pi catorial expert a the. The \ ere sal' asticall con iderate of m greenne , ho\ eel', and oITered to how m how and where to ca t. All of , hich ,a mildl irritatingfor I had been ha ing some little luck on m own, in other , aters of
outh GeorlYia.
A FTER we had fi hed all da , and I had caught several smaller fellows, Illy hardened and bla e companion pretended to be til' d. The reo ted on the hore. Finall Paul offered to paddle me about the lake o I could 'practice up a little before we left.'
That ort of got under my kin, pork rind and all.
"Oka ou mug ," I laughed "I'll ju t go to that big dead pre dO\ n
onder, and when lome back I II ha e a fish that \ ill ha e to be mounted. It'll be too big to eat."

BY L. H. DEAN

4

June 1940 OUTDOOR GEORGIA

They didn't hear

me. Paul was a skillful

boat handler, just like

he is at handling a

rod and reel. He

guided me along the

cypress lined bank of

the pond, and pointed

out many a nook and

cranny in which mon-

ter bass might be

waiting for some little

fish swimming his

way. And I ca t until

my arm ached. ot

a strike broke the

monotony. ot a bass

could be raised from

that mo shung space

of water.

Only the taunting

voice from the rear

of the boat kept me

glued to the front seat

-kept my arm swing-

ina ,ith regularit,

and kept the reel sing-

ing as I cast, and ca t,

and ca t. Finally, we
had just about got
out of ight of the boat landina, I knew

Out. to ~epeat i~ the prize fishing derby, the Valdosta champion prepares for another day of casting In Dame s Pond. And the tackle? Same as last year's, except a fresh piece of hog skin.

I was in for a ribbing but I was been impo ible to pray, swear, sweat' for photographing. There wa a mob

about ready to take it as I told Paul,
"J ust one more ca t and we'll go."

and fight that much in just a few minute .

around as oon as I unpacked th fish, and many a fishing fan in al-

"Take a hundred," he began. Then it happened!

Finally, I thought the fish, as tiring, and I decided to bring him to the boat. I had undere timated the

do ta turned "green about the gill " a they succumbed to the tabs of the green-eyed imp of jealousy.

SOMETHI G that might have been a reincarnation of some critter from the Paleozoic Age rose out of the water. There was a ma hing plash - and the pray flew everywhere. The plug di appeared down a dark maw that eemed to grin at me with the evil intention of wallowing me, boat and all - and I was jerked back to reality when I felt a pull on my arl11 that might be comparable to Hitler jerking up a small neutral.
The reel began to sing before I had recovered enough to drop my thumb down on it-and, hen I did, the water flew. That fi h leaped out of the water and shook himself with uch fury that the barb played a tune. I thought the hook would break, but it held. And it was me and that fish.
I played him as carefully as I

figbting ability of the black bass of our southern waters. He took on more fury, and I had to play him all over again. Thi time he weut deep, and I was afraid I'd 10 e him in the mo s that cover the bottom of the pond. But the old barb held, and soon I had him at the side of the boat, the finest lookin a ince old Mol y Di k' day.
W E Mf\. AGED to get him in the fi h box in the boat and I sat on the box all the, ay to the dock. I didn't want thi boy to get away.
I ju t told the fellows that if they would hang around me a while I would be glad to give them ome pointer on how fish are taken. And, maybe let them in on a few secrets about their own fi hing playground.
We packed old grandpa in ice and carried him to aldo ta for measuring, weighing, witne sing and lastly,

This story , ould not be complet without this tip to the thousand of Georgia fishermen. When you come home proud! carrying ome trea ured item like a new reel, or one of the latest style steel rod, and your better half inquires coldl, "how much did you pay for that? '-and
ou detect a glint in her eye that bespeaks longingl of new dres e that uch a sum would have bought; ,hen ou face such a situation a this show her this tory in OUTDOOR GEORGIA, so she may ee that fishing is a profitable pleasur
if you 'catch aWl ER.
Why, since I caught tllis fi h, doggone if I don't believe 111 wife would help me hunt up ome place to fish in-if I didn't ahead have about a year of it ah'ead plann d ahead, and onl about two ,eek to do all of it in.

could, auided by Paul' shouts of in-

truction. I 10 t his words, however,

in the heat of battle, and even forgot Paul was back there. I thouaht the

Georgia's national champion tells the story

combat lasted everal hours. Actually, Paul aid it wa ju t a few minute.

of his battle with 1939's prize winner

But I know I'm a good judge of the

pa ing of time. And it would have

OUTDOOR GEORGIA June 1940

5

W HE Robert awoke, the strange sen e of foreboding was till in hi heart. He had not lept an too well. His dreams had been punctuated by

mon tel' fi hand twnbling, roaring water .

Throuah his tiny bedroom windOl , Robert could ee that daw~ had not yet spread it gray light over the moun-

tain I orld, but it wa almost time to gather hi armful of

lothes and make a dash for the living room, where his

dad had built a roaring log fire.

Tho e early hour before da\ n were the beginning of

each da in the household to which Robert belonged. Hi

dad, as a wildlife ranger, employed by the tate. Day-

liaht alwa s found him on the treams or in the wood far fl~m home, \ atching over the game bird and animal

and fi h in hi territory, doing hi bit to help bring back

an abundance of game to thi land which had once been

almost depleted of its wildlife.

It would be everal minute et before hi dad called

him to breakfast. Perhaps in tho e few minutes his mind

could formulate a plan. Robert quickly revie\ ed the

events of the evening before, I hen he at curled in a

corner be ide the fire, li tening to his dad and the new

chief talk.

The new chief wa Mr. Ramey. His dad was alway

having a new bo every time the department reOJ'gan-

ized-whatever that meant. But none of the nel bosses

could fire his dad, becau e he knew more about turkey

and deer and trout than an body in the whole, orld.

Mr. Rame had come in unexpectedly the night before.

It wa hi fir t visit to the mountain ranger' home. For

parloobnla~mtsimoef

Robert had at in game and poacher

a

corner, listening to the and predatol' , studying

the chief's face intently, trying to decide whether or not

he would like his dad's new bos .

"I really came by here," Mr. Ramey finally said, "to

win a bet."

6

Bv Charles Elliott
" bet?" Robert' dad had asked. "T, 0 night ago at m club," the chief said "a fellol b the name of Clem Davi made the statement that Georgia could not produce a rainbol trout weighing more than ix pounds. everal of the fellow got into a hot argument, ,hich finally concluded , hen I offered to bet Clem two hundred dollar that I would produce a ix-pound or larger rainbow thi year. I remembered ou telling me of a huge trout that lived in one of the pool above your tation." "The Big 'Un," Rob e l' t' s dad breathed.
ROBERT' hcart skipped a beat and then did double dut . That fish belonged t him. Even hi ranger dad would never have known about it if Robert had not carried him up the creek and pointed out the monster rainbol winging gentl I ith the deep blue current of the pool.
Three times Robert had hooked the trout. Twice his leader became narled in the I' t f the poplar tree at , hose feet the Blue Hole lay. Once he had I ung the rainbol clear of the tree and after a terrific truggle which threatened every second to snap his slender cane pol , had almo t beached the fish on the sandbar , hich kirted the inner edge of Blue Hole. At the vel' border of the beach the trout' t nd r mouth tore out and the big fish had drifted back into hi marine domicile. He had never been hooked ince that da, .
Throughout breakfa t Robert at, hoping again t hope th~t he I ould be able to lip out unnoticed when the meal , as through. If the Big , n was caught, he did not want to be there to see it. Perhap if Mr. Rame went alone he could not find the Blue Hole where the huge rainbow lived. There, a till hope that the trout might be saved, e pe iall if Robert could slip out after breakfast and arrive at the pool ahead of Mr. Ramey.
Robert ele ted an opportune time when the chief was telling ome long' inded 5tor hi dad could not interrupt, and left the breakfast table. He was getting his cap to leave the house, however, when his dad omehow escaped from the table and called him back into the living room. Mr. Rame was still at the table, fini lung hi third cup of coffee.
" on," the ranger said, "I want ou to go with Chief Ramey thi morning."
Robert blinked back the moi ture. "Dad, he hasn't got any right to take the Big , n. He' mine. I found him." The ranger put hi hand on Robert's shoulder.
June 1940 OUTDOOR GEORGIA

"THI is one time you've got to be a sportsman, son. I know you've got your heart set on that fish.
Giving him up will be tough, but it means a great deal to me."
Robert licked his lips. "All right, dad," he aid. Hi mind wildly con idered man thought. He might show hi dad' bo s the wrong pool-no one would ever be wi er. Or he might frighten the fish back into the depths of the Blue Hole under the poplar roots by howing himself at the pool. But as rapidl as those thought aro e, Robert discarded them. That wa not sport manhip, and above all else he must alwa be the kind of sportsman his dad wanted him to be. Even if it were tough. The fir t "Ta mi ty moment of dawn had put out the stars when the left the ranger tation. The trail up the creek was teep and rocky and Robert could hear the older man puffing behind him as they climbed. The awakening ounds of morning were all familiar to the young ranger's ears. He could hear the first notes of a cardinal in the thicket along the creek-the quick

The story of a small boy, a big trout and
of the lesson they taught C tief Ramey
from hi moist leader pack and attached it to the end of hi line.
" ow what do yOll uppo e that fish will strike this morning?" he asked, half to hi mself.
Robert hitched up the strap of his overalls. "Red worms is what they usually hit." The chief "Tinned. "I haven't any worm ." Robert forced his eyes to meet tho e of the chief. "I think I know where I can git yOll some," he aid, with difficulty. 1r. Ramey chuckled. "I'm not going to take him on worms, Robert," he aid. He drew a bright box from one of the inner pockets of his fishing jacket and opened it. Robert's hope ro e when he looked at the tiny hits of feathers, tied together to
(Continued on page 30)

When the monster rainbaw began to weaken Robert fell to his knees on the sandbar
ILlustrated by JIM SPRI GER

song of a wren from the rock cliff on the hillside. omewhere from far beyond the bottomland mi ts came the booming of a grouse. The morning was perfect and the Big , n would be trying to fin that gaping maw of his with every bug and worm that washed into the pool.
They arrived at the big Blue Hole. Robert stifled an impul e to tand too near and accidentally push ome of the overhanging bank into the pool. But all the .Ii h on earth were not , orth the promise he had made to his ranger dad.

MR. Ramey put his rod together and stripped line through the guide. He carefully selected a leader

OUTDOOR GEORGIA June 1940

7

The goshawk is one of the fastest and most fearless of the predatory birds.
SPEEDWAYS
I
Above the [(frth

BY DEAN HUNTER

~~yo should ha e een that no k of an, fellol ! They "ere going a hundred-did
I ay een? I mean heard 'em. They
n were ing a hundred and fifty-h ll,
I wouldn't be surpri ed if it ,a two hundred. 'VI1, it was jut a swoo h. Th y jarred a cloud a mile high, hen they zoomed pa t. ou couldn't have hit em on your gun barrel with a
alter gun with a 100- ard lead. Jot with that northea t gale crowdin' their tail Ieathcr up around their neck. Th y ,,-ere going 0 fa t-"
lone bluebill cupped hi 'ing long enough for the duck hunter to hoot three time . nd ml three tim .
I mu t ha e led him too far. But he wa mo in' wasn't he? Ma be eiaht. But tho e canva back. Bo ! The were traveling. '
The duck hunter collap d kerplop in the shallow edge of the mar h. H had ae tured himself into a momentar tate of exhau tion. The pair of blue-winged teals strung on hi belt aot a econd dunkina.
Drown hi enthu ia m though? ot et. Duck hunter don't fold ea il .
8

He got up declaring that it wa~' onder the com th re they' C11t'''Wjth the flock of canvasbacks which had thumbed their beaks at hi o. 4 chilled hot.
The quail hunter and the d ve hunter and the turkey hunter-th y're all alike. The have the same torie.
"He put on extra speed and cut harpl to the ri<yht ju t a I ~queez ed; the were making at lea t a hundred and riding with the wind; the jut dido't fl y right.
THEY hould be taken eriou ly and re pected thouah, for all gunner believe them elve . The actuall. believe the re eein a all this peed burning the wind before their powder. This perhap i partly becau e the gunner are motivated by a ubconciou feeling of per onal vanit and con equently overe timate the peed of bird they mi .
Long before timing devices tore down areatly exaggerated peed e timates the power of a bird night. has stirred man' imagination. Even one of the writers of the Book of Proverbs admitted that the "way of an

eagle in the air" wa too wonderful to c mprehend. And man ear ago an ob rver reporting hi tudy of migratory bird on the island of Helgoland in the orth ea aid that mall bird in migration tra eled a fa t a thr e to four miles an hour. He ba ed his fiaur on the fal e premi that birds moved fa ter veral mile above the eartll. It ha be n proved ince then tllat at great altitude the air i Ie buoyant and thi make flight more in tead of Ie difficult.
If you entertain the thought that d finite and inflexible estimates can be appli d to p ed of bird in flight y u ar ;:truggling under the ame delusion as the duck hunter who had vi ions of canva backs flying 150-200 MPH. In the first place speecl of bird cannot be accurately e timated. Compari on rna be made, but actual peed cannot be a certained becau e of the impos ibility of calculating height, di tance, trigger action and ,ind. The e are some of the factor , hich would have to be con idered in arri ina at the PH rate.
To compile exact peed figure it would be nece ary to compute: (1) di tanc f the bird from the hunter (2) di tance traveled b the bird from th time the gun i fired until the bird i hit by the hot, and (3 time required for the hot to travel fr m the gun to the bird. The e three fact r would supply the an I er. But only the velocity of tlle load i known. The others alway will be estimates.
I RREG L RITY of flight, age of bird and conditions under which e timates are made provide other barrier to accurate speed deductions. It require little ob ervation to learn that hird have two speed -a normal rate a in ordinary flight or in migration, and an accelerated speed, for escape from enemie or for pur uit of pr y.
In thi land of the bobwhite it perhap i here to ay iliat thi grand brown plummet i one of the low upland game bird. Test on mature bird, made in all type of wind by Herbert toddard, of Thoma ville, revealed that quail average ben een 2838 PH. Other te ts ,ith automobile and stop watche credited Bob with a high as 49 MPH. These peed mak quail mere winged tortois when placed on a racing stretch with phea ant. nd even ilie turkey, large t of America s upland game bird , which often skims through the air near! a mile a minute. The Reeve phea ant is generally conceded to be the fastest upland game bird, with a maximum peed of 70 mile per hour throuah till air.
June 1940 OUTDOOR GEORGIA

o Man Has Ever Determined the Exact Speed of Birds - and o One Ever Will

The ruffed grou e, which is rapid! increasing in the mountain area of
Jorth Georgia, has a paralyzing effect on the hunter when he bursts from cover. Thi bird's explosion great! exaggerate his speed, which rarely, if ever, exceeds 35 miles. 0 Red Ruff i just a bluff, as far as speed is concerned.
However, both quail and grouse, make up for their lack of speed with their uncanny "broken field" flying and their noise at the getaway. They administer an anaesthesia that drives many gunners into jitters. To a lesser extent the jacksnipe does the ame damage to ticklish fingers. Thi fourounce bolt of feathers that moves from one right angle to another often flit a\ ay and out of reach before the hunter decides to shoot. He move slowly. nd so does the woodcock the nail of the air. The woodcock travels o that his zig-zag cour e belies his five to 10-mile gait.
I T i uch factor a the e that tend to build peed into hunter' am. Deception of flight, you might say, account for from 10 to 30 mile per hour. Then add some more for noise and throw in a little \ ind and there
ou are. You have a coa ting bird, just out for a little sight- eeing, with maybe an insect or two thrown in, making over a mile a minute. He isn't doin<T it.
It would be safe to cut your estimates in half just to convince yourelf you're kidding yourself. Then after it becomes necessary to tell "how fast he was flying" tack on a couple of dozen to keep a coating of varni h on your hunting pride.

TABLE OF SPEEDS

SPECIES

j\IPLI

Bob~'hite quail

28*49

California 'juaiJ .........................................3951

Valley quail

' 38-58

Ga.lnbcl's {IUail ...............................................41

Phcasa.nt ....................................................2760

Turkey

" ,..,.............................. 55

Iluffed grouse

22

harp.lailcd grouse .........................................33

'Voodcock

'................................. 5-1!l

i\1ourlling do\'('

2641

Canada goose ......................................... 4460

Brant

45

Snow goose

50

Mall.rd

50-60

BI.ck duck .................................................... 26

Pinlail ..................................................... 52-65

Cinnatnon leal ..........................................32.59

Ilcdhead .........................................................42

Cu.nv3.Shaek ...................................................72

Whislling swan ........................................ 3055

Duck b k

165-180

Golden eagle

120

Peregrine falcon .............................................62

I)arrow hawk

22.25

Bald eagle

30

Turkey vulture

15-21

KiJdccr .....................................................2855

Gull

30

Uunlnling hird

45-55

Purple n.arlill ........ .

20

Blue jay

20

Crow

2560

Drown Ihrasher

1922

Itobin .....................................................2036

la.rUng

~

l851

(\lcado"'lark

,

20

Not Record d speed supplied by U. S. Department or Agriculture.

wh re mourning dove ha e had their tail alted with lead. Although there is no wa to prove ait, doves glide through the air at fully 70 MPH when the re headin<T we t and running late. H. L. Betten one of the countr' authorities, confe e to thi belief and even he could be conervati e. The fir t game bird thi chronicler e er killed was a dove. It \ as before the 7 o'clock edict took effect and on a Chri tmas da when the gra of dawn till clung to the corn field. That dove wa making at lea t 100 mile, maybe 125, in the eye of a nine-year-old nimrod pulling the trigger of hi first single-barrelled shooting iron.
THE flocks of geese you see weaving outhward in late fall ar not flyin<T ba kward. They're br ezing along at around 50 MPH. The uniformed ob erver, thou<Th, has to look twice before he know in which direc-
tion the bip <Treys are movin<T. Win<T
beat again pIa it part in e timation of the rate the e Canadian touri t are travelin<T through Georgia.
ongbird are low fliers under normal condition. The average around 20 miles. The crow ordinarily fli at a c:;10\ rate, but i capable of
teppin<T up to nearly a mile per minute in the face of lead pellet.
hich i the fastest? And ho\ fa t do they fly? obody kn w .
nd not e en in thi age of progre s and peed will an body ever be able to read the speedometers of birds.
"But fellow, hit 'em or mi 'em, they all travel. Look out! There' that flock of can again. They're comin'-they're gone."

It is generally conceded that the duck ha\ k is the fa te t bird in the air. Thi predatory flier i credited , ith a tooping speed of 180 MPH and canvasbacks leein<T ahead of a duck hawk have flo\ n at an e timated rate of ] 25 MPH. The e duck have been credited with 110 MPH on a I el course when driven before a 35mile gale. Broadbill coming dO\ n have made a high as 100 MPH.
The dove, our wliversal game bird, ha for many year provided "ba keto fuls' of port for Geor<Tia hunters. Thi gray ghost is credited, in actual te t by persons in automobiles, \ ith a top speed of only 41 miles. Thi would lead observers to believe that dove are not as fast a quail. How many of you hunters agree with that?
one, if you've been on the field

Mallards are slow off the water, but fly a mile a minute when they level off.

OUTDOOR GEORGIA June 7940

9

Organize to Shoot

WILD BILL HICKOK and Billy the Kid, hero of our boyhood days, would have been hopele ly outclassed in a gun fight again t our pre ent day peace officers. A a whole the police are the fine t pi tol shot in the country today. There are man who can place five hot in ten econd in a pace half as mall a your hand at 25 yard and some , ho can hit ix man- ized targets, paced ix feet apart at 25 yard, in four econds. 10' that' shooting. The Denoit and Los Angeles police departments are outstanding examples, and there i not much que tion that the ha e th finest teams in the country.
The Los Angeles police have nine range, which are open each week end to civilian hooter of aood char acter. nder competent poli e in tructor the are taught the fundamental of pi tol hooting. The department hire two men to hand load ammunition and approximately 100,000 round are loaded ea h month. The civilian shooter can purchase thi ammunition at the same low price a the police offi r. Thi is a wonderful plan and i omething tbat hould di courage burglarie. If burglar know that in each hou ehold there i a pi tol who e owner can properly u e it, the will go into another racket.
In the pa t ix month pi tol hoot-
ing in Georgia has grown be ond ex-
pectations. Each Wedne day night at
the tlanta Rifle and Pistol Club 20
to 30 pi toleer try for the elu ive
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ten rin a. While at tlle Caine ille Pi tol Club ven more intere t i manifested. This obviou ly i the rea on the have been regularly licking tile Atlanta outfit. Athens ha an up and coming club under the tutelage of Bill Bryan who i a fine pi tol and rifle hot. The avannah poli e have had an outstandina team for ear, impl be au e tile city offi ial have taken a p I' onal intere t and pride in developing mark man hip in the police department.
T HE Atlanta Police Department on April 30 opened a new pistol range, somethin a the department ha needed for a long time. It i a pIa e for trainin a officer proper handling
Colt's Officers Target Model in .38 Special, most popular type of handgun among topnotch shooters.
of the weapon they carr . Thi i the "Teate t t P forward in year and hould et an example for every police department in the tate to follow_ Thi ould be the beginning of a tate-wide Pi tol League with weekly hoot. Thi naturally would develop competitive pirit in each t am and would lead up to the ati nal matche and possibly a lational championship.

Pi t I hootin a ha many thing in it favor. Participant an wear any kind of clothe from full dress to their mo t comfortable rag . The ladie are takin a to it for this rea on. I n hot weather you are not burdened with a hea hooting coat uch a the rifleman wear. Your gun, a few target, a couple of boxe of cartridge and a tele cope or a pair of binocular i all that is needed. ranae can be set up anywhere there i a safe back top, whether in the wood or a 25-foot basement. The lational Rifle A ociation recently brought out by popular demand an offi ial 25-foot pi tol target appropriat I reduced for the per on with limited pace. He now ha the op-
portunit to tr for the re ult and compari on of core made b vet eran pistol hooter right at hi own home.
I have recentl been watching the pi tol shooter in the Atlanta Club and the trend eem to be in favor of
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June 1940 OUTDOOR GEORGIA

OUTDOOR GEORGIANS

W. HUGH ALLEN

C LL him the "thin man" of the Chatta-
hoochee Valley, or the little man who
wear a big black togie, W. Hugh Allen ride a large seat on the front row of Georgia port men. He' the "Cinderella man" of the outdoors down in the" alley," wlJl~re the Chattahoochee leaves the hills of Troup County. Allen, who makes a living a a theater operator, but who exudes con ervation between and during film,
confe se that he has only a first and a Ill. t interest. Both of them are conservation. When he isn't selling movie to patron in "the valley,' he' selling wildlife tamp to he'lp re tore and protect America s game. That is, when he i n't hunting or fi hing, or firing an occa ional round of
keel. Allen onceived and organized the port man' on ervation Club at West
Point in 'larch of 1939. He signed 229 memb r to a solid agreement to protect and propagate game and fish in Troup, Hard and Chambers (Alabama) coun tie. Member hip includes port men, land owners and tenant fa.nners. mong thi group are six negro farmers, all of whom pay annual due of 1. portsmen are as es ed 5 and landowner contribute 2. Funds from dues are placed into wildlife restoration. It i the purpo e of this club to build port men who hunt and fi h with a 'conscience" 1imit, which perforce of the liberality of the law, i always les Ihan the tate limit. Thi club ucces fully ironed out an acute fi hing problem that gripped a long tretch of the Chattahoochee River.

It converted several hardened violator, fellows who knew nothing about the fishing laws and who in pired other to boot the Tule aJ'ound the river bank. petition was igned by the 750 workers of a cotton mi~l, who compri ed a large fishing population, to abide by the Tules and to report violation to the club. The club aloha

done active work in bobwhite con ervation.

11 n began his career a an Outdoor

Georgian when into the wood

he wa and

ix. He wa treams by a

ld'erado-b-o~-leldy

perch which almo t got away. Oh ye , the

fi h was a whopper. It weighed "around

a pound." (Editor' note-thi weight wa

unverifi d.

OUTDOOR GEORGIA June 1940

CLI T DA 1 was introduced to the
port of hunting when at the age of 12, hi father gave him a hining new pump gun and instructed him in the rudiments of quail hunting. A large part of his early days were pent following bird dogs through the piney woods of Dooly County in que t of quail, or fishing for bream and catfi h on the treams of that vicinity.
Moving from Vienna to tlanta in 1921, he continued hi frequent pilgrimages to fields and streams despite the intelTuption cau ed by the ne e sity of earning a living. In 1933 Davis, together with a group of Atlanta sport men, formed the We tEnd Gun Club and by his work with this organization wa largely re ponsible for the popularity of skeet shooting through out the state.
A conservationist at heart and alway deeply interested in the perplexing problem confronting the development of our
CLINT DAVIS
natural resource, Clint b clune early in lif a regular contributor of articles on Con ervation to newspapers and publication in this ection. He wa Public Relations Director of the Georgia Department of Game and Fi h in 1935, and devoted a large part of the next two year in educa tional work and wildlife conservation.
]n 1937 he accepted a job with the U. . Fore t Service as Director of Information and Education in the outhern Region. Early in hi educational work Davi realiz d the important part which photograph played in telling the story of con ervation, and began to devote coniderable time to photoglaphy. In the pa t 10 year his articles and photograph on natul'al resource have received wide pread publication. ome of his more prominent work appeared in LIFE and LOOK and picture editions in foreign countrie. It may well be aid of Clint Davis that hi work is preaching the principle of conervation of our natural re ources and hi hobby is practicing what he preache .

HE' the "LongLegged Fi herman" in

.Carter vill and Bartow County, where

he I known to practically very man,

woman and child because of hi unceasing

work for conservation. Outside of CaJter -

ville and Bartow, however, he i kno\ n

a Dr. H. P. McElreath pre ident of the

Bartow Conservation Club, which under

his leadership ha become one of the mo t

potent [actor in thi ection for the pres

ervation of \ ildlife and other natural reo

ource .

President of th club in e 1937, year

after its organization, Dr. IfcElreatll re-

cently was unanimously re-elected to that

office. During his pre idency the Club ha

grown from a nucleu of a few Carters

ville port men to 500 member. Farmer.

landowner, and sportsmen have cooperated

in the Club's program.

Work in con ervation ha been a life

long job with Dr. McElreath along with

hi profe sion, a denti t. He ha favored

horter sea ons for fishing and hunting,

con ervatiop of the forest and control of

[ore t fire. nder his lead rship, a county

wide forest fire patrol was set up in Bartow

County. He is president of the Timber Pro-

tective A sociation of the county.

He believe that Georgia w"ill not have

game in abundance until the state has

better protection for wildli[e. He favors

horter hunting and intensified efforts to

firsehsintoo-~k

sea on the

and state'

upply of game and fi h. He advocates reo

?loving the Wildlife Divi ion from political

mfluence, favoring placing this department

under a commi sion form of management.

nder his leadership the Conservation Club

ha made considerable headway in restock

ing Bartow lream and field. In 1939,

for in ta!lCe, over 500 young quail were

relea ed In the field o[ that county, under

guarantee of protection [rom landowners.

imilar conditions sU1'Counded the relea e

of over 50,000 fingerling bass. The club

maintains a quail hatchery as well a fi h

reAring pools.

They call him the "Long Legged" Fi h-

erman becau e he fi he 0 fa I. But the

doctor take pride in his prowe s and hi

catche rival tho e of the experts.

DR. H. P. McELREATH
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There are a number of pecies of earthworm living in the oil of Georgia. They live in the ground where the oil i not too dry or sandy. The triped manure worm i a member of thi group found almo t exclu ivel in decaying table manure.
The common night crawler of thi region reach a maximwn length of 10 to 12 inche. In ew Zealand and
u tralia the ma attain a length of from 9 to 12 feet and a diameter of an inch.

A worm grower proves he's on hand-shaking terms with this season's crop of red wigglers.

Private Life of the

T HE fellm who flick a fly would never admit that there are time when he'd like to throw hi Profe ors and Coachmen and Black Gnat into the, ood and thread on a
Ii e red wiggler. toop to uch a da tardl practice?
I ever! It' like dipping them out with net. t times, though, even the mo t adept fl -ca ters break down and neak a piece of worm on their hook . But don't tell anybody.
There are fi hennen in orth Georgia who have ne er een a leader and a feathered hook. A fI to them i a plain black pest that warm around the yrup pitcher on hot ummer day.
Jevertheless the e native of the
hill of Georgia get a hare of trout. They can't under tand ,h the larger ones are generally taken on artificial
lure. Earthworms are the mo t generally
availabl bait u ed by fi hermen.

WORM
Fish-worm are a bu ine of major importance in pra ti ally all part of Geor!ria. nlike many tate Georgia offer worm of all t pe in all section.
The price of worm ane of our e. La t ummel" hen the drought affected fi hing worm price went up with the mercury. The were carce and 50-cent packao-e were lim after the early pring ru h. mall worms sell for between 15 and 50 cent a hundred, ,hile large night crawler bring their captor anywhere from 25 ent to 1 a hundred.
By Jack

ST DE T of the earthworm have brought out fact that make it one of nature' most interesting creatures. Both male and female sexual organs occur in ea ch in di vid u a I worm. Self fertilization, however, doe not occur, but spermatozoa are tran ferred from one to another. Two individual form a coccoon about the region of the clitellum, which is the band or welling about a third of the way back of the head. The coccoon or cap ule ontaining egg i depo ited in the ground. Egg hatch in from two to thl'ec , eek . \: orm reach maturit in approximately five month . Young worm are distingui hed from adult by the ab ence of a clitellum.
Although the life of a worm ma be hort, they ha e been known to live a long a 10 year . They are en~owed with a en e of elf-protection, lIke all of nature children. They live in. burrows which they often plug , lth pebble or other material to ex clude unlight and natural enemie . Food of the earthworm consi t chiefl of decaying matter uch a piece of leaves and other vegetation and of animal matter in the oil.
They feed at night and none of the pecie i herbivorous or predatory. Food particle are ucked into the dige tive tract b the muscle of the pharynx. When the worm i digging all of the oil he encounters pa e through the alimentary tract.
Hone ombing activitie of the worm make them a friend to the farmer. The make the land porou and thu aid penetration of air and moi ture.
The faece of the worm, which are called "ca ting ," cover the urface of the ground in thick! populated area . It ha been e timated that more than 18 ton of' ca ting " per acre may be carried to the urface of the ground each ear. During the warm period. of the year earthworms come to th urface to mate and at time to move to new localities. Worm are not
Pickerel

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easily drowned and the never drown in well drained soil.
G THERI G ,orm i alway a job for omebody. The common method of gathering worm i by digging. Thi i b no mean the ea ie t. The may be more readily gathered at night, with the use of a fla blight or lantern, preferably beh een 100'do k and midnight. They rna be found tretching out everal time their natural length and alway near their burro" where they are ready for rapid retreat from enemie .
Although earthworm have the power of regeneration, only that etion compo ed of the head and ditellum will form a new tail and continue to live and reproduce. There are few animal capable of moving fa ter than a badly frightened worm, 0 when gathering them it i advi able to u e a light that has been dimmed b doth or ti ue paper. Bright light uddenly thrown on worm end them huffiing for cover.
Worm hould not be allo\ ed to remain in a metal container. wooden bucket or earthenware rock filled to within everal inche of the top with rich oil make an excellent ontainer. It hould ha e a top to prevent dr ing. od or phagnum mo placed on top aid protection.
nder thi la er worm keep indefinitel e peciall when fed and the temperature kept below 60 degree Fahrenheit.
If your famil can be sold on the plan, the refrigerator i a p rI ct pia e for a can of earthworm .
Fi hermen who keep large quantitie of worm require large container pIa ed in the cellar or outdoors. An tlanta worm-grower keeps everaI large can in hi ba ement and e timate that he had 10 million wiggler at the tart of the fi hing ea on in the spring. When a wooden box i u ed it hould be at lea t 18 inche deep and of an de irable width depending on the number of ,orm in captivity.
T o increa e the life of the box outide hould be well tarred (creoote i not recommended). n application of hot paraffiin wax applied to the in ide of the box though not nece ary, doe prevent rotting of the wood. The box should have a tight fitting lid. If placed out of door the box hould be buried in the oil, leaving everal inche protruding above the urface. A well drained, had pot hould be cho en. The box hould be nearly full of damp (not wet) oil. The more humu the oil
ontains, the Ie artificial feeding

Wigglers should be "scoured" three or four times for toughening and resultant transparency

will be nece ary. andy oil i not uitable. Quantitie of well decayed leave may be mixed with the oil. After the box ha been filled with worm a covering of mo , od or leaves rna be made. In dry weather the oil may need dampening, but flooding should be avoided a too much ,ater is injuriou. Freezing kills worm , and in cold weather it may be nece ary to protect the oil from fro t by heaping leave or manure over the top of the box. When placing earthworm in containers, imply pread the worm on top of the earth. Thi enables the live one to burrow in, while the dead one remain on the urfa e and hould be removed.

It al 0 i po ible to rai e earth\ orm out ide of an endo ure although ome worm will be 10 't in migration and predation. The plot of land to be u ed should have fair drainage and hould not be too andy. The oil hould be well spaded and mixed with a mall quantity of well rotted manure. Decayed leave al 0 are de irable. It should be prinkled o casionally to prevent it becoming too dry. The plot should be kept well paded, thereby keeping the soil from packing.
nder the e condition in which plent of decaying leave are u ed, artificial feeding hould not be nece sar . It might be de irable to feed a
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A "wormer" prepares for action in a mountain lake.

W HAT is Georgia's most valuable natural resource? This, as a que tion rai ed at a public forum which I attended last winter. The diseu ion was interesting. One speaker maintained that fore ts ,ere the tate' most valuable endowment becau e tree grow faster in the outheast than in other parts of the country. Another suggested kaolin and related deposit for-if we had the nece ary Industrie -we could ell millions of dollars worth of ceramic products each year to the citizen in this section of the United States. A dozen commentator championed orne natural resource in which they were interested.
I took no part in the discus ion, but ince the meeting I have been thinkin,a seriously about the que tion. And I have formed an opinion.
"..J~I ..

Cash for Climate

Georgia Can Get It - Outstanding Conservation Leader Tells How

By PAUL W. CHAPMAN

Georaia doe not have coal, like Kentucky; nor iron, like Alabama;

nor oil, like Texa . Our soil, generally speaking, is ju t fair, when measured by national standard. We have

noortneena~oulgdh,

but 0 far as to get excited

we know, about.

When the situation is canva sed

carefull , Georgia's mild, delightful, year-around climate is nature's greatest gift to the Empire State of the
outh.

But some hard-headed business man is sure to say, "Yes, thi may be

true. But how can you tell it?"

This is a fair que tion, if one is in-

terested in economic progres, and the answer is that we are selling it alread in a mall, ay and can do much better.

OUR climate, according to those who study such thing, is worth 5 per cent in reduced living expen es. Thi is something. And we are selling it to industrial concerns which are buildin a plant in the South. Five per cent from capital in this day and time is a large return. Banks have huge urns, hich they would like to lend at uch an intere t rate. And an industr which can pay a 5 per cent divide~d i a buy on the market.

Of course, our climate is worth 100 per cent in per onal comfort and satisfaction to those who live here. But let's accept the challenge of the hard-headed busine sman who wants to sell it for money?
In addition to having a wonderful year-around climate ,ith enough rainfall so that plants grow luxuriantly, Georgia is located in the line of passage of the greatest tourist trade that has ever existed. Each year the caravan to Florida from the denselypopulated and fabulously-rich states to the north gets longer and more impressive. Our return from the tourist business are already large, but they can be increased many times within the present decade if the busines is understood and our advantages capitalized.
Lee S. Trimble, of Macon, in a little essa entitled, Who Stays at Home, tells us that if all the tourist cars of the nation were placed bumper-tobumper they would make a line of 34,000 mile -a parade long enough to reach from ell' York to San Franci co 13 times.
In the 15 million cars In thi Impressive parade in 1939 there were more than 52 million people, who spent 5 billion dollars. uch is the size of the tourist bu iness In the
nited States!

Food and cover for game birds and rearing ponds for fish can mean .profit for ~eorgia farmers
and landowners. In top photo are tall stalks of Egyptian wheat growing for quail and .doves. on Pinetucky Plantation in Jefferson, Emanuel and J~hnson counties. ~n bottom .ph~to Junior Wild-
life Ranger Howard Williams, of the DanVille FFA chapter, Inspects hIS fish pond.

GEORGIA got more of thi 5 billion dollars than the average citizen of the state realize. In 1939, tourists left more than 83,000,000 in Georgia. Thi is a sum equal to about 130 for ever Georgia family. Among the state, Georgia ranked eiahteenth last year in income from tourist expenditures.
And I think it is safe to ay that, with a few notable exceptions, Georgia has done little to attract tourists. For the most part we merel have been located on one of the maj or arteries of tourist travel.
One of the most important questions that can be rai ed about the tourist business is-wh do these people go to the places which they select?
Roughl speaking, 20 per cent go to visit relatives, and 80 per cent go for their personal satisfaction. In the
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GOOD e ening folk . I gues ou think that's a mighty funny ,ay to begin, but I ju t couldn't help tarting off that way. It's like thi . Last eptember, Radio
tation WTOC in avannah, gave me a little time 0 I could explode a fe\ pet idea I'd had in my head for a long time. When I \ ent on the air that eptember night I tarted out with "good evening folk , ' and I've been repeating it every week day night from then until nm . I jut can't get awa from it. It ound kinda IUU ical like, and it' friendly, like all fi hermen.
I'm not a writer. I'm jut a fisherman ,ho wants to help everybody enjoy the outdoors. So tr ing to figure out what to \ rite about kinda had me tumped until I decided that maybe you would like to know what good a radio station like WTOC could find in \ hat I had to ay.
Down here on the Georgia coa t, there's orne or the fine t salt and fre h water fi hing that can be found anywhere. A few local folks have been enjoying this fishing for many year. Some inlander have b en making a trip to the coa t ever now 'n then, but to tell the truth nobody ha paid much attention to con ervation of what we ha e. Few ha e encouraged Georgian to fi h alon a the coa tin ~tead of going to som far di tant places. TOC and I believed that listener \ ould like to hear who caught what and where, along \ ith a fe' tips for fi hermen, and the 10\ . down on the tide and weather for the following day. The tip for fisher men con i ted of what kinds of tackle and bait to use for certain fi h, and ugge tion on con er ation and the development of a areat natural reo
ource. The idea caught the listener~ right from the start and prett oon I wa getting more information than I could u e. And it didn t take lon a for me to learn that I had never before known how good these coa tal water reaII were. Where I had thought fi hing wa ju t good, I found that in lots of place it was perfect. Folk who had never b en fishing
OUTDOOR GEORGIA' June 1940

oon got the fe er and we've had more people fi hing around avannah ince la t fall than ever before.
A 0 TH C ROLH, plantation owner called me one da to thank me for information he had heard on m broadcast. He said that he had fi hed all over the nited
tates Canada and Ala ka, had taken trip where the fish he caught cost
100 a pound' and that he had ju t learned that he could catch jut as man good fi h right h re at home a anywher el e. Thi incident was in the fall when winter trout fi hing wa at it be t and you could catch winter trout (peckled ea trout or
The Old alt has become a Ii hing institution along the Georgia coast a IIII thou and of angler, both of the fresh and salt water variety, Iislen to his stories nightly' from WTOC. He is conducting a contest in which 15 salt water and ix fre h water species may be entered.
weakfish) until you got tired of pull. ing them in.
The Old alt ha come to be tlle sour e of information about where to go to fi h for thou and of fi her men throuahout the "coa tal empire," but it i n t because I'm any kind of an expert. It's becau foik, thouand of them, are intere ted in fishing. I'm jut a clearing house of in formation about fi h ina that folks like to give and receive. Hardly a da pa e that I don't learn ome ne\ angle on fi hin a or onlethin a inter e ting about the Georaia coa t. For in tance, I've learned that a few local fishermen w re fly-casting for had, , ith excellent re ult , during February and Mar h of thi ) ear. Tarpon, one of the fightingest game fish of them all, are plentiful alon a the Georgia coa t at certain eason . They have been found in Georgia water for at least 45 years. Channel ba run to larger izes in Georgia water than in man other ection. There have been everal recent catche that weighed over 30 pound each. Winter trout will take a fl under certain ondition a well as they take live
hrimp. I have learned, from fi hermen, that fishing i best under certain tide and weather ondition and

ome of these discoverie have been amazing e en to old timer.
I 'VE al 0 learned through ariou channel ho\ eriou a threat to our future fi hermen i the lack of con ervation mea ures. Fishing in tidal waters i not good if the upply of shellfi h, uch as oysters and clam, i depleted. And some of our coa tline i practically devoid of 0 ster now. Little or no replanting ha been done and not only is this a eriou threat to the fish upply, but it i fast killing the commercial 0 tel' bu ine . hO\ me a hore where there i plenty of live hell and I'll ho\ you some good fi hing, but without them you're apt to ha e a wet line and nothing else. Fish must have food, and shrimp provide a great portion of the natural food supply of our
alt water fi h. But no protection is given the hrimp during the spawning eason and the upply i eriou Iy endangered. Crab are in the ame boat, and many thou and female crab, just ready to pa\ n ha e been taken from Georgia water thi prin a.
II of these thing ha e been brought to the attention of port men in WTOC' audience, and in ome case it ha brought oluntar con ervation. I could relate a lot of other de tructive things I've learned, but I kno\ that the Georgia Wildlife Di-
i ion know about them and i laying "plans to correct them through edu ational and regulatory mea ures.
T HERE are a lot of good fi hing water ill the coa tal counties. ome of the better known places are Tybee, War aw Island, 0 abaw I land, Yellow Bluff, hellman' Bluff, Pine' Harbor t. Catherine's, t.
imons, ea Island, Cumberland I land, Brun \ ick and t. Marys. The e names are usuall as ociated with alt water fi hing, but most of the coastal counties also provide excellent fre h \ ater fi hing. In later column III tell you of the fishing to be found at each of the e place .
-ext month I'll tell you about tarpon and channel ba ; when they can be caught, where and the kind of tackle and bait 1110 t commonly used. In the meantime, remember that if you want ol11e good alt water fi hing ou'll find it on the Georaia coa t.
-The Old alt
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L OG about two hours before un-up the alarm goe off and ou pay it no mind. t least, not at fir t. Then you wonder why in tarnation you thought it would be u h a \\ ell idea to get up for uch a thing a trout trolling at uch an ungodl hour. Finally, having ju t about decided to give up and go back to leep, you roll loggil out of bed, bark our hin five time in five tep in the dark and before long ou are out on the river and the un i jut Ii ahting the Ea t. It' going to be a perfect day.
Ju t why fi hermen mu t be on the drop at da\ n , e've never been able to figure, unless it' one of the ecret rite that goe with good fishing. I've alway found fishing on the Georgia coa t about the same any time of the day provided the tide and moon and all the other cabalistic signs were in conjunction. If the fish are running and you ve got the right tide and have found a good drop (usuall where the bottom ha plenty of oy ter liell) , they'll bite.
Good fi hing can be found at almo t an point along the Georgia oa t at time. ariou veteran angl r have their favorite pot, orne wearin a bv Cre cent and hellman Bluff and imilar camp ; other preferring t. Mary' or Doboy' and other ca ting their bait in the urf at T bee and t. Simon ju t to mention ome of them.
You'll hear di gu ted fi hermen swear that the hrimp boat have fi hed out the inland ,ater around ertain pot, and next da omebody will report catching a 12-pound ba in the arne e tuary. Fi h move about, and although a pot may be thinned out it will pick up population again. The have their favorite runs, and the trick i to figure out ,here they \ ould be and head for the pot.
There are many type of fi hing in the alt \ ater. For trout, ou'll get
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best results with a long pole and a cork bob, letting the hook hang a couple of feet under the surface. For heep head the best re ult are had by u in" a mall hook, ith soft fiddler-crab for bait and dropping the line by an old, harf or a piece of piling. ou have to 'atch harp, becau e heep head will have the bait and be gone before you even knm the ve been around.
Channel ba are fighting fi hand are found in the channel and around rock jettie .
THE smaller pan fi h are plentiful and nibble at hrimp bait almo t
anywhere you find oy ter hell bottom, which is ea ily detected by the crackling noi e coming up through the bottom of the boat. It ounds almo t like static. The pan fish include 'hiting, yellow tails, perch, skipjack, flounders and croakers.
For sport, you'll find plenty of shark and tingaree. Both pull like a team of mule. When you land th tingaree, which is a maller edition of the outh ea devil-fish or giant ra , you had better be careful about hi tail, a it packs a long needle that will make you feel like jumping 0 erboard if you get innoculated.
alt water fi hermen have long puz zled over why the Lord made the toadfi h. 'fhi horrid looking creature live on the bottom and grab your hook before that big ba s can get ~ear. it. Then he ets the hook deep
0In hi throat and pull heavily. You ink you've. got omething and pull In. bout mIdway up you realize it'
? toa~-fi h becau e of the jerk pull-
lng, hke a dead weight bouncing at the end of the line. 0 you pull in and reach for the crewdriver and the plier to recover the hook. It woulcin't do to get your finger caught in that baby' mouth. He' got sharp teeth and a grip like a bulldog. Hi kin
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FISHING CONTESTS-CLIMB ON OUTDOOR GEORGIA in this issue
announces a fishing contest that should appeal to all Georgia anglers. Top prizes of $10 (merchandise) each are offered for the largest catches in six divisions. These are limited to Georgia's game fish, large and small-mouth black bass, rainbow and brook trout, muskellunge and pickerel, that strike artificial lures. They must be taken on artificial lures to be eligible for prizes. Winners in this big contest wiJI be declared Georgia's champion fi hermen of the year.
Another contest has been running ince April. Walthour & Hood Co., of Atlanta, i collaborating with The tlanta Constitution, the state' pioneer and leader in wildlife new , in a conte t which requires only regi tration at the store on orth Pryor Street and at least one worn witne . This may be done either by mail or in person. Prizes offered are: first, Supreme reel; second, Heddon Pal rod; third, Summit reel; fourth, Shake peare Wonder reel; fifth, 50-yard ylon line, and five additional awards of one dollar minnows to be selected by the winners.
A PATIE T FISHERMAN Dr. F. S. Belcher of Monticello likes
to fish; he likes to eat fish, and like all other fishermen, he likes to have his picture made when he makes a fine catch. But he also likes people and an opportunity to lend a helping hand.
Dr. Belcher caught 16 cra'lpie in 50 minute near McClure' Camp on
OUTDOOR GEORGIA June 1940

Jackson Lake last month and the string weighed exactly 10 pounds, 10 ounces. Enroute back to Monticello he planned to store his fish in the "ice house" and prepare for a photograph on the following morning. You couldn't blame him for that. Sixteen big crappie in Ie than an hour with a fly rod, or any other kind of rod, i not an or-
dinary job of casting.
When he reached his office, however, there were several patient waiting. They needed medical attention, but above all they needed food. So Dr. Belcher prescribed a meaty diet. And to give his patients a fast start he provided the meat. They celebrated with an all-crappie breakfast-and with a econd helping of it at that.
SK K DOGS HU TED
The skunk dog market is bullish. If you have a good kunk dog, or a dog you would like to send after the odorus little predator, there may be room for him in the kennels of the Cooperative Quail Study Association at ThomasviJIe. Most dogs are like people. They care nothing for playing tag with the striped little animal whose skin is glorified on women's backs as Alaska sable. In its Spring ews Letter the Association emphasized the scarcity of skunk dogs. This wa just another tribute to the defense line of the kunk, whose damage to quail in Georgia is being studied by the organization under direction of Secretary Herbert L. Stoddard. Predations of the opposum likewise are under crutiny, but "possum" dogs are plentiful.
"It ha been difficult to obtain good kunk dog ," the letter aid, "and we would appreciate hearing of any available either for purchase or loan. If trained dog cannot be found we would like orne young dog for training. We prefer that they not have too much bloodhound in them as much of our work will be done in fox and deer country and it eem difficult to break such trains of hounds as the Walker and others for running these animals."
The Association chiefs neglected to say they were holding their breath until new skunk dogs arrived.
FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE
Unless Congress say "no" the merger of the Bureau of Biological Survey and the Bureau of Fisheries will become effective in June. The e bu reaus, both in the Department of the

Interior, were recommended for mer gel' by order of President Roosevelt. This new agency ill be known as the Fi h and Wildlife Service. The two bureaus, when separate, covered
imilar ground and had the same objective-the re toration and building up of living natural resources. So there is no reason why unification hould not improve ervice to the portsmen with a more effective game and fi h development.
The Bureau of Biological Survey admini tel' federal laws relating to birds, land animals and amphibians wherea the Bureau of Fisherie controls fi hes, marine mammals and other aquatic animal. Work of the agencies now is near consolidation under a director with two as i tants, all of whom will be re ponsible to the Secretary of the Department of the Interior. Such a move is another reminder that conservation of natural resource i getting the "play" which it ha been denied for many years.
LO E GOOSE EVER STRAYS In 1927 J. C. Smith of Rico, Ga., shot
a Canada goose and broke its wing ... The'bird fell in a river, but Mr.. Smith fished it out and patched up the wing ... For 13 years the big gander has lived in Mr. Smith's pasture, never venturing outside, although there are only two strands of barbed wire between him and freedom ... The goose scorns domesticated geese and only when a V-shaped flock from the orth appears does he how any sign of excitement ... Over 1,000 per ons have
visited the Smith farm to see thi now famous hermit bird.
COMING 0 R WAY
For the first time since its organiza tion even years ago the Southern Association of Conservation official wiJI lileet in Georgia. Heads of game and fish commissions, or wildlife diviions in 14 tates, in addition to bio logical urvey and other federal officials wiJI gather in Atlanta next March for their annual convention. The Asociation went on record at its Charleston, S. C., meeting as favoring shorter sea ons on re ident game. Alabama and Mis is ippi reported heavy 10 es of doves in the snowstorm last winter. Charles . Elliott, director of the Georgia Divi ion of Wildlife, submitted to the Association information reo ceived in letter from 175 Georgia hunters. A majority of these hunters sought legally baited dove fields. No action was taken, but there appears to be little chance for so-called legally baited areas to win the sanction of agencies controlling the seasons and
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For the Future of Georgiat 5
WILDLIFE
Millions of birds, animals mul fishes are now busy raising families, which vary in size from one sprightly youngster among deer to ten thousand baby bream in lhe same bed.
roud Mrs. Mallard takes her dozen ducklings on a sight-seeing ur of the wonders of a Georgia marsh, fringed with bull rush.
The Tern feigns injury by placing its foot in the crotch of its right wing and hobbling along on it. From her outpost on a dead cypress tree Mrs. Alligator guards with unblinking eyes an ingeniously concealed nest deep in the watery areas of Okefenokee Swamp.

The horizontal figure eight (upper left) resembles a vaudeville bow. But it actually is the story of a dramatic struggle for existence. In this unusual photo a Satilla River bream is literally "crawling" over a log into its bed. Falling water has separated the bed and its hundreds of eggs from the channel. Continued I a c k of rainfall would leave this bed dry like the two closest to the camera at left. Man, marine predators and weather-this fish must outwit all of them to replenish its species from year ta year.
A Least Tern employs the "broken wing" ruse to lure a cameraman away from her eggs in a bare nest of shells on St. Simons Island.

The Big Ones Are Biting

Channel boss weighing from 5 to 29\12 pounds. These fish were token by Georgia anglers surf costing from the south end of Warsaw Island near Savannah.
Not big enough to toke first prize, but too big to throw bock. That's what J. Fred Hackney of Blue Ridge says about his 7-pound large mouth block boss token from Blue Ridge Lake.

(Above) H. C. Norris of Atlanta took this 10\12pound boss from Lake Burton. (Below) Mrs. Henry Kessler caught this 16-pound red-toiled savage in Blue Ridge Lake. Not a bod job of angling, admits Mr. Kessler, standing at right.

EDITOR

Iy congratulalions on

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GIA. Elmer Ran om's

mention of nakes in "The Old Clay Hole"

emboldens me to send you a tory of an

early nake adventure of mine. I call it

"Back to ature" and hope you may find
. . it available.- amuel Scoville Jr.

EDITOR

I have read the initial

Outdoor Georgia: copy of 0 TDOOR

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intere l. You and your staff are to be con

.. gratulated on a high-class job.. .-fohn
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EDITOR

I am sending a dollar

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The May is ue i a well job and I am looking forward to

. . reading the other with a great deal 01
intere t.-G. M. trader.

EDITOR

This i to acknowl-

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1hank you for a copy of 0 TDOOR GEORGIA. You have eel"

tainly done a wonderful job on thi first

i ue, for which please accept OUT heart

. congratulations.-Jack William

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We like your first

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i good enough and broad enough in scope

to appeal to all lover of the out-ofdoor .

I liked in particular your editorial "Bear

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ilver.

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'l' intere ting, well illu trated and cleanly

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got a copy of your

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yo~r wildlife Jangers.

I read it from cover to cover and the cover

was darn good too. Yours for a great wild

. . . Ufe program.-Philip K. Moore.

EDITOR

Congratulation on

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much impres ed with the cover-the rain-

bow trout triking a fly.-Lee M. Happ.

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EDITOR

I can hardly wait to

Outdoor Georgia: tell you how much 1

enjoyed the fir t copy

of OUTDOOR GEORGIA. It certainly ful-

fills it purposes, and at the arne time

pJ'ovide the very medium for information

which con ervalionist bave been seeking.

It takes up each sport 0 nicely one an'l

help admiring it. What I like mo t about

it i the manner in which it handles ub

ject -in a common sense way. It i every-

body's magazine; the bird hunter's the

fr sh and salt water fisherman'. 10re

power to you.-Ozark Ripley.

ASK ACE

Humanely dispatch all fish be/ore creeling or stringing them and al1l!OYs
string /ish through the membranous
tissue 0/ both lips-never through the

gills.

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Poor sportsmanship 0/ one person

is no perm.ission to others to play the

game on the shady sille 0/ the fence.

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Fishing license lees are not a tax.
They are a voluntary contribution by
the hunters allli fishermen 0/ the state to the cause 0/ conservation.

EDITOR

Your magazine

Outdoor Georgia: muchly needed in

Georgia and I find it

very instructive a well as interesting. Per

.. . . mit me to congratulate you and your a so
ciates.-J. L. Williams.

EDITOR

Con g rat ulations on

Outdoor Georgia: your May issue of

yow' new magazine. I

am ure that it will be something very

worlhwhile.- . Noble.

EDITOR

I read with a great

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splendidly edited

magazine. I want to cong.ratulate you on

it. I am deeply interested in all pha es

of con ervation and particularly those deal-

. . . ing with game and fish and forestry.-
James M. Lawton.

EDITOR

I do not know whether

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GIA has been pub

lished before, but I do not recall seeing

it in uch beautiful form as the May issue.

It is certainly a wonderful start for an

outdoor publication. I shall watch its future

with interest, knowing that it register

to a large extent your own opinions with
. . . regard to wildlife in Georgia.----;(;harles E.
Jack 011.

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to OUTDOOR

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in rease in its impoJtance to the portsmen

of Georgia. Any effort to better the fishing

and hunting ituation in Georgia hould

have the support of every angler, hunter

and portsman in the state. Lot of luck

to you and may it all be good.-Morris

Ackerm.an.



EDITOR

I can tell you best

Outdoor Georgia: what I think of OUT-

DOOR GEORGIA by

saying that my check for a subscription i

attached. This effoJ'I, on your part, is highly

. . . plea ing to every member of the Georgia
Rifle and Pistol A ociation.-George Sweelley.

EDITOR

have before me

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GIA, with its very

beautiful front cover. I am amazed at the

information contained and the interesting

way in which it is written and illustrated.

It will undoubtedly be of great value to

your tate.-Robert Lacy.


EDITOR

I have a copy of your

Outdoor Georgia: fiT t issue of 0 T-

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and I wish to extend congratulations. Jt i

hand omely gotten up and will erve mag

nificently in furthering conservation in the

. . state. It hould go over in a big way with
lovers of ports and wildlife in Georgia.H. . Mitchell.
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It's a swell piece of

Outdoor Georgia: work-that first i ue

of 0 TDOOR GEOR-

GIA. Congratulation to you and to the

brain and brawn put into its making. It's

a profes ional job throughout - format,

typeface, paper, illustrations and the writ-

ing-especially the writing. he has plenty

of reader intere t, imagination, feel and

cope. If she doesn't go over omething is

wrong with Georgia.-Erle Kauffman.


EDITOR

I have looked at the

Outdoor Georgia: magazine with a great

deal of intere t, and

am sure that it will prove to be an excel-

lent addition to the growing list of state

p.eriodical . The appearance of the maga-

zll1e deserves pecial commendation. -Ira

Gabriel on.

June 1940 OUTDOOR GEORGIA

JUNIOR RANOER Til It

BY BOB ATKINS

SI CE the junior ranger program was launched last pring five tate have reque ted information on the manner in which it iconducted. Among them was California, one of the nation's leaders in conservation and development of wildlife resources. The latest wa Missouri. The director of education of thi tate wTote for all literature and rules governing the contest and the work of the oung ranger .
All of these states perhaps are considering adoption of some of the features of the Georgia program, which is de igned, as you know, to place wildlife in the hand of the coming generation.
uch news is encouraging to the junior ranger. They are working in a bu ines that others realize has an important part in building a sound game and fish program. Mention of activity bring up the ubject that all of us are watching-the contest.
Who will go to Wi consin in August? What will you have to do to get two week of fun and tudy in thi tate with its rich outdoors? Will the winners come from the Mountain Distri t or the Plains District? Or from the Piedmont section or from the Flint River areas?

and splashed through the tream of Georgia. Accurate figures have not been compiled, but it i e timated that 45,000 boys and girls are member of your club. You have the backing of more than twice that many hone t portsmen of the tate, person who want more birds and fish and animals.
T HE contest for the Wisconsin trip will run through Jul 15. With the last lap coming up junior rangers are turning on the heat. They're putting that extra touch to their activities. Rangers who cho e fish pond projects perhap got a jump on the quail raisers. Eggs have been coming slowly, but Edwin Gaither, the ram-

rod of the quail farm in Atlanta, threw in an extra load of laying mash and prinkled a mall r p of lettuce on it the other da and the egg began to drop like rain.
By the time this ink dries nearly all of au will have your etting of eggs. A slow start will not count again t you in the conte t. So keep your bantams in a sitting mood and cluck to her if she gets temperamental. It is not too late to pu h your quail project.
Although there are other with just as <Toad a project, take a look at what Os;ar Herndon, of Hart County, is depending on to haul him to Wisconsin. Oscar i 14 and a hustler in the FFA. Oscar is doubling in fish and quail. He has reforested five acre and planted two acre of erecia Ie pedeza and seven of kobe lespedeza. All of his woodland has a 20-foot border trip. He ha a 50-foot quare rearing pool, 12 pair of quail, three wild turkey , a pair of chukors and five acres of' brown-top millet deigned for supervi ed dove hooting.
Whether 0 car gets satisfactory re-
ults from this running tart will be hown in the final check-up in July.
~ CHOOL i out in most section
U and this is an ideal time to get
extra points b helping your ranger with patrol work on treams and lakes. [t's time to look for fish traps and baskets. If you see a eining party
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F ROM high in the hill comes a challenge to the lowlanders. The boys in the mountains say they'll be ready to hook onto the caravan when it heads that way. They insist that nobody outh of Atlanta will go north.
till from the Flint River section junior rangers are making loud noises.
They are tearing up fish baskets, burning quail traps and building fish ponds. They are ready to raise quail by the hundreds and they laugh at the boys in the tall country. "Wisconsin, here we come," i their cry.
If you're a junior ranger, you're a member of the large t outdoor army that ever marched through the woods
OUTDOOR GEORGIA June 1940

Habersham Callege, near Clarkesville, is combining wildlife with higher education and is sponsoring a project which includes border strips of lespedeza and construction of fire lanes. Chief Junior Ranger at this NYA school is Cline Smith. Ranger Charles Davis, Mountain District Educational Director, is awarding him a chief's badge. L. W. Smith, right, is vocational teacher
at the college and director of conservation work.
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W ITH June 1 comes the tatewide ea on on bass and other fresh water fish. The Power Company lakes in Torth Georgia remained open with the trout eason, but fresh ,ater fishing ha been clo ed generally in the tate throughout the pawning period, which, according to law but contrary to nature, began on April 15.
Fishermen are examining maps of roads and streams and lakes to find new fishing territor and to di cover quicker and shorter route to their favorite old Ii hing holes.
One of the most attractive spots in Georgia is the Okefenokee Swamp. In this famous hinterlancl of cypres trees, black water and floating i land, many fishermen have disco ered a paradise of huge bass, hungry bream and perch, jackfi h and other warm water game pecie. The Okefenokee Swamp has several entrance. The two most widely known points of entry are Fargo and Folkston. Fargo may be reached over tate Route 89 from Homerville. t Fargo, cross the Sm annee River and turn left through Edith for Jone Island Landing on Billy' Lake. Several fishing camp are located on the uwannee
River between Edith and Billy's Lake.
The nearest camp to the Okefenokee

Swamp it elf is Lem Griffis' Camp, one of the oldest and most famous establi hments in the vicinit .
NE R Folkston i the beginning of the old canal which lead into Floyd' I land. The fi bing in this canal i reported to be good. Fantastic storie have been told about the mon tel' fish in Billy's and '1innie Lake and in Big Water. Do not let this ummel' or fall pas without including the Okefenokee wamp on your list of fishing trips.
Lake Blackshear (Cri p County POI er Company lake) which lie generally between the cities of Cordele and Americus will have it influx of enthusiastic anglers. This huge power lake on the Flint River wa one of the state s most popular fishing resort before the eason closed. Reports are that the big fish continue to strike in the mountain lakes. H. C. orris, an Atlanta fi herman, while casting in Lake Burton last month, caught a bass weighing 10lh pounds. Other fisherman have reported good catches in Blue Ridge Lake. Two muskie were taken by Clinton Long. The largest weighed 162 pounds.
This remi:ld us of the champion rainbow tout which wa caught last summer below Burton Dam. 0 far

as we know, tllis 51/:l-pound iridescent beauty was the largest rainbow ever taken out of Georgia waters. Burton Dam may be reacbed over a
. S. Forest ervice road from either Clarkesville or Tiger.
MA Y anglers are turning to the coast for tlleir sport. Tidal Georgia is one of the playground of the Southeast. Savannah and Brunswick offer beaches , hich are unexcelled. The sand pit between Tybee and Little Tybee Islands compare favorably with Ocracoke for its ud casting for channel bass. Few person realize that tarpon run in the waters beyond tlle Georgia coast. Several of the big fi h have been reported caught and many seen between Savannah and Florida water .
Those who have fished the lower Ogeecbee, Canoochee and Satilla Rivers and the many black water creeks of the coastal countie of Georgia declare that these streams afford the finest fishing on earth. Many of our lower stream are affected by tlle tide , and even though they are fresh, they rise and fall with the salt, ater. This continuous ru h of water gives tlle big bas a tremendous amount of vitality and the fight they put up against skillful hands and good tackle
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HOTEL DESOTO BEACH CLUB at Savannah Beach, Tybee Island, which was formally opened an May 11. The club and Mediterranean type villas, are finished in California redwood and golden cypress. It is air cooled, luxuriously furnished and offers cuisine that is regarded as unequalled an the Atlantic
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coast. The club is operated privately by the HOTEL DESOTO, but courtesy cards are extended to non-residents of Savannah upon application. The club replete with recreation grounds and a large landscaped area is considered one of the finest American examples of resort building.
June 1940 OUTDOOR GEORGIA

Giving Young Quail a Fast Start

BY EDWIN H. GAITHER

S CCE FUL rai ing of quail begins with rigid anitation. It mu t be carried on throughout

the entire life cycle of the bird. an-

itation and regularity of procedure

are the hvo fundamental principle

of good quail breeding. Healthy

bird are not ea victim of di ea e,

and above all el e, cleanline means

health bird. inety-nine time out

of a hundred a sick quail i a dead

quail. Quail breeders ha e made lit-

tle progress toward reducing the los

in bird after they become di eased.

Brooding of quail with bantam

is recommended where the number

of birds will permit. Begin with two

bantam hen , or three at the mo t.

bout 15 bird per hen i adequate.

tart in a mall, ay and ou will

meet with greater succe .

Each brooder box mu t be vermin

proof. Don t forget the house cat,

which would like nothing better than

a breakfa t of juicy young quail.

Pre aution must be taken to in ure

the da old birds from e caping the

brooder or de erting their foster

mother. Ha e the brooder prepared

bef~re taking the bantam and young

quaI! from the ne t box or incubator.

Pine stra\ erve ver well a lit-

ter for the floor of the brooder.

.at~r with the chill removed is placed

wIthm reach of the fledgling birds.

A mall me hed wire over the water

pan make a good shield. Grit al 0

must be available from the bel7in

ning. The food ( tarting rna h) for

the first few days should be placed

on a mall board that an be re-

moved onveniently. The ery fir t

day the bird will take green food.

Lettuce chopped very fine an be

upplied by dropping on the ,ater

in drinking fountains. Keep fresh

clean \ ater before bird at all time.
W HE quail are ix or seven day

.

old their mash can be placed

m mall feeder. Continue to feed let

tuce chopped into mall bit . At thi

OUTDOOR GEORGIA' June 1940

. tage place a pan containin l7 top oil

m a corner of the brooder. Quail en

jo du t bath and pend much time

preening them elve. Remove and

clean soil in pans a dropping col-

lect. If the , eather i fair the bird

at thi age are allm ed into the run.

Remove the retainin l7 board and do

not u e again.

At two 'eek the bird are gi en

about 30 per cent grain with the bal

an being a growing mash. A fine

cracked grain i needed at this age.

Be ure and keep everything clean.

prinkle clean and or lime under

pens to keep down odors. Do not

forget to continue aver rilo7id ani tar program. Drinking fountain

and feed tray are wa hed dail \ ith

\ arm water. upply fre h litter a

n eded and keep clean water and l7rit

before the bird at all time.

When quail rea h fi e week the

bantam ma be removed. From time

to time .the YOUllg. quail often acquire

the habIt of pluckll1g and eating each

other' feather. This habit i ex

tremely difficult to top but rna be

greatI reduced if overcrowding is

relieved. Increa e the uppl ofl7reen
~ood. Pine or cedar branch pIa ed

mto the run help control thi . anni.

bali tic habit.

a la t r s~rt the

bird beak can be clipped \ ith

harp scis or. Be ure not to

leave a ragged edge as thi

\ ill give him a much bet

A quail chick explores the incubator im mediately after it hatches.

ter weapon to carryon hi endles picking.

BROODER with artificial heat

give good re ult when used by

quail breeder that have quantit

produ tion in mind. Both kero ene

burniu l7 and electric heater can be

obtained for brooder. Regardle of

the type u ed, it hould be prepared

and operated a da or two before

birds are placed in it.

A lean du tIe litter (pine traw

perhaps) should be on the floor to

the depth of about two inches. Place

a thermometer on the litter und r the

hover. Regulate the heater to main

tain a temperature of 95 F. If at an

time enough

ou ha e heat, add

dliiftftiecrultylopiknegepiunpl7~

, ard toward tIle back of the brooder

o that the bird \ ill be broul7ht

nearer the heater. They may be

brooded in this manner a

close a four or five inche

to the heating lement.

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matter of relative Georgia can hold her 01 n' we have ent other tate more re idents than they have ent u , and all like to come back home. Tho who tra el for per onal ati faction , ant, above all el e, comfort, beaut , and recreation.
Hunting and Ii hing hold high place among the form of r creati n that attract i itors. Fifteen million American annually pend mor than 2 billion dollar on hunting and fishing in pite of the limited upply of fish and game.
Overproduction is a national prob lem. Often the demand for industrial products is not ufficiently large to permit our factorie to operate at capacity. We knOI ,hat it mean, in term of farmer' income, to have too much cotton, too much corn, and too many hog . There i normally a urplu of ever thing we can produc except wildlife. We do not ha e enough game birds or animal for our hunter, nor enough fi h for our fi hermen.
nd 1 ."Idlife i getting carcer in mo t part of the nited tate.
A HORT time before he died la t fall, I had a letter from Zane Grey in regard to altwater fi hing. He , rote : "Years ago, when I , a pre ident of the Long Key Fi hing Camp I could catch more kingfi h in an hour than you can now catch in a day. nd it is m prediction that 1 ithin another 25 years kingfish will be practically extinct."
all , ater trout are not a plentiful a they' ere when I wa younger; or maybe la t winter' ant a good ea on. I paid a dollar an hour for a bo , boat, and kicker, in what i aid to be one of the be t place . But at the end of four hour when I had pent ,"'- ounting the co t of the hrimp fed to bait- tealer -we didn't have enough fi h for upper. But I will go back to the arne pIa e again. For all fi hermen believe, 1 ith arlett O'Hara, that 'tomorrol ,ill be another da ."
Thi carcity of wildlife which it would be the part of economic wisdom to correct through con ervation acti itie, lead port men to tra el long di tance and pend lot of money to engage in their favorite recreation. Wealthy sport men from other section maintain their own hunting preserves in the outh, and each year thousands of i itor spend as much as 30 a day for charter boats from which to fi h in the coastal water of the Atlantic and the Gulf.
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Cash for Climate
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Georgia i already famou for it quail hooting, and to a Ie er extent for deer. Game bird and animal can be increa ed; and within the pre ent decade we could build a national reputation a a place to fi h for bas trout, and other pecie of lake and pond fi h, if 1 e will just plan it that way. And if we can get the fish and game, we can get the i itors, and a large part of the money the want to exchange for recreation.
I am impre ed with the stor. of the A hley Place Plantation of outh Carolina.
THE plantation wa a pre-Revolutionar grant from the king of England to the shley family. It played an important role in early America, in the War-Between-the-
"Move him closer-he's still out of focus,"
tates, and in the r con truction day 1 hich followed.
When the active management of the place pa ed into the hand of the pre ent owner, he found that the property wa heavily mortgaged and the land exhau ted by the type of farming which had been practiced. Paying off the debt and keeping "A hley E tate" in the famil eemed like a hopele ta k.
cting contrary to the advice of neighbor, Mr. hIe topped general farming operation and concentrated upon the ta k of producing feed for the quail on the plantation. When he advertised quail hunting privileges at 15 a day, her friend hook their head solemnly and sadly.
But Mrs. A hley wa launching a well-col1cei ed plan. Into her home and plantation he introduced all the

color and atmo phere of the Old outh. egro boy were u ed as ervant . Each morning the appear-
ed to bring coffee and build fire in the room of the gue t. The place took on all the characteri tic which had contributed to its notable hi tory during the period when the nohilit of Enuland had visited the A hley and hot deer, turkey, and quail n it exten ive acres.
Today the AshIey Place Plantation i out of debt, ha more reque t for hunting privileges than can be granted, and enjoys an adequate income.
THERE are plantations in Georgia which might do well to try th arne plan. Game is already a source of income on many outh Georgia farm, , here hunting right are sold for a fixed urn each year. But the personal- ervice, dog-and-guide plan would pro e profitable on countle farm that may never have thought that good hunting privileges rna be old for ca h.
hotel on Highway o. 1 in Georgia ha apitalized a plendid location and the popular demand for good hunting. Controlling 50,000 acre the hotel has ent the nation port men an informal me age something like thi : "Do you enjoy quail hooting? And how about itting down to a heaped-up platter of them . . . all you can po ibly eat (from your 0\ n bag, of course) ... with all the other essentials that go to fill out a hunt man's portion of bountiful living."
The hotel upplie dogs and guide .
Of cour e, the booklet of the John C. Coleman Hotel, Swain boro, explain that the non-re ident tate hunting license co t 12.50, that it i unlawful to buy and ell game bird and animal, that game cannot be hipped, and all other requirement of the tate' game laws. lanager Earl H. Knight tell me that the pa t ea on ,a very succe sfu!. Many of the nation notable ha e been Ii ted among the gue t of the John C. Coleman Hotel.
WHILE there are untapped opportunitie for making game a ca h crop, I am personally of the opinion that a larger number of fann can ca h in on the development of good fishing.
Fish pond have always been popular with pro perous farmer. The e pond have been maintained for ocial purpo e. It' a fine thing to have a
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place where one can invite friends for a little outing.
But the commercial possibilities of growing fish is something that will engage the attention of the American people in the years that lie ahead.
For a long time we have used large quantities of commercial fertilizer in the outh. But there are many people who perhaps never heard of fertilizing a crop of fish. Yet it is done. Experimental work in Alabama and other states has demonstrated clear!y that fish, like all living creatures, grow in relation to the feed available. By applying commercial fertilizers to fish ponds, feed for the crop of fish i increased.
Cason Callaway is an enthuiastic believer in the commercial possibilities of fish culture in Georgia. On his Blue Springs Farms, near Hamilton, he has made extensive preparations for producing black bass. He believes that more pounds of fish can be produced "per acre" than pork or beef. And if this be true the growing of fish has unlimited possibilities, for the farmer can set his own price -provided that he allows his customers to harvest the crop with hooks and lines.
Georgia has a great stake in wildlife conservation. In our delightful climate it may be made one of our most valuable natural resource
Circuit Writer
(Continued from Page 17)
shooting conditions of all migratory birds. Inasmuch as this magazine is desirous of publishing the views of hunters and fishermen, the Circuit Writer will be glad to receive letters on the "rights" and "wrongs" of the state's game laws and seasons. A new game code is needed and the voice of the sportsmen will do more than anything else to help shape a set of workable laws. So what are y~lUr suggestions? We'll air as many views as we can. Remember these columns are wide open to you 'sportsmen.
EW DELICACY FOR TROUT
Imported shrimp from ew York Stat~ have been brought into Georgia to help feed the imported rainbow trout from the mountain streams of the west. Approximately 20,000 fresh water shrimp were planted in suitable springs and small streams in the Chattahoochee National Forest. Tests of the waters were made before the Division of Wildlife made the plantings. Aft~r a month in. their new Georgia e.n~Ilonment the tmy crustaceans are hvmg and appeal' to be thriving-. However, there is no indication that they are increasing. They are so smali, ~hough, and the planting- was so limIted that it will take some time to determine whether the shrimp are reproducing.
Breeding- of this species i unusually fast, according to' authorities, and
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should they live up to their reputation, a new and valuable food supplv for brook and rainbow trout will gradually develop in the mountain streams. Such is the aim, at any rate, of agencies working to restore fish in the state.
"Buzz" Roth, fish culturist of the Bureau of Fisheries, liberates shrimp in North Georgia.
WOME TAKE TO WATERS It is estimated that 25,000 women
fish one or more days a year in Georgia waters. Reports from rangers show that more women are taking to the streams for bass, bream and trout. Last year Baggs Creek in the Chattahoochee - Chestatee area of North Georgia was opened exclusively to women. The Division of Wildlife awarded prizes donated by Atlanta sporting goods houses for the largest catches.
Sonja Henie started the ice kating boom; Helen Wills made girl who had never swung even a ping pong paddle get out in shorts and swing tennis racquets. Sporting clothes manufacturers are encouraging women to fish by emphasizing the opportunities to "throw curves" in fishing outfits. They are proving that fishing is just as good as tennis and skating for slick looking dress. The lady fishermen take to tackle fast. It may be that they are successful because they don't have the strength to "overpower" the rod, a fault that too often slows strongarmed and over-ambitious men casters. Just like the state is becoming more conservation conscious, women are getting fi hing con cious., Some of our better and more patient fishermen are women.
Life of the Worm
(Continued from Page 13) little fat occasionally, in the form of chopped beef suet. In ome cases bread or cracker crumbs, crumbled hard-boiled eggs, corn meal or other cereals are fed by prinkling lightly over the surface of the earth, beneath the moss or sod covering. Pablum, a prepared cereal, is said to give good results. Care must be taken to feed sparingly, as uneaten food decays and fouls the entire container.
A LTHOUGH worms may be marketed or used freshly dug from the ground, they will be more desir-

able as bait and will last longer if they are "scoured" before being used. To "scour" place some clean sphagnum moss (that used by florists in packing plants, and which may be found in any bog lake) or an old lace curtain in the bottom of an earthenware crock or other container. The moss or curtain should be dampened. Place the worms in the container 'and leave for at least two days, or better still, three or four days. The container should be placed in a cool spot. At the end of this time the worms will be almost transparent, tough and lively. In cases it is necessary to leave the worms in the container for longer periods, a little weet milk should be poured over them weekly, but the moss should be washed and wrung out in clean water every few days.
In warm weather fishermen may have difficulty keeping worms in good condition. A worm box made of galvanized sheet iron with an inner lining of cork made waterproof by covering with paraffin or collodion and over all a canvas jacket that can be kept wet will keep worms cool and in good condition.
The angler who spends his winter
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Every person who attempts to keep or raise earthworms find that there are
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(Continued from Page 22) i econd to none. porting o-ood and hardware tore in an of the coa tal citie or to\ n can upply information on coa tal fi hi no-. M t of them carr complete line in fre h and alt \ ater tackle and an furni h name of port men' headquarter and fi h camp on both fre hand aIt water coa tal river and harbor.
One of the fi hino- attra tion that middle, e tern Georgia ha to offer i brown trout fi hing. The ea on on the streams where the brown ocur also began June 1. Perhap the mo t popular brown trout tream in th tate is Cedar Creek. There are many Cedar Creek, but none like this one. It ri e beyond Ca e pring and Ao\ past Cedartown, emptying into the Tallapoo a River. Don't 0 erlook thi grand trout stream when au are in that part of Georo-ia.
THE E remarks have been confined to fi hing. We are not, howe er, unmindful of the fact that a a ummer playground Georo-ia i une celled in aLno t any way you can name. From her mountain re art. wit h

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their trail, hor eback riding, and many other kind of amu ement to the vacation land of the coa tour tate perhap offer a o-reat a variet to the vacationist a any other tate. Dont plan your a ation to ome far corner thi ummer. ta at home and g t acquainted with our neighbor beyond the bend of the high\ ay.
Raising Young Quail
Continued from Parre 23
Follo\ the ame method in preparing the brooder as given for birds with bantam regarding fee din g ma h, water, grit, green food and dust pan. Put the quail in the brooder under the hover and clo e the top of pen, allowing the birds to come out at will and pick at the food. Watch the bird closely the fir t few da s a the will remain away from the hover and chill easil . PIa e a board cro swise of the brooder box everal inche from the hover to confine them to the warm part of the brooder. Remo e the board at inter als to allo, feedino- but replace after 15 or 20 minutes. Ah ay have the retaining board in place overnio-ht.
On the eventh or eighth day, if the weather is mild quail can be allowed to 0-0 from the brooder into the run. Feed, ,ater grit and du t pan also is remo ed to the farther end of the brooder box. Reduce the t mperature to 900 F.
I F THE quail tand around in a bunched po ition or if they try to bunch it wiII mean it is too cold out of the brooder box. Be ure to k ep the thermometer in its original position-on top of the litter and with bulb three inche from the front of the hover. The heat i redu d a tbe bird become tronger.
t the age of two we ks allow the quail free ac es to the out ide run. Continue to plac them in th brooders ever night and keep a clo e eye
n the temperature. a h drinking fountain and feed tra eacb day. Clean brooder box 1\ ice each week and follo\ up' ith a di infectant. 1wa s bave fr sh water and lean ma h before them. Do not feed o-reen food too parino-Iy.
Tbe bird hould be large enough at five week to thrive without artifi ial heat. Do not onfine birds in the brooder box at night after the heat is di continued. t six weeks the brooder is removed from the box.
Cannibali m (vent, nostril, wing, or toe picking may begin when the birds are anI a f \ da old. s

tated before, do not neglect to take immediate action on thi deadl habit. Clip beak if there i evidence of pickino-. Bird even just lightly ent or toe picked u uall. remain cripple or die from the effect. Once ev r 10 or 11 da should be often enouo-h. Clip beak to the quick but no more. B ver careful to hold ea h quail o-entl 0 it cannot pu h again t your hand with its feet; the are ea ily injured.
Q AIL at an age must be kept quiet, and the less they are di turbed the better progres they make. The ite of the brooder and outsid run should be fenced about the side and al 0 over tbe top if predators are common. Cat, dogs, rats and mice mu t be kept from perching on the pen, to avoid frightening the quail. Frio-htening , ill make the bird wild, cau ing them to injure them elve b flying against the run cover. i itor mu t be kept awa from brooder and tbe same per on hould perform all dutie pertaining to the care of quail. Do not pIa e the brooder near chicken a quail are highl u ceptible to di ea e of dome tic fowl.
Remember the primar point of quail breeding are: 1) Ri<Yid ani tation; (2) Proper temperature under the hover' (3 Keeping feed and water in rigbt place; (4) Reo-ularit of procedure; 5) Adequate green food; (6 Earl check of cannibali m; (7) ec1u ion of bird.
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Blake Indorses Open Season
It wa a rno t en ible deri ion on tbe part of the Wildlie Division to permit Ii hing with rod and reel in the g.reat Power Lake of orth Georgia thi pring.
H a German army were to invade that section and all the oldiers be permitted to fi b with rod and line in the waters for two months, they couldn't materially d . pJete the Ii h population of those great lake.
In fact, to catch a large number of the big ba therein would prove able ing, The e big ba s devour more smaller fish per day than the fi hennen could catch out in a year' of steady fi hin".
It would seem that one of the prime object of the Wildlife Divi ion should be toward encouraging Ii hing in the tate at a time when you can enjoy the sport. nd the Divi ion realize that.-Morgan Blake.
Three-Year Quail Holiday
True port men welcome laws that per mit the propagation of game. True port men deplore tactic uch a trapping Ii h, th u e of dynamite and other unlawful method. Yet there will always be that type of human who di regard the right of other and greedy-like goe out to "j!et hi" and the devil take the re t of the folk .
II glory to the Ii h rman who allie~ forth to orne tream, catches a many fi h a he thinks i ufficient for him and his family, and then quit. He i a true ports man.
The Journal would welcome a threeyear holiday for quail life. We think that real sport men faced with fastdimini hing quail life, will welcome uch a move. Tt ma work a hard hip on some of the oldtimer who e day of hunting are about over, but Lhey an con ole themselve by th knowl dge that they already have had their dav, There are other days to come, and if they are the real port men we think they are. they will welcome the opportunity to save some quail for the boy who will b men of tomorrow and for generation of boy to ome.-Albany Journal.
Conservation Gaininq
Today, more than ever before, conservation is mounting in importance in the mind of the people of thi country.
round the turn of the century. the voice of con ervation wa but a feeble prote t 10 t in the roar of indu trial expan ion. In 1905 President Theodore Roo evelt tonl.the fir t tep in the pre ervation of natural re ource, That year he created th ptional Fore t ervice, pre erving; millions of acre of preciou timberland for po terity.
In 1936 Pre ident Franklin Roo evelt took another great stride bv initiating the First orth merican Wildlif Conference which wa held in Washington. Then. for the fir t time in history. sport men and outdoor lover got together with tate and
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government official and formulated a co hesive and effective plan for conservation. . . , The con ervation movement i one Ihat hould have the unqualified upport not only of port men, but of all our citi zen , and it i expected that the ob ervance now in progre will re ult in wildlife offi cial receiving increa ed cooperation.Brunswick ews.
Slow to See Destruction
In the usual American way, we have paid little attention to our wildlife reo ource until they had been decimated al010 t beyond recovery. The ame thing happened to our for t and 10 our productive land. We have wa led them, until the udden realization cam that Ihey were almost gone.-
It has been no mere coincidenc that, as the number of our bird decrea ed, the number of in ect pc t ha increa ed to hara the farmer, reduce hi production, and increa e the co t of what he doe pro duce. The bird feed on in ecL, and when million of our bird are kill d or allowed to die the number of in ect increa es by
lhe hill ion .-Tifton Gazette.
Poisoners Condemned
ince la t eptember 2.000,000 fi h have been put into the lake and tream of the state by federal and tate hatcherie . The Division of Wildlife i howing improve ment in aclmini tration and there i po ibi]jty that we may ee fi hin" worLhwhile in Georgia again. Two thing must be remembered by tho e who expect Lo "f' fi hing come back as it wa in the j!ood old days. There are more people fishin'!: now. They are taking more fi h out of fre h water. The law i nol being enforced against Lho e who wa te fi h by poi oning Lh"m.
orne improvement are b in" made in law enforcement but we have good fi. hin'! sLreams in th tate that are practically ruin d every year for fi hing purpo es bv Lhose who put poison in the waLer.....,1Ifauf. trie Observer.
Basket Setbacks
Wildlife rangers brought in a hickoryplit fi h ba ket that would Lrap the bigge t fish in the Etowah. Jt i a beauty. .
The ranger al 0 have a number of wire ba ket-traps that they have tak n from the river. Their method eem to be 11 friendly one but determined to top of fen e .
When a fellow makes or buy a basket and goe to the trouble of putting it in the river only to have it snatched by a ranj!er, he becomes a bit anj!ry. But wh"n that happens to him several time he i likelv to hecome discouraged. It is a bit hard on the ranger. but they do have a fine pa tience that finally ought to win the confidence even of the wor t offender.- ortll Georgia Tribune.

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Junior Ranger Trail
(Continued from Page 21) or a group of fi h eran er tel's who laugh at sport and bla t fish out of the water \ ith dynamite, ou will be eloin'" your dut and rendering a ser ice to the pullic if you tip IT your ranger. Points from such work will count in the final reckoning and the race is expected to b so close that five or 10 points might put rou across.
There can be another wa of deal ing with these violators. If ou think they wiIllisten to you-a junior ran gel' with wildlife to protect-sit them down and tell them ho\ much fairer it is to take them with rod and reel. It is possible that such a lesson will soften some of the cru ty violators. Your work, of course, is chief! edu cational. It is your duty to teach your neighbors and your pIa mates the importance of protecting life in the streams and the woods 0 that it may be used judiciously.
The Wisconsin trip can be won or lost on accompli hment between now and July 15. ~t' get busy and push our projects. Bear in mind that it's easier to plan a project than it i to carry it out. So don't tart our quail and fish pond projects without doing everything in your power to complete them. Remember that a mother quail would not leave her egg to chill and a spawning fish would not desert her eggs and leave them to the turtles.
Along Salt Water Lines
(Continued frOln Page 16) i a slim., slippery film that make it necessary to peg him to the boat with the screwdriver to handl him. You get the hook out, make a wry face, and throw the dead toad-fish back overboard.
A D then there are the catfish. These finny lads will give you a great struggle but the re , oTthless unless you catch a big blue channel cat with a sail on his back and cook him up in a chowder. egroes like them tried, but salt water cat. particularly mud cats, are not prized catche on the Georgia coast.
You'll have a lot of fun with crab in some spots. They delight in hrimp and will eat it fast as you throw it to them, not ha iner the de cency to let fish get a nibble. If you want crab for supper, you can catch plenty of them with a stout cord a piece of strong meat and a handnet. Cooked in boiling alt water to a ruddy brown or red, the are deliciou , ,but give you plenty of picking to get at the meat.
The best fishing tide for general

fishing is on bb tide for an hour or so until slack \ ater, and then for the first hour or so on the flood. In trout fishing, it's usually be t for the couple of hour jut before full flood.
lthough salt water fi h, being eccentric and more than lightly cracked, will ometimes bite on any stage of ebb or .flood tide. It depends on how they feel.
Some salt water fishermen prefer a line that allows the hook to float a few feet above the bottom, while other insi t on having the line right on the bottOI'll. We've tried both way and find it makes little difference. The usu?l practice is to liSe a sinker heavy enough to hold the line straight down -against the pull of the tide-and tie the hooks on short cord leader a foot or so above the sinker. Mo t fi her men u e two hook, on short leader , one a foot above the sinker and the other a foot above that.
O CE in a while you'll catch an eel. They are tough cu tomeI's to get off a hook, and will bite if you're not careful some say. Grab them a couple of inches from the head, us ing the middle finger above and the index and third finger below, and you have a ise errip on them-although you'll need an hour to scrub off the slime. Some folks like to eat them, well -fried.
had are the king of Georgia oastal fish for taste and richness, but you won't catch them on a hook. They are netted in the bracki h water under strict regulation early in the year.
Lucky fishermen sometimes bring in a tarpon or swordfish caught off the coa t, but they are rare in Georgia water, although there are many tiny swordfish in some of the inland waters.
The be t bait are fre h - caught hrimp, till kicking when ou put them on the hook. But good re ults may be had with cut prawn before it eret warm and turns reel.
Blackfish abound on the banks off avannah, and sometimes parties charter a boat for an excur ion. They are not game fi h, ho\ ever, and you oon tire of pulling them up two and three at a time. While bass fishing, you'll ometime atch a nice drum. It' well eating, and gives you a good fight before landing. They rUll to size, 10, 15 and even 25 and 30 pounds.
Rockfish are found in some of the brackish waters, the best places being near railroad trestles.
There are queer things in the ea, but none 0 queer as the biting habits of fish. You'll never learn themeven with practice.
June 1940 OUTDOOR GEORGIA

with JOHN w. BEALL

F OR many years fish have been one of our most valuable natural resources. But year after year of exploitation has reduced our supply to an alarmin~ low. Little or no protection and the general public's ignorance of the habits of fish have combined to deplete the stl'eams and lakes of all forms of aquatic life. Not many summers ago all Georgia streams ran clear water and fish were bountiful. Colonel BYl'd. in a report of a trip through the Piedmont section of the state in 1728, declared that all the water was as clear as a crystal and alive with game fish.
Early settlers of Georgia found conditions ideal for fish. They began fishing because fish was a wholesome food, In later years, as the population be~an to grow. more people began to fish, more land was cleared, hills began eroding, streams were polluted, and our aquatic life began to dwindle. This has continued, but there are a great many more reasons for the denletion of the fish population. People learned that water would not affect the burnin~ fuse of dynamite. which, exploded in streams, wonld kill fish. Fishing with hook and line was reg'arded as so much lost effort and time.
THE Bureau of Biological Survey has issued bulletins showing that
shooting dynamite in streams is the most destructive manner of taking fish. Every time a dynamite explodes in a stream, it not only kills all the nearby fish. but addles the eggs in the beds and kills tiny fish for several hundred feet. One explosion of dynamite often destroys millions of fish. Gaseous fumes from it also poison the streams and the amount of this damage therefrom depends on the size and depth of the water.
The second most destructive method of fishing is with a seine. A seinin~ party that covers a mile, taking fish wi.th i~s deadly mesh weapon, grabblmg m holes under the banks. in crevices and around the logs, does tremendous damage to eggs. Sometimes in such places there are several hundred fish beds, each containing from 2,000 to 25,000 eggs. If 20 beds are wrecked, a total of 100,000 eggs may be destroyed by one party in one day. not counting the brood fish taken. Statistics show that approximately lOner cent of this number would live in streams properly protected. This being true, there would have been 10,000 fish, two years later,
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weighing from one to two pounds each.
BASKETS, nets and trap of various kinds destroy many thou ands of
pounds of fish each year. In addition to the fish caught in regular fishing during high water and floods, every basket fisherman will lose or leave several baskets in the water. If it is a wire basket, it will last about three years; if it is made of white oak strips, it will last approximately 20 years. These baskets will continue to catch fish, destl'oying an approximate 500 pounds of fish per basket each year. The fish caught will die. This baits the basket again, making a continual death trap cycle.
There still is another big reason for protecting our fish. There are millions of insects that hit or fly near the water every day. They enter our fields and destroy our crops, but many would never leave the water if we had more fish. Statistics show that in the

past 15 years our fish and birds have decreased 46 per cent, and in the same 15 years insect life has increased more than 300 per cent.
The true sportsmen of Georg'ia should join the rangers in their war on illegal fi hing, and all types of pollution of streams.
Herring Run in Ogeechee
Coleman Lake, located in Emanuel County, is believed to be the only fresh water stream in Georgia where herring may be caught in large numbers. The herring is a salt water fish that migrates once a year to fresh water streams to spawn. To and from the spawning places these fish run in the channel of the stream and near the bottom and for this reason are not easily caught except in spawning beds.
As this is the only place on the Ogeechee River where herring are
(Contillued 011 Page 32)

Wildlife rangers destroy a "fall" trap in the Flint River. The wings of this fish trap were constructed of native rock and extended to each side of the river. These rocks were placed
in the water by slaves before the War Between the States.
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The Big 'Un

(Continued from pa.ge 7)

nmtate real flies and bugs. The Big , n would not be easily fooled b anyone of that funny-looking assortment.
"You gonna fi h with fly hooks?" he asked.
The chief nodded.
"Help me select a good pattern."
Robert looked wiftly over the multi-colored group.
"He won't feed on nothing like tho e."
Mr. Ramey replaced the fly box in his coat and found anothel' container. almost identical with the first. From this second box Robert selected a long hook, tied onto something which any fi h with a vivid imagination might think wa a helgramite.
"Fish are feeding on them," he said.
THE chief tied this bug to his leader and then stood for. a long minute, stud ing the pool. "It's better fishing from the other side," Robert suggested. "By letting the hook drift with the current from there, it goes right under the roots of the tree."
Mr. Ramey looked at him strangely for a moment.
"You want to catch thi fish, don't you Robert?"
Robert Sl allowed somethinl!: that felt like a fi h bone in his throat and shook hi head.
"Oh, no ir. I'd rather see you catch him."
They crossed the stream several hundred feet above the pool and came back down the other side. Robert knew by the manner in which his dad's boss approached the stream and worked hi way into the pool that he was a veteran fi herman. He knew it b the manner in which Mr. Ramey played out line and allowed the lure to drift gently with the current, as if it were a separate, unattached buO' drowned in the waters of the stream.
The artificial helgramite s\ irled in the depths of the pool and then drifted out the lower end into running water. Robert had a udden surge of confidence. Most alway the Big 'Un truck on the first cast or not at all. The monster trout might not even be feeding thi morning. Or he might be in the pool above, or the pool below the Blue Hole.
The chief retrieved hi lure and ca t again. The helgramite sank slowly as it drifted. It made the turn afely and picked up speed with the current. If the second cast went by-
Robert saw the swirl not born of currents, even before the line snapped taut. And then he saw the chief strike hard. The \ ater exploded in a dazzle of color. The rainbol was even more magnificent than Robert remembered-it might have been a tarpon wallowing in the briny depth of the Gulf. Robert's knees were suddenly very weak.
Mr. Ramey maneuvered the struggling, tream-lined giant into deep I"a tel', away from the roots of the tulip tree, handling hi line with firm and gentle skill. Time and time again the huge trout leaped clear, showering white spray, trying to rid his lip of the relentless barb

of teel. He was a veteran warrior, but Mr. Ramey seemed to know how to handle veteran warrior. Again and again the chief turned his rush for the roots of the tulip tree.
ROBERT could tell when the monster rainbow began to weaken. The big fish rolled on its side, lacking the flash and power he had hown at the beginning of the battle. Hi last desperate bids for freedom were feeble and unskilled.
Minutes or hours or etermtles might have passed before Mr. Ramey lowered his net and pulled it over the fish. The excitement of battle gone, Robert fell to his knees on the sandbar. Almost everything worth while eemed to have gone out of living. The Big 'Un had been taken by someone else. The plans and dreams of a year were like hot summer dust under his feet.
To ave his life Robert could not keep the salty mist from filling his la hes or trickling down his cheek. But he had to be a sportsman. That was what his ran~er dad wanted him to be. He wiped away the wet trail of a tear and looked up to I!:rin his approval at Mr. Ramey. He found the chief staring at him with eyes which were hard and bright. His dadd 's boss seemed to have forgotten the fish which lay in the net, struggling gently again t its meshes. The eyes of the older man held a puzzled, far-away look, as though he saw something beyond the mists, beyond the big blue ridge above the station.
Then the chief did a strange thing. He turned swiftly and stooped over the net. With a deft movement he slipped the hook out of the Big' n's jaw and pulled the net away, leaving the huge rainbow free in the water.
THE big fish lay for a moment on the surface, unable to understand his new freedom. Then he moved, gently and almost imperceptibly, and drifted like a gray hadow back into the frigid depths of Blue Hole.
Robert was on his feet when the chief waded ashore, windin~ in his line as he came. He stooped beside the boy and caught the young ranger's arm in a grip that almo t hurt.
"I overheard what your dad told you this morning," he said.
Robert blinked. His de pair had been utter and complete. ow it was replaced by wonder at the strange actions of this strange man. He felt a surge of friendship in his heart.
"I never understood real sportsmanship," Mr. Ramey said, "until a few minutes ago."
Robert's eye were bright a he looked at the Blue Hole under the tuli p tree. The Big 'Un was still there, by some miracle the boy would never understand. But that trout was martel' now, than ever. And Mr. Ramey-he was like most grown people Robert knew-they did a lot of things he would never under tand.

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June 1940 OUTDOOR GEORGIA

A IMAL BEHAVIOR

BY ELMER RANSOM

W ILL any of the 1 orth American fie h-eater make an unprovoked attack on man? Tote the \ ord unprovoked. Almo t any animal i dangerou if wounded, cornered or if its young are threat ened. an hunter have been injured, ome have been killed, b a wounded buck deer, about the mo t timid and inoffen ive of all \ ild ani mals.
The di cu ion is an old one, and likely to come up wherever hunters, naturali t and outdoorsmen foregather. an an experienced hunter \ ill tell ou that our wild animal ne er make an unprovoked attack; that onl man is a wanton killer; onl man ha developed the machinegun technique.
Excepting the jaguar, found outh of the Mexican border, the ougarknown also as the panther or mountain lion-is the greate t of the orth American ats. Certainly a cougar could ea il kill an unarmed man.
nd how about the grizzl or the kadiak bear? The latter i the large t and mo t Po\ erful fie h-eater in the \ orld. The e animal vel' rarely make an unprovoked attack. ariou explanation are offered for thi manfear, which certainly ome of the fi rcer animal of Africa and India po e in no uch degree. The mo t intriguing is the following:
AMERIC . wa peopled by a hunting, \ ar-like race of men-the merican Indian. The \ ild creature learned that an attack on the e weapon-bearinO" people brought \ ift and certain puni hment. More than thi, the bolder individual were hunted down and killed. "Thou shalt not kill a man," became the law of the American wilderne s. Propagation wa left to the cunning (or hall we say the wi e?) rather than to the bold. India and frica, on the other hand, had relatively fe\ hunter, and the man-eater learned that the twolegged creature was pitifull ea to kill.
The theor ha a few loop-hole
and it ultimate proof i be ond us.
e rna accept it perhap , with re ervations.
But what of the hunter, even in
America, \ ho have been et upon by

\ ild animals? J. F. Oertel, a keen
ob erver and a highly competent and con ervative \ ood man, told me of a cougar attacking him \ hile he at near hi 0\ n camp fire. He wa for tunate enough to kill the animal with hi rifle.
I once aw a negro after he had been badl clawed b a bob cat that prang on hi houlder \ hile he walked along a backwood' road one night in the outh Carolina Low Country, and the bob cat i just about the mo t cautiou and cowardly of animal. The man, incidental! , claimed to have killed the big cat with his bare hand.
Before me, a I write, i a ne\ paper account of a fox attacking a man in hi own farmyard \ ithin a few mile of Augu ta, Georgia. When my opinion wa a ked I uggested that the fox might have been rabid, but he bit everal domesti animal none of \ hich went mad. The laboratory report on the head of the fox declared that it howed no evidence of rabie . The animal \ a \ ell nouri hed. It couldn t have been a matter of food.

A D that leave u, I think, the point 0 often overlooked-the

indi idual variation between animals

of the same species. All lions, all

tiger, all bear , all cougar all foxe ,

all quirrel don't act alike. They

ha e definite per onalitie , and when

one make the broad a ertion that

grizzlies ne er make an unpro oked

attack, he di regard the trui m that

there are gang animal ju t a

ttehl'erea nadr ekialmleor 'ngammoennO~"

It i thi variation in wild animal

-aye, even in friendl animal like

the dog-that give their tudy it

everla ting fascination. Lest you mi -

under tand me, let me add that you

ar afer in the wood of orth Amer-

ica than ou are at Time quare.

The mo quito that bite you or the

house fly that light on your bread

i more deadI than an of our

fore t folk. We are discu ing, how-

e er, the oddity, and di cu s it only

because of it high intere t value.

And if an of you outdoor men know

of an entirely authentic case of a wild

animal making an unprovoked attack

on man-I'd prefer a per onal experi-

ence--I wi h you'd \ rite me.

OUTDOOR GEORGIA June 1940

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Rangers' Campfire
(Continued from Page 29) known to pawn it is a popular fishing resort during the latter part of February and the first of March. Herring precede shad and rock fish up this tr'eam and remain in the lake about three week . They generally begin their journey back to the briny deep within a fe~ days of Easter unday. When they tart back schools of the e fish will jump ometimes f01 hours, leaping out of the water a. high as two 01' three feet. This make~ such an interesting ight, that as many a five hundred person have been on the bank at Coleman' Camp. neal' the mouth of thi tr'eam, fishing and watching the spectacular fi h show.
Coleman Lake is five miles east of Midville. The river divide in thi particular section for a three-m il stretch, one part known by fishermen as the channel of the Ogeechee and the other as Coleman Lake, a lake only by name, for it i nothing mol' than a fork of the river with slowly moving black water. There are largc trees on each ide with overhanging mo ,bank covered with bu he anu a few logs and tree top partly sunk in the water. It is one of the fine t fishing spots in Georgia.
The La t Chase Not many persons know that the
opossum i one of the enemies quail have to avoid. Lindsey Grace of Screven and his wife were driving to Waycross when they noticed a quail flash acro s the road in front of the headlights. Mr. Grace wa driving lowly and decided he would investigate the reaso,lJ_ for the quail's nocturnal trip. Before he halted his auto a big opos um puffed into view. The marsupial was hounding the bird, but Mr. Grace saw to it that this was the la t chase of the blackjack. He killed
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Heron fishes for herring. A white ibis stands ready to spear anything that swims past.
of Brantley County, and I were patrolling the Satilla River when we spotted a cal' decorated with fi hing the animal with a well-timed blow to the skulL-C. J. Wright, Je up.
"\Vhere's My License?"
Before the season closed in April RangerR. B. Sa nett, Sheriff Raulison, poles and other tackle. Le s than five minutes after they wet hooks the fishermen were getting results.
We checked their licen es and everybody checked okay. An elderly gentleman who had just "come along for the trip" was sitting on the banks. After seeing the re ults his companions were getting he drifted back to the car in disappointment.
"Gentlemen," he said, "next time I come to this place I'll have a license and I feel like jumping in the river right now for not having one. Fact is, if you fellows were not already here I believe I'd have to fish and take the consequence. - C. L. Harrell, Waycro s.
White heep in Black Family
In Troup County we have a flock of 15 crow , Fourteen of them are glossy black. The other is as white as a swan. While the white crow feeds the army of 14 stand guard around the tops of nearby tree. When the blacks are feeding this white sentinel remains on watch. At the slightest sound of danger these black pests launch their war caw. It takes only one sound, though, to send the white leader into the air. He shows the way into the ne~:t county, or some retreat in the tall timber.-A. l\JcSmith, LaGrange.
Poem to a Lake
Ranger Davenport Edwards asked the citizens of Crisp County to keep the woodland around their power company lake in its natural state of beauty. His appeal was done in rhyme and wa given wide distribution by newspapers in this section of the state.

Under the shade of a tulip and with his feet hanging in the water, Edward wrote as follows:
'Tis tnle I'm your faithful sel'vant, who til'ele sly day and night,
Works fOl' yow' pl'ogress and keeps yom' household br'ight,
But Thr'onateska is my ?nothm', man's vision was my sire,
Hav:ng such noble lineage, you rnight grant my one desil'e;
Don't tear f)'om my bosom the cor' sage of azalea hue,
Please let the gal'land of jelsmine 'twine in my hair' so blue,
Leave my dress of dogwood in a backg)'ound of evel'gl'een,
If you steal my ?'edbud necklace my beauty can ne'el' be seen;
So leave mlJ dress of SlJ1'ing alone, where all may come and see
This beautiful gift natm'e' C?'eatol' bestowed on me.

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QUESTONS and ANSWERS

Q E . What do the terms cat-
adr01nus and anadromus mean? \

Al . Catadromu Ii h includ the variou p cie that make their home in fresh water. t pawning time they go down tream to all water and there depo it their egg. The common eel i a well known example in Georgia. nadromu fi h have habit that are vice versa. They inhabil alt water but make 'run -- into fre h water treams to pawn. Th had belong to this cia jfication.

Q E . What is a shrew and does Georgia have this animal?

The hr w or mole i found in Georgia. It length j about four inches, including the long hairy tail. Th top of body i "raybrewn and the bottom a buffy gray. Chief food of the mole j in ect , larvae and eds although it will attack and at mice. The young are bom jn litter of four to 10. There are everal variation of the pecie.

Q E . Compare number of eggs laid per season by quail in the wild and birds in captivity.

A

The average clulch found in

our fields contain 13 eggs. Bobwhite rai d

at your tate Game Farm produce an avcr-

age of 60 e"g pcr ea on, although ome

of the h n Jay as many as 100 or m re

p r ea on.

Q ES. What is the area cov-
ered by forest in Georgia.

A . Georgia has 23800,000 acre in woodland_ Thi is the greate t amount of forest of almost any state in the union.

Q ES. Is the tulip tree found
in Georgia?
N. The common name of the tulip is yellow poplar. ith few exception this Aowering tree i the most valuable ource of lumb r in thi late.
Q ES. To what extent is fox
hunting carried on in Georgia?
. There are everal fox hunting a sociations in Georgia and their m mber run into the hundred. It i a growing port and new member ar enli ted every year. The fox population i regarded as large.
QUES. Why is the robin pro-
tected?
. The robin i prot cted by the federal government under the r gulation relating to migratory insect ealing bUds. A tudy of the food habit of thi bird has sho\ n u1at it i an efficient d troyer of such pest as clover wee il cutworms. wireworms, and whit grub, all of which are de tructive to corn -mall grain and garden crop. It is timated that a robin will eat its weight in in ecl ach day.
Q E. What are the three
worst enemies of Georgia quail?
N . Enemy number one i the tray hou e cat. Thi animal leads all other cau e of quail destruction by a big maJOrity. Th next in importance i uncontrolled burning of traw fields and wood land during the late pring month. La t come the free running dog. He will cause much damage at ne ting tim if allowed to roam the fields at will.

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33

Your Gun and Mine
(Continued from Page 10) the horter barrel pistol. In fa t I have not noticed a lO-inch barrel handgun at thi club in 0 I' a ear. learl all machine re t ac ura te ls, however, how an ad anta<Ye in fa or of the lO-inch barrel. I ha noti ed that mo t hotel' can make equall good core or better with the 4inch and G-inch barrel pi tol . Per onally I prefer the horter, hea ier barr I.
I T '[ be that the horter ighting radiu suit my eye better or that the gun i so balanced that it ho\ les "wobble' than the longer gun.
A beginner hould join a pi tol lub where there i a vari tY of handgun . You will find th e fellow eager to help you out and mo t of them' ill glad! let you tr ut their gun. In thi way ou can determine the gun of our preference. 0 jut b cau e you noticed ome expert pi tol hot with a parti ular type of <Yun. don't get the idea that it i jut \ hat you ha e been looking for. That <YlIn probably uit him p rfectl and he ha pent a lot of time developin<Y his kill. ou rna need an entirely difT r nt gun.
Th be<Yinner would do \ ell to purcha e one of the medium-pri ed .22 caliber I' volver lIch a the Harrin<Yton and Richard on port man. I would not recommend th emi-alltmatic pi tol for the beginner, a it i a hard matter for him to understand that the pistol i a <Yain read to fi re
CUTDOOR GEORGIA
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a soon a the hot i released, and a eriou accident rna re ult.
There are man fine book on the ubject of pi tol hooting for the be ginner, and one that I , ould recommend particularly for the beginner i Frank ~ man BC of pi tol mark man hip. Thi may be obtained by ending ten ent to the 1 ational Rifle As ociation 1600 Rhode Island
enue, Wa hington. Frank i one of the out tanding pi tol hooter in the country and i well qualified from experience to kno\ of what he peak .
o is the time to remember those
big cotton mouth mocca in you nearly tepp d on la t year while fIsh-
ing. One of th fine t pi tol for thi t pe of hooting i the little 4l/2-inch barrel Colt ood man utomati. Thi little id arm is a wonderful ompanion for the outdoor man and more fun call be had with it than an other firearm. The fine feature are the compactne and accuracy of thi little weapon. It can be carried around in a coat pock t or placed in
our belt ,ithout being noticeable or bulk . And it in a cia b itself for knocking the head off snake and turtle at clo e range. It can now b obtained, ith both front and rear adju table i<Yh!. A l/16inch ivor or gold bead front i very uitable for the woods. This gun i design d to handle both hi<Yh peed and regular .22 long rifle cartridge with a magazine capacity of ten. mokeles grea ed ammunition work be t. The accurac i comparable with the fine t ingle hot target pi toIs with teninch barrels. In the comparatively hort time thi model ha been on th market, it ahead ha halked up more than one world' record a 'ell a ,innin<Y numerou other matche throughout the country.
Golden Win Skeet Crown W. S. (Bill) Golden, of Columbus, is the new tate keet champion. He won the title with a score of 148-150, a two-bird margin over Chester Mabry and Bill Ward, of Atlanta, in the state hoot May 11-12 at the Capitol Gun Club in Atlanta. Mabry was runner-up, defeating Ward in a hootoff. Golden howed hi superiority over a small, but outstanding field. when he al 0 took high-gun over-all honors in a shoot-off with Ben T. Smith, of Atlanta. The e tars were

tied at 283-300 at the finish and Golden took the shoot-off by one bird.
Mrs. Ben T. Smith won the ladies' championship with 80x100; Robert Reagin took the junior title with 1il5x150; lint Davis was high gun in the B aivision with 139, Captain M. K Hicks annexed the pro crown with 2 Ox300, while Reagin's 135 gave him top honor in the C division. Smith captured the mall-bore event with 44x50 and the 20-gauge scramble with 96x100.
Mabry I Atlanta Champion
Mabry supplanted Smith as Atlanta champion when he outlasted the defending title holder in a shoot-off at the West End Gun Club. Each finished with 145, and right behind was Ward with 144. This championship was a preliminary to the state shoot and preceded it by two weeks. Reagin, president of the host club, tacked on top honors in the B division. He broke 141 bil'ds. Bud Aldrege's 137 paced the C division, and other winners were: Judy King, 122, ladies; Mrs. Bill Ward, 104, ladies' novice; Joe Daniels, Coosa, 143, out-of-town; J. L. Franklin, 142, pro; Robert Reagin, 132, junior; Clint Davis, 73x75 (shootoff with Clyde King), 20-gauj!'e; Bill Ward, 47, small-bore; W. S. Golden, 47, invitation.
Pullin Retain Trap Title
J. P. Pullin, who confines his shooting to one event a season, retained his singles championship when he piled up a score of 196-200 in the Georgia State Trapshoot April 27 at the Capitol Gun Club. Mrs. Donald McLain wa econd with 191 and Jack Tway was one target away at 190. Walter Sams, of Athens, won the allround championship with a 362-400, while Tway had 360. Captain M. E. Hicks paced the pros with 199x200. Other winners were: Paul Earle, Starr, S. C., 192, Class A; E. E. Bush, Tallahassee, Fla., 195, Class B.; Clyde King, 199x225 (shoot-off with Charles Hight), Clas C. Larry Grant was reelected president of the Georgia State Trapshoot Association; Tway and Sams were named vice-presidents and Hight ecretary.
Molt Wins Met Shoot
Fred M. Molt paced the Atlanta Metropolitan Smallbore Rifle Matches at Fort McPherson with a Grand Aggregate of 2356. The Asheville, N C. marksman, firing in the Class B diviion, wa four points ahead of H. M. Van Sleen, of Gastonia, . C., whose 2352 gave him runner-up honors. The matche were held April 20-21 and drew a crack field of 48 shooters. Winners and scores in individual matches: Dewar Course, any sights - R. S. Dixon, St. Petersburg, Fla., 394-18X; 100 Yard, any sights-Roy Duncan, Gadsden, Ala., 392-15X; 100 Yards, metallic sights-Fred M. Molt, 3941 X; 50 Yards, metallic sights-John Symne , Atlanta, 399-26X; 50 Meters, metallic ights - Charles G. Hamby, Atlanta, 392; 50 Meters, any sightsLuther R. Gower, Atlanta, 394; 50 Yards, any sights - Fred M. Molt, 399-24X; Metallic Sight Dewar Course -R. S. Dixon, 398-22X; Grand Aggregate-Fred M. Molt, 2356; H. M. Van Sleen, 2352; R. A. Mapes, 2338; E. A. Brodeur, 2271.
June 1940 OUTDOOR GEORGIA

FISIIERMEN OF 1940
Outdoor Georgia Offers Prizes to Six Champions in First Annual Fishing Contest

R LE , co DITIO

1 PRIZE I The contest i limited to fi h taken

from Georgia streams or lakes with

rod, reel and line and aritificial lure.

The following pecies may be entered:

mall-Mouth Black Bas (6-pound fish

wins Honor Badge).

Large-Mouth Black Ba s (7-pound fish

win Honor Badge).

Rajnbow Trout (lS-inch fish win Honor

Badge) .

Brook Tl'out (12inch fish win Honor

Badge) .

[uskellunge (lO-pound fish wins Honor

Radl!e) .

Pickerel or "Jackfi h' (4-pound fish

wins Honor Badge).

2 The contest i open to subscriber

and non- ubscribers; men, women and

children. It open June 1 and ends Octo-

ber 15.

3 Fi h mu t be caught by licensed per-

on and in the legal open ea on.

4

0 fi h caught from a state, club or

private hatchery i eligible fol' entr .

5 The accompanying affidavit blank, or

an exact copy, must be u ed when

entering a fi h for a prize. It must be signed

by the person making the catch, and by

two persons who verified it weight and

mea urement. The affidavit is to be

sworn to by the contestant before a otary Public, whose seal must be
affixed.
6 The length, gil'th and weight of fish mu t be included, together with the
make and type of tackle and lure used.

nle both the length and girth are speci-

fied, Ihe entry will be disqualified.

7 Fish must be weighed on tested scales

and mea ured with a tape measure, wilh the length taken from the end of the

lower jaw with the mouth closed to the

tip of the tail, and the greatest girth of

fish taken.

8

II affidavits must be ent to Prize

Fi hing Editor, 0 TDOOR GEOR

GIA, 412 State Capitol, Atlanta, Ga., Affi davits must be in this office within 15 days from the dat,e the contest closes.

9 In the event of two or more fish weighing and measuring exactly the same, prize identical in character with those offered will be given to each of those o trying.

10. o contestant can win more than one prize, as only the heaviest fish in one pecies will be considered.
1 1 Winner of any prize will be asked to write a story telling how, where and when fish was caught.
1 2 One prize of 10 in merchandi e will be awarded in each clas , with winner being declMed Georgia Fishermen of the Year. Prizes will be outdoor equip. ment selected by the, inner from products of firms which advertise at lea t one time in 0 TDOOR GEORGIA during the year.

Prize Fishing Editor Outdoor Georgia, 412 State Capitol, Atlanta, Ga. I hereby swear that the following tatements are the tmth:

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Weight ......

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Girth ..

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Give manufacturer's names of tackle and full specifications

Caught by: (Signed) ...

Street

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Fish witnessed and weight and measurements verified by: (signatures and addresses)

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sworn to before me this . day of.

olary's Signalure .......

ABOVE TO BE TYPEWRITTEN OR CLEARLY LETTERED.

Are Our Fish for
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The true sportsman fishes for sport and sport alone . . . He would not catch a six-foot string of our finest game fish and have his picture taken ... This would be a record of greed . . . not of prowess . . . He is guided by his sportIng conscience which tells him to observe the laws of nature ... Unless a sportsman mortally wounds a fish he knows that he cannot lose by setting it Free . . . The fish will live and perhaps afford him sport another day .

OUTDOOR GEORGIA

Volume I

Number 3

CHARLES N. ELLIOTT, Editor ELMER RANSOM, Associate Editor

JOHN MARTIN, Managing Editor E. L. GIBSON, Business Manager

CONTENTS FOR JULY, 1940

Cover Painting, Wood Ducks

Edward Lane Gibson

Authors........................................................................................ 2

Editorial

3

Beyond Distant Horizons

Charles C. King, Jr

4

Millions We Mis5..

Lee S. Trimble

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Highroads of the Wildernes5.. Wildlife and the SoiL "Chinooks" of the Chattahoochee The Wood Duck Land of the Blue Ridge Cordele and Crisp County

charles Elliott Sydney Franklin Joseph C. Kircher Dean Hunter

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Nature's Masterpiece

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Around the Rangers' Campfire

.John w. Beall

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RANSOM NOTES "THE OLD SALT SEZ" LETTERS TO THE EDITOR CI RCU IT WRITER NATURAL HISTORY PAGE YOUR GUN AND MINE

DEPARTMENTS

Elmer Ransom

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.John Martin

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Edwin H. Gaither

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Charlie Hamby

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Published monthly at 412 State Capitol, Atlanta, Ga., in the interest of Georgia wildlife and for
fishermen, hunters, nature lovers and conservationists. Single copy, 15 cents. Yearly subscrip-
tions to United States and its possessions, and Canada, $1; other countries $2. Subscribers must notify us of change of address four weeks in advance of next publication date, giving both old
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but cannot guarantee return of unsolicited contributions nor insure against their loss. Contribu-
tions not accompanied by sufficient postage will not be returned.

LEE S. TRIMBLE

OUTDOOR GEORGIA seeks strange copy. La t month's i ue had an article (very good one, too) on the Private Life of the Worm, and now thi biographical mention. The ubject of thi sketch wa born in Cleburne County, Alabama, whence the pater had gone to teach choo!. There he married and tarted a family. Returning 10 the ance tral home in Carroll County (Georgia, I grew up on a farm in an era when boy were required to really work.
:.\1y favorite pa time through life ha been a king the que tion 'Why?", which has brought rebuke, whipping, and orne little information. Educated principally in the chool of Experience (it college yell is "Ouch!") and till a student. Have taught in the public schools of Georgia and Alabama I qualified for the bar in Georgia and We t irginia; engaged in real estate and in urance; in banking and a commercial ecretary. Between times have done credit investigation; house to hou e canva ing; and some war ervice in the quarterma tel" divi ion handling over age and hortage of supplie. Did not tay at till long enougb to find an over age, all were hortage.

Recreation confined to (1) work, which i fun, (2) a low form of golf, (3) a fond nes for hearing and telling good stories, (4) visiting hi toric scenic and recrea tional points in Georgia, and (5) reading. Ruling philo ophy is the same a any polio tician, "Do what you can, with what you have, where you are, today.'


SYDNEY FRANKLIN i Area Biologi t

with tbe.

oil Con ervation ervice

at Rome, Ga. and direct the wildlife

management work of that Agency in 36

countie in 10rthwe t Georgia. Immedi

ately after graduating from the niver ity

of 10l'th Carolina in 1934, he embarked in

fore try and wildlife conservation activi

ties with the oil Conservation ervice

then c a II e d the oil Erosion Service,

through the tate of orth Carolina.

Franklin wa in trumental in the formu

lation and execution of formal cooperative

relation between the Georgia Divi ion of

Wild.:ife and oil con ervation di trict in

the tate. The e are now being u ed a

guide throughout the other southea tern

tate. He i al 0 the author of many

magazine and new paper article on wild

life management. and recently prepared a

leaflet on "Mulching to E tabli h egeta

tion on Eroded Areas of the outheast,"

which has just been published by the

. Printing Office.


JOSEPH C. KIRCHER, who e fir t con

tribution to 0 TDOOR GEORGIA i

"Chinooks" of the Chattahoochee, iRe

gional Fore tel' for the

. Fore t erv

ice in the outhem Region, which com

pri 11 outhern tate and Puerto Rico.

Hi job call for directing not only the

work on the outh nine million acre of

National Fore t land, but also the coopera

tive work with tate Forester in develop

ing private fore t land.

Entering the Fore t ervice in 1909, fol

lowing hi graduation from the Yale chool

of Forestry, Joe Kircher ha devoted .ome

30 year of hi life to managing and de

veloping the nation' natural resource.

Flo~ers Born on Garbage
Heaps Are Passed Unseen

U ICOI TRAIL is one of the mo-t beautiful and historic mountain trail in the outhland. More than two centurie ago the Cherokee followed it on the long and picturesque trek b tween the Atlantic Ocean and Echota apital of the Cherokee nation. ear where it pas ed the water of Duke Creek, the fir t gold ever founJ in Georgia wa discovered by a lave. Over thi trail came one of the gold tamped of early America.
The feet of warring chiefs, of explorer and primitive huntsmen cut deeply into the earth and stone of thi hi toric footpath through the wilderne s. But in it quiet beauty today there is '10 semblance of the pa t. nder virgin tree it drift and turn, following the line of lea t re"istance winding through flower and ancient tone, 10 ina itself in huge feath red clump of fern .
Two week aO'o, a member of our staff happened to be in the vicinity of ni-coi Trail. Knowing it hi toric ignificance and realizing that perhap some of the readers of OUTDOOR GEORGIA would be intere ted in vi iting it durinO' vacation time thi ummel', he decided to examine the traverbilit of th highland footpath, and if h found it intere tina to recommend it to the reader of thimagazine.
H E PARKED hi automobile near the highwa and walked into the sun.splotched forest. The air wa like perfume. The fore t crown towered like bright and mas ive arch in som might athedral.
Our co-worker walked _everal hundred of yard up the trail, Ii tening to the language of the forest catching the breathle pirit of thi ancient trail, feeling the romance and glamour of two centuri aO'o.
Properl impre ed and subdued, he was almo tread to turn back to his automobile and typewriter to com po e the mo t ivid de cription of hi career. He wa feel ing ju t that wa when he tumbled upon a campsite omeon had established in the wood. The camp ite had been re ently u ed and left in a mo t un anitary condition. Paper plate and cup, newspaper, a torn hirt, tin can bottle and an amazing ariety of other debris had b en trewn around and beyond the borders of the camp.
The ight was an ugl one, foreign to the charm of the morning, and to the beaut of the wood. It destroy d the O'lamour and 10 eline_ of that ancient trail.
Our colleague said that he tood horror stricken for a moment. All the O'lory and plendor di appeared. He et about in cold fury to clean up the me_ as well a he could. He could not repair the damage to the lashed tree, the burned patch of woods, the offen i e odor driftina from the camp ite. He returned to the office till in a rage at humans who \ ould thu desecrat the beaut of the forest. e could not per uade him to write the fir t line about li- oi.
W HAT he had di overed on the trail et us to wonder ing about the many kinds of folks who vi it the outof-doors each ummel', and to wonder if, after all, the could not be divided into two general clas e . Be

longing to one of tho e clas es are the folks who respect the rights and privilege of others. When they visit the outof-door , they go with a profound obligation toward their fellow, and with the realization that the \ ood and templed hills mu t be left unspoiled for all to enjoy.
The _econd cIa i compo ed of people who do not have outdoor good nwnners, \ ho do not realize the reo pon ibility they carr with them into the wood.
Luckily, the va t majority of our hunters fishermen and lovers of the outofdoor fall into the first O'roup.
Since that trip, members of our taff have discu ed outdoor good manners at ome length. They ha decided that tho e who would vi it a God-made temple of forest tree and throw their garbage and waste upon it unlit Aoor are no better than those who would u e the carpets of a man-made temple a a dumping gJ'(~und for their filth and debri . He who would poil the lovelines of a tree with marks of ax or knife would carve his name in th portal of a sacred shrine.
Good manner are not thing found onl in th home. They extend beyond the door of house. ometime the are found in the driver s eat of an automobile. Occa ionall they are found in a trout stream or in some beaut pot of the \ ildernes .
We feel that the majOl'ity of those \ ho leave their ramp ites in hambles, who poil the splendor of the earth's only endurinO' temple are not u uall mali iou individ ual . The are thoughtle s when the d not stop to realize that a little time and effort in cleaninO' up would lea e that mall portion of the wilderne s for others to enjoy. Their outdoor bad manners are not a l' ult of meannes hut of carelessne
NoT long ago we fished a stream with an old fishing podner. He is an excellent wood man. The feel of a
bamboo rod i ymphony to his finger tip. We believe that he would rather tand knee deep in a trout tream than before the pearl gate of ternity.
All da we had fished a littleknown but rather produc tive trout trearn. When we drove into my back yard late at night,) wa rather surpri ed to e him limb out of the automobile and unload papers from hi fish in 0' jacket into the garbage can at m back gate.
"What are tho e paper ?" I a klld. 'Tho e are th \ rapping m lunch \ as in,' he aid. "I couldn't find an where out there on the _tream to put them."
For an instant I tried to think what I had done with the papers around my own lunch, then remembered that I had waded ashore and crammed them out of ight under a log.
When we go into the wood this ummel', please let u remember that perhap ome day, orne other Ii herman or hiker or camper will follow us to the ame beautiful pot. We hould make a special attempt to leave it a beautiful a we found it. Our r ward will be the thank of omeone for our thoughtfulne s and for our outdoor "ood manners.

o TDOOR GEORGIA. July 1940

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Georgia's State Parks Furnish Fun and

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EVERY generation of people who have looked upon th land of Georaia a hom ha reponded to the call of the natural

< beautie of the land. From primitive

man, ,ho had only to remove his

simple belonginas from hi clay

thatched helter, to the modern city

apartment dweller who e vacation

arrangemen~s requir day of prep-

. aration, eery inhabitant ha ought at intervals a change in variety of

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known as Georgia ha accu tomed its inhabitant to enjo the different pha e of nature. Even the primitive Indian trib traver d the area from

the mountain to the sea hore. Tomo-

chichi, the Indian chief who be-

friended Oglethorpe in 1733 re-

erved certain i land on the Georgia

coa t a sea hore resort and fi hing

ground for hi tribe. everal years

pre eding the coming of Oalethorpe

the lands of Georgia were embraced

in a colonial promotional venture

vi known as the Margravate of Azilia. The promoter f thi early eighteenth

century ventwe ,a 0 enthu iastic

about the natural beautie of Geor-

gia's land that he advertised, that

"Paradise with all her virgin beau-

ties ma be mode tly upposed at

mo t but equal." With uch predeces-

or Georgia' commercial cretarie

alld other boo tel' hould be excused

eon for undue enthu ia m for the beauty

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of the tate.

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During ante-bellum day when cot-

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ton wa kina, the famil pa time of outhern people wa to ao vi itin a."

Vl Perhap the popularity of vi iting

and the long vi it made borne

gue ts accounted for the paciou ne

of Georgia home of thi period. The

family plantation owner ought ref-

uge from the h at of ummel' at

re orts on lhe ea coa t, in mountain

valley, and at mineral pring cat-

tered throughout the state. Indian

pring , Warm prina , Radium,

. White ulphur, Lithia, Madi on, Catoosa, Miona, and Magnolia Spring

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are among the popular "watering

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places" which came into popularity

o. in the interior of Georgia during thi

period.

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BY CHARLES
THE principal problem of vacation eeker wa that of tran porlation. For in tance, the town of I orcro , now practically a uburb of greater tlanta are'll up a a re ort of Atlantian eking vacation at what wa then a con iderable distance from the city. With the coming of automobiles and the improvement of modern highway Georgia' ariou cenic attractions are becoming more and mol' accessible. Today it takes about the arne time and much Ie trouble for the tlanta famil to motor to Voael tate Park on the Blue Ridge a it required for the family of a generation or 0 ago to ride ut to e tone ountain. Wherea the iaht of the ea hore, and the di tant view of the Georgia Blue Ridge were, a fel ear aao "thrill that came once in a Ii fe time" to the average Georgia young ter, toda almo t all young Georgian are familiar with the individual peak of the Blue Ridge and popular beache of the coa t.
Georgian today have more lei ure time than ever before. The leisure time of a large part of the year i d voted to school work, recreatioil within the citie and group activitie in the towns. But when summer come every famil feel the urae that carried the" wi Family Robin on" on its adventure. ong bird et the pace with their pring time miarationacro th tate. Game fi h tart bi ing in lakes and tream. Fiaure of bathing beautie on outdoor billboard and nel paper and radio tation b gin aiving p ople idea where to ao. tolher write the arren ugge ting a vacation together in the mountain. Dad aet out hi li hina ta kle and renew hi fishing licen e. Junior tudie ariou opportunilie for future picture with hicandid amera and plan a line of araument for including the family terrier in the va ation plan. iter write in her diary of the rapidly ad vancing plan for the vacation trip, and the colored cook polishe up her new un glas es.
FI ALLY the que tion before the family i "where to go?" Dad want a place where the fish are bit-
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inO' and wh re he can relax, moth I' and istel' want the urroundinO' inpirational, accommodation adequate and potle I clean, and everyone wants a place where they can feel welcome, where the air has a z t and a tang, and where outdoor attraction O'et them up early and lay them wearily to sleep at night. Such a vacation is within reach of ever famil y in Georgi.a. Supplementing the many privately operated vacation resorts, Georgia operates through it Divi ion of tate Park a y tern of state park, memorial and recreational area located at ite of out tanding scenic, historic or recreational value throuO'hout the tate.
Let u briefly reflect upon the origin of the tate park. gen fation aO'o Georgia had no such y tern nor contemplated one. Two noted areas con tituted the nucleu for Georgia' later tate Park ystem. Indian pring near Jack on had been ceded to the tate by the Creek Indian in 1825, and ten acre urrounding the spring had been reerved for the recreation of it people by Georgia from that time. In 1925 Indian prings was et a ide as a state fore t park and in 1933 was the fir t tate park in the South to be a igned a CCC camp.
The other initial area of GeorO'ia', Park y tern wa Vogel Park which wa created in 1926 by a gift of ixteen a re from Fred and uO'ust
oO'el, whose company had practiced for tr on a 65 OOO-acre tract in that region ince the beginning of the entury. Till area de ignated at that time a a tate fore t park con i ted of 16 acre at I eel Gap nion
ount . It wa compo ed of a mall acreage at eel Gap, another on the top of Blood ountain, and an area at ottely Fall. A fe\ ear later the Georgia Forest ervice built a ru tic overlook and a conce ion tand. Fund were not available for deel pment work at that time and a forester in charge wa a si ted by local men, who were allowed trapping privileges in the area in return for their a istance in developinO' the park.
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I I 1931, the Reorganization Bill created a commi ion to ad-

minister the Depa rtment of Forestry and Geological Development. nder

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thi commi sion the two area pre- ~

viou ly referr d to were named In-

dian Springs tate Park and 'ogel

State Park. In 1932, the Alexander H.

tephens Memorial tate Park, an area

of 18 acre, including Lib l1y Hall, the

home of Alexander H. tephen wa

given to the state b th Alexander H.

tephens emorial ssociation. In-

dian pring tate Park \ a enlarged

by a gift of 12 acre b the citizen

of Jackson in 1931. The commi ion

erected a helter 0 er the historic "0-

prinO' , provided electric light for the playgrounds and bathhou ,and arranged for a casino to be maintained as a conce ion. In 1933, with

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the creation of the Civilian Conserva-

tion Corp , rapid proO're was made

in the park development program,

and b the end of 193.J. the tate Park

y tem included the following area :

ogel State Park; Ie ander H.

tephen State emorial Park; Fort

ountain tate Park; anto Domingo

Park and Indian pring Park.

.. The increasing hour of leisure of
the working man, a well a hi em-

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ployer, made more and more nece -

ary adequate provi ion for \ hole-

some outdoor recreation. To fill this

need a state-wide y tern of park was

planned by the tate of GeorO'ia each

area to pro ide for picnickinO', hik-

in 0', \ imming and boating where

po ible} nature tudy, and ,all other

related outdoor activities. In veral

of the larger area were to be de-

veloped vacation area, where family

O'roups might 0'0 to pend their vaca-

tions in the healthful and whole"ome

atmo phere of the Georgia out-of-

door.

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Di i ion of tate Parks, Hi torie

ite and Monuments, \ as created in

1937 as a part of th Department of

atural Re our e . and all park areas

and park work formerly handled by

the old Department of Fore try and

Geological Development wa turned

over to them. nder this Division and

through the cooperation of the Ta _

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Tower at Fort Mountain Park, mountain landmark.
I evaluating Georgia from the iewpoint of the touri t, it is d irable, fir t, to define touri t and then to analyze Georgia. e can agree that a touri t i a trav ler, away from home making any sort of a trip not primarily for busine s purpo e . Analy i of the tate i not 0 readil done, but an effort i made in lhi,; article.
Better road and improved automobile, pI u pro perou tim have Lended Lo multiply the number of Louri t Lo uch an extent that literall y million of them are on the high\ a . In peace times a aood hare went Lo Europe each year, but with H rr Hitler on the rampage over there, they are touring thi countr in ever increasing number. In an article in this magazine last monLh i ue. Dean Paul W. Chapman quoted impI' ive figures in proof. Where to go and what i to be een there, are que tions being asked, daily, in all
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~ection of thi naLion, and there i profit in providing the right an wer. Thu the question move from the cla of academic intere t Lo that of busines. tati tician Roger Bab on e timate a ix billion dollar volume during 1940.
"Full many a Aower i born Lo blu h unseen, and wa te it weetne on the de ert air," i a po tic expre sion and musical at that, but Lhe \ ording al 0 carrie a hard, practical truth. It i never enough to posses virtues; they mu t be known and heralded to be appreciated. Georgia is a veritable wonderland to tho e who know the tate intimately. In the field of pre-hi tor , hi tory, cener , natural wonder and ports, which are the feature mo t u uall ouaht b touri ts, there are attraction galore. To be added to that Ii t for the
i itor intere L d in cultural thinas are, garden, architecture, in Litution and organization . Beyond the e, are ideal pot for p cialist in mineralogy, biology, bird tudy, archreology, and what not. In heer ariety of reource lie Georaia' chief charm.
As touri t are taught more of the detail of w hat i oULlined in the paragraph above, they will be found topping in number, here and there, according to intere t and inclination. It is the part of all good Georaia citizen to develop and make convenient the intere ting features 0 that they can be readily een and enjo ed. The traveler doe not know what to look for, naturally. ow, who i going to inform him and how?
TET u deal more pecifically \ ith
L the subject for a bit. It i afe to
ay that the average touri t who tra erse Georaia roadwa i about middle age; dri a good car of a late model, and i ac ompanied b hi wife and one other per 011. He may be peeding but i in no great
hurr . He has mean , and i able to
tay away from home for ome time,
without acrifi e. He lives omewhere
in the broad upper section of the na-
tion, and ha been making annual
tOUl'ina trip for orne year past.
Thi mean that he ha already cov-
ered the cenic high spot of the coun-
tr , and, having een the pectacular

ights, is \ illing to look beneath the obviou , and to leave the beaten path when the pro pect are inviting,
You mu t have imagination or you would not have read thus far. Let that imagination rule while we look at Georgia, or parts of it, as touri t might, under conditions that we here pre cribe. ow, ou are the traveler and you have not been in Georgia before. uppo e thi sort of thing happened to you, would Georgia be helped by the practice?
Let u a that you are going outh over Federal Highway o. 17, entering the tate at avannah. To ou,
avannah i a name onl . . ou ha e not learned that it i the cradle of G oraia hi tory, a \ ell a being full of beauty and intere t, ome rllile before you reach it a uniformed attendant tationed in an information booth, has handed ou an attracti e booklet on the cit , which give advi e on where to eat, leep, and shop. Guide service is offered at reasonable rate, which you ac ept. Given a wellinformed guide, a full day i \ ell pent in avannah, judged from any viewpoint.
Before leaving you this guide finds out your direction of travel, and, learning that it is south, inform you about Mid\ ay Church, the next stop down the road. Hi advice is welcome, and you top there for an hour becau e you know what to expect. While there a friendly interpreter come up to tell you the story of the original ettlement of which thi \ eathered landmark i about the lone urvivor.
Pa sing on ou reach Brun wick, \ here ou are inh'oduced to the Golden lIes of Guale. Here again, polite auide service i offered, and
ou are carried on a long tour with an interpreter who i not only familiar with the local hi tory but who i in 10 e \ ith the job.
If you proceed outhward you will oon be out of th tate, and that i not a part of thi statewide cherne of touri t rvice. Your last guide ha a trong ales argument on why you hould turn northwest to vi it one of the nation' mo t unu ual and interesting natural wonders-Okefenokee wamp. You hear detail of what
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i ther : the geological formation that make it; the plant, bird and animal life that inhabit it, and the legend that have 0'1'0\ n out of it. You yield and ar the routing to see Okefenoke , a vi it to be remembered and repeated a often a po ible. More than that ou are to end friend there for the ne t ten ear, thu payin u dividend on the inve tment of ervice expended on you.
By now you know more about Georgia than many Georgian and ou have become old on the state as one \ ith a pa t, a present, and a future. But ou must take up the reuular cour e of life and pas on.
NE, T sea on, you again come south, thi time over . . Route 1, entering Georgia at Augu tao On the bridge over the avannah River, a trained greeter extend you a weIorne, and while answering que tion , hand you informative literature. ou ar urged to visit the hrine knO\ n a the igner' 10nument on lower Green treet, under \ hich lie the

remains of Lyman Hall and George Walton both of whose signatures appeared on the original Declaration of Independence. Your guide know the tory, and tell it well. You lead with orne que tion on the Confederacy and oon you are made to want to ee the Obeli k Chimney, \ hich till tand to mark the ite where a large part of the gunpowder u ed by the Confederate army wa made. earby, under gla ,i a diorama in miniature of the old powder factory. You are then e cOlted from cene to cene in this city, 0 rich in hi toric intere t, until the day end .
But before leaving you have been prepared for the next top, w h i chi Louisville. There at certain hours and date, a slave ale ire-enacted in a real market house built
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The Georgia State Monument at Chickamauga is typical of the many historical markers throughout the state.

Georgia's only surviving slave market is this structure at Louisville (capital of the state 1786-1807). It was a center of what once was a flourishing "trade.'
PhD/D. Court,,) EMPIlUl

RANSOM NOTES . .. by Elmer R(/nsfJm

NOT ALL SNAKES

rr A R E V I L L A I N S HE controversy a to, hich rational in wanton I de tro ing the

bird- mammals or I' ptiles are hai'mless green snake, th beneficial

beneficial and which are harm- corn snake, the clowning preading

ful to man ha raged from the dis- adder or the lordly king snake on the

tant pa t and give little promi e of weak theory that 'snake i nakes.'

early, . ali_factory and accurat s t-

Either a a di tinct atavism or be-

tlem nt. Even the ubiquitou crow, cau e conditioned by racial prej u-

po ibly the mo t de tructive of all dice, nake are repul ive and fear-

birds, ha been known to be highly ome creature to many people, and

beneficial in a particular region at a if any such ar reading this, I de-

pa rticu lar time.

spair of changing their attitude. It is

Which bring u to th nak .

directed only at th e open minded

The pre ailin O' attitude toward the one who, though not kindly dis-

nake must be a throwback to the po ed toward the erpent, are eal!er

Garden of Eden. There i nothing to learn somethin O' about them. To

POISONOUS SNAKfS OF GEORGIA
FAMILY GROTALlDAE-T~E PIT VIPERS
EASTERN DIAMONDBACK RATTLESNAKE

ElLIPTICAL PUPILCotn",onwi~~",al\ spet.IC:~.7
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EYES AND NOSTRILS COMMON WITl-I ALL SPECIES

BLUNT ARROW SI-IAPED I-IEAD OF DfT VIPERS -- ~~<''-~
WATER MOCCASIN ot" "COTTON MOUn-(
PATTERN-OBSCURE - BROWN OR OLIVE;
ABDOMEN "fELLOW TO 5ROWNI5H

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O.\\N AND LOWER LIPS .YELlOW

COPPERWEAD 01- \'~IIGiiLANDMOCCASIN

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CORAL SNAK-E ~ FAMILY ELAPIDAE

CORAL SNAK-E

FALSE CORAL SNAKE

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BLACK l'lELLOW

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,HERE ARE SEVEN SPECIES or RATTLESNAKES IN GEORGIA

THE LARGES1 AND MOST COMMON IS THE DIAMONDBACK.

the practiced ,oodsman ,ho knowthe wilderne I have nothing to say. He and I peak the same language and he very probably know more than can be put into a few hort note.
10 t nake are Ie harmful than
a fly or a mo quito. People \ ill kill corn snakes and countenance dangerou rats carrying typhu fever when the nake would de troy or keep the rodents in heck. We think with our fears and emotion. ot \ ith our h ad .
T HE black fear comes because a few of our nakes are venol11ou . The venol11ou ones are ea y to id ntif . They are few in number. here a snake i not venomous, and wher hi conomic po ition is uncertain in your mind, let him live. Chance are he does more good than harm.
The muchly-maligned chicken snake," which does on frequent occa ions rob the hen of her biddies and the n t of its egg, i ab olutel esential for the control of rat and kindred pe ie. ithout the chicken nake farming' ould be hiO'hl difficult. And et, at time, th chicken nake i deadly to ne tin O' quail.
nder uch condition he hould be de troyed. 1 othing that can be sa'id here can be helpful in that matter but, if field rats are hurting quail ne t , and they often do, the chicken nake will do much more good than harm.
Many year ago a stable wa torn down near my home. In a short time we were over-run with large rat;'ot mice. They were de tructive and dangerous. Every effort at ontrol failed until I captured a corn snake and relea ed it in the garage. In two week the rat that the snake hadn't killed had ought safer quarter .
My O'ardener, however, after a ear found the nake and proudly killed it. He pointed it out to me:
"A pine-barren rattlesnake, 'h aured me. 'The arne kind of a nake that bit my cou in' nephe\' boy and miO'ht nio-h killed the child.'
There wa no u e arO'uing the matter. Th rat returned. I o-ot another nake.
'WITHO T being cientific we can say that ou, ill find in
the -nited tate four kinds of venomous nake :
1. The rattlesnakes, easilJf identified by the raules. (There are a nWItber of different species alld LL 0 dif-
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July 1940 0 TDOOR GEORGIA

I H D an idea that I would ai e you a tarpon tory in thi i ue, but I gue s I'm a little bit like a lot of women-I want to chang TIl mind. Fact is that tarpon haven't yet
hown up along the Georgia coa t in ufficient number enouah to warrant goin a afte.r them. A few have b en seen down around Cumberland Island; two have been ighted near Yellow Bluff; one wa sighted in Back Ri er near Tybee I land, and one wa seen to break water ju~t oA' ,a annah Beach.
But 0 far, none have been caught thi ea on or if they have I haven't heal"d about them. And I think I'll hear about them when the are caught becau I have a cash prize of 15 for th fir t one entered in m contest, and a er fine rod and reel for the large t one caught during the ear.
I don't believe there i any' fish on the G or!!ia coa t that provide a much port aenerally a the weakfish. ow I can see some of you quinn at the name weakfish and I don't like to call thi muchly sought after Ii h by that name any more than you do, but that's the name that cience ha given it. I like to call thi fi h what most folk in the coastal countr call him, winter trout, although that is a much a mi nomer a weakfi h. The weakfi h aets hi name from hi very tender mouth and it i not a hard matter to pull your line hard enough to tear the hook from hi mouth. In fa t, many larae one are 10 t becau_e fishermen tr to lift them out of the wat I' with their lines, only to have the hook pull out.
But for fiahting qualitie ,thi fi h. pound for pound, is the equal of mo t aame fi h and on tackle that ai e him a chance he'll provide all the thrill you are looking for. A I've already aid, most folks on the coast call this fi h winter trout, but i al 0 known as ea trout, peck led sea trout, trout and squeteague. In hape it is quite like a brook trout, has a
treamlined body, silver gray ide
o TDOOR GEORGIA July 1940

going to almost a black on the back

and olid white on the under part,

, ith darker pot on the il er gra

ide.

.

O NE rea on for the Georgia name of winter trout i that in ear::. pa t more of them were caught in the fall and winter than at any other time of year. But in the la t two or thr e year fi h rmen have been experiencing good luck catching them throughout the ummel' beginning as early as Ma . Thi~ i not true this year. I believe thi i due to the extJ'eme cold weath l' of the pring which killed 0 many fi h and shrimp. Howe er th are coming in now and I II tell you where.
The habit of, inter trout are prett well known and it ha been m plea ure to tud them under natural condition. It i normally a bottom feeder living principall on hI'imp and small minnow. hen hrimp are available, that what the winter trout eat and it i hard to

SLIP CORK RIG
___ KNOT IN LINE-SLIP KNOT
SO IT CAN BE Cl-IANGED

/BALSA WOOD FLOAT U5UALLY RED '4- Wl-IITE
J20R3 LE.AD SINKERS _____ BRONZE SWIVL
GUT OR WIRE LEADER .../ ABOUT 15" OR. 15"
7/0 1-\00K

get him to trike anything el e. fter hrimp ha e di appeared in the late fall the 'II hit at an thing and lotof them are cau~ht trolling ,ith artificial minnow and plug ca tina. During the time when hrimp are plentiful mo t of them are caught with what we know a a lip cork rig, or with pole and line, and in both ca with live shrimp bait. early ever body know the cane pole and line equipment, but a slip cork rig i a tranger to lots of folks 0 I'll try to de cribe it for you.
It consi ts of a light salt water rod and reel, quipped, ith 18 to 24 te t castin a or tr(jlling line; a larae balsa II' od float that ha a hole large enough to allow it to work freely up and down the line; a button' a sinker, about 3 ounces; a gut or wire I ader and a 7/0 book. Pull the line through the tip of the rod and thread the line fir t through the button and then through the float.
T HE inker i then attached to the line \ ith th leader and the hook below the inker. It i advi able to have a wivel between the inker and the leader. In u ing the lip cork rig, you first determine the depth you wi h to fi h and then tie a lip knot in your line, above the button, at that depth. You then can reel in your lin right up to the cork and when you cast out, th button top at the knot in the line. keepin a your hook at the proper fishing depth. Thi ort of rig enable you to co er a much laraer area of , ater than with a cane pole_ allowyour line to drift with the tide and the weight of the float and inker enable you to make better and lon~ l' ca t . B ,varying the position of the knot in our line you can fi h any de ired depth on a moment' notice. Tlli i the quipment I would recommend for winter trout if ou want to ha e a lot of fun while making a good catch.
Fi hing for trout i be t in the wane of the moon, for when the moon i full the tide are running 0 high that the water i too wift. If you do fish on high \ ater during the full of the moon, go to the head of the malleI' tream where the water is not 0 wift-trout, like men, like to
(Continued on page 37)
9

Highroads
of the \VILDERNESS

the hills, the wildlife of the nation retraced it
teps to the wamp and wilderne s along the stream. Today many
of those fir t lane of i viIi za t ion are the wildest and most inacces ible part s of our land. Many of my own vacations ha e been

my ears, topping by day to smoke a pipeful with some old fisherman on the river bank while I gleaned from his rich storehouse of wisdom
and information. From the Blue Ridge to the coast
I have seen many Georgia river . If I ever had an doubt that my Cracker state was overpopulated, I 10 t them in the vast swamps of the Altamaha or between the hi toric
hore of the atilla.

The black waters of the Suwannee River are 14 days long by canoe-
T HE rivers and lakes and streams were the highroads of primitive America. p them civilization first paddled in it movement away from the settlements of the coast. On river bank and rock shore the fir t crude fort stood, and on their foundation were built many of our modern citie of today.
Throu<Yhout the periods of OUI' nation' history the method of transportation ha e gradually changed. Followin<Y the boats and barge and cov s came the railroad, with their long ribbon of steel, reaching into the heart of America' wildernes. Roads have developed from dim, rutted trails through the backwoods of the nation to concrete boulevard connecting the many places where people live. The <Yreat flying transport of the airway ha e brought both m n and distance cIo e together.
Civilization gradually moved away from the riparian highways. When white men abandoned the river and river valley and mo ed back into
10

and the big black bass that plunge from under the lily pads are hungry and full of fight.

pent along those primitive high-
roads of America. They are m choice of all vacation place . From a boat I have seen sight I never would ha ve seen w a I kin g through the woods. I have drifted for da s along the olitude of a stream, taking what fish I needed for my frying pan, camping at night under the star, with the ongs of the wilderne in

ONE of the rno t interesting trip I ever made wa down the famous Suwannee Riv r. I~ or fourteen days we followed the black current of thi magnificent tream, never knowing what lay around the next bend, driftin<Y up to enormou alligator on sun-lit and bars, occasionally getting a glimpse of a deer or black beal along the shores.

B T Charles Eliott

July 1940 OUTDOOR GEORGIA

The dawn hour on a Georgia stream deep in the wilderness is the most primitive hour of the day.

Steve and I had planned that trip for year. We had studied chart and maps and even diet chedules. We had lected and then di carded item after item of equipment. We , anted only the nece ary load. e had examined ever boat and canoe and even bateau to find one that would fill the bill. We agreed that a good boat, a the mo t important piece of equipment.
We finally cho e a canoe with ponsons and a wide beam-one that would handle easily without up etting. We chose a make of canoe that wa tough and durable. Year before teve had traveled the upper part of thi river b canoe. He had gone over the falls above White pring at night -had 10 t every piece of hi equipment but the canoe. In spite of the twelve-foot drop 0 e r limestone ledge, the canoe had come tlu:ough un cratched. He found it the next day above White Spring, up ide down under the willow .
Throughout most of it cour e the uwannee River flow throuO'h virgin wildernes. Plantation which once touched it hores have been reclaimed by magnificent fore ts of pine, poplar wild pecan magnolia and many other kind of southern tree. Only three overground river flow into the uwannee. The bulk of it water is made up of voluminous spring along it shor . Many of tho e pring, crystal-clear hidden
o TDOOR GEORGIA July 1940

in the wilderne ,are larger and perhap more attractive in some respect than the worId farnou pring of entral Florida. But the cannot be di covered wi~hout the aid of a canoe.
Every hour of tho e two ,eek wa an adventure which t e and I will never forget. The tar trewn night , when we lept with the mu ic of running water in our ar; the nights we at beside blazing campfires, Ii teniJlg to the wind mo e through the darkened pine forest; the plea ing mixed aroma of frying pan and coffee pot; and tho e hour adrift on gentle current in a \ orId which might have been born in the olitude a million year aO'o-tho e thing are never knO\ n in crowde.d bar or city park , or on the crowded beache .
T HE fir t river trip I ever made wa, not by canoe. We bought a flat-bottom bateau for ten dollars from an old negro fisherman. I am thoroughly convinced now that he old the boat becau e he could find no method of toppinO' the dozen leak in it bottom. We made the trip from Athen to illedgeville in fi e da . I ha e forgotten ho\ many power dam the river ontain bel) een tho e point, but th re certainly could not have been fe\ er

than a dozen. We picked that boat up out of the water and hauled it for at least half a mile around each dam. Walking all the way between those two citie would have been ea ier than making any singI one of tbo e portag . I have often thought how much mor imple the trip would ha e been if , e had po se ed a canoe. y mu cl s till ache when I think of lugging that mud-soaked, ferry-sized boat up and down half the rocky hills between the cla ic and the bird an tuary citie .
teve and I found adventure at almost every turn of the river we traveled. One night we lept be ide a de elted village. Clo e to du k we had found a high, dry bluff with a upply of dr wood. A cold pring flowed out of it ba_e. It wa a perfect campsite.
I completed my job of making camp and wa exploring in the vicinity of the bluff while Steve cooked upper. I stopped at the edge of a little clearing. In front of me were everal
hou es. One of them had a neat white picket fence urrounding it and a garden in the rear. One of the build-
ing in the center of town had ' Post Office" written acro it front.
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Cidli;:;atioll has turlled back the Lakes am] Stream: to t/lOse If'lW seek ([ 1l00'el l'acatiolt
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EDITOR

Congralulation on the

Outdoor Georgia: general all-round ex-

cellence of 0 TDOOR

GEORGIA. I read more piece in it than

I have read in any OUt and out nature

magazine in a long time. nd I found my

elf liking it a lot until I came to that

pictllre on page nine and realized that you

were not b ina strictly honest with our

reader. You kno\. b cau e I think you

took the picture, that lac Gordon caught

the fish that he is holding. I have tried the

caption out on unsu pecting readers and

they pin the prize on me. Of course any

one would know that Edi on, who tands

there fairly oozing envy, had nothing to

do with it. Ju t take a lip from an old

magazine hand-don't tr)' to fool yom

readers. You can't get away with it very

10ng.-JI7. F. Bigelow, Editor of GOOD

HOV EKEEPI G.

Mr. Bigelow i Editor of Good Hou ekeeping. The picture to which he referred wa in the May i ue of 0 TDOOR GEORGIA. j\lac Gordon, holding the fish,

and Edison Marshall, one of the outstand ing novelist of our time. are at hi left. If we remember correctly, Mac really caught that big bas. even though Editor

Bigelow doe look pleased enough to have caught it himself. H we gave the wrong

impre _ion. Bill, we stand corrected, with the wi h that the very next time someone

hold up a fish that large near you, it will be from your own hook.-ED.

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EDITOR

I notice in the June i .

Outdoor Georgia: sue of 0 TDOOR

GEORGI that the
cm IT WRITER says that Dr. F.
Belcher caught 16 crappie in fifty minutes

\ eighing ten pounds. len ounce. This is a lillIe bit wrong, a "Doc" caught only ix crappie on thi particular occasion tbat weighed ten pound, ten ounc , and a you can ee, thi is a much better record than sixteen. These fi h were certainly b auties, and were a bigger prize than the lory Slated. Whoever told this incident xaggerated the wrong way. a ometime fi hing tales are.-James Prevatt, Monti cello.

11 apologi s for this reversed tyle on
the crappie, which is too fine a game fish to undere timate. ix crappie, averagin~ close to two pounds each, compri e a catch worth arguing over. I'f we had taken them, they would he tlueepounders by now. t any rate, it was a true portsman's job-
six large ones on a fly rod. TOW who's going to match it ?-ED.

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EDITOR

Before beginning any

Outdoor Georgia: verbal eulogy of OUT

DOOR GEORGI and

it ideals, 1 haJJ make my upport a wne

a oncrete form b enclo ing one dollar

for a year's ubscription to not your but

I hope every Georgian OW11 magazine.

s T am a sophomore at the niver ity

of Georgia I know one of your authors,

Dean Chapman. although I haven't had the

pleasure of meeting him per onally. A

ev ry loyal Georgian hould, I hold the

future welfare of Georgia in progre ive

politic, finance, ociety and conservation

a a prime factor of my life. _ an ardent

sport man and poor but aspiring student

of con ervation. I am deeply interested in

o TDOOR GEORGIA' potential power
a an in trument to promote Georgia a the game paradise of the nited tates. Yankee portsmen a well a orne outh ern one have much money to pend. Why not have them pend it in Georgia for hunting and fi hing from which expenditure our fanner may profit?
Every loyal Georgian who can afford the nominal sum hould ub cribe to your magazine and all hould upport its ob
ACE ADVISES
If you catch an undersized game fish, take the fish in the lower lip with the thumb and forefinger, remove the hook carefully and release him easily wilh WET HA DS. Be certain you have a legal fish before it goe on the string. Don't waste fish. Take only tho e that can he used, and use those you take.
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Every fisherman should have some first-aid equipment in his tackle outfil. Scratches and brui es should be treated inullediately to prevent infection. ever try to get a complete sun tan on a ingle fishing trip. The pain from the sun bunls is a poor trade for a sun tan. Every fisherman should have a kit containing treatment for poisonous snake bite. Practice safety first and maybe you will not have to u e fi t-aid.
:;: * *
Two of the greatest enemie of fi h are the basket and the seine. Rod and reel and hook and line anglers should destroy Ihese illegal devices or cooperate "ith wildlife rangers so that they might be confi cated.
jectives. With 0 TDOOR GEORGIA as its poke man. con ervation should pro gres in Georgia a never before.
My very feeble and humhle a si tance is at your disposal at any time as long a the ideals remain the betterment of Georgia.John B. Miller, Macon.

If we were given one wish, it would be that all Georgian could have the same attitude that John Miller has toward the conservation of our natural resources.-ED.

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EDITOR

I may be in error, but

Outdoor Georgia: I believe you have your

wi res crossed about

brown trout. (The lake in Paulding County,

near Dalla, to which you refer wa on

Pumpkinvine Creek which empties into

Etowah Hiver. At least that i the only

one I ever heard of there.) I fi h d that

lake. Th re were bas in it. I am sure it

never had any trout in it. trout could

no more have liv d in it than I c uld. The

waler was too muddy, too hot in the urn

mer and the altitude too low for trout.

If you will investigate you \ ill find that

20 years and more ago, there was little

trout fishing in Georgia. Very few streams

were then tocked with rainbow, and of

cour e no tream west of the Blue Ridge

mountain had our native trout-the brook

-in it, as you know. early every fisher

man, and others, then called ba "trout,"

and many do yet. Few knew the difference

between a ba s and a trout.

While I have never fished Cedar, nor

any of the creeks in that territory, from

my investigation I am ure there are no

bl'Own or other trout in Cedar Creek, nor

in any nearby creeks. I under tand that

there are ba and walleyed pike in Cedar

Creek. II so, I don't think that trout could

survive in it. And I am sure that the waters

in Floyd, Polk. Paulding, and Haralson

counties are not uited to trout-altitude

too low and temperature too high, I be

lieve. I have been fi hing for trout in Geor

gia since 1914. The only Georgia stream

that I know of having German brown in it

is Holly Creek. If you know of any others,

I would appreciate the information. I us-

pect there are ome in Emory, which runs

into Holly. I have taken 13inch brown and

rainbow from Holly and aw a 17inch

brown which came out of it.-Paul F.

Akin, Cartersville.

Thi letter wa inspired by the state m nt in the May i ue of 0 TDOOR GEORGI that brown trout had been found in Cedar Creek and other streams of we tern Georgia.
We would like to launch a heated argument with Paul Akin about the status of the brown trout in Georgia, but we have never caught or seen a specimen of thi particular trout that came from there. We have been guided olely by reports from fi hermen who claim to have taken brown trout from the waters of Cedar Creek Tallapoosa River and other treams in that
ction. Therefore, our tatement was not ba ed on personal ob ervations. How about it, fishermen? Can't we get someone to back up our claim that the \ ater of western Georgia conta.in brown trout?ED.
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EDITOR

Plea e find enclosed

Outdoor Georgia: one dollar for a one

yea r sub cription to

OUTDOOR GEORGIA. I received the

June i sue and like it very much. ow I

want a copy of your fir ti sue. a I do

not want to mi a one.-Thad A. Huahes

r., Albany.

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July 1940 OUTDOOR GEORGIA

What's on your mind? Write it off to OUTDOOR GEORGIA.

s

E ERYO E know that food and co v r are nece ary for an increase of wildlife. 0 t 0 well known j the e timate of the chi f of the Bureau of biological urvey that 87 per c nt of the huntable land is in agricultural u e-a fact that indicate the ignilicance of the farm to game con ervation.
One of the most important wild Ii fe problem ha been-and till i -to lind effective measure acceptable to the average farmer for providing food and cover for wildlife a a part of their regular farming operation. There are, in the
tat of Georgia several ucee ful quail pre erve , where a practical and ucce sful <Tame management program ha been developed, but the e are land on which the principal intere t i game protection.
I write of developments, on the other hand, which are acceptable to the operator of the general run of farm, and for them the most urgent demand in wildlife management i a plan , hich, because of it practical a pect, its simplicity, adaptability, and multiple values can be e tabIi hed and maintained with their limited re ource .
The purpo e of the e development hould not be merely to increase game and improve hunting, but rather to benefit the entire field of wildlife. Thi includes ong and. ine tivorous birds, fur bearer, and fi h, which have ae thetic and commercial values in addition to their use for in ect control, food and port. The u e of protective vegetation for area uitable for nothing more than farm wildlife and for the encouragement of better crop rotations and woodland management i good farm
By SYDNEY

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Top: This fence row on a farm near Athens provides an excellent t ra vel Ia n e for quail and other forms of farm wildlife. Center: Quail's nest on the farm of
E. A. Bailey, near
Rom e, in Flo y d County.

management

and good wild-

life conservation. In fact, it i the e combined values that determine whether or not wildlife development

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and maintained on our farm land. with even teen oil conservation di -

T HE oil Conser ation er ice of the nited tate Department of Agriculture, i now directing its wildlife management activitie to a sist the farmer with hi common problems of farm management. Thi is evidenced by the work being carried out on five demon tration project,

trict including eighty-nine countie in Georgia. The oil Con ervation
ervice i an agency char<Ted with the re pon ibility of con er ing oil and oil re ource through proper land u e, and the adju tment of supportin<T practice. ince wildlife management practice contribute to this end, as well a benefit from these practices,

the ervice ha a vital interest in wild-

FRANKLIN

life conservation. This agency operates, for the most part, on an individ-

ual farm ba i reaching thou ands of

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farmers in the tate. Jaturally, therefore, their activities will markedly affect wildlife environments in Georgia.
To under tand better the detail of the wildlife management work of the
oil Conservation ervice, one should picture a typical farm in the Piedmont section of the state. On this farm there will be found many field border where cropland adjoins woodland. Here, beoause of root competition and shade, which the farmers refer to as "sapping," the profitable production of annual cultivated crop i prevented. Here al 0 will be found an area which, because of insufficient ground cover, and the accumulation of water from individual crop rows, i uffering from evere erosion. Also this trip u ually i needed on the farm a a turn row for work tock and farm implements.
Areas of this type are ideal for wildlife, since food and shelter are adjacent; they can be tabilized by hardy herbaceous vegetation which ,,,ill improve the wildlife habitat. Therefore, sound farm management dictates that a field border strip approximately fifteen feet wide be seeded at the edge of the field to les pedeza sericea, augusta vetch, or some other clo e-growing crop. sually these strip are planned primarily for wildlife, and when this i true, the border should include, besides the IS-foot herbaceous border in the field, a shrubby border at the edge of the woods. In many instances a partial shrub border already exits, and the only treatment necessary may be the removal of a few uppres ing trees. This complete border, it should be noticed, provides valuable food and ne ting sites adjacent to den e cover not only for quail but
for all forms of wildlife.
O ALMOST any average Georgia farm, the wide pread distribution of gullies and eroded areas is bound to be very noticeable. Those gullies are not only destructive in themselves, but they are causing dual d.amage by depositing silt on more productive land below. Here again the farmer will be found to be desirous of stopping thi damage in an inexpensive and practical way. Experience already ha proved that one of the most practical means of controlling areas of this type is by the use of tenacious vegetation. Why, therefore, should not thi vegetation be al 0 valuable as a wildlife food or cover?
Gullies and galled spot are usually controlled by seeding to lespedeza sericea and mulching with pine boughs

or orne other im-

ilar waste material.

Mulching is the oper-

ation of applying on

the ground, a thin,

wliform coating of

uch materials as

pine branches, leaf

litter, grain straw,

lespedeza sericea

stems, or cane

bagasse. It has been

found that mulching

conserves moisture,

holds the eed in

place, protects the soil, and protects

Field border on Traylor farm two years after planting.

the young tender plant from the hrub underneath. In thi way wild

summer un. Consequently, with the life is provided nesting sites and a

aid of mulch it i a comparatively travel lane from which it can range

simple task to tabilize eroded area into the adjoining fields to eat in-

in Ie than one year. If a farmer sect and weed eeds, a well as the

find that his time is limited in the waste food which would otherwise be

pring, the e gullies can be mulched lost.

in the fall and winter when farm

The other practice, such as fores-

labor is not at a premium. Then, the try, engineering, and agronomy, car-

following spring it i only neces ary ried on by the Soil Conservation Serv-

for him to scatter the seed over the mulch.
Old abandoned roadways pre ent virtually the ame problem a found in gullies, and may be treated in the ame manner. These will often be

ice in their complete program, invariably contribute to improving en vironment for wildli fe. Within the ervice it is a policy when refore ting steep and eroded fields to plant along the edges of these plantings at least

found to be trategic for wildlife because of the large amount of "edge" they u ually pre ent.
The items above have dealt with new practice or minor adjustments in the u ual farming routine. However, on many farms the foundation for a good wildlife program already exi t , and thus requires only protection and management. This framework will be found in the form of hedgerows; shrubby growth along stream bank and fence rows; mall island of trees or hrubs between cultivated field ; small patches of

two rows of hrub . This is especially true where these new forest areas adjoin cultivated fields. In this manner provi ions to combat future woodland competition in open field are tarted, and at the ame time wildlife is materially benefited. Woodland management practices also provide for wildlife by the favoring of a few den trees, and many fruit and berry producing varieties, especi.ally at the border of the woods.
I THE agronomic work, strip cropping i recommended as the

annual lespedeza, partridge peas, and proper treatment to control erosion

other de irable plant ; and low-grow- on a particular field. Strip cropping

ing fruit and berry producing shrubs as u ed here refers to the practice of

along woodlands.

planting clo egrowing crop and

WTHEREVER po ible area of
W the e t pe should be protected
from gr.azing, as well a from the plow and the ax. It is always simpler to manage vegetation than fight it blindly! With this in mind it i posible to make hedgerow, and the other area mentioned above, harmonize with the farm economy and land use pattern, in such a way that the farm itself, in addition to wildlife, is materially enhanced. For in tance, in

clean-tilled crops in alternating strips acros the lope of the field. Crops thu grown and rotated in strips asure a constant supply of wildlife food every year in proximity to the arne permanent shelter.
Another phase of the complete and coordinated program of the Soil Conservation Service is the development of small farm fish ponds. This particular activity has received considerable impetus during the past year, and probably will be enlarged in the

a hedgerow or "grown-up' fence near future. Most every farm has a

row, the few larger trees which are suitable site for the construction of a

"_apping" into the adjacent cropland dam to impound water ati factorily

can be removed, thus eliminating this for fi h production, if the watershed

damage and releasing low-growing

(Cont.inued on page 35)

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July 1940 OUTDOOR GEORGIA

tiChin () () /($" ()f the
CHATTAHOOCHEE

<By JOSEPH C. KIRCHER

MA Y people do not realize the trout fi hing potentialities of the Southern Appalachian in general or of the orth Georgia mountains in parti ular. The word 'trout" conjure up vi ion of the cold, ru hing tream of northern climate. However, a bit of the climate of the northern tates and Canada has crept outh down the mowltain to Georgia and created a type of fore t conditions re embling tho e in the north.
Trout want cool water and a proper balance of deep pools and well-aerated rapids, which condition i ideally met in the mountain tream of the outhern ppalachian . Abo e all, they demand pure water, and nowhere are treams clearer or more free from pollution than tho e whose water hed are protected and kept green in the Chattahoochee ational Fore t.
The higher tributaries of the stream on this forest always have

had a tocking of

"n a t i v e" 0 r

" peckled" trout,

the arne fi h that

furni he- u c h

excellent port in

ew England and

Canada. With

few restriction

on fishing, how-

The last step in transplanting - CCC boys release fish in Did's Creek.

ever and little or

no attempt to re tock the tream ing a fi herman hi hare of unfor-

when the Forest ervice purcha ed gettable thrills.

the mountain land that now consti-

The

. Forest Service admini -

tute the Chattahoochee ational For- ter it national forest under the

e t, the upply of native trout had principles of multiple u e planning,

become very canty. Where water whereby each acre of the for t i

temperature were a little too high devoted to the u e to which it i bet

for the peckled specie, there were adapted and, 0 far a possible, to

originally no trout at all. Fortu- several u e concurrently. Thu, a

nately, rainbow trout, native to the piece of land may be producing tim-

mountain of the far west, can ber and at the arne time protecting

thrive in warmer water if they are stream flow, affording opportunitie

,ell aerated and if p I ante d in for outdoor recreation, and provid-

treams of the proper type grow ing food and helter for all form of

fa ter and reach larger izes than do wildlife. ational fore t re ource

peckled are handled on a sustained yield

trout. It i a ba i . To borrow a imile from finan-

moot point cial circle, the growing tock of

which i

timber i capital and it yearly in-

gam est. crement i intere t. The Forest erv-

Either spe- ice never deplete it forest capital,

cies is capa- but on the contrary builds it up, thus

ble ,of giv- increa ing the ann u a I "intere t"

which may be utilized. Like timber,

the Fore t ervice regard game and

fish a prpduct of the oil, a rene, -

The first step in transplanting trout-

able resource amenable to management and capable of yielding yearly harvest.

removal from rear-
ing pools.

By CAREFULLY protecting the trout tream on the national

fore ts, judiciously stocking them

with young fish, and periodically

closing certain streams for re t pe-

riods, it is possible to produce an-

nual "crop " of legal size trout and

thus provide excellent port for

many fishermen. To attain thi de-

irable result three things are es en-

tial: careful advance planning, cien-

Continued on page 22)

100 PER CE TER Fishermen have never been able to agree on which i the gamest fi h that swims. And hunters have never settl d on the gamest bird that flies. They wouldn't agree even if they all had the same belief. This holds true in ether groups as well. So when you uncover any number of hunters and fishermen who have a common interest and are willin u to admit it, lose no time in calling them champions. There perhaps is no sportsmen's organization in the country more de erving of such a championship than the orth Georgia Garne and Fi h Protective Association. Thi club has 72 members and these 72 members agreed Lbat OUTDOOR GEORGIA was the ideal maga-
zine for their ilk. And in accordance Lbey laid down 72 to become the first club of its kind wiLb a 100 per cent backing of this magazine.
Such a whole ale indorsement means much to the growth of any con ervation movement. It also may be taken as an indication that the North Georgia Association is willing to go "all out" for what it believes is a helping hand to the wildlife of the state. The editors agree that such expressions as these are what makes their effort appear worthwhile. Here's 01~tclooT Ge01'gi.a's hand Phill Stone and John McCarty and members of the North Georgia Game and Fish Protective A so iation. Full creels and better fish frys to you all.
A HEAVY FEATHER How many of you have seen the scrapbook picture of somebody's fouryear-old on holding a string of gasping baby bream about the size of a quarter? On one side you see the mother; on the other is the father. Sonny boy looks "so cute" with his fish and ;'he caught 'em all by himself." Thi parental applause is doing nothing but cultivating the natural destructive tendencies of sonny boy. He's getting a running start for his ultimate leap into the overcrowded pen of game hogs. Fair sport men admit there is no hope of converting the

present generation of fishermen into the fair play league. They didn't learn conservation when they were growing up. Instead, they were encouraged to "get 'em while they last." But now there is an increa ing owing toward "giving 'em a brealc"
And one of the leader in the move-
ment to educate the young ters is the
new Brotherhood of the Jungle Cock.
This national association of anglers
was recently organized in Maryland
and its membershi() include ome of
the nation's leading outdoor men and
hunting and fishing writers. Its pur-
I)OSe is to promulgate, by personal
example, beller trouting ethics on our
lreams, and whenever possible, to take a boy fi hing. The organjzation
has taken as its insignia a single-eyed
feather from the neck ruff of Lbe Jungle Cock.
There are no member hip rolls and no dues of any description. This itself, is enough to establi h the Brotherhood a something worthwhile. Any Georgia trout fisherman is eligible to become a member, prOVided of course, he believes that the joy in trout fishing is in the sport of angling, itself, and not in the ize of the creel or the kill. If you can turn them 100 e and always stay under the {:reel limit of the state regardless of bow fast they are stril,ing you will be in line to become a member of a crusading organization which is destined to have a far-reaching effect on conservation of our fishes. If you want to play ball in this league place in your hat band or lapel a Jungle Cock feather and remember the creed of the Brotherhood of the Jungle Cock.

BIG 0 ES WITH BARE HOOK Wby botber about paying casb for alluring artificial bait, or even worm ? Tbat's what Junior Mc eal of Gainesville asl,s. Junior, a bare,beaded, bare, footed boy oE 14 scorns the use of sucb unnece sary equipment wben he goes after tbe big ones. Tbere will be bigger fisb caugbt, and more of them, but it is doubtful that anybody in the country will match Junior's record in tbe Gainesville Mill pond. He went fisbing with all the necessary tackle and bait. He didn't get a nibble.
o he threw away his can of worms and laid down hi plugs. He began fi hing with a bare hook. Bang! A 32-pound bass swallowed Lbe hook. Junior hauled him in. The next day found Junjor back at Lbe same spotfishjng wiLb a bare hook. He landed a 3-pounder.
By Lbis time the whole populace had laid down Lbeir work and begun dragging Lbe pond with bare hooks.
But nobody's hook had the appeal of Junior's. So they trolled in vain. Junior, though, wa up to his old tricks. The ba s couldn't resi t his offerings. And in succes ion he pulled out another 3-pounder and then a 2-
pounder. Three days later he got a llf!pound specimen. They were getting too small for Junior, so he quit.
If you can beat, or ven tie, this bare-hand, bare-hook act by Gainesville's bare-footed, bare-headecj boy, I wish you'd let me bear from YOll.
ACTIO FOR THE EAGLE Congress at la t has tal,en teps to preserve the bald eagle, our national bird. For years this great king of tbe ail' has been stallied. It has been relentlessly pursued by gunners who regarded it as a killer of the '1'01' t kind. Several have been Iiilled in Georgia dnring the past two months. ow, with the eagle threatened with extin~ tion, there is a law exacting a heavy
(Continued on page 36)

Creed of the Brotherhood of the Jungle Cock
We, 1 ho love angling. in order that it ?nay enjoy practice and l'ewaTd in til later genelations. lnl~tually ?nove together towa/'ds a cO?nmon goal -the consel'vation and Testol'ation ot A?nerioan game fishes.
TOlcards this end we lJledge that our creel lilnits shall always be less than the legal l'estTictions and always well within the bounty ot atm'e herselt.
Enjoying. as we do. only a life state in the 01tt of d001S. ancl morally chaTged in our tillLe with the l'esponsibility of handing it down unspoiled to to?n01'row's inheTitors, we individually undeltake annlwlly to take at I ast one boy a-fishing. instTltCting him. as best lce know, in th Tesponsibilities that aTe soon to be Wholly his.
Holding that moral law tl'an c nds the legal stat1ttes. al10ays beyond
the needs at anyone ?nan. and holding that example alone is the one certain teacher. we lJledge always to conduct om'selves in such fashion on the stl'ec~m as to make safe tor othel's the heritage whioh is OU1"8 and theils.

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July 1940 0 TDOOR GEORGIA

Thi protection has brought back the wood duck and there is a po sibility that within one or two years an open eason will jJe de<;:lared, permitting the' taking bf three ducks a day. Such a law ha been strongly advocated by some wildlife authorities during the past year.-DEA Hu TER.

'The Wood Duck

.ft. ,lRTIST Lane Gib on always has wondered how hunters could shoot wood ducks without considering turning the gun on themselves. He alway ha contended that this "national" duck never hould have been shot-not even when hunting it was legal.
When he heard by grapevine that agencie in charge of regulating laws controlling the shooting of migratory waterfowl were considering an open eason on thi bird he drew a line of defense. Arti t Gibson at down with his brush. He turned out the famil you ee on the cover of this magazine. When he put the la t troke on the cre t of thi solicitous male bird, he looked up from the job and ighed:
"Who could shoot anything 0 beautifully colored that no arti t' brush ever will be able to touch it?"
The painting is the artist's troke in defen e of the wood duck. He hopes it will remind gunners of the ornamental value of thi bird and thereby encourage a deliberating finger on the trigger, even should legislation permit a ea on on this pecies of duck.
T HIS medium- ized (20 inches) duck is known all over the counLry, and for a migratory bird, remains peculiarly within our borders throughout the year. It ha various names, being called summer duck, tree duck, wood widgeon, bridal duck, acorn duck and the bride, according to the locality in which it is found. The male is green, blue and purple above, with white streak, and red, yellow and white below. Female are

brown above and yellowish-brown and whitish below. Both have long, full crests.
A it name implies, this beautiful bird is just as much at home in the tall timber as it is swimming along the edge of a lake. In thi state they have become numerous along the creeks and pond in South Georgia. A wildlife ranger report that he ha een 11 nests this summer along the Ogeechee River in outheast Georgia.
nlike other duck, the wood duck builds its nest off the ground. The natural nesting ite is the hollow of a tree, the higher the better. It might be located near, or everal mjle away from water. A clutch of eggs varie from eight to fourteen. They are creamy white.
When the ne ting season js over and the ducklings have learned to paddle for them elves, the wood duck often assembles in mall flocks. Sad to relate they oftep are shot during the winter hunting sea on. Often the wood duck i mi taken for other specie jn flight. But duck hunters know that hooting at duck over 40-50 yards is a poor practice and jn ide this range of fire the wood duck can be distingui hed. It color and often its "peeping" noi e as it whip through the air are unmistakable.
SEVERAL of these birds were killed in Georgia la t year. Some were confiscated and ca es made against violators were turned over to the Bureau of Biological Survey. As the law now stand, it i a serious federal offense to hoot or possess \ ood ducks.

OUTDOOR GEORGIA. July 1940

WILDLIFE IN OTHER STATES
MICHIGAN
The 1ichigan Board of Education has approved a plan whereby tudent may receive a "teaching minor" in conservation.
oils, land u e, woody vegetation, forestry, wood:ot, geology, and wildlife are included among the subjects offered in the new course of tudy.
***
CALIFORNIA
Women hunters in California accounted for 3.6 per cent. or 1,562 of the legally shot deer in the pa t open sea on. Game official report that the deer hal'vest has doubled in the past four years within the 100mile di trict around an Franci co.
even thou and ix hundred eighty-nine deer were taken from the area in 1939.
***
OKLAHOMA
More than 135,000 crow have been killed in bombings of six Oklahoma crow roost. Thi dynamite bomb method for control of crow ha been used in Oklahoma for the pa t seven years. One bomb ing, in which 162 bomb were used, killed an estimated 40,000 crows.
***
WISCONSIN
Through it monthly buJletin the Wi consin Conservation Department i offering information and uggestion to ~chool teachers intere ted in teaching conservation. In addition to an outline of teaching methods, the department has provided a bibliography of printed and visual aid of value in teaching conservation.
***
NORTH CAROLINA
One of the world' rarest plant, the enus fly trap, is be i n g con erved in Moore's Creek ational Military Park in orth Carolina. Thi unique insectdestroy ing plant grow only in re tricted regions in the'tidewater iection of the Carolinas. Insects, alighting on the leaf of the plant touch a trigger-like mechanism which en closes the in ect within the leaves, to be slowly dige t d.
***
WEST VIRGINIA
The West irginia Con ervation om mis ion and the . . Bureau of Fisherie will cooperate in a bass fishing te t on two West Virginia rivers this year. To be conducted on four-mile tretche of water along the e river, the test will call for cooperation of fishermen in filling out in formation cards to be depo ited in mail boxes 10 cat e d conveniently along the stream. Fishermen \ ill be required by law to supply information when angling in these areas.
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Taking Quail Through the Winter
BY EDWIN H. GAITHER

l our fir t discus ions of the bobwhite quail we empha ized hatching and the care of young birds. We have brought bobwhite into maturity. He faces the winter but not in the wild where he mu t dig for him elf and dodge o. 8 hot.
The quail i afe from gunners in hi dome tic confinement. Thi may not be fair to uch a great bird. But the proces of re tocking mu t be carried on. Alld the "jail" bird will just have to be content. After all, they can ing in the spring and do their hare toward increasing their species even though they may never live to roar from c 0 vel' and g i v e tho-e cramped wings ju t one good long tretch.
Throughout the proce of quail raising there alway mu t be rigid anitation. The same thing holds true after the bird has become of age. An off ea on and cold weather do not give the quail man a holiday. Instead, the regular work mu t be carried on according to chedule. The bird must be prepared for the la ing season in the pring.
B EST r e u I t rna be obtained from wire bottom pen, with care given to their location. The holding pen hould be in a heltered area. The bird do not need artificial heat after they have been removed from b l' 0 0 del' at the age of six weeks, but they always require adequate protection. udden chaJlge ill the \ eather often will up et them. The covered ections of the penhould face the north. Caution should be used to prevent draft through the wire bottoms. If everal pen are to be used do not place them too near together. Likewise too man bird hould not be pia ed in a ingle pen. Cannibalism and unhealthful condi tions nearly alway re ult from over crowding.

Feed for quail in the winter hould be a balanced ration that will keep them in perfect condition. It i a fundamental es ential of quail breeding to have bird healthy and vigorous at all times. A ma h and a good arain feed hould be kept before them. Watch the percentage of grain feed served your bird . Too much grain content will fatten them and thereby di courage early laying. In addition, a upply of fresh water and green feed in liberal quantities are necessary for healthy birds. Grit always hould be within reach of quail. It may become neces ary to change the type of feed. If 0, it should be done gradually-about 25 per cent at each feeding.
Remember that all feed and feeding uten il must be kept ab olutel y ani tar . Fire and disinfectant u ed properly, will take care of thi .
Q AIL should be taken from the winter holding pen and placed into laying pens about four or five weeks before the tart of the laying ea on. The date of thi procedure will vary from year to ea r. The weather mu t be taken into con ideration-the earlier the winter break , of cour e the earlier the bird will mate. It will take the birds ome time to become acclimated to the new pen and it po ition. One cock and one hen must be placed into each laying pen. The hen hould begin laying five or six week after pairing. It is advi able to have solid ide wall in la ing pen to give the utmost in e c1u ion. Wire bottom pen are atifa tory. A mall ne t box filled \ ith tra\ in each end of pen ai e the be t result. Bird hould be di turbed a little a po ible when breed r are gatherina eggs, feeding waterin a and doing the routine pen cleanin a.
Many of the diseases of quail rai ed in captivity are the same a those which afTe t dome tic fowl, and there-

for chickens hould never be allowed near quail pen . Vigorou breeder and rigid sanitation combine to control the di a e problem to a great extent. But even with the be t of attention from time to time the que tion of ickne 1J1 our bird \ ill arise.
F OOT di ea e affect the feet and leg, cau ing enlarged joint on toe and leg. Bird Pox make it external appearance around the head, au ing a swelling beneath and over the eyes. This later will film the bird' eyes and cause blindne s. Thi ondition looks vel' much like a nutritional roup and will bring on 10\ death fro m tar ation. utritional roup cause a 10 of weight and a slow but sure death. In laying birds it lower the egg production and the hatchability of the egg.
We believe that a liberal feeding of green feed will help keep thi trouble down and maybe overcome orne ca es not too f a l' advan ed. Quail appear to relish lettuce above any areen feed we ever have tried at the tate Gam Farm. lcerative Enteriti (Quail Di ea e) cau e much troubl in bird of all age. They fir t appear Ii tIe s and their feather are ruffied. The bird 10 e weight and orne linger several weeks before thi di ea e kills them. On post-mortem examination, the intestine usually will be found to contain many small u lee l' s, perforating the inte tinal walls. Often the liver has areas of grayish-brown plot he. 0 ati factory medicinal treatment ha been u ed in control or cure of thi diea_e. Rigid anitation and egregation help in controlling the 10 of bird.
Coccidiosi u u a II y cau e most trouble in young quail and will bring on death before it presence i realized. In some case it symptom are
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lul,- 1940 0 TDOOR GEORGIA

Blue Skies . Blue- Hills . . . Blue "Waters
LAND of the BLUE RIDGE

No LA D on earth i more lovely than the Blue Ridge mountains of northern Georgia. It is an un poiled and virgin land, for e ted with hard\ oods, bright \ ith waterfall, bejeweled with lake and maTked b running tream . A land inhabited by friendly, charming people.
One of the important a et of thi land i it lake. nfortunately, none of the lakes are natural, as they are in many other sections of America, where huge hole were gouged out of the eartli during glacial periods, or where receding sea water or falling lime tone land made clear and beautiful bodie of water.
The lakes of the Blue Ridge were made by man. Many of them were reated as recreational lakes or as fish pond . Most of the large bodie of water in our mountains were impounded as re ervoirs. They tore great volume of water to make never-failing light and heat for mil-

lion of outhern home. But they ~erve another purpo e too. They aTe rapidly becoming the playgrounds of man thou and of Georgian and vi itors to our tate.
P ERHAP one of the mo t important item in the menu of a vacationi t is , ater-large bodies of water. The mountain offer cenery. ffistoric home and battlegrounds and shTine aTe interesting and instructive. The highways offer a pictw"e que countr ide for tho e who find delight in travel. But for relaxation and rest, for enjoyment in ome fixed location, boatinD", fi hinD" and wirnrning are unexcelled attractions.
Perhaps the mo t popular chain of lake found in northern Georgia are those beginning with Burton and ending with Tugalo. The ix lake are almost 50 mile long. From where Tallulah River flows into Burton to where the Tugalo dam spill its water into the line between two empire

tate , the flo\~ing water are u ed by countle vacationist throughout the year.
Mo t of the power compan lake have been exceedingly low during late winter and pring because of dr weather. Waters ha e returned almo t to their original beds, however, and fish are said to be striking both in the lake waters and in treams flowing into the lake.
La t year the largest rainbow trout ever taken out of Georgia was caught in the headwater of Seed lake below Burton dam. Thi rainbow, caught on a live minno, by W.O. Bro, n, brought trout fi hermen from all
over the state, to compete ,ith the
re ord. any rainbow have been taken
thi spring from th~ headwater of Burton, where Mocca in, Dick and
Wildcat Creeks and Tallulah River
flow into the lake.
(Continued on page 22)

NOTICE TO SPORTSMEN
(wnfJ dfJO't reolly need 0 nfJtice)
This Company, in a sincere desire to do all within its power of cooperation with the national preparedness program, recently set up regulations which prohibit visitors to its hydro-electric plants, steam plants, dams, tunnels, intakes and main subjstations. The rules, however, do not apply to our lakes--except such portions of the lakes as are adjacent or near to our other physical properties.
This exception was made because we know we--and our government -can trust the sportsmen of Georgia. We feel that they will understand the spirit of the restrictions-and obey them to the letter as they continue to wet their lines in our lakes.
GEORGIA POWER COMPANY


o TDOOR GEORGIA. July 1940

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mountain climbing, picnic dinners, steak fries. Bynum House: has a farm and dairy, tested cows, pasteuriled and whole grade A milk. Friendly service.
is minutes drive to Lake Rabun and Lake Burton where excellent boating
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ear Golf Course

ear AU Lakes

"Chinooks"

tructed by the

. Fore t ervice.

Trained fi h pecialist made a

(Continued from page IS)

tudy of each tream on these man-

tific management, and cordial cooperation between all agenci in-

aaement area to ascertain it characteri tic and trout arryin a capac-

volved. It i thi la t factor e pe- it . From the e cientific studie it

cially, that i putting lorth Georgia ,a po ible to work out chedule

on the map a good trout fi hing

country. In 1936 the tate of Geor-

gia and the

. Fore t ervice en-

of tocking and to determine what tream ould be opened for Ii hing each ear and for \ hat period~ of

tered into a cooperative agr ement time.

for the management of wildlife on the Chattahoochee ational Fore t. The technical aid of the . . Bureau of Fi heri and the Biological urvey al 0 were enli ted, and all the e agencie , working in clo e harmony, have in four year made great progre .
Four areas, totaling over 136,000 acre of timbered mountain land,

U ER of these regulated trout tream are charaed a fee of a dollar per da in addition to a regular tate fi hing licen e. The funds thus collected are depo ited in a p cial cooperative fund and utilized in protecting, maintainin a, and improving the wildlife management
areas. By thi eminently fair arrange-

drained by many miles of fine trout ment fi hermen are a sured, in return

tream ,were et aside a Fi hand for the charges made them of good

Game Management Areas. One of Ii hing through the year to come.

these area,

known as the Co-

hutta, lie north-

ea t of Chat-

, orth on the

drainage of the

Cana auga River

and it tribu-

taries. A econd,

the Blue Ridge

Area, I ina north-

, e t of Dahlon-

ega, saddle~ 0 er

the BI ue Ridge

and include the

oontootl Fed-

eral Game Ref-

uge. A third the

Chattahoochee-

Chestatee Are a,

tretches for many mile along

Rainbows lurk in the shadows of the bridge.

the outh lope of

the Blue Ridge and include the

A booklet de criptive of the wild-

headwaters of tho e t, 0 river. The life management area on the Chatta-

fourth, known as the Lake Burton hoochee ational Fore t, complete

Area, include the drainage of three with map of the ar a ,i available

tream that flow ea t from the Blue free of charge from the Regional

Ridge into Lake Burton.

Fore tel'

. Fore t ervice t

an of the tream on the e area lanta; the Georgia Divi ion of ild-

ha e been improved for trout by life, Atlanta; and the Fore t uper-

mall dams that , ere built to create vi or, Gaine ville. Information a to

pool and rime. A modern. trout open dates and other regulation that

rearing tation ha been bUIlt on change from ear to year may be ob-

Ro k C r e e k in the oontootly tained from the three above ource

Refuge; where, in circular concrete and al 0 from the Di trict Rangers

pool of the mo t modern type, m?ll of the

. Fore t ervice at Blue

fry obtained from trout hat hene Ridge, uche and Clayton and from

are reared in thou and by the Bu- the wildlife ranaers in re idence on

reau of Fi herie for restocking pur- the management area.

po e. When the reach length ?f

Four year of trout tream man-

5-7 inche th yare tran ported JJl agement has begun to how re ults.

can to the streams and liberated. 'Iany of the tream are already well

Each management area has a re i- tocked , ith legal ize Ii h. Thi year

dent warden employed by the state. it ,a po sible to open for fIshing,

These warden live in hou es con- for varying periods, nearly every

tream on all four of the area . The first tream opened April 13, and until Labor Da one or more tream will be continuou ly open. The minimum ize limit for all trout ha been et at seven inches, , ith a maximum daily creel limit of ten fi h. Indication are that the total catch in 1940 will be larger than in any pre iou ear.
Blue Ridge
Continued from page 19)
SPORT ME of Rabun, tephen and uHounding counties are cooperating to re tock the chain of lakes. Rearing pond have been e tablished along orne of the lake shores and the pond filled with lingerling ba . When those bas become legal ize, the will be relea ed into laraer water. Each year those pond will upply the lakes with a tock of fi h.
The north Georgia I a k e are reached by numerou tate and federal highway. Federal Route o. 23 lead north from Gainesville through Cornelia Clarke ville and CIa ton.
. Route o. 76 between CIa ton and Hiawa see, cro e the head of Burton Lake. Bey 0 n d the high bridge a fore t ervice road join the . road, leading by the ranger -tation on Mo ca in, LaPrade' Camp BUlton Dam and to Clarkesville. The Burton Dam road from Tiger join thi fore t ervice road beyond Burton Dam and end a pur down the edge of Rabun Lake to Lakemont.
Tallulah Gorge, abo v e Yonah Lake, ha been acclaimed one of the out tanding cenic pots of Georgia. Each year many thousand of visitors top on the outh rim of this rock-bound canyon for a sight of its magnificent grandeur.
T HE Appalachian Trail that 2,000-mile footpath which begin on Mt. Oglethorpe in Georgia and , inds up the backbone of the Appalachian range to t. Katahdin, in Maine, bord l' one ide of Rabun County. an hiker travel thi trail each ummer.
The outh rn highland, home of the Cherokee rich in hi_toric torie lovel and in man places till unpoiled a the day they were created, are th pia ground of the outhea t. Georgia ection of the Blue Ridge i unexcelled. From Cloudland Can on to Fort ountain, to Toc oa Lake and the headwaters of the a annah, Georgian and their guests are rapidly becoming acquainted with the charm of this vacation land.

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July 1940 0 TDOOR GEORGIA

Watch Your Aim

EVERY man and boy ha ornewhere in hi make-up the primitive in tinct to hunt. The progress of civilization has taken much of the upply of game, but has not curtailed man's intere t in shooting birds and animals. He till wants to exerci e hi hooting kill on orne movin" and living object.
nfortunatel the average boy in the cit cannot alway get into the field and wood to hunt legal game. Therefore, man haples ongbird u[er the consequence. Thousand of them fall prey to mall bo all over Georgia. Thi i only natural, in e boy jut have to shoot at game with their rifle and gun.
But there is a way to temper thi eagerne and at the arne time afford the e young tel' much port and practice. If they could be in tructed in mark man hip, they oon would learn that killing bird and mall animal i not the only fun that can be had with a rifle. They are after an opportunity to improve their kill -to see the target jump. It will not take long for a young shooter to learn that it i much harder to get a 10 on an official small-bore target than it i to kno k a hannle songbird from a tree. Beside, there i much enjo able companion hip with hi fello' hooter.
RAREL do \ e find a bo ,ho doe n't lik to shoot a rifle. Love of gun ha been handed down from generation to generation. This might give orne of you a hint. Why not en courage our boy to shoot by
o TDOOR GEORGIA July 1940

taking him along to the next weekly Rifle Club and there fired a Model

hoot of your local rifle club? Mo t

-I prulgfield .22 Caliber rifle and

club have a junior divi ion for boys got a 96 on my fir t target and a

and girls under 18. If you have no pos ible 100 on the next. There wa

club in your vicinity, there are many only one other possible fired that

ways to create an interest in target night. ntil that time it had b en a

work. Better hooting come from truggle to get a 97 or 98 with my

much practice at the firing line. In little light rifle and the e two core

the malleI' town there are no clubs. seemed to come 0 much ea ieI'.

But you may write to the Junior Divi ion of the ational Rifle A ociation in ashington for information on how to organize a Junior Club. Thi organization \ ill supply information on ho\ to compete for Junior
1edal award . A young hooter alway will trea -
ure the first Pro- 1arksman medal he wins, although he may win many more in later year . There till hangs in my cabinet at home the fir t Junior Pro-Mark man medal which I won over 16 ear ago in the Winche tel' Junior Rifle Corp. Durin" recent year thi corp ha -grown to uch proportion that the lational Rifle As ociation has taken it over. My first cores were fired with a Model 03 Winchester ingle hot using .22 short. Having no one to instruct me and not knowing there wa a local club until later I tudied all book and pictures I could find pertaining to rifle hooting. It wa

T HE training and experience "ained from ompeting for the Junior Medal later pro ed in aluable to me. Lot of young tel', a well a grown-up, hesitate to join a club because they think th yare not profi ient enough in mark man hip, and feel like their low score might be embarra ing to them. Thi attitude i wrong. E eryone mu t tart at the bottom. There are no natural born shot, although some people have more native ability than other and catch on ooner. An normal, health boy with fairly good eyeight can becom a "ood hot. There are certain fundamental prin ipIes that m4St be followed, but thi does not mean that you have to a ume exactly the shooting po itions carried in the in truction book. Individuals vary 0 much in phy ical characteri ti s that it is impos ible for everyone to a ume the arne po ition. In no other port \ ill ou

not until the pring of 1929 that I find your companion more ea"er to

had my fir t opportunity to fi re a help ou to learn. The more ad-

real target rifle. I vi ited the Atlanta van ed the shooter is the more in-

terest he usually ha in help-

ing the beginner along.

I recall ear ago walking

Remington Targetmaster, 510, .22 singleshot, bolt action.

from one end of Decatur (Continued on page 37)

23

porlSlnell Are clive the ear-round in
CORDELE D CRISP COUNTY

A"~IL

~~THEY'RE biting down h re."

Thi \ a the reply of one fisherman to ano!.her

early in the sprino-, before the ,a on clo ed

pril 15.

"The 'r

here."

Thi wa th an wer from one o-roup of fi h men to

another after the ea on reopened Jun l.

uch i the general report ah\ ays made on the great

lake formed b the ri p Count dam. For many ears

thi bod of water had no name. It wa called "Cri p

County Lake."

The water now i waring a n IV name-Lake Black

h ar. It wa nam d thi aft r Gen ral Black h ar.

famou Confederat o-eneral. in a cont t la t 'fa . Lake

Black hear long ha had the reputation of being one of

!.he out tandino- fi hing lak in th _tate. Throughout

late winter and the pring, after the great blizzard of

1940, report dail told of large tring of bass, jackfi h,

crappie and bream taken from these \ ater .

L AKE Blackshear is aid to be !.he laro-est power lake in the tate. It i formed b hind the Cri p ount Power ompan dam and xt nd thirtfi e mile up the Flint Ri er-from orth ount)" to Ora ton Bridge in 0001 and wnt r countie .
It i intere ting to not that the dam creating thi lake is the onl countyowned h droelectric planl in !.he
nited tate.
everal r a on ha e been ad van ed for the continuous wonderful fishing in thi lake. ome ob erver- a that th hallow water found in !.he upper end of the lake, with it abundance of tree branche. limb and other protecti\' material. furni he man hiding place for y uno- fl h and bed in which older fi h ma pawn in afety from their natural nemies.
Ever prino- Lake Blackshear yi ld the tate' large t at hes of crappi . or white perch. Man nati e fish r m n take larg trino- from the bank. fi hing with mall live minnow a bail.
Ba are ju t a pI ntiful and ar more consi tent r the whole sea on. There are both mallmouths ancl large mouth in quantitie~. O!.her pecie Oouri hing alono- ide the e game leI' are jack, warmouth p rch, channel at and all member of the bream famil .

SHAD bluff amp ite . combined with the advantage of el ctri ity, running waler and a e\ erao-e y tem, make Lake Black h ar an ideal location for a year.round Ii hing collao-e. nd lik th chain of power lake in northern G orgia. it i a playground for motor b at en thu iasts and aquaplaner.

Th 'r I a ~ Biting i Lake Blacl hear

JUL~
AUC.U'T

24

Jul) 1940 0 TDOOR GEORGIA

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ttl C(Zny

r-an(y .l7{.({I{!}l C ('

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/t:'N/:'anIJ (/' l(ZONIef:., <:0.

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('onDELE~ GEOIlGIA ami tfcm(~!~('
L.\.KE nLA(~KSIlE.\1l
/0 Ihe
~(>;tI.iJJi{!)1 ()/ We(>'Ye~{

McCRORY'S 5-10

CORDELE

GEORGIA

1JHrst tatr 1Battlt 1Jtt illorbrlr
Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

GLEATON'S DEPARTMENT STORE

"A GootI Place To ave"

MEN'S AND LADIES' SPORTS WEAR Phone 142

CORDELE

GEORGIA

o TDOOR GEORGIA Jul,- 1940

CordeJ supplies Lake Blackshear mo t of it vi itors but hundreds of person from all parts of the tate are making excursion there with increa ing regularit .
The e 'cellent rail and paved highway facilities leading into Cordele and Crisp Count make them easil)' aces ibJe to the entire outheast. The ho pitality and progre sive attitude of the hotel, busines firm, touri t home, touri t camps, etc. c a u e many a traveler to t p over and r t and enjo the .fine fi hin lY and other recreational fa iii tie . In winter fishing g i ve way to hunting in thi sportsmen' capital. Quail and dove hooting in this section rivals that of an other in the state.
CORDELE, which is onl), 153 mile from tJanta, may be reached by rail and hilYhl ay from a11 direction . It i located on U. Highway o. 41, one of the main touri t route between th Jorthea t and Florida. . Highl a)' 28'0 and
tate Highways 90 and 133 also lead to this Crisp metropoli .
With a rich agricultural Jack ountry, an abundant supply of cheap hydro-electri power, excellent tran portation facilities, and recreational opportunities un urpa ed by any other section of the country, Cordele and Cri p COUJ1t are looking forward to that day when the men and women of America can a , "I recogniz d these opportunitie in Cri p COUJ1ty for livin lY and making a living."
All roads lead toward th happy fishing and hunting grounds of Cri p County.

CRISP CO TY POWER COMPA. Y
*
*
The only county owned and operated hydro-electric plant in the world.

CORbELE

BANKING



COMPANY

Member Federal Deposit Insurance

Corporation

AOAM~ ~O~rITAl

CORDELE

GEORGIA

25

Featurirtg
MA HATTAN PORTSWEAR

DEPARTMENT STORE

View of Cordele's thriving business district.

AMERICA'S

BEST

THE FLINT RIVER INN

Artesian Pool

FISH - CHICKEN - STEAK DINNERS

Americus Super Paved Highway No. 30

ALWAYS COOL AND FRESH HERE
WOODS THEATHE
Leave the Family With Us While You Go Fishing

CEO. L. RILES HARDWARE
Fishing Tackle and Sporting Goods Headquarters

RIGHT GOODS . . RIGHT PRICES

CORDELE

GEORGIA

STOP AT . . .
GJred's eplace
On Road to Lake FOR BEER AND REFRESHMENTS

Meet Me at ..
RECREATIO BULlARD PARLOR

Pabst Blue Ribon Beer on Tap

CORDELE

GEORGIA

Catering to Commercial Men and Sportsmen
Bring Your Hunting and Fishing Parties to
HOTEL SUWANEE
RAY ROSS, Manager

FISHERMAN'S HEADQUARTERS

TACKLE and INFORMATION

C US 8-4 U GO

8th Street


Phone 8

WILLIAMS' HARDWARE

CORDELE

GEORGIA

Seventy-Five Rooms of Solid Comfort
"It's a Dayton Hotel"

JOE LEE'S PLACE

For That Late or Early Meal Before or After That Fishing Trip

We Will Serve You Any Hour Out of 24

Qu(uity is ResIJonsible For Our Eleven Yea1' in Business

HIGHWAY 41

CORDELE, GA.

COCA-COL BOrTLI G CO. PLA IS
wish the fishermen tJ good ctJtch
When you pause-Remember The Pause That Refreshes

CORDELE, GA.

Two f'lants to Serve You

AMERICUS, GA.

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July 1940 0 TDOOR GEORGIA

TEXACO PRODUCTS
McD. HOPKINS, Dist.

~ \ ! y CORDELE

GEORGIA

JOIIES-PAIE DRUG CO.

Suwanee Hotel Bid g.

CORDELE

GEORGIA

CAMP COTTAGES Plans and Specifications Furnished
Without Cost

We Builel Complete By Contract

CRISP CO TY LUMBER CO.

CORDELE

GEORGIA

McCLELLAN'S
5 TO $1.00

THAT GOOD GULF
@
C. C. VARN, Dist.

Featuring ..
WEDGEMAKER WOLVERINE BOATS
JOHNSON OUTBOARD MOTORS
Fishing Tackle Headquarters

Furnishings for Your Summer Cottage

CORDELE HARDWARE CO. T. E. Fldcher, Pre.
Tom Nesbitt Jr., Sec.~Tre.as.

J. D. RYALS DRUG STORE

A Gooel Drug Store

105 Eleventh Ave.

Phone 12

CORDELE, GEORGIA

A party from Atlanta after building a cottage on Lake Blackshear and Cedar Creek 'ald, "I do not
see how we built such a nice cottage, on such a beautiful location, near such good fishing for so
little money." A few choice lots left. Phone '" writeT. V. HYMAN or T. E. FLETCHER
CORDELE, GEORGIA
OUTDOOR GEORGIA July 1940

HOW TO COOK FISH
BOILED: Clean and cut ofT bead, tail and fin . Either whole fi h or piece of 2 or 3 pound may be u ed, pinned in cloth. small piece of pork may be placed inside the cloth witb the fisb. Cover with wellsalted water and boil slowly ltntil done.
BROILED: CI an and open down the back. Head, tail and fins of small trout need not be removed. Place in broiler witb a lice of pork or bacon acro each half. Fi h should not be broiled too long as tbj cause it to dry up and lose its flavor.
SKEWERED: kewer a half dozen small fi h and a many pieces of bacon or pork, glternately. andwich fa bion, upon a stick and roa t.
ROASTED: Clean a mall fi h, thrust a piece of bacon or pork into the belly cavity, alt on the out_ide and impale on a forked tick by whicb it i turned often whjle roa ting in front of tbe coal. In the ca e of trout and other delicate fi h it i beller to roa t WITHO T bacon or pork so that the ORIGI AL FLA OR may be pre erved. When pork or bacon i not used it i well to salt fi h both in ide and out. Larger fi h may be plit down the back and roa ted on triplepronged toa ter cut from shrub .
FRIED: ever backbone in everal places to prevent curling up in the pan, roll lightly in cornmeal or bread crumb and fry with liced bacon or pork. If fi hare very mall they may be fried cri p and in this ca e the head of mall trout are not removed.
BAKING IN CLAY: Oay uitable for thi purpo e i not alway available. It i of a blue-grayi h color or white and when wet i ea ily worked into different hape The fish need not be cleaned, but covered com pletely with clay and buried in hot coal. If it weigh about a pound it should reo main in the fire for about 45 minute. When it i removed the clay i broken and the cale and fin are left adhering to the clay. The entrail will be but a hard rna and will readily drop out whelY the fish is opened.
f'()I:1T I:AI:1LI:." L()I)(71:
On Lake Blackshear - Near Cordele, Ga.
Fish and Chicken Dinners DANCING Boats for Rent
Write or Phone MR. or MRS. J. L COX CORDELE, GEORGIA

ECONOMY DR G, Inc.

The Rexall tore

The Best of Everything in Drugs at Lowest Prices

CORDELE

GEORGIA

Drink . .
ROYAL CROW , COLA

6 I2-oz. Bottles

25c

COZY COTTAGE FURNITURE In Maple . . In Rustic
bristopbu If'umiturt 0.
Phone 190 Cordele's Department Store

Choice Camp Sites for Sale on

LAKE BLACKSHEAR and SWIFT CREEK

Boats and Motors for Rent Channel Catfish Dinners

SMOAK BRIDGE on Albany and Cordele Highway
Write or Phone 341

L. C. WHITFIELD

WARWICK

GEORGIA

Builel a COllage on Beautiful Lake Blackshear
We Can Supply Your Every Need in Lumber and Building Material

CORDELE SASH, DOOR & L MBER CO.

CORDELE

GEORGIA

McGLAMERY'S BICYCLE SHOP . . . Featurin 9 ..

EVINRUDE and ELTO OUTBOARD MOTORS Everything in Sporting Supplies

CORDELE

GEORGIA

THE SOUTHERN COTTO OIL CO.

CORDELE

GEORGIA

27

LAICE AMAH LEE

28 Miles soulh of Allanla, 2 miles Hampton. Bass, bream, and catfish in of fresh waler. Good fishing.
50c A DAY No Sunday Fishing J. O. RUTHERFORD

wesl of 25 acres
Owner

IT'S A WINNE/(I

THE LURE THAT TOOK THE $300 BASS, CARRIED "BILL'S
13" PORK RI D ON IT. "Bill' 13" Pork Rind is CLEANER, WHITER, A D TO GHER and there are MORE trip to the jar. There are ix fish I uri n g tyles. Mu kie-Ba s-Bas Favorite-FlyFly Favorite-Frog-25c per Jar.
DenIers your Jobber bas "Bill'S 13"
DEAN BROS.
MA UFACTURER VALDOSTA, GA.
28

Millions We Miss J.
(Continued from page 7)
for that purpo e a century ago. You hear the auctioneer intone the bid to clo e a ale of human flesh, and you get an authentic glimpse of a pa t era. On the courthouse lawn nearby, another drama is presented, that of the burning of the documents of the Yazoo Fraud. You can get a lot of History in a little time in Louisville.
These imaginary itinerarie ould well be true, and, some day, may be. Other cities and communitie have his tor i c a I episode upon which drama and pageants may be built.
aeon could staO"e yearly reproduction of variou rites and ceremonies based on the Indian culture as disclo ed by the findings at the Ocmulgee 1 ational M 0 n urn en t . Atlanta could profitably capitalize on the marvelous publicity brought to that section by erecting and maintaining "Tara" in reproduction, including characters as well as period furni hings.
Other highway are u ed for entry into Georgia, such a o. 41 from the orth; o. 80 from the We t;
o . 25, 29, and more. All these have points of interest to be advertised and emphasized.
R E 'EMBER! G that the e visitors are not all from beyond the" mith & Wesson" Line, not all plan should have one class in mind. It is also true that mo t of these comer are intere ted, not so much in the e traordinary, a in local color. Uniformly, they expe t courtesy here in a land that i upposed to I e the home of chivalry and honor. When they do not find it, a financial penalty follow, as they may not return, and may play down the state to other.
One ource of potential intere t to tourists, never yet exploited, i that of local folk-lore and folk-song. Several tate with no more material than Georgia has, are making an excellent howing, attracting throng to ee and hear programs based on these features. Likewise, the legends and native character torie of Georgia people are well worth preservation. Many of them are rich and original.
o discussion of Georgia's touri t attractions would be complete without mention of the mountain area, which extends almo t acroSS the state on the northern end. Travelers who have een the great ranges of the West will not be impre sed with them a mountains, ince they have een higher, wilder and steeper examples.

But the Smokies, which extend outh into Georgia, have a beaut all their own, and are eminently worth knowing. The Indian gave this name, Great mokie, becau e of the tenuous mist that perpetually hover over the ranges, tinting the horizon a lovely blue.
The Georgia mountain region jimply not developed as yet to the point where the sophisticated will be willing to tarry long, but that development will come. Meanwhile the native who i not well acquainted with these scenes of beauty ha mi ed omething real. One vacation spent there, and then these word of John Muir, naturalist, take on real mean ing: "Climb the mountains and get their good tiding. ature' peace will flow into you as unshine into the tree. The, ind will blow their fre hnes into you and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves."
As thi ubject is dige ted we inevitably come to the conclusion that in making these preparation for visitors we are but making our home more livable and agreeable for ourelve , thereby earnin~ a double reward with a ingle effort.
Bu iness is good for tho e concerns that cater to touri t and has been for some time. nle the war comes to our hores (which God forbid!), or unle s the outcome over there b, such as to bring paralyzing economic conditions, it may be expected that the travel trend will increase.
Georgia has ample attractions, but they are not well enough marked or developed. The fast-moving vacationist of today is not di po ed to follow rough, circuitou roads, or endure primitive camp ites in order to see somethin~. He is willing to pay reaonably, but the ervice must be good.
If Georgia seek new industries; new capital, and a diversification of source of income, cu lti vation of the tourist trade at hand offer one of the ea iest to be found. It may take a little doing on our part, which brinO"s to mind a proverb; "God provides food for the bird, but He does not put it in the nests."
In 1787 Tennes ee passed a law which provided for the payment of salaries of its state officer in skins. The Governor wa to receive 1,000 deer skin per year the Chief Ju tice 500 deer skin , the Governor s Sec-
retary 500 raccoon skin , and other state officer kin alaries on a graduated scale.

July 1940 OUTDOOR GEORGIA

Beyond Horizons
(Continu,ed j rom page 5)
tional Park Service additional CCC camp were obtained to develop the variou area, until by the ummel' of 1938, th y tem included njne tate park, five of which had been ufficientl developed to be of practical u e to the publi .
The present tate Park y_tem in Georgia include in addition to these nine, everal new area. The y tem include area for ariou types of u e. At ogel, on the Georgia Blue Ridge alld at Pine ountain, I tween Atlanta and Columbus, large vacation state park have been provided. The e tate parks include rustic lodge or tavern operated under hotel plan, as well as family vacation cabin which have adequate facilitie for hou' ekeeping. The cabin border beautifully clear lakes surrounded b Georgia forest and provide the relaxation of the outdoors, along with modern facilitie for comfort. Another u h tate park is now under development at Fort Mountain in
orth GeorO'ia near Chat worth. tate memorial park are situated
at Crawford ille, where i pre erved Libert Hall, the home of Alexander H. tephen; near In inville where Jefferson Da j , president of the Confederacy wa made a pri oner of war at the end of the War Between the
tate, and near Blakel , Kolomoki ound Park, containing everal important Indian mound.
anto Domingo Park, near Brunswick, include ruins of an early Geor-
gia plantation a well a ruin believed by many to be those of an earl panish Mi ion. Such park aLittle Ocmulgee, near McRae, provide a recreational 10dO'e, large picnil,; and barbecue areas and sceni trail

through Georgia woodland. Other area in the tem include Chehaw Park at Albany, and lagnolia pring Park now under de elopm nt near
lillen. everal natural resource reservation al 0 have been a qui red, including t. lar s River atural Re ource Reser ation in Charlton County; anta aria Ii ion Natural Re ource Re ervation, Camden County; a ne Count Natural Reource Re ervation and Governor Troup atural Re ource Res rvation in Treutlen Count.
In these park the variety of Georgia's cenery and natural charm may be found in abundance; it hi tory may be learned at fir t hand; and the future of our tate in the conservation of it natural re ource and the health and happine of it people may be vie\ ed out upon the e broad horizon of pre ent progre
A GOOD index to the popularit of any area i the attendance. During the t\ elve month from J uIy 1, 1938 tbrouO'h June 30, 1939 the areas of the Georgia tate Park tem were i ited b over 261 000 person , whjch i 0 er a quarter of a million. Of thi number it was estimated that 18,350 of them \ er from out ide Georgia.
At the time of the initial development of ogel, it wa impossible to estimate the great demand that would grow for family acation cabins at the park and the number con tructed (seven), has been ery inadequate, a many reque t can not be filled. In fact, the ogel cabin mu t be re-

ser ed well in advance and for ither one or two-week periods dUl'ing ummel' month. The ame i becominO' true of th vacati0'1\ cabin at Pine Mountain. To meet the demand, the cabin under development at Fort
ountain, and additional ones planned for ogel, will bring the number of fami I vacation cabin at Georgia parks to about ixty-five.
acation abin are of val' ing size, accommodating from 4 to 10 per on each. The large one at
ogel rent for 25 per week and smaller one 20. At Pine Mountain cabin range from, 24 per week down to 9. Extra cot are provided in all cabin at the rate of 2 per week. The cabins are pr vided with lights, water, fuel, complete kitchen, linen, and everything except food and ice which can be obtained locally.
A family vacationing for a week at ogel would have to include in it' budget as expense only the tran pOl'tation co t for the round trip (about fi fteen ganon of gasoline from Atlanta), the abin rental, cost of food ice, kodak film incidental, and wear and t ar on out-door clothe. Cabin r nter u e the lake swimming facilitie fl'. a ationers eeking
outing of Ie than a week time find
it conveni nt to take rooms and meal
at the rustic 10dO'e (Wala i-yi Inn
at ogel and Pine lountain Tavern, at Pine ountain) .
T HE Georgia Park have been developed thu far at the expen e of five and one-half million dollars to federal government agencies and 125 thou and dollars to the state. During the last fiscal year almost seventeen thou and dollar was spent by the tate for improvements. In addition to this almost forty-five thou and wa'
pent by the state for maintenance and operation.

HOTEL DESOTO BEACH CLUB at Savannah Beach, Tybee Island, which was formally opened on May II. The club and Mediterranean type villas, are finished in California redwood and golden cypress. It is air cooled, luxuriously furnished and offers cuisine that is regarded as unequalled on the Atlantic
o TDOOR GEORGIA July 1940

Nature's MASTERPIECE

OKEFE OKEE, an Indian word for "trembling earth," i a veritable ma terpi ce of the southland. It xpansi e forest, hung with tape tri s of gray Spanish mo , might \ ell have been one of the hot tropical forest in the dawn of creation. Its Roating islands, it glimmering hallways, its agele solitudes, mu t ha e been as they \ re at the beginning of time.
o fi.sherman or explorer ever forgets his fir t trip into thi drowned and boundless land. The on I method of travel is by narrow s\ amp bateau. The trail are black water lanes, winding through "prairies" and cypre s forests, broad ning into deep, picturesque lake \ hich are almo t the color of ink. A hi boat glide along he will Ii nd him elf tense, vibrant, waitin u for some clima in this diml lighted theatre. It i one of the dramatic and magnificent creation of the outhland.
What probably is the first re ord we have of the Okefenokee wa gi en in 1773 by William Bartram, famous naturalist and explorer. Bartram
sa s:
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"The River St. Mary ha its ource from a va t lake or marsh, called Ousquaphenouaw, which occupies a pa e of more than 300 mile in circuit. This vat accumulation of wa-
a~('I'" and ~ urf' COllnt. ChllmlH'r of (.omllwrc'c
WA. CROSS
Ware County
(/I/([ l/rt
EFE 0 EE
SWA. P
"Th,' I.,UI'/ "f 'I "',,,/'/i"l:
J;/Irl""

tel' contains me ri h, high land, which the Creek represent to be the mo t bli sful pot on earth. It is inhabit d b a pecu liar race of Indians, II' h 0 s e women are incomparably beautiful-their hu bands are fier men and cruel to trangers."
T illS vast sweep of odden wilderness lies on the boundary of Georgia and Florida, directl south of \Vaycro ,one of the state's mo t progres ive citie . It cover a large portion of Ware, Clinch and Charlton counties. Be ides th t. Marys River which flow ut of its eastern edge and moves in a stately manner 125 miles to the Atlantic Ocean, the famou Suwannee River pours over it outh rn rim and race madly to the Gulf f Mexico, almo t 6,000 miles away by water, trail. The wamp it elf is contained in a huge basin higher than the surrounding country and 0 er 30 feet above the Ie el of the sea.
ntil a few ears ago the swamp was almost stripped of its resources. Railroad exten led like giant fingers
July 1940 0 TDOOR GEORGIA

Lucas and Jenkins

Theatres



The Coolest Places in Waycross

Two Houses to Serve You

LYRIC and RITZ

WAYCROSS

GEORGIA

Center of the Center City of South Georgia.

When in South Georgia visit
OICEFEIIOICE.E AIID LAURAS. WALICER PARICS
75-Foot Observation Tower. Clean Boats for your Convenience
at end of walkway.
Cold Drinks at the Concessions. Swim in Beautiful Walker Lake. Boating, Dining, Dancing in the midst of
South Georgia's Pines. Most Beautiful Scenery in Georgia's Okefenokee Swamp. Excellent Fishing at all times-2300 feet. Walkway into
Nature's Wonderland-See it!

into the far corner of the Ok fenokee, hauling rna ive and valuable cypress logs to market. ero stie camp weI' cattered over three hundred thousand acre of pine land and at one time more than 300 workmen labored day by day, converting virgin trees into crosstie .
For many year from ten to fifteen thousand dollar' , orth of fur wa taken out of the wamp. Alligators with hide ,orth a little a 50 cents each, were laught red by untold thousand . Duck and geese and other large bird were killed until the nugratory waterfowl moved on, no longer using this feeding and resting ite in migration or for their winter home.

7 Miles Southeast WAYCROSS, GA.

. S. 0.1, o.

U. . 84, So.

GEO/?GIA POWE/?
&
LIGHT COMPANY

MORE than five year ago the . . Bureau of Biological Ul'vey purcha ed ome 300,000 acre of Okefenokee Swamp and set it aside as a wildlife refuge. The help of local citizens was enli ted to make this vast wilderness into a conservation unit. atives were designated as patrolmen. Water trails were opened. All game bird and animals were protected. Alligators returned to their "gator holes" with whole skin'.
An intere ting situation developed. any fi hermen insi ted that if alligator were allowed to become plen-

Drink.

COCA-COLA

In BoHles

WAYCROSS COCACOLA

BOTTLI G CO.

WAYCROSS

GEORGIA

WAYCRO'SS CAFE

Sportsmen's Headquarters

24 HOU R SERVICE

Meet Your Friends Here

WAYCROSS

GEORGIA

HOTEL WARE
Modern - Fireproof Uniform Rates
WAYCROSS, GEORGIA
Headquarters for Sportsmen
The COFFEE SHOP is known from Maine to Miami for GOOD FOOD
"YOll Are AllVllYs Welcolne"
I



Motor boating on scenic Lake Laura S. Walker.

ELECTRIFY TO SATISFY



WAYCROSS

GEORGIA

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WAYCROSS JOURNAL HERALD
South Georgia's Greatest Newspaper
JACK WILLIAMS Editor and Publisher
We Do Job Printing

STA DARD OIL ERVICE STATIO O. W. Prosser, Manager

QUALITY STANDARD PRODUCTS

Quick ervice

Federal Highway No. I

Waycross, Ga.

STA DARD OIL SERVICE STATIO

COURTESY CARDS ACCEPTED

Next Door Ware Hotel

Quick Service

Bud Carrolls

Waycross, Ga.

On Your Visit To The

Okefenokee wantp

Take Home Some Pictures

To Show Your Friends

KODAK FILMS DEVELOPED

CARL FLANDERS STUDIO

WAYCROSS

GEORGIA

ZACHERY FU~TURE

COMPANY

WAYCROSS

I GEORGIA

PHOENIX HOTEL

We Cater to the Sportsmen

MODERN . . . FIREPROOF REASONABLE

MR . FOY' Dl I GROOM

Excellent Meals

WAYCROSS

GEORGIA

U. S. Route

No.

COX T DARD ERVICE TATIO
24 Hour ervice

Corner Plant and Lee

WAYCROSS

GEORGIA

A parkling Beverage A Nickel Drink-Worth a Dime
PEPSI-COLA
PEPSI-COLA BOTTLI G CO. of Valdosta and Waycross

Billy's Lake, home of thrill-a-minute bass fishing.

tiful fish would di appear. The op-

po ite ituation occurred. Fi h in-

crea ed with the alligators. Member

of the Biological urvey learned that

the alligator de troyed many ene-

mie- of fi h. Today one of the finest

area in the outhland in which to

fi h i found in the ,ater of the

Okefenoke wamp.

Bird have in rea ed in astoni hing

numbers. nd r th protecting e e

of the . Fish and Wildlife erv-

ice, all bird life ha increa ed. 10

firearm are allowed in ide the

boundarie of the refuge, but tho e

who love wildlife for the bird and

animals them el e , find the \ amp

a mo t enjoyable pot. Private land

adjoining the refuge furnish e cel-

lent hunting to port men.

Two main entran e of the Okefe-

n kee are found on the outhern and

ea tern ide of the wamp. The

outhern edae rna be rea hed from

Waycro over

. High\ ay I o.

84 to Homerville and thence over

tate Route o. 89 to Fargo. The

C LLE 'S Open 24 Hours
GOOD GULF PRODUCTS RECAP TIRES
U. S. Routes I and 84 Waycross, Ga.
Phone 456

When You Visit the Okefenokee Swamp Get Your Fishing Supplies at

P. HARLEY HARDWARE CO. Opposite Chamber of Commerce Bldg.

EVINRUDE MOTORS

WAYCROSS

GEORGIA

DEWEY DURRE CE PO TIAC CO.

PONTIAC CARS

PARTS . . . SERVICE

U. S. Highway, South

WAYCROSS

GEORGIA

Standard Oil Products - 24 Hour Service

BRADSHAW'S M SIC COMP

We Cater to the Sportsman Excellent Meals . . . Comfortable Beds

MURSON HOTEL

On Highway U. S. No. I at Traffic Light

WAYCROSS

GEORGIA

American Oil Company Products

U. S. Royal Tires

U. S. Highway No. I

Waycross, Ga.

1,000,000 Okefenokee - Red or 81ack - Deep
Water Cypress Fence Posts
K3S CYPRESS CO.
WAYCROSS, GA.

U. S. Highway No. I

24 Hour Service

HARDY'S

Super Service

GOOD GULF PRODUCTS

WAYCROSS

GEORGIA

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On Your Fishing Trip

Take .

,.

TLANTIC BEER and ALE
Atlantic Breweries

ATLANTA, GA. ORLANDO, FLA.

Sportsmen Meet Your Friends at

CECI L L. SPEAR

DRUGS

WAYCROSS

GEORGIA

MciNTOSH BROS.
Modern
SIG S
Outdoor Advertising For Better Fishing and Hunting

Largemouths from the Okefenokee-four to eight pounds.

GENERAL LEE MOTOR COURT
eIV ancl Moclern Cabins
Private Bath - Simmons Beds - Inner Spring Mattresses - Individual Electric Hot Water
Heater - Bed Li 9hts.
SEATI NG IOo-With all Modern Cooking Equipment to Bring Good Food to You.
U. S. Highway No. I WAYCROSS, GA.

Complete Stock of All Hunting and Fishjng eeds

IIEREFORD-MORGAN

IIARDWARE CO.

WAYCROSS

GEORGIA

main ea tern entrance i at Folk ton, 35 miles below aycros on
o. l. wamp Park a new entrance
being con tructed orne eight miles oulh of Way ross, at Cowhouse I land. This enlrance i to be opened in the autumn a soon a it i compleled.
I 0 per on will ever regret a fi hing trip or a juht seeing ex ur ion into the Ok fenokee \ amp, one of the out-tanding natural wonders of the world.

{;ALLA'VA Y SERV){;E STATION

GAS

OIL

WASH and GREASE

U. S. Route No. I

Waycross, Ga.

o MLARIA

Everything in Sports Wear

Bunn Building WAYCROSS

GEORGI,A

ELLISTON'S DRUG STORE

S. S. ELLISTON, Prop.

Corner Elizabeth and Pendleton Streets

Phone 387

WAYCROSS, GA.

WAYCROSS

GEORGIA

lalaria ha never been a public health problem in Ware Count, as lhe malaria-carr ing mo quito i very scarce.
The U. . Public Health ervice mad everal mo quito urvey of the Okefenokee wamp and failed to
find malaria-carrying mo quitoe \ ilhin the wamp.
Over 1000 men were employed in the wamp for a period of ten or more year without a ca e of malaria.
-GEoncE E. ATWOOD,
Cornrnis ionel' of Health.

saM MOIIDOI

John on Outboard MOTORS

Thompson Built BOATS

WAYCROSS

GEORGIA

K&L

TRA SPORTATIO CO., I C. Dependable

Motor Expre Service

WAYCROSS

GEORGIA

BRA

Roacl ervice

W hen in Waycross visit
CI,lUt:?CIlWI:LL!IJ
Men's Department SPORTSMEN'S OUTFITIERS A Goocl Place to Tracle
FI HI G TACKLE SPORTI G GOODS
24 Hours Every Day at
THE WARE TIRE
COMPANY On s. o. 1

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w~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~-The Center City of South G..,g'a--C..,,, of On<
of the Richest Agricult.ural, Tobacco and Naval Stores Areas in the World--

A SPORTSMAN'S PARADISE
Hunting and fishing in the Okefenokee and nearby fresh water marsh country is an experience of a lifetime. Fresh water lakes and rivers offer fine sport in bass, redbreast, bream and perch fishing, and the pinelands are rich with quail and smaller game. In the deeper swamps deer hunting is exceptionally fine. Raccoon, possum and fox hunting are popular. Bear hunts still survive for the big game hunter.
Write or Wire
WAYCROSS and WARE COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
WAYCROS , GEORGIA

Not All Snakes A re Villains

Continued frOln page 8)

ferent. genera of these but we can group them all as rattlesnakes.)
2. The highland moccasin or copperhead, sometimes called a rattleslwke pilot and sometime called an Oak-leaf rattler. Identified by the characteristic pattern of an hour glass on the back. A small snake and the least deadly of our venomous reptiles. I saw a dog bitten last week by a copperhead. The animal was bitten in the lip. He received no treatment and was well within fOlzr days. This, however does not imply that the nake isn't dangerous. It is distinctly dangerous but is rarely fatal to man.
3. The cottonmouth, sometimes called the water I1wccasin, common along our water courses; a dingy, sullen snake of bad disposition, given to sunning himself on limbs over the water.
Let' take the e snakes a a group. They are kno, n a pit vipers because
of a deep pit between the eye and the
no tril. It is an invariable mark of
identifi ation. The heads are trian-
gular (diamond haped) and they

give the appearan e of ha ing a che\ of tobacco in the bulgin a ide ja\ . A numb r of harmle nakes have the diamond-shaped head but uch a head i always a danger ignal. The pupils of the eyes are elliptical, like tho e of a cat while the harmless snake have round e e pupil like a man.
T HERE i one other venomou snake-the coral nake, a mild di positioned, beautiful ubterranean, cannibali tic r pen t. Thi snake ha the mall head of the harmle nake and the round eye pupil but he i ea y to identif . He is rinaed around with aaud band of red and buff and black. Few serp nt could be confu ed ,ith lhi deadl relative of the cobras. The scarlet king snake i imilar and rather than confu e m reader let me advise you not to handle any nake that fit thi description.
And you mu t handle the nake to run much ri k. H does not strike as a pit viper but chew. He has no fangs. His teeth are grooved and the venom is di tribut d through the e

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arooved teeth. It is unlikel that this snak could bite through ordinary clothing. The chances are that a dozen wood men will De er ee a ingle coral snake.
The pit vip r deliver their venom through two movable fangs hinged in the upper jaw. Of the pit vipers the diamond-back rattlesnake of Florida, found al 0 along the Georaia coa t, i the most deadly. Ditmars ranks thi a the most dangerou serpent in the world.
A vel' few precaution will protect again t the venomou nake . A oid thick, shad plac with low underbru h. Rattler and copperhead don't fancy the UD in mid ummer. ear heavy boot or puttee in place ,her you are likely to encounter venomous s n a k e. alk lowly in thick places. E er mou nake, exceptinO' po ibl otlonmouth, will get out of our ,a if you, ill give him time.
And when ou' e fini hed thi, please don't hake your head and say: "That fell a overlooked the preading adder. Wh I knew alDan once . . . ' Friend, it ju t ain't o.
ot only is the spreading adder harmle , without fangs and venom but it , on't bite you if you tea e it.
Jllly 1940 0 TDOOR GEORGIA

Highroads
(Continued from page 11)
I wa about to tUTn back and sugge t that ince we had camped 0 close to a to\ 11 we break camp and move on after our evening meal, when I noticed an air of strangenes about the place. A queer feeling moved into the hair root at the ba e of my calp, and gave the length of my pine a chill I could not control. I had experienced that feeling before when eel did not ee folIo, ed me along the trail.
I allowed an almo t uncontrollable impulse to pull me cautiou ly into the heart of the village. The place had every indication of being deserted, and yet the house looked as though the families living in them might have moved out for a da or a week. And yet omehow the town had an air of finality, a though it had ser d it purpo e and moved on into oblivion. BoaI'd \ ere nailed over th ,indow of the bank and thin rank of gra shad prouted in the street . The onl y ound wa the lonely ru tIe of wind through the two palm tTee at the end of the treet.
I was glad to get back to the welcome glow of the campfire. We learned later that we had r all tumbled on a de rted illage which had been a nucleu of an e ten ive logging and lumbering operation.
Experience uch as tho e broaden the mind and heart and oul of any man.
O E night a drenchina downpour of rain caught old Joe Hilliard and me in the middle of a river swamp. The night, as warm and we were a leep on a wide and bar at the river' edge. Joe a wok e me hortl after midnight.
"Li ten, 'he aid.
ornewhere in the swamp we could hear a rumbling crashing roar. M first thought wa that a wall of Aood , ater wa tumbling down the river upon us. And then a prolonged Aash of lightning broke over th quacking swamp.
"It' a torm a-coming," Joe aid. We hurri dly pulled our bia canoe out of the river and overtuTned it at the upper edge of the and bar. We aathered our blanket and food and equipment, cro\ ding them into the nd of the boat. With the hatchet I dug a trench in the sand around the upper edae of the boat. And then we crawled in i Ie, forcing our bodie in between th gun ale support. There wa plent of room for u both. I had not completed rearranging m
o TDOOR GEORGIA. July 1940

blanket wh n the rain came. It broke \ ith all th unlea hed fur of a tropical torm. I went back to leep in m dT and comfortable ne t, \ hile the howling wind and rain drenched all the world outside.
I knO\ of two stream I'd like to travel this year. Perhap I shall have the chance. I aot out my canoe the other night and gave it another coat of paint. One of those tream is a river Aowin a out of the mountains. It rapid ar treacherou and its cunents wift, but the water i clean and white and cold. It Aow between mountain down halls of ro k and there are man time that I hall ha e to watch each troke of the paddle.
The other tream i a black-water outhern river. Hickory trees and magnolias crowd its shore. Mo draped c pre \ amp border the deep, slo\ -mo ing current for mile. Huge hunar ba are the rul rather than the exc ption. It a lovel , pic. ture que tream drifting through the heart of the riche t land on earth.
One of tho e highroad of the wilderne \ ill be my ummel' vacation-land. At this very moment m anticipation runs a fever. Tomorrow when the leave have gone again, I hall look back through blue pipe moke to some of the mo t pleasant hour of m life pent omewhere along the hores of my t\ 0 viI'gin ri er , where I learned all over again the impIe, hone t rules of living.
Wildlife and Soil
(Continued from page 14)
above i managed again t erosion 10 se. In addition to this nearly every farmer ha a desire for a small fi h pond. It ha been foulld that a well managed pond will produce more tangibl return to the farmer than mo t an other area 6f comparable ize on the farm.
The con truction of the e pond can be accomplished at odd time, \ ith the u e of available farm labor, power, and equipment. After the contruction of the pond, detailed recommendation are furni hed the farmer for fertilizing the pond, and tockin a with the correct number of fi h. In this way it i po sible to produce annually 400 pound or more of fi h per urface acre of pond, in addition to the plea UTe and port which i not to be 0 erlooked.
The control of erosion, and the reulting reduction of flood waters and ilt loads, ' ill contribute greatly to the rehabilitation of tream, farm pond, and re ervoir . A coordinated

attack again t the forces of ero ion enhance the carr ina capacit of farm in term of wil:ttife if con eration practi e are applied fi Id b field to cropland pa ture meado\, and wood. Well planned managem nt on the farm mean better crops and protection again t ero ion. It al 0 provides desirable wildlife environm nt. The tor of wildlife and eroion i so interwoven with every farm practice that the are inseparable, and can hardly be applied economiall otherwi e.
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A~FICA:S FINfST
ASS FISHING
30-mile trip through the jungles of Okefenokee Swamp to the big water. $3.00 each for party of three. Fish in the heart of the Okefenokee game refuge. Meals SOc, beds SOc.
LEM GRIFFIS FISHING CAMP
ON THE OKEFENOKEE
FARGO, GEORGIA
WRITE FOR RESERVATIONS ONLY REGISTERED GUIDES USED
LAKE HOWaRD
LA FAYETTE, GEORGIA Best bass and bream fishing in this section of Georgia. Stocked three years ago, and opened for first time May 15.
Cabins . . . Swimming Pool All Accommodations
FISH HALF DAY FOR 50c
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Circuit Writer
Continued from page 16)
penalty on persons found guilty of killing, pos essing, selling or tranporting the American eagle.
The act. called the Am /'iean Act fo/' the Prot e:tion of the Bale! Eagle. wa passed June . It is as follow :
Whereas the Continental Congress in 1782 adopted the bald eagle a Ihe national ymbol, and whereas Ihe bald eagle Ihus became symbolic representation of a new nation unde,. a new governnlent in a new world, and whereas by Ihat act of Congres and by Iradition and custom Ihe bald eagle is no longer a mere bird of biological inleresl, but a symbol of American ideals of freedom, and whereas the bald eagle i now Ihrealened with extinction, be it enacled by Ihe Senale and the House of Representalives of Ihe Uniled State and by Congress as embled that whoever 'hall lake, possess, ell, tran porI, elc., al any time or in any manner the bald eagle, comnlonly known as the American eagle, alive or dead, part of which or egg, shall be fined not more Ihan
500 or impri oned not more Ihan six months or both.
The act does not affect persons holding bald eagles in captivity before the law wa passed. The Biological Survey has the lower to i sue permits for the taking of agle for scientific purpose" or for exhihition.
WILDLIFE 0 THE AIR
The radio has joined the press in boosting the conseJ'vation campaign over the state. For nearly a year the daili s and many of the weeklies of Georgia have kept wildlife news and features before the public. They have done much to educate the public in law, sea ons and the various whys and wherefores of wi~dlife. And now the radio has come along to do a large share toward helping the outdoors. One of the first to devote regular programs to the subject wa WGAU at Athens.
WTOC in Savannah ha a nighlly program that rivals all Ihe so-called popular how in the number of lisleners. The Old Salt, who conduct a column in this magazine, i the voice behind this IS-minule spot of entertainment. Rome's WRGA ha a weekly wildlife program and WMAZ at Macon has contributed i1s share of chipfrom the wood-.
The latest to go into this service on a large scale is WSB. This station put on a erie of program called O TDOOR GEORGIA, which, judging from the response, had a large group of Ii tener' despite the fact that it came on the air at 6: 30 a. m. These programs further emphasized the versatility of I[ark Bartlett, who despite his youth,

i a veteran radio tar. Mark, who learned football overnight because he had to announce it, showed the same aptitude for the ou tdoors. After one or two warm-up he appeared to be a veteran wood man, and the subject matter' of h is interview was so accurate that any listener would have been onvinced that here was a guy who had been in the fish and quail bu 'ine s all his life.
Following this serie W B launche:l a Farm radio program, and twice a month wildlife subject will take the air over this station. And in ca e you have fishing on your mind get the lowdown from Ernie Harwell's sport broadcast on Thursday afternoons.
TAKE 'EM DEAD OR ALIVE
Rocl, Eagle Lal,e in Putnam county has become a mecca for bream and bass fishermen. The first day this lake was open over 250 anglers took the Iimit of 15 bream. I[any were rewarded with the limit of 15 bream and
three bass. It was left for a woman to come through with the big opening day act.
Mrs. J. L. Clemenl of Ealonlon
scorned the ruJe of bailing for bass and hauled oUI a thr e-pounder. This might have gone unnoliced but for the fact that she was using a minnow thaI Mr. Clemenl had thrown awa)' afler it had swum it elI lifeless.
What made it worse wa that Mr. Clement was tanding there when his wife pulled in the hronzeback. A crowd of spectators aw it all, too. This is just another link to the claim of many that women make better fi hennen. But while you're thinking of thisthink of Mr. Clements.
BLACKLASHES A D BLANKS
Artificial light is being used in some fish hatcheries to advance the time of trout spawning. As much a 2 months has been gained.... The biggest largemouth bass taken by rod and reel was caught in Montgomery Lake, Georgia. It weighed 22% pounds.... A bear cub i born while its mother is sound asleep in mid-winter. The cub i smaller than a new-born Idtten.... Fish was regarded as a rare delicacy by the ancient Romans. orne of whom paid as high as 1,200 for a single mullet. ... Gal11bu ill., or 1110 quito fish, natives of South Georgia, are live tearers, not hatchers of eggs, and a half dozen to 60 may compose the brood of this diminutive fish . . . . Experts have never been able to agree as to wbether or not a pantber ever screams. . . . One of tbe most dangerous animals in America is a tame deel' -during the mating sea on.... Fish called Labyrintb Bubble est Builders construct a floating nest of bubbles in which eggs, numbering from 100 to 500, are deposited, hatched and the young tended.

Guano, one of the richest of ferlilizer, i being lesled by the Texas Game Deparlmenl's chief aquatic biologisl, a a ferlilizer for hatchery
ponds. . .. Wild house cal can aIlain immense size. One killed recently in Pennsylvania weighed 26 pounds and had a full-grown rabbil in it
month. . . The gestation period of deer i about seven months.... Twenty lnore game warden were recenlly hired by California, making a total of 210. Georgia has 66 rangers.
.. The fronl half of a female Rio Grande perch, nalives of South Texa , changes from a greyish color wilh bluish dOls 10 a pure white during the spawning season. . .. Deer are rumi-
nanl and chew Iheir cud the same as a cow..
Swallow, unlil,e most birds, travel by day when migrating due to the fact that they feed on the wing. . . . Eagles often bui~d nests ix feet across.... Sponges, believe it or not, are clas ed as animals.... The emu is one species of birds in wbich tbe male hatches the eggs.... An ounce of sulphur, mixer! with a little alcohol and rubbed 011 the body and legs will belp keep chiggers (red bugs) away. Hyposulfit.e of soda. applied the same way, is also said to be effective.

Taking Quail

(Contin/ted from page 18

noticed b the appearance of blood in the dropping. The po t-mortem tudy often reveal inAammation of the inte-tine and the caeca enlarged with bl od. eo-regation of ick bird and care to cleanino- of all dropping from food, \ ater and grit container will help antral this disea e.

Mo T of the e di ea e can be

-

recognized after a careful tudy

of your bird over a period of time,

but often the ymptom are light

and difficult to find. In this ca e an

examination by a person with proper

facilitie will furnish cliao-no i for

controlling the 10 of bird. In urn-

marizing lhe point for succe sful

quail breeding, the following are

fundamental:

ele tion of good, hatchable eo-gs from vigorou tack; proper care of eggs before etting; right care of th
oung birds; rigid anitation; proper temperature under the brooder; keeping feed and \ at I' in right place; regularit of pro edure; adequate o-reen food and earl check of cannibali m.

20-MILlION JUMBO RED WIGGLERS
SCIENTIFICALLY RAISED 200 for SOc, in Clean Peat Moss Shipped Anywhere in U. S. A.

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309 Thompson Ave. EAST POINT, GA.

CA. 1372

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"The Old Salt Sez"
(Continued from page 9)
get out of the fa test traffic and they are not usually found in swift water. For succe sful trout fi hing, the novice should go with an experienced guide who knows the drops. Otherwise, he will pend a lot of time feeding catfish and yellowtails and catch very few if any trout. When fishing over a mud bottom, it is best to be on your drop just before high water, about an hour before full flood tide, and fish through the tide down to about half ebb tide. Fi h as close to the mar h 0"fa s as the trout are usually feeding in, catching the hrimp and minnow that have gone into the grass to escape. When fi hin~ over a shell bottom for trout, fish out from the gra s-trout do not feed in close to the mar h over hell. In some sections of tbe coa t where bell is abundant, fishermen go out for h'out only after the tide bas been ebbing for about 21/2 to 3 hours, and then fish on through low water. In either ca e, over a mud bottom or a shell bottom, you hould move out with tbe tide. All of this has to do with fishing with live shrimp bait. Thi fall I'M tell you about the most accepted methods of trolling and casting with artificial bait.
D URI G the past three weeks, trout have been caught in ever increa ing numbers at St. Simons, near Brunswick. Several catches of 50-odd have been made, with the average weight over a pound. These fish range in weight from a half powld to a top of about seven pOUllds, but I would say that the average weight is between two and three pound . I have een catches of fifteen to twenty-five trout with none in the lot under two pound , but the average catch will have some mall ones and ollle large ones. On light tackle, you'll have plenty of fun catching winter trout and a onepounder will feel like a ten. This fish is caught along the entire length of the Georgia coast and by the time you read this, they will probably be biting well all the way from Savannah to tbe Florida line. There are plenty of good fi hing camp all along the coast, with complete accommodations for visiting fishermen. So if you , ant to make a catch tbat will tickle the hackle of your heart, gather up your fi hing togs and go after the alt water trout along the Georgia coast.
OUTDOOR GEORGIA July 1940

Watch Your Aim
(Continued from page 23) Street to the otber and not passing up a ingle pawn shop trying to persuide tbe proprietor to ell me tbe sling wivel frolll orne old Swiss army rille, or tbe 45-70 Springfield. Finally I was rewarded with a pair with screw 0 larae that they split the forearms on my light rifle.
T HE arm companies have in the past few years brought out numerous small rifles to help boys en-
Sergeant J. C. Hooker
joy this character building sport at a low co t.
I would like to list several that might deserve special attention. For junior training the Model 67 Junior single shot, bolt action Winchester (weight 4lh pounds) i fine for youngsters from six to ten years old. The butt stock can be ordered as hort as 12 inche up to slightly over 13 inches. The Remington Targetmaster 510, .22 ingle shot, bolt action with peep ight, and selling for
6.10, ha many advanced improvement . This i a very desirable rifle. The Steven Walnut Hill Junior Rifle, Model 418, falling block action, al 0 i ideal for boy,S.
Whatever the kind of rifle, let us hope that it shoots straight to the bull's-eye of a target and not at a songbird perched on the limb of a tree in the yard.
Small-Bore Tournalnent The 8th annual orth Georgia smallbore rifle tournament at Fort McPherson June 1-2 wa favored with fair, but hot weather. A mirage, however, troubled the shooters in pot. The hu band and wife team of Fred and Alice Molt of Asheville, T. C, continued to shoot in topnotch style and win the two-man team events over Luther Gower and Carl Jackson. Gower won the George H. Gould medal in the so-yard any sights match; Frank Hoppe of Philadelphia captured both the Dewar Course any ights and the loo-yard metallic matches. Charlie Hamby won the Grand Aggre-

gate with 23 1-2400 without taking a ingle event.

50-YARD ANY SIGHTS-Luther Gower,

399-19X. 50-METER

METALLIC-F~:\1. Molt,

397.

TWO-MAN ANY SIGHT-F. :\1. Molt and

Alice D. Molt, 786-4IX.

DEWAR COURSE ANY SIGHTS-Frank

Hoppe, 396-26X.

DEWAR COURSE METALLIC SIGHTS-

F. M. Molt, 399-2 X.

50-METER ANY SIGHTS-,rrs. Catherine

Symmes, 399.

100-YARD METALLI Frank Hoppe,

396-22X.

IOO-YARD TWO-MAN ANY SIGHTS-F.

M. Molt and Alice D. Molt, 393-1 X.

GRAND AGGREGATE-Charlie Hamby,

2381; Frank Hoppe, 2377; F. M. ~[olt, 2373.

JUNIOR CHAMPIONSHIP - John

Symmes, 197-l1X; J. C. Hookcr Jr., 196-7X;

John Olden Jr., 195-9X; Fred Mason, 171.

Hooker and Bleckley Win
Sergeant J. C Hooker and Logan Bleckley Jr. fired a grand aggregate of 566 to et the pace in the fir t annual
orth Georgia pi tol matches conducted by the t1anta Rifle Club. The shoot was held at Fort McPherson 011 May 25.

.22 CALIBER SLOW FIRE 25 YARDS,
CLASS A-Logan Bleckley Jr., 194; r. n.

n. White, 194; J. . Ho ker. 193. lass B-E.

E. White, 189; F.

hOlie, 187: J. W. Per-

kins, 182.

.38 CALIBER SLOW FIRE 25 YAROS,

CLASS A-J. C. Hooker. 197; Logan Bleck

ley Jr., 194; W. ,D. Veal, 182. la s B-E.

E. White, 187; R. A. Tolve, 183; W. E. Fen

nell, 1 O.

.45 CALIBER SLOW FIRE 25 YARDS.

CLASS A-J. C. Hooker, 181; Gu)' tancil,

173; Logan llIeckley Jr., 171. Class I3-E. H.

Andrew, 171; E. E. White, 168; M. M. Cop-

penger, 162.

CAMP PERRY POLICE COURSE, CLASS

A-Logan llIeckley Jr., 288; J. . Hooker,

n. 284; Guy Stancil, 274. Class B-E. E. White,
275; F. Shope, 261; Rufu Godwin, 251.

. NATIONAL MATCH COURSE, CLASS

A-J. C. Hooker, 289; Logan Bleckley Jr.,

284; J. G. Dunlap, 270. CIa, B-Luther

Gower, 269; Roy Hut on, 256; W. E. Fen-

nell, 255.

GRAND AGGREGATE, CLASS A-J. C.

Hooker, 766; Logan llIeckley Jr., 766; J. B.

White, 729. Class B-E. E. White, 708; Roy

Hutson, 681; W. E. Fennell, 666.

A party from Atlanta after building a cotlage on Lake Blackshear and Cedar Creek said: "I do not see how we built such a nice cottage, on such a beautiful location, near such good fishing for so litlle money."
A few choice lots left.
Phone or write
T. V. HYMAN or T. E. FLETCHER
CORDELE, GA.

FISH in the f(Jmous OGEE,CHEE /?IVE/?

On Federal Highway o. 80

21 miles from Savannah

Good Boats

Picnic Grounds

Modern Hotel Dining Room

All accommodations for a pleasant fishing trip

\'(1rite or pholle
DASHER'S
FISHING LODGE

37

with JOHN w. BEALL

R A IGER Kenneth Douglas and R. ]. Vibbert were tanding in the mouths of two of the largest fish traps taken from Georgia water thi ea on. The diameter of the entrances to the trap was over ix feet and Vibl ert, who i a giant only among pygmie , had to tretch to reach the white-oak hoop, the jaw of thi d adly and ilJegal fish weapon. It wa a camera act. and as you perhap know, a camera and a scene involving apprehen ion and confi cation alwa\' attract the curiou .
ri'lOng the mall crowd wa a fellow who half .eriou Iy and half jokingly a ked for the trap. He amplified by arguing that if he had the trap -he appeared to know that they were good one -the ranger would have an opportunity to catch him. It \I'a hi impreion, a it i with thou and of other, that ranger are only enforcement officer out to "nab" violator who make a false tep. Truth of the matter is that enforcem nt i only a part of the ranger'
job. 'vVe doubt that the state could be de-
lou ed of violator if we had a ranger behind every rock and every pine tree. So naturally, other work mu t be done to aid the cause of con ervation. The ranger and those under whom they work therefore spend much time in organization of group whose goal is destruction of de tructi\'e ideas and replacement therefor with an appreciation of the value of our wildli fe.
THIS i the ba ket and tral sea on. early e\'ery tream in the tate hide
ome game hog' plot again t fish life. There are all kind, made of variou material and in many shapes and izes. The mo t common type of trap u ed in
orth Georgia waters is the elongated wire ba keto In the black water of outh Georgia the wire and wood box-trap i the popular type.
From eptem ber 1, 1939, to June 1, 1940, approximately Q64 trap and ba ket were taken from creek, river and lake in the tate. Add to thi the 241 seine and net eized by ranger and you get only part of the picture of the chemes constantly going on to take fi h in large quanti tie . Record on activitie in June likely wi1l send the figures much higher a thi i a busy month with violators.
ctivitie of ranger and the di trict in which they work are recorded monthly in the office of the Divi ion of Wildlife. A box core ent out each month keep them informed on the performance of

each man. Figures on some of th more vital activitie for the September-June period are shown in the accompanying box score below.
I ADDITIO to the activitie which are cored each month, rangers have participated on numerou radi programs at Atlanta, Athens, Albany, Rome, Valdosta, Augu ta and a\annah.
The Plain Di trict, under Chief Fred Brewer, ha et the pace in apprehenion of violator- and during the past nine month thi di trict topped the list in number of cOI1\'iction . COI1\'iction of 202 of the approximate 450 per on tried on charge of breaking the game and fi h law ha been obtained in thi ditrict. Fines, which are hared by the Di\'i ion of \ ildlife and the county in which the convictions are obtained, have
run O\'er $3,000. Money turned into the Divi ion by di trict i a follow : Plain Di trict, 28.50; Piedmont Di trict,
$218.50: Mountain Di trict, go; Flint
Ri\'er Di trict, 380. :Money due the Divi ion on fines already a e ed i a
follow: Mountain District, 306.75;
Piedmont Di trict, 32.50; Flint River
Di trict, 70.50; Plain Di trict, $163. Although fine and convictions run far
below those in adjoining state, some of which have convicted over 90 per cent
of the persons a rre ted by rangers and warden, the foregoing fiO'ure are highly

encouraging when ome of the past Georgia record are compared with them.
THERE appears to be a general trend among judge and j urie toward a
close cooperation with the en forcement end of wildli fe. Thi means more to the ranger than it doe to anyone el e. except of cour e, the tate a a whole. Nobody like to make a case against an alleged violator when he feel. that no action will be taken to puni h the offender in the court. Only a few judges and juries ha\'e lifted their eyebrow at violator. One juri t la t winter e\'en went '0 far a to encourage them by a serting that he would lauO"h off ca e again t unlicen ed rabbit hunter.
A great majority of our judges, however, realize the \'alue of enforcem nt work. And their deci ion ha\'e been in accordance. Conviction now are running O\'er 50 per cent, while early in the pre ent campaign to re tore game and fish in the state through protection the percentage of conviction was not half thi much. E\'en fool-proof case bogged down in the jury room. The wing around ha given impetu to the ranger' campaign again t the fi h trapper and th pot shooter. This, of cour e, ha failed to impre ome of the more per-
i tent violator, 0 don't be urpri ed to see record in convictions fall by the board every time a leaf drop from the calendar.

E :.eoc
w ...
i~ .~
~~& ~ to NTAI DISTRICT 8,217 311 303 17 830 66 686 91 PLAI DI TRICT ._. _ 3,784 530 95 10 593 124 159 202 FLI TT RIVER DI TRICT 5,618 256 134 1 792 135 562 90 PIEDMO T DI TRICT 3,075 227 191 13 475 86 334 50
TOTALS__ __ _ . 20,694 1,324 723 412,690 411 1,741 433

38

July 1940 0 TDOOR GEORGIA

FISIIERME OF 1940
Outdoor Georgia Offers Prizes to Six Champions in First Annual Fishing Contest

R LE co DITIO
PRIZE IN
1 The contest limited to fish taken from Georgia tream or lake with rod, reel and line and arlificial lure.
The following pecie may be entered: SmaIlMouth Black Bass (6pound fi h
wins Honor Badge).
Large 10uth Black Ba (7-pound fish win Honor Badge).
Rainbow Trout (ISinch fi h win Honor Badge) .
Brook Trout (l2iuch fish win Honor Badge).
Iu kellunge (lOpound fi h win Honor Badge).
Pickerel or ''Jack6.sh'' (4.pouud fi h wins Honor Badge).
2 The contest i open to ub cribers and non ub cribers; men, women and children. It opens June 1 and ends Octo bel' 15.
3. Fish mu t be caught by Hceu ed per son and in the legal open eason.
4 '0 fi h caught from a tate, club or private hatchery is eligible for entry.
5 The accompanying affidavit blank, or an exact copy, must be u ed when entering a fi h for a prize. It mu t be igned by the per on making the catch. and by two person who verified it weight and mea urements. The affidavit is to be

sworn to by the conte tant before a otary Public, whose eal must be
affixed. .
6 The length, girth and weight of fi h mu t be included, together with the make and type of tackle and lure u ed.

nle both the length and girth are peci. fied, the entry will be di qualified.
7 Fi h mu t be weighed on te ted cale and mea ured with a tape mea ure. with the length taken from the end of the lower jaw with the mouth closed to the tip of the tail, and the greate t girth of fi h taken.
8 All affidavit mu t be sent to Prize Fi hing Editor, 0 TDOOR GEOR GIA, 412 tate Capitol. tlanta, Ga., Affidavit lUU t be in this office within 15 day from the dnte Ihe conte t cIo es.
9 1n the event of two or more fih weighing and mea uring exactly the ame. prize identical in character with tho e offered will be given to each of tho e o trying.
1 0 0 contestant can win more than one prize, as only the heaviest fish in one pecies will be considered.
I I Winner of any prize will be a ked to write a story telling how, where and when fish wa caught.
1 2 One prize of 10 in merchandi e wiII be awarded in each cIa with winner being declared Georgia Fi hennen of the Year. Prize will be outdoor equip ment elected by the winner from product of firm which adverti e at lea t one time in 0 TDOOR GEORGIA during the year.

Prize Fi hillg Editor Outdoor Georgia, 412 tate Capitol, Atlallta, Ga. I hereby swear that the following statements are the truth:

(AFFIDAVIT)

Kind of {lSh W eight

Rod

, When caught

.

Reel

..

Where caught

.

Length

.Line

.... ................... tream or lake caught

.

Girth

Lure or bait .... .....

Give manufacturer's names of tackle alld full specifications

Caught by: ( igned)

treet

City

tate

.. ... ..

Fish witnessed alld weight and measurem.ents verified by: (signatures alld addresses)

i



2

..

..

( EAL)

worn to before me this

day of .............. otary' igllature

..

ABOVE TO BE TYPEWRITTEN OR CLEARLY LETTERED.

OUTDOOR GEORGIA

Volume I

Number 4

CHARLES N. ELLlOn, Editor ELMER RANSOM, Associate Editor

JOHN MARTIN, Managing Editor E. L. GIBSON, Business Manager

CONTENTS FOR AUGUST, 1940

Cover Painting, Gray Squirrels

Edward Lane Gibson

Authors.

2

Editorial

3

Greenbacks on the Conasauga.

Ozark Ripley.

4

Fish-Ponding the Farm . .

J. L. Stephens. .

6

Mountain Marauder

Charles Elliott . . . . . . . . . . 8

Hunting Tariff

Elmer Ransom. .

10

Back to Nature

Samuel Scoville Jr

II

Gray Shadows of the Dawn. .

. . Dean Hunter..

12

Bring Back the Alligator

Jeff D. McCord

14

Season's Change

.

Harold L. Ickes.

15

Ponds and Lakes.

18-19

Lunker .

. . . . . . Earl DeLoach . . . . . . . . 22

1940-41 Georgia Game Laws

35

CIRCUIT WRITER

DEPARTMENTS

John Martin

.16

THE OLD SALT SEZ WILDLIFE ON THE FARM

The Old Salt
c. A. Whittle

17 . .. 20

YOUR GUN AND MINE ............................ Charlie Hamby

21

BOOK REViEW

Kathleen Scruggs

24

CONSERVATION COMMENTS

. .25

AROUND THE RANGERS' CAMPFIRE

J. W. Beall

27

LEITERS TO THE EDITOR ................................................ 32

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ..................................... .32

JUNIOR RANGER TRAIL

.. .33

Published monthly by The Georgia Division of Wildlife, 412 State Capitol, Atlanta, Ga., in the
interest of Georgia wildlife and for fishermen, hunters, nature lovers and conservationists. Single copy, 15 cents. Yearly subscriptions to United States and its possessions, and Canada, $1; other
countries $2. Subscribers must notify U5 of change of address four weeks in advance of next publication date, giving both old and new address. Contents of this magazine must not be reprinted
without permission. This maga:;:ine is glad to receive photos, drawings, stories and articles dealing
with outdoor subjects, but cannot guarantee return of unsolicited contributions nor insure against their loss. Contributions not accompanied by sufficient postage will not be returned. Application for entry as second class malter pending at Atlanta, Ga.

SAMUEL SCOVILLE JR., who give u 'Back to ature" is a di tinguish d merican ornithologi t, and one of the few liv. ing per on to have een the rare Carolina Paroquet. ~Ir. coville is the author of .ixteen hooks, including fiction hi tory and biography. Hi storie and e ay have appeared in every leading magazine in thi country, and hi hooks have been tran lated into German, Hungarian, orwegian and Finni h. He has often explored the Okefenokee wamp and ha written of it with keen under tanding. 0 American author i better ver ed in the lore of the wilderne , more closely attuned to it me sage, or translates it with greater charm.
***

OZARK RIPLEY ha long been identified

with the wood and Iream of merica.

He bas written many storie on fi bing

and i one of the veteran outdoor writer.

Tbe hattanooga (Tenn.) author ha heen

on the end of many hent fly rod, fighting

game fish from the Pacific to the Atlantic

coa t. mong bi favorite fi hing water

are several treams in Georgia and in

"Greenhack of the Cona auga" he tell

of fighting mallmouth has in orth

Georgia.

**

EARL DELOACH city editor of the

Augusta Chronicle and conductor of a

weekly column on outdoor life. Hi. tory

"Lunker" i hrief, hut it tell of what i

perhap the out tanding catch with a fly

rod in Georgia thi sea on. The ugustan

ha h come widely known for his dog

torie, a field in which he i truly an

ari tocra!.



J. L. STEPHENS is not completely happy until he gets in the woods. He i a keen outdoorsman and true portsman, with a constant vigil for an opportunity to do om thing to aid conservation and refor estation. He is a practical and ucce ful farmer, with wide experience in tbe fi h pond bu ine . In "Fish.Ponding the Farm" he upplie much valuable infor mation in an entertaining manner.

The September issue of OUT DOOR GEORGIA will be dedicated to the dove, which many hunters regard as the most universaJly important bird that flies. Don't miss Frederick C. Lincoln's story on the migration of the dove to Georgia. Equally as informative will be A. M. Person's article on management of the mourning dove. Paul W. Chapman will entertain you with a humorous trou t fishing yarn called "Thirteen Million and One."

Are You a T en Per Center? /-

SEVERAL day ago we were discu ing wildlif con erv~tion with a.n internationally known outdoor edItor. The thIngs we talked about covered man field and filially came back to fishing.
"I believe," he aid, "that trout fishermen have a higher en e of port manship than any other type of outdoor man."
We replied that we were glad we had fished for trout once upon a time and a ked him to explain hi statement.
The editor laughed. "I'm not a trout fisherman," he aid, "so I can talk frankly. Most hunter do not stop until they kill the limit. Mo t fishermen bring home unwieldly string of fish, too many for them elves and all the neighbors. Mo t trout fishermen I know take only the number of trout they need and return all the others, especially the mall fello~ s, carefully to the water." "What about fox hunters?" we a ked. "They follow their port," rep lied the editor, "purely for the love of the cha e. Ye - I would say they rank along with trout fi hermen in the matter of sport manship. But I was speaking principally of those hunter and fishermen who bring home the bacon." "What gave you that idea in the first place? we a ked. "I thought of a fello\ , ' the editor aid, ", ho i a good trout fisherman. Each year he keep a recor~ of all the time and all the money he pend on fi hing, and returns one tenth of that to the streams. In other word, he gives back a tithe to hi port."

A T/THE to port! We questioned the Editor further. The gentleman to whom he referred ,a not only a trout fi herman, but a punter as well. He had worked out a ystem all his own. All money spent for tackle, shell , ga oline, equipment, hunting clothe. -in short, all money expended on his port was care fully noted in a small, black, leatherbound notebook. In another section of the book he carefully put down the number of hours devoted to hunting and fishing.
On the opposite page of his book this sport man kept a balance heet. One tenth of the amount of mone and time he u ed in taking game out of the wood and fields and tream he allotted to a program of pU,lting back game in those places which had fur ni hed outdoor recreation to him throughout the year.
By this method, he had good hooting and good fishin a from one sea on to the next. When he put back one t:nth of what he took away, nature did the re t.
e wanted to knO\ how the time and money were given in hi effort to return game and fish to the spot which furni hed port for hi rod and gun.
He made a sort of game out of his records. On the page devoted to expenditure were the following total
for the sea on:

1. 5 boxe shotgun shells.

._ 4.50

2. 80 gallons gasoline_.

._.... 16.00

3. Fishing t a c k I e, including flies,

spinners, line dressing, new ta-

pered line ._ _.__

_ 11.30

4. ew hunting coaL...
Pair boots

._.._ _ 6.50

..

.._ 8.00

5. Repairs to gun...._._...__._..

_ 10.00

6. Meals and lodging on trips _ 23.80

7. Guide for alt water fishing and

marsh hen hunting._....

_ 7.00

TOlaL_._...__.

87.10

The total number of hour devoted to hunting and fi hing added up to 216.
Hi tithe then, of money and time, to be returned through the task of repleni hing game and fi h, was 8.71 and 21 hours, 36 minute.

ALL this was car e full y listed in the little black book.
Even more intere ting were the expenditure .
Thi portsman did not own any land except the little city lot on which hi home was located. But he
a had everal friends who operated farm . So one un-
day afternoon he rode out to see farmer friend with whom he had often hunted during the fall and winter month, and while there, old hi rural hunting partner on the idea of planting several acres of lespedeza around the border of hi woodlot. The very next day he purcha ed and carried out to the farm enough lespedeza eed to plant five acre . The entry wa made in hi little notebook:

Lespedeza eed _._.

._...__ 3.34

Gasoline ...

._._....._.

.60

Time spent in travel and

on farm .. .....__..._4 hours, 22 minutes

The little leatherbound book listed project after project such as this one. One hour of the 21 hour , 26 minutes et aside as hi tithe wa spent talking to a group of Boy Scouts on the value of wildlife. Another hour was used in preaching conservation to a marsh hen hunter he met on the tidal flats with more than his bag limit. He wrote an article for a conservation magazine and a letter to hi congressman sponsoring a wildlife bill. All that amounted to more than two hours.

T HE remainder of money et a ide a his tithe wa used to purcha e food to feed birds and animal during periods when all the land wa locked in snow and i e, for a few trout to re tock a depleted trout stream, for half a ack of fer}ilizer to use along the hallow edge of a deep ba tream, for due to hi home game club, and for the purcha e of wildlife restoration tamp.
The more we think about it, the more excellent we con id r thi idea originated by the portsman-fi herman. It is an idea which should be put into practice by every man who con ider him elf a portsman.
We sincerely believe that if every lover of the rod and reel and gun would put back into the field and woods and stream one tenth of the cash and elfort he use to take away the game no one would ever again have cause to deplore the lack of wildlife in our land.

OUTDOOR GEORGIA August 1940

3

N o K OWLEDGE of upper Cona auga water had b en imparted to me until m att nLion wa called to them on Duaan mountain when I asked a native who looked to be anywhere between iahteen and thirty-five, for all I auld differenLiaLe, about tream which might produce bas.
"Which?" the tall, lanky one with a trong lei urely na al intoning aid after he wallowed with one gulp a handf ul of ripe blackberries. "Le' ee. Way up Ja k 'n Be ch Bottom Lhey' trawL. Little feller. Then down nigh Chabel's Mill dOl n tream way the Jack 'n Conasauga meet one anoLher. Th y's lot of Lhem kinnn trowt th reo Fi herm n all ern largemouth and orne mallmouth ba 5."
orne di tance below the dam on Jack River I found the own r of a mall trip of bottom land, \ ho conented to board and lodge me for an in ianificant urn, if I did not object La things in aeneral. The fir t of Lh ~
med to be hi propen it for aborbin a \ hi ke in unbelievable quanLitie and not hawing an intere t in the affairs of people I met. ppar nLI he did no work. He at and drank on the shad ide of Lhe

hou while hi tall thin \ ife and boy, imilarl can tructed, did verything from milkin a, cultivatina the corn, feeding live tack and the hound, La waiting on th ir lord and rna Lerand ~eeminaly enjo ing it.
Though I remained in Lhi locale for f ur day I did not have an gr at u ces . The pool of the Lream were ver shallow. In rna L of the rifts which cut d eply all the while the ang en route throuah the gravpl bar produced few fi h lara enough to keep, though they went after my fiie avidly. omehow I Layed the four da s, prol ably held Lh re b the fascination of wading clear water and living where the affair of Lhe main world seldom inLruded. I ow and then I took ome mall bass which fought a wIll njoyed the battl ,Lhough I returned Lhem to the water promptly. Their battling reourceJulne , de piLe Lheir ize. brought forLh m admiraLion for them.
Later I made h adquarter within a few mile- of Old Fort. There the cener and the tream 10 I J10thilla when compared with \ here I had been. Right off the fislling pro\'e:i to be better than what I had _0 far experienced. trangely the be-t large-

mouth bas of my trip ru hed for my fly alma t at noon. I came sudd niy upon him while h wa on a fora for minnow. t the time he WU5 lurkina where the \ ift water poured into a larae pool. I wa wading up tream cautiou I and ca tina far becau.e of the exc edi ngl clear water. I mu-t have be n guilty of orne s0rL of gregiou awkwardnes, for he darted from hi rippling foam-flecked haunt and can ealed himself under a big ycamore log on my ri aht.
HERE \ a a good- ized su pi ious ba , I told my elf, that had taken umbrage at omething. I felt
ure he had not een me. I wa going to try and outthink that green heened fi h, and mak him strike-if uch a thin a were feasible. He did not like what I fir t ca t hi \ ay. Evidently thaL day he had no craving for Profe- ors or Grizzly Kings. Even a gorgeou I Lied new Aoating ilver Doctor could not attract Lhat bas aILhough alma t every time it touched the waLer _mailer fi h charged the deceit belligerentl .
fter a Lime I topped ca ting. till I wouldn't aive up m attempt to raise LhaL bass. hen I wa prepar d to re um , I Lied to my leader

GREE BACKS of tlte CONASA GA

4

August 1940 OUTDOOR GEORGIA

a cork-bodied June Bug. I waited ten minute before offering it. When I wa ready from quite a distance away I began fal e casting a dry fly. Finally I dropped it on the sun-dried top of the half ubmeraed sycamore log. It slithered off of it leisurely, making only the tinie t po ible ripple as it touched the water. That tubborn fish made no movement for it until I started to retrieve.
He then exploded from under the log like a giant firecracker. I knew right away he had that bug for keeps. He ru hed for the center of the pool. Then doubtle he felt the bite of that barbed teel. He flung his large body far above the \ ater, haking hi head like a fighting bull terrier venting it anger on a strong opponent. All the pool wa in my favor. Not even a rock or bit of brush ga e my prize a chance of e caping. hortl that clipper built five-pound mountain ba reposed in my landing net.
I ought to have been ontented with that one fish, a well a it fighting qualities. But water lower down lured me into a try for another. Another pool wa haracteristically like the first in almo t everything except ize. The pool which I now tudied ho\ ed through it clearne that it wa deeper. larae dark bit of water held my attention. 'It an be nothing el e but a large boulder under the water-a decidedly likely place for a bas! I found myself aying aloud, a habit I have formed from beina alone in wildernes part. "I'd better ti k to that irresistible June Bug,
tied on a '0. 6 hook'" mall fli , I
have found. fi hin a wat r from Hudon Bay t~ the Gulf, are alwa my favorites in ver clear water.
Below the dark pot I went, kirtina the pool on it \ e tide, araduall approaching it with my bug. l\'ot a move~nent of finn life could I detect in re pon e to m ca t until finall I placed the lure at the ver edge of the submerged boulder.
Once more on a Georgia waterwa an almo t catacly~mic eruption broke the renity of the reaion. ba which looked to be of the arne proportion a m fir t tried to run awa with m lUTe. In close sight af m he jumped t\ ice. Then as he made for the end of the pool I let him teal line to e how much he would really take.
nd riaht there i where I made my mistake. Down at the end of the pool at om tim or another an ld burnt pine trunk, durin a orne late
torm, had fall n in, arrying \ ith it a great load of mu cadine vine. That ba made for thi tangl d refuge before I wa aware of hi intention or

A Story by a famous fisherman-author who
fought smallmouths in orth Georgia

I'

could put on brake. He made just one tremendous leap and landed in the mid t of the entanglement . That crappy ba broke my leader and left for other part with my pet bug in it mouth.
My FISHI G water for the day presented new environment on the same river. It wa all formidably protected against wading. For about a half mile quite a lakelike pread of deep water greeted me. In the few shoals visible you would never have con trued them as real fishing territory. What might have been waded at the edge of the deep water wa rendered impracticable by the contant huge growth along the hore line, a well as hiah banks. owhere

the river' expan ion. And now I began to appreciate every little bit of breeze behind me a I tarted downtream, huggina the left bank quite close. Before I began ca ting I indulged in both a mental and ocular urvey, remarking to myself that after all thi wa one region of pure water fighting fish immaculate timber-clad altitudes; an entire world all to myself for the moment.
For a while before I encountered any movement of current I gave the clumsy boat all the freedom it wanted. Whether it was sideways, or tern, or bow pointed up tream it made no difference whatever. The wind seemed to hold it jut the di tance from shore that I wi hed. With a Babco k underwater feather minno\
I rai ed and hooked t h r e e fair-sized largemouth bass. I had no need of them, so retUTn d them unhurt.
All at once my cumber orne boat began to indulge in funny notion. A slight current took hold of the
ituation ju t a little wa from the bank. But I offered no re i tance. Meam hile, I caught my fir t two mallmouth

The author and his dog bet:""een fishing expeditions.

ba of the trip.

They aave me

ould I _ee room for comfortable plenty of thrill though neither

back ca t .

weighed over a pound and a half.

Lookin a down tream on the left the They were large howe er, for th

waterwa re umed th proportion of hallO\ \ ater in which they rose to

a hurr ing river of considerable, size. the lure. It could not have b en more

To the right a nalTOI part thru t it- than six inche deep.

elf beh een the fore ted growth on the i land and the mainland. The trip of deep water followed on

WTIr D ()f con iderable force now W flung out from the northwe t,

through to the mill to whi h it fur- puttin a all sort of razy ideas of ao-

niJled power. II the waterway ing into my boat. It agarie had no

looked more promi ing when I was limit, nor could I anticipate any of

loaned a long old boat j u-t for the
asking. The man who built the boat had no
intention of con tructing it for peed or ea- handling. afe carryin a capacity mu_t have been his motto. It mu t have been twenty feet lon a and it beam was nalTO\ for it lenath.
fter laboring for about fort -five minutes with paddle and pole I

them. I had to start paddlin a. I must have ju t then had a brain torm which deluded me into believing that a ba wa lurkin a up in a rna of mu cadine vine, fe toonin a the top of a wild cherry on the high bank. Immediately I I ft my Babcock fly in it. For all I know it still i linging to the mu adines, as well a half of

worked the raft to th upper part of a go d gut leader.

o TDOOR GEORGIA August 1940

5

This pond in South Georgia supplies recreation to a farm family, and water for livestock. The lotus (right) is more ornamental than beneficial to fish ponds.

A Georgia CJJirt Farmer c.R..ecommends ...
Fish- Ponding the Farm

SOME writers in sympath with farmer and their problem have in the past advocated liv -

tock and Ii e-at-home logan uch

as "Cow-Hog-Hen." 0\ thi

a

real tep forward becau it i ound

and man farms do not have that

trio. To me, an even better logan

would be a "Cow-Hog-Hen-Garden-

Pond."

There should be a pond on every

farm. There are those who would di -

agree. I have heard their argument:

"The mosquitoe -they , ill eat you

alive. It ju t ain't healthy.' y ex-

perience ha been that the proximity

of a pond doe not nece arily affect

mo quito population. mall tagnant

hole, weed-filled ditche tin can,

hallO\ lagoon, and den e shaded

area that are moist and wet, all af-

ford mo quito reproduction. Many

towns in Florida that boast of being

located on a lake are no more mo -

quito infested or unhealthful than

other town which are Ie fortu-

nately located. A pond conveniently

located on a farm can be of use every

day of the year.

Pond add to the beauty of the

land ape. Fe\ are the pond that do

not add attractivene to the country-

side. Water bird ,ill be added to

the wildlife. Ponds are a ource of

recreation to the farm family as

swimming holes. A small pond prop-

erly stocked with fish and fi hed with

6

moderation can furni h meat the greater part of the year to upply th need of the farm famjl . Frog leg al 0 can be taken in eason.
Irrigation from a pond will make a better garden and often can b used to produce vegetable crops for market during long droughts and off- ea on.

W ATER for livestock i excuse enough for building a pond on mo t farm. Many. farmer pend time enouuh drawing water for cattle over a period of three to five years to furni h labor for buildin u a pond. On a cattle farm the pond hould be located for convenience in watering. I know one pond that water cattle in five pa ture .
In locating and building a pond care should be taken to be rea onable. It hould not be built in the edge of a mall town where ewage empties into it or where there iden e undergrowth. There hould be orne hallo\ and some deep open water of around 2/3 to 1/3 ratio. Thi i to modify water temperature and balanc marine plant and ani-
mal life. Immediat Iy after a pond i built
it hould be tocked \ ith gwnbusia

minnows to keep down m 0 qui to l~rva and to begin the production

of mall fi h a feed for other fi h.

All fish have to eat, and all fish taTt

_mall, therefore there i a need of

mall marine life of plant and ani-

mal to feed th whi h in turn

mall erve a

fi

fhoaond dfofrrotuh~

laruer fi h. Recently there ha been

ome good \ ork done on f rtilizing

pond to in rea e fi h food. Within

limit a bod of water furni he

three djmen ional growth becau e, in

addition to mere area, there i depth,

which con iderably increa e micro-

_copic urowth.

}) ep hole five feet or more are

for evenin". the temperature and offeri.n u a retreat for laruer fi h. The

deep water i u uall open and wind

can make chopp \ ater which aeri-

ate and purif the water, a well as

drown mo quito larva. hallow

L. STEPHENS

August 1940 0 TDOOR GEORGIA

A OTHER gras Leersia s p., which i orne, hat like mall

rice i well adapted to thi tate. It

is ometime wrongly !,taIled maiden

cane. Thi gra usuaHy grows in

compact rna se and may eA1:end out

into fairly deep waler. It i quite

common in the Okefenokee wamp_

The cypress is nearly always a desir-

able plant in pond. It add beauty

and gives protection and hade. It

growth i slow and the tree is never

objectionable.

Willow, e pecially the weeping

willow, are picturesque and desir-

able on dams and around ponds.

Water or tupelo <Yum i a very de-

sirable tree in ponds for hade and

protection. The fruit are liked by

quirrels, too. Mo and moss-like

Modern concrete spillway for fish ponds. It is strong and durable.

plants are common but usually not especially desirable in ponds.

, ater is necessary for plant growth, for the spawnin<Y of fish and as protection for mall fish from the larger ones. Mo t plant growth occurs in water up to around four feet.
SO E plants are de irable and orne are objectionable. Before any plant i deliberately started in a pond you should be sure whether or not its type of growth i desirable in the particular pond. Wild rice will r,row only in shallow water, probably up to around 18 inches. It offer fish protection, duck food and has scenic value. Cattle will de troy it by heavy grazing.
Cat-tailor Typha sps. offer a beautiful effect around pond edges.

bird, frog and fish, and rarely become a nuisance.
The bladden orts, such a UtricuZaria sps. are ometimes potential pests as they extend out into the deeper water and make fi hing almo t impossible. They may become o thick as to form a lawn-like appearance and hide the water. Water hyacinths are beautiful shallm water plant with blue and purpli h flower that offer <Yood protection to animal
and bird life. They are not a pe t. A desirable plant around the edge i a creeping gra Paspalurn distichurn. It give prote lion to the dam by
neutralizing wave action. It is never
a pest.

Pond may be constructed at low cost, provided a few common sense rule are ob erved. The area elected should be cho en where the amount of fall in th~ depression is mall. If po ible, elect a place for the dam where two hills come close together and pinch the swamp on both sides, thereby reducing the length of dam and hence the di tance of hauling and amount of dirt required. ndergrowth should be cleaned out. The land _hould be gone over with a terracing machine or lever so that you
know exactly where the \ ater will go
when the pond i built (the eye will
fool you). The dam ite hould be
thoroughly cleaned of trash and logs.
(Continued on page 26)

They are well adapted and do not

grow in deep water. They are not

very palatable to cattle, nor do they

directly afford much wildlife feed.

They do, however, give cover and

protection.

Lotu is well adapted in Georgia

and is one of the mo t beautiful

water plant we have. The large float-

ing leave and enormous pink flowers

are a sight to remember. The lotus i

hardy and will extend out into fairly

deep water. It may become a pe t in

mall shallow pond by completely

covering them. The lotus should be

introduced with caution.

Water lilie consi t of many spe-

cies well adapted to our climate.

Most of them are not aggre sive

enough to become seriou pest ex-

cept in hallow ponds. They offer

good fish protection.

Ru hes and sed<Yes are alwa sap-

propriate around the edge of ponds

and in hallow water. The dark green

clumps of the ru h and the yellowi h

green of the sedges are alway ac-

ceptable. They offer good cover for

Old style spillways give way under pressure and age.

OUTDOOR GEORGIA August 1940

7

MO TAl MARA DER

T HE average traveler, glancing ca ually at Zeb ilvy, would have een nothing more than a world-weary old mountaineer, who e sun had already set beyond the horizon of romance, adventure, and u efulne to mankind, Long ago the year had drawn their line in Zeb' cheek and around the corner of hi torm-gray ey ; they had covered hi face, ith a fro t of beard and clouded hi hair with white.
The average traveler, han cin g upon Zeb a he sat on hi porch in the yellow, winter un hine, would never have gues ed that the mountaineer had been among the fir t settlers on the northern lope of the Blue Ridge. Zeb had rai d a family of eleven and outlived them all. All but hi wife. ue il wa a thin and gra and toop- houldered a Zeb wa tall and traight, but her eye had never 10 t the zealous, vibrant fire that belong only to youth and to pioneer. She had helped her man to conquer hi portion of this va t mountain world and she refused to pa on and leave him to hold it alone.
One that knew him did not need a _econd glance to tell that Zeb ,a

worried. It might have been the recentlye tabli hed game refuge on the national forest beyond the ridge that preyed on hi mind. Or it might have been because Zeb faced tarvation. For he did. The ea on had been dry
o dry that dirt became like powder and shifted \ ith each pa ing breeze. The crop of field and fore t, on which Zeb u ually depended for a livelihood, were short. Hi apple tree had been pitifull non-productive, and the ear of corn were mere "nubbin" in the field. Chestnut trees, wiped out by the di astrou blight, were now meager in numbers and produ ed only a handful of nut. The acorn rop' a cattered and his hog were thin. ature had 0 failed to provid that quirrel on both
ide of the Blue Ridae were tarved down to sparing number.
So intent wa the old mountaineer \ ith hi problem that he failed to ee a man \ ho came up the road with low tep and halted in front of the
house. The tranger, carrying a pack on hi ba k and a rifle in hi hand, stopped and studied Zeb intently for everal minute.
"Hello, ' he aid.

I F HE had expected to ee the mountaineer tart in surpri e, he \ as disappointed. The old man had b en alert too many years of hi life to how that he wa caught unaware. He looked up.
'Do ou know," the u'anger a ked, "where I could find Zeb il y?"
, Right here' aid Zeb, 'a settin' on this tep."
The man hift d his gun to hi shoulder and came forward. He held out his hand.
" ly name," he said, "is Tom Dearborn, and I'm here on bu ine for the tate Game Commis ion. '
Zeb's eye fla hed, He refused to notice the proferred hand.
" ou ain't a goin' to pin any poachin' on me" he yapped,
Dearborn laughed and dropped hi hand.
, Don't get excited ' he said. "I e got other bu ine s,
" arne it," barked ncle Zeb. He had an intense dislike for all representatives of the law.
The other man lipped out of hi pack, leaned hi gun against it and held a match to hi pi pe before replyina,
Do ou know the old panther

Zeb threw a huge panther skin across the table, in front of Dearborn.

CHARLES ELLIOTT /

that' been coming down here from

'Durn m hide," he aid, "it'll be

the mokie for the pa t few win- ~nowing by morning, and 0 cold,

ters ?'

it'll make our toe nails curl up. I'm

Zeb nodded.

alad you didn't go back." He noted

"Lo t everal shoat by him m - with approval that his gue thad

elf."

added an oak log to the fire on th

"This winter," continued Dearborn, hearth.

"he's killed a number of deer up on

By the time upper was ompleted,

the refuge. I heard that you had the wind had risen to a smashing

cha5ed him some, and that ou'd be crescendo out ide. 1 ow and then, the

the most likely per on we could get little cabin rattled on its very pin.

to run him down and kill him. I Zeb and D arborn retired to the

carne up here to offer you one hun- cozy, open fire, leaving Sue in the

dred dollars reward for his hide."

cold kitchen to finish wa hing her

For the first time ncle Zeb wa

upper dishe .

thrown a little off hi equilibrium. He blinked. One hundred dollars was a mint of money-enough to tide
him over the winter, with some to spare. Here wa fortune fiun a into hi lap. But he mu t not appear too eager. He cratched at the tuft of
white hair behind hi ear.

"D 0 YO really mean that about -the hundred dollar ?" Zeb ventured.
, I certainly do. M department offer d it the other da . A you know, we ve imported quite a number of fawns and does into the refuge thi year. We've found everal that the

~~I RECKO ," he aid, "that a hun- big cat killed. We've given him

dred dollar '11 look mighty credit for veral more which are unaood. We've had it hard thi winter, accounted for.'

J

Ma and me." He could hardl keep

'When I first came in here," aid

the elation out of hi voice.

Zeb, "deer and 'painters' , ere plenti-

"Then you'll help," Dearborn ful. I'm glad you re putting the deer

stated, in a matter-of-fact tone. back. What'd you do to a man you "Good. Bring the skin over to the caught killin a deer on the refuge?"

refuge if you get it. I'd better be trail-

"Throw him in jail," frowned

ing if I want to get back there before Dearborn, "for the rest of hi life."

dark."

"You ain't got no special time or

ncle Zeb rose with alacrity.
'You, on't do no sech thing. That trip over the mountain i long and rough, so you jest pend the night here. ue'll have some victuals ready soon."
Dearborn he itated. He glanced at the murky film creeping aero the gray heavens.
Well-I-"
'Come on in," ncle Zeb insisted. "Dump your pack and make yourself to home while I feed the stock."
Before Dearborn could protest, Zeb picked up the pack and carried it into the house. The game warden followed, miling to him elf because the old mountaineer had looked upon him with uch sudden fa or.
Daylight had faded before Zebfini hed watering his mule and feeding hi hound doa under the porch. The afternoon had been cold and cloud , but with the comin a of night, a bla t of wind whipped down out of th

place for me to kill that big

painter'? asked Zeb a little anxi-

ously.

"Lord, no!" Dearborn laughed.

"All we ask is that you just get him."

For a while the talk drifted to

other ubjects, but the evening wa

not halfaone when Dearborn aro e

and excu ed himself.

"I've had a hard day,' he aid,

"and I expect another hard one to-

morro~'



"I'll have that kin in the morn-

ing, , Zeb called after him.

Dearborn laughed as he clo ed the

door to hi room.

ncle Zeb at in front of the fire

for _everal minutes, taring into it,

before he aro e and brought hi

boot out of a corner closet. He lid

his feet into them and pulled up the

lace.

"Where're you aoin'?" a ked Sue.

'I'm aoin after that painter'," re-

plied the old man.

The big cat had killed deer on the refuge.
"Zeb Silvy, you're gittin' too old to be traipsin around the e mountain at night any more. You tay home."
" ot tonight, Ma," he aid. "If this wa for fun, I might. But this trip is for ow belly and biscuit ."
Sue threw more oak wood on the fire and pLtlied her chair closer to its bright blaze.
A BLA T of ic wind m t Zeb at the door. He could hear the cedar trees at the corner of the porch, swi hing from the impact of the wind. 0 stars were overhead. The night wa black, and a few flake of now were beginning to ift downward out of the heaven. For a min
Continued on page 29

mountain and moaned through the

bare bran hes of the oak tree on the
lope behind the hou e. Zeb tramped in out of the frigid, howlin a darkne .

$100 was the Price Placed on the Head and Hide of This Big Cat

o TDOOR GEORGIA August 1940

9

HUNTING TARIFF

Elmer Ransom Aduocates a Reduced Non-Resident License Fee and Angles for Your Comments

T HE ubscription Ii t to 0 TDOOR GEORGIA reads What's the purpose of a non-re ident hunting or fi hlike the Who's Who of Georgia Sportsmen, with ing license. Revenue? If so we have mis ed the boat. We a prinkling of the be t from many other states. The don't take in enough money from non-re ident hunting

writer of this column want your opinion and advice. How and fi hing licen es to make much difference in our

about it? How about a letter or a post card, telling me budget, and certainly if we reduced it we would make

how you feel about a subject that ha been eating me for more. It is probable that Georgians hunting and fishing

some time.

in other states take out a much money a we take in.

on-resident hunting and fi hing licen e. pawned of Ha-you've "ot me! If we take them off and the other

selli hne , they serve no useful purpose and there i no tates don't, that money will go out and a imilar amount

better time than now to talk about it.

won t come in. In a pig' eye! We'll take in more money

If Senator Hookum and Representative Buncombe pro- on lower fees and we will attract outside sportsmen who

posed a non-resident marriage license to give our boy will spend money on guides, hells, tackle, grub and trans-

the break, or a tariff on South Carolina corn ( olid or portation, as well as other incidental .

liquid!) or Ala-

And we will

bama syrup or

ju t about stop

orth Carolina grapes it would

MARRIAGE

thi busines of slipping over the

have just a much

LICENSE

line for a day's

ense. You say we
didn't tart this no n - resident

$2.0 0
OUT of STATE:
0.00

hooting or fishing every now and then without putting out for a

hunting and fish-

licen e.

ing license affair.

This extra

We did it in self

m 0 n e y for li-

protection.ldon't

cense will help

know about that.

us res to ck our

I do kuow that

tream and cov-

we can end it a

ert, permit us

far a Georgia is

to hi l' e mol' e

concerned, et a

rangers, give you

fine example and

better sport. Re-

reap a consider-

member - I say

able harve t be-

remember. The

fore the ur-

non-resident,

rounding ta tes

paying the

wake up.

same fee as a

resident will

L ET'S get it out of our heads

ordinarily SHOOTLESS

that rich guys

than the man

are going to make

who is here for

us prosperou .

the full year.

There jut ain't

That i the

enough of them

practical part of

left to matter much. It is the

JS

it as I ee it.

There is another

regular guys like

"You'd better stay at home-we cater only to local trade."

side. We are up-

you and me who

posed to be one

sweat bloody blood for our nickels that pay the freight. united country and if we re not, we had better organize

And we hould. We have all the fun.

or unite in a hurry. Thi business of making state lines a

uppo e you lived in ew York, for example, and saved reason for le"i latures to re trict citizens of other states

and crimped fifty weeks in order to have a couple of in the elli h belief that it will benefit anybody, is out:

weeks of fun outdoors omewhere. And uppo e Georgia rageous-more it i folly. It gets under my kin to pay

advertised to the world that we had one hunting license a non-resident licen e to fish and hunt in outh Carolina, for

and only one for resident and non-re ident alike-, 3.25. instance, when I live 011 the hore of the avannah River

Where would you go? With other tates ranging from ten and I'll bet there are plenty of good guy acro the river

bucks up, the down there answer is

in Carolina who feel about our non-

BY ELMER RANS0M pretty plain. Those fellows in Geor-
gia want me. So I'm going there.

resident licenses the same way. (Continued on page 24)

10

August 1940 0 TDOOR GEORGIA

Back to ATURE

"Its bloated body coiled a bout my arm and its rattle
was six inches from my ear."

~~TODA we'll take a nature walk" announced the Tat. urali t. " othing like nature to cheer one up.' "I've been a bit depre ed," I admitted. "It began
in 1929." :Communion with nature bring omething strange and
new into one' life,' rhap odized my friend. He \ as right. A lot of new trangenes came into my life that day.
As we pa d the tiny Indian re ervation on the slope of Blood Mountain-the only one left in Georgia-we met Jim Pan, the la~t of the Cherokee and his son, Tin Pan. Jim carried a forked tick and Tin a gunn ack and they were on the way to a tribal rattle nake den to fill an order for a zoo.
"Fine, aid the aturali t. 'We'll 0'0 along.' Personally I felt a little delicacy about intruding on the homelife of a ra~tlesnake but the Naturali t overruled my objection. "It's a wonderful chance to ee wildlife" he exclaimed enthu iasticall . Again he wa quite right. ever have I seen wilder life than I did that day. At last we came to a rocky slope urrounded by dark pine. "Watch your tep," said Jim Pan, "here' the den."
uddenly Jim who wa in the van, thrust one foot up in the air like a toedancer and pirouetted. When he came to earth again he pinned down a fivefoot rattler in coil on the far side of a blueberry bu h, over which he had been about to step. When I reached him the thick body of the nake wa \ hipping back and forth and it wa rattling and hi ing in a most unpleasant manner. Altogether I gathered that the nake wa di turbed about omething.

I pau ed. "Ye, e," I aid. "I thank you for the pri ilege. y whole family thank ou. Then I paused again.
" ou're not ared, are you?" inquir d the Indian, \ hile Tin Pan, who had hurried up with the bag, regarded me reproachfully.
" 0, no, certainly not," I a ured him indignantly. "I imply don't want to be _elf! h. Let Tin do it."
"TO," aid Jim, firmly, "you're company. Tin can pick up rattle nakes anytime."
How about my friend," I urged weakl . " dear fellow, I wouldn't think of it" aid the aturali t retiring about ten feet into the background, a the nake gave an extra vigorou writhe. "It'll be a unique experien e that you'll ne er forget. I wa qUIte ure of that. Moreover, it was evident that I \ a the white man hope. It would never do to let two members of a conquered race S((e a pale-face falter. Remembering Deerslayer and Daniel Boone and Kit Car on and other brave white men without a eros, I bent down and O'ripped the snake just back of the forked tick. "Be sllre you take your hand away quick when you put him in the bag," in tructed Jim, quite unneces arily. "Are ou all ready?" he inquired a moment later. "IIthink 0,' I replied.
HE r moved the stick. I lifted the nake and the next moment it bloated body had oiled about my arm and it rattle wa ounding not ix inche from my right
(Continued on page 22)

~~GRAB him just back of his head and put him in the bag," urged Jim, who wa holding the reptile down
with difficulty.

o TDOOR GEORGIA August 1940

11

B IG Cypress creek i typical ~f many outhern Georgla tream. It comes by e a y staea orne forty miles from. it ource to its mouth, penetratmg a lab rinth of wamp and slouah and hardwood fore ts. Along mo t of it journe it travel as a andy, hallow tream,' inding lei urely between deep blue hole, twi tina and turning in its search for th ea ie t cow- down the Bat \ amp floor.
On rea on that Big Cypres i 0 famou i Jeff Lon a. Everyone know Jeff Long, \ ho live on the hill above Huckleberry lough. Jeff lives alone, and generally consider him elf a being wedded to the swamp and woods and treams. He always maintained that a man who hunted and fi hed as much as he did wa a "bigami t if he had a wife."
I have known Jeff a good many year. ince that day when I first met him standing praddle-Iegged in a narrow wamp bateau we have differed, sometime violently, about the port manship of squirrel hunting.
I quit huntin a quirrel ear aao. To bla t into kingdom come a gentle gray quirrel which at er nely a few feet from the tip of m shotaun, \ atching me out of bright black eye, wa imply not m idea of port.
othing Jeff would _a ould make we change my mind, 0 he finall r til' d into hi hell of native reticence and allowed me to more thoroughly concrete my own opinion in my 0' n low and re eding brow.
Jeff had made one la t tab, how ever.
"IF YO ever realize how lame brailled you are and ao \ ith me
on one quirrel hunt," he aid, "I could convince you that even an old on-an old dog could chang it mind."
I don't know what made me accept Jeff invitation. Perhap it wa the thouaht of Jeff Lona' quirr 1 tew. Tho e tew tran formed the tiny, un kempt interior of hi hack into a haven filled with fraarance and deli cacie . They had warmed the heart of many a tired and tarving hunter who came out of the depth of Bia Cypre wamp.
"You take a .22 rifle-," Jeff aid. 'A quirrel i too ea y a target with a .22,' I protested. J ff snorted. "I make a rule never to pull the trigger when they're sitting till. Try picking one out of the h'ee when he i on a dead run." With the thought of Jeff Long's tew in the back of my mind, I agreed to try his sporting venture with the quirrels.

!H};lY iHHlDDW
OF THE
D;lWll

By DEAN HUNTER

We had our coffee by lantern

liaht. Outside the dawn had not yet

come. The wamp wa black and the

cold wind blowing down it pau ed

only long enough to pinch a million

painted leave from their snug cra-

dles alon a the tree stems and end

them fI uttering in grote que Illotions

toward the earth.

"You tart at th bridge' Jeff

aid, "and work down tr am until

ou meet me. I'll be som where near

the I

b,i,a~aibteend daat bothvee

the river." bridg until

the

first gray mi t light came filtering

through the tree. ight had not yet

broken enoueah to allo\ quic. k hootina over the iahts of my nfle when

I stepped into the creek..The olUJ:ne

and intensity of dawn haht wa m-

crea ing ach moment.

T TAKE a brave man to tep I into an i creek over hi- boot
top, but the hock brouaht me fully
awake. I vowed that I would never

Jeff Long Had a Way All
His Own To Hunt Squirrels
in Big Cypress Swamp

again be caught without my wader.
Then I forgot my di comfort. Old
Jeff Long idea of traveling this early
morning wamp' a perfect. By liding one foot lowly in front of the other I moved thl'ough the wamp a noi ele ly a if I had been in a canoe. How mu h more imple this wa than tr ina to na igate the dry leave of the forest floor \ ithout ound-an almo t impo ible task.
The fir t thrill of the new di covery wore off and I became con ciou that quirrel barked on all id . Once in the dim light I thought I aw a big fox quirrel flattened again t a tree but it onl proved to be a knot on the trunk.
Then a gray moved. I knew it wa a gra . I whirled to bring my rifle into action. Ju t as suddenly a roar like the tail end of a hurricane shook the wamp. Three wild turkey gobbler boomed acros the creek over my head. Before I could recover from my urpri e they were gone, into the dimne of the morning. For a long minute I _tood, cur ing m elf roundly for being too dimwitted and low. Then, with characteri tic human \ eakne I excu ed my elf by remembering that, after all I wa not out to aet turkeys, but quirrel for Jeff Long' ste\.
The roar of tw-key wing had ent many quirrels ampering off the ground \ here they had been digging into the w t \ amp floor. uddenly the tree- seemed full of flying gray creature . 1 ele ted one which wa runnin a for dear life toward a knot hole hiah in an oak. y inging lead pellet scattered tree bark in all di rections, but he di appeared unhurt into the entrance of his home.
1 G then .and hot at a gray I that had deCIded to cro the creek from one limb to another. One of my hot mu t have hit cIo e becau e the squirrel mi sed hi jump and landed on the ground with a thud. I heard him rattling away through the leave a fa t as hi hort leg would carr him.
After the echoe of the cracking rifle had died away, the wood were quiet. It eemed that every quirrel in the wamp fore t had potted me b the ound of my rifle and had flattened him elf against a limb or behind some tree trunk. For fully ten minute I tood still, knee deep in th creek. Gradually the nor mal earl morning ound returned to the wamp forest. A wren twittered in the bru h beyond the border of the creek. A squirrel barked somewhere in the distance and hi kinsmen
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13

Bring Back the Alligator

T HE early morning sun sparkled and dallced a our bateau glided oftly between cypres knee and rotting tump. The Clinch County pond wa awakening to another day -although quiet and serene, the tillne wa broken by the plash of water, the cr of a bird or the _oft tinkle of a co\ -bell in the distance.
perfe t day to land the big ones. Water-ju t right. e a th e r-fine. Guide-the best in the count. e were out early and rearing to "pitch plug ."
~'e bad not vi ited thi particular pot in twelve years, but our memor kept going back to our la t vi it when the ba took everything we had to offer and the bream were the .large t we had ever een. A perfect situation-and our hopes were high.
One of the first thing ami ,that we noted, was the innumerable turtl and terrapins that seemed to dot every stump and hummock. There were thou ands of them. mall one, and large ones ru ty one and hiny one ; the whole catalogue of the turtle family-or 0 it eemed to me.

O R guide an old negro, who had been born within a stone's

throw of the pond was que tioned

and hi an wer wa rather enlighten-

ing; "'Gater gone, turtle and coot

takin de whole place."

True we hadn't noticed a inale

'gator, \ here formerly we had een

an number of them. Their ne t

were no longer to be found, although

it was the middle of June. Jor had we

heard the bellow of a in!!'le bull. On

our previou vi it we had found the

ne t , photographed the e~gs, meas-

ured them and studied the ne ting

habit. lOW there wa nothing but

terrapins.

.

Mr. Alligator had gone the way of

many other members of our family

14

By JEFF D. Me CORD
of wild creatures. The hunter purued them relentle ly; hunting them at night with a light j digging them out of their den in the day.time and hootin a them whenever and whereever he could. The egg old for curios at the ver large price of 5 cent each j the hide of a large 'gator sold for a tremendou a urn a 1.50.
Re ult: no alligator j plenty of turtles and terrapin j 0 FJ H.
ubsequent re ult proved ju t this
o FJ H. A I tho ugh we fished
hard and well all day long, our catch wa pitifully mall and nothing at all to crow about. There impl were no fish to be taken, and the only conclusion that we could reach was that they were destroyed by the turtles.
Digging a little further in this phenomenon we found that alligator
really do destro terrapin and ., that the terrapin do destroy
~. the Ii h. We al 0 found
Alligators make it hard for enemies
of fish.

out ome other intere ting thing about Mr. Alligator.

W E FO D that there i much difference of opinion a to

their ne ting time-anywhere from

Januar to eptember although we

found them actually ne ling throuah-

out June. The female 'gator builds a

ort of ne t of tick_ and gra orne

time before the egg are laid. Thi

ne t rna be placed on a mall

mound in the middle of a pond or

lough or on the bank of a tream.

Later the egg are laid and covered

up entirel for the \ arm weather and

the un to hatch. The time of incuba-

tion ari with the heat of the un

although it is thought to be about

seven or eight weeks. A peculiar

thing about the eggs is that orne-

time they begin incubating b fore

they are laid by the female and thi

shortens the time they remain in the

ne t. This i remarkable since the al-

ligator i a cold-blooded reptile and

ha no bod warmth.

'Alligator Reese" tate that just

before the egg hatch there i a

piping or squeaking noise set up b

the oung. He tate that thi i prob-

abl done to attract the attention of

th mother 0 that she rna clear

away the covering of the ne t in

order that the oun a may e cape be-

ing buried alive. The young are

about eight inche long and im-

mediately beg i n hifting for

them elves.

M~

Continued on page 28)

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August 1940 0 TDOOR GEORGIA

D CK-H f TI G rule have been liberalized. Lon O'er ea on , daily shooting to begin at unrise, and a longer po t-season po se ion of bird ar among tbe 1940 rule for duck hunting included in amendment to regulation under

including Georgia, ovember 2 to December 31. II dates are inclusive.
T HE longer ea on have not been pro ided to gi e individual hunters more hootinO', but to make

a fair a distribution a is po ible
of the available hunting. Var inO'
weather conditions make it impo i-
ble to predict exactIX when migrating
I
Continued on page 34



the igratory Bird Treaty ct.

The regulations are the first to be

announced after a full ear of ad-

ministration of the former Bureau of

BioloO'ical urvey by the Department

of the Interior. The 1939 regulation

were based on work done b the Bio-

100'ical urvey in the Department of

Agriculture. Transferred from that

agency to the Department of the Inte-

rior, the Biological urve, now the

nited tate Fish and Wildlife erv

ice, ha completed a year of work in

thi Department.

Governing the hunting of all mi-

gratory game bird in the nited

tate and Alaska, the new regulation al 0 provide hort l' ea ons on woodcock and reduce the bag limits

on geese, mourning dove, and white-

winged dove .

Duck-population increa s for fi e

con_ecutive ears have made it po -

ible to liberalize the duck-hunting

rule this year, but we cannot et be

ure that tbe da of trinO'ent regula.

tion i pa t.

The polic of the ildlife orvic i to keep tbe annual ki II belo\ the

annual production until the carr ing capacit of the ,inter feedin3

grounds ha been reached. Favorable conditions thi year following the five year of ucce siv increa e ,

The

make it po ible now to provide mor

hunting, but it will again b nee .

ary to invoke tight re triction if future years are not a favorable.
Geese have not increa d along with the du k and it therefore ap-

Seasons

peared advi able to olLet a length-

ened ea on on these bird by placinO' the bag limit till lower than the reduced limit provided last year.
imilar action regardinO' the bag

Change

limit on duck was not taken becau e

of the ati factory condition of these

bird a to number, but a clo e

watch will be kept over the duck

during the coming eason and if the

bag limit proves to be too larO' with

the longer ea on the limit will be

By lowered next year-dra ticall , if
nece ary.

A sea on of 60 consecutive day,

in tead of 45, ha been provid d in

each of three zone for hunting

duck geese, coots, and jack nipe.

In the northern zone the ea on will

be October 1 to ovember 29; in the

intermediate zone, October 16 to De

emb I' 14,; and in the outhern zone,

o TDOOR GEORGIA August 1940

PENNSYLVANIA GAME NEWS

RABIE R
T E YEARS ago follower of the chase in Georgia imported foxes to restock depleted areas. Today Georgia has as many red foxe a it has red c!ay hills and jnmping a fox in your bacl,yard is a common experience. But a new angle has been born to the chase. Three countie -Burl,e, Jefferson and Jenkin -have been truck with an epidemic of rabies among foxes, which have repeatedly attacked persons and live tack. Several mules and a larger number of cattle have died from rabies in this section of southeast Georgia. Approximately 20 persons have been given anti-rabic treatment following expose to rabid foxes or animals bitten by foxes.
Foxes are dying by the score and
hunter" perhap are hopeful that in-
fected animal will thns be de troycd
and end the menace. However, they
fear a spread of the djsease into other
areas, and should this occur, there would be a crisi that likely would
wr ck Ihe sport in this laic for everal
}'ear. There appears 10 be only one
olution 10 th problem, according 10
stale, federal and Rockefeller Founda-
tion authoritie. Thai i, complele eradjcation of aU the foxe in the af-
fecled counties and adjoining terrilory.
Reports indicate that rabies pread considerably during July. Examination of the heads of animals revealed case after case of the disease. This is said to be the first time in history that such an outbreak has occurred. It is believed that a rabid fox hound tarted the epidemic by biting two foxes before it was killed. Here is a report by the tate Health Department which outlines the early history of this dread disease:
1. J. S. Fulcher of Waynesboro, Burke County, was exposed to his own dog, a foxhound, on l\Iarch 6. The dog was killed on that day after showing symptoms of rabies.
Fulcher was given anti-rabic treatment by Dr. W. D. Lundqui t, health officer of Burke County. Dr. Lundquist, reported on June 22 that this do"", while hunting several days before being killed, had bitten at least two foxes which e caped.
2. Six per ons residing at Herndon, Jenkins County, and Dr. Hinson, a veterinarian from Millen, were expo ed April 13 to a mule diagnosed as rabid bv Dr. Hinson. At the time these persons were expo ed the mule was being treated for colic. All seven per ons were treated by Dr. I. S. Giddens,

S FO ES
health officer of Jenkin County. The following excerpt is taken from a letter written by Dr. Hinson on April 17:
"Afler we had treated the mule we were standing around waiting for her 10 get ea y and the owner told me he had losl a cow earlier in Ihe week that went lUad. He sajd he had kiJJed a mad fox in hi barn two or three week ago. nother man half a mile away 10 t a mule from rabies the week before. I wa called to see the mule and it wa a definite ca e of rabies. I calJed Dr. Hirleman from Waynesboro 10 see Ihe mule, as it was the fir t ca e I had een, and there wa no question in either of our minds a we had the mule hot.
"Getting back to the mule I am writing about. The man came in Sunday
Young red, waiting for chase.
aying his mule was over the colicky spell but was acting funny. I went hack and found her walldng restle sly about the lot, chewing constantly and makmg frequent attempts to urinate. She would reach over and chew the fence, run the other mule and bite at her and run chickens and pigs out of the lot. She died Monday a. m. in convulsions."
3. Ro a Belle Lewis, colored, of Keysville, Burke County, was bitten May 14 by a fox which escaped. The following hi tory wa given on the treatment information blank completed by Dr. J. H. Hudson of Gough.
"The fox came into her yard and went to the chicl,en house on Tuesday night. oi e of chickens attracted pa-

tient. In a short while chicken were again di turbed and made a noi e. Patient went out on porch and called her cat, thinking the houoe cat was causing the trouble. The fox answered by walking slow!y upon the porch and biting her on the foot. The fox did not bite hard and he had to open the fox's jaws to get released. The fox then ran away."
4. On June I a fox head submitted
by P. . ButJ r of Key ville, Burke
Count,.. showed positive evidence of
rabies. Mice injected with a poriion of
Ihe brain developed rabie on Ihe
eighth da}'. There is no hi tory of any one having been bitten by this animal.
5. On June 11 a fox head submitted by Dr. J. :.\'1:. Byne of Waynesboro, Burke County, was found to show posi tive evidence of rabies.
Hollis Golden, colored, of Wayne boro, Burke County, was bitten by a fox on June 10 and anti-rabic treatment was admini tered by Dr. Lundquist. It is not stated whether this patient was bitten by the fox whose head was submitted by Dr. Byne or whether the brain of the animal inflicting this wound was ever examined.
6. On June 1 a fox head was submitted by M. K. Tucker of Waynesboro, Burl,e County. The head was too badly lacerated for satisfactory examination.
Mary Dove, colored, was attacked by this fox while chopping cotton. Antirabic treatment was administered by Dr. Lundqui t.
Dr. Lundquist reported as follows: "As you no doubt know we have been haVing considerable amount of rabies in Burke County for the pa t few months. particularly in the la t month. We have had occasional cases, much too frequent, among dog and now it appears to have gotten among the foxes. These foxes exhibit symptoms similar to those in dogs; however their main ymptom are their boldness and viciou nes . They eem to want to attack anything within sight even though they are not being molested. "I know of six cases where they have attacked human or domestic stOck, and there are doubtless numerous other intances. Several foxes have been found dead without external signs cau ing their death. I suppose that these have died with rabies."
7. On July 2 a fox head submitted
by Dr. Lundqui t (Burke Counly) wa
found to show po itive evidence of
rabies.
John P. Moore, colored, wa bitten by this fox. Dr. Lundquist adminis-
lered treatment. The following hislory is given:
"Patient wa walking down second-
ar}' road, fox jumped out from behind
bushes and bit him. Patient caught fox by neck and choked it and beal
it to death on ground." 8. On July 3 a fox head was received
from Dr. S. C. Ketchin of Louisville, Jefferson County. This head was too badly decomposed for ati. factory examination. There is no history of any one having been bitten.
9. On July 20 Mr. Elton Snider of Louisville, Jefferson County, submitted the head of a fox for examination. This head was both too badly lacerated and decomposed for handling.
Robert Loyd, colored, was bitten hy this fox and was treated by Dr.
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August 1940 0 TDOOR GEORGIA

T ARPO have invaded Georgia's coa tal water and are just lying around in the ound and inlets waiting for you big game Ii herm n to come along. And don't think they are not ready to give you a battle you'll long remember. The e Georgia tarpon strike with a venaeance and you really have to know what to do to bring them in. They don't hit hard and then quiet do\ n after a fe\ minute of play. The e babie , \ eighing anywhere from 40 pound up, will battle you for half an hour, maybe an hour, and when you work them clo to the boat and are just about read to use the gaff off they 11 go on another eries of runs and leap that II test the stamina of an li herman.
But let me tell you of the first one caught thi ea on in Georgia water -rather it is the first one reported and entered in my Old alt' fi hing conte t. And incidently, thi catch was awarded a ca h prize of 15 and 10 gallon of ga oline, along with a wa h and lubrication job for the fisherman' automobile.
On the afternoon of July 10, a party of tarpon fishermen aboard the light cruiser of A. H. Perry of Brunswick, were trollina ju t off the outhem point of t. Simon Island. everal tarpon had been een leaping clear of the water, but the fi hermen knew that these li h wouldn't trike a long as they were leaping and playing. They kept trolling, though knowina that ooner or later the fi h would get tired of all that fooli hoes and get down to the bu ine of feeding. About 3 :30 p.m. r. Perry had what wa to be the winning trike, and the fi h hit 0 hard that Mr . Perr was all but knocked down. All other line that were trollin a were immediatel brought in a rapidly as po ible 0 that frs. Perry line would not be fouled. When Mr. Tarpon i hooked and on the run, he can foul more line in a few second than you could tangle in an hour. Well, Mr . Perry had thi :Ii h well hooked, 0 away he went, down deep and then up into the air, trying his

be t to hake the 9/0 on Hoff hook which pelled hi doom. He \ ould run almo t to the limit of the 150 yards of 18 thread, 54-pound te t, Cutt hunk line before 1r. Perry could 10\ him down, and then into the air he'd go again.
THI kind of battl went on for nearly thirty minutes, the fish making a total of 14 leaps before being worked close enough to the boat for gaffing. And b the time he was boated, the Pflueger Templar reel with which Mr . Perry' Calcutta rod wa equipped, had almo t worked completely clear of the reel seat. Man, that mu t have been a fight.

Just look at the picture of r. Perry and the tarpon and figure what ou would expect from thi Ii h that weiahed 90 pound and mea ured 5 fe t 9V2 inche long.
Thi catch really tarted things
going and the following day, July 11, three more taI"pon were caught in the same waters. Mr. Blanton Miller caught a 45-pounder, Mrs. J. H. Hopkin, Jr., caught a 38-pounder,
and J. H. Hopkin, Jr., landed a
third one that tipped the cale at 60 pound.
ince the e catche \ ere reported, Mr . Alfred W. Jones, of ea I land, caught a '46-pounder ju t off Light-
(Continued on page 30)

Mrs. A. H. Perry and Georgia's first tarpon of 1940. Mr. Perry is seated behind the fish.

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FLINGING BARBS TO BIGMOUTHS-W. F. Dew and Lee Evans know that bass and bream strike ferociously at the close of day in Dew's Pond, eight miles north of Fairmount. This pond is a favorite hangout for sportsmen as well as big bass.

Ponds and Lakes
OT so many year ago, the streams and natural lak Georgia were teeming with fish of many kinds. The
fish caught were taken by the crude methods of the red Those methods of fishing could never deplete the fish u
Then white man came. With him he brought the ax and with which he cleared and cultivated. Gradually, over a of two centuries, cultivated acres took the place of for Streams became muddy. Rivers and creek dried up in thc mer. Benefactors of fish life, such a the alligator, were k for their hides. Turtle and other predatory species incre As the fish decreased, the fishermen increased. Wasteful met of fishing were devised, such as eining, dynamiting and soning.
Today de pite restoration and protection work, the fi h lation of Georgia i increasing, but this increa e is low. Be
..... '.

PADDLES OWN CANOE-J. C. Fink, Lamar County sportsman, goes after bream at Etheridge's mill-pond, eight miles from Barnesville. He is drifting along in a canoe which he built with his own hands.

MAKING THE ROUNDS-Parrish's Pond in Emanuel County has long been a favorite spot for bass, bream and jack fishermen. The overseer of the pond is shown making his daily check-up in a small canoe. Two anglers are pole fishing for blue gills from the second pier.

HOME FOR BABY BASS-Rearing pools of the Cherokee County Game and Fish Club. Many ponds of this type are being built over the state. Fingerling fish are raised to legal size in these waters before being released into public streams.

BASS OR JACK-W. F. Gray knows it's a big one, whichever it is. The owner of this pond near Butler in Taylor County has just struck back and is beginning to play the fish as his paddler maneuvers the boat. This body of water has been yielding fish over 100 years.

Basis of Better Fishing
any real progre s is made, ba ic problenu; such a soil con"ervalion, water control and rehabilitation must be olved. ntil that time the olution of fishing in Georgia lies in artificial lake" and pond . Mauy such bodies of water already have been con tructed by landowner and portsmen.
Recently the orks Progress Administration offe:-ed aid in the construction of public fi h ponds and lake-. i\tany applications have come into the Divi ion of Wildliffl for help in building such ponds. A stale-wide project is contemplated by authorities. Observers declare that thi move will be the foundation of better fishing in Georgia. The Division of Wildlife has requested that such public agencie a cities, countie , and communities interested in the e tabli hment of such a project, write for application forms and details.

OLD STUFF-When an OUTDOOR GEORGIA photographer asked L. A. Wisenbacker and his son, Louie, for a picture on their pond near Lake Park, Wisenbacker flipped out his lure and went to war with a 21f4-pound bass as the shutters clicked. The bend of the rod in the owner's hand is a familiar scene.
ONE DOWN, ONE TO GO-Norris Lake, constructed a year ago, was stocked with 50,000 fingerling bass. H. C. Norris, shown in his favorite boat, claims that these fish already have grown to a pound. The lake, near Lithonia, will be opened to fishing next spring.

CONVERTED-Massey's Lake, near Macon, was converted into a commercial fish pond in 1937. Walter M. Massey Jr. is casting for bass in this 60-year-old pond.
FEEDING TIME-Durden's Pond in Emanuel County has "ducks on the pond" and fish in it. The ducks have come for a late afternoon handout from Virgil Durden.

An Instinctive Interest

BETTER hunting and better fishin"! Who is it that does not want both? What appeal i stronger to the normal boy-and man for that matter-than better hUllting and better fishing?
When the Division of Wildlife of Georgia, the Divi ion of ocational Education, and the Agricultural Extension Service announced a cooperative program in wildlife conservation, a wave of enthu ia m wept through the ch 0 0 I of the state. Rural boys and girl clamored for wildlife literature. Bulletins on wildlife added to the normal armful of textbooks, seemed to contribute nothing to the burden that buo ancy of enthusiasm did not offset. It was fun.
Interest grew. Officials in charge were astounded at what they had conjured up. Who would have thought that there wa so much latent enthusiasm for conserving wildlife pent up in the rising generation of Georgia.
In making it contribution to the cooperative enterpri e, the Divi ion of Vocational Education prepared a bulletin entitled "A Wildlife Program for Georgia Farms," mug in the belief that provisions had been made for two years' needs. But there was quick disillusionment. If omething were not done very quickly there, ould not be enough for one year.
aturally every boy wanted one of the bulletins, but that would not do. So, the edict was out: "The bulletins must be kept in the chool library and made available to students but are not to b charged out." It wa the only wa for every tudent to get a chance to use the bulletin.
Doubtless federal agencies are wondering what has happened in Georgia that 0 many request for wildlife publication have poured in upon them.
OF CO RSE, the Division of Wildlife, 0 desirou of starting somethin" with the schools, got hold of something with which it is wrestling mightily in it efforts to direct. The wildlife rangers, who have about three counties each to look after, are

running overtime to meet the demand of youthful conservationi t all the way from the gulche of Dade to the marshe of Glynn.
The bulletin "A Wildlife Program for Georgia Farms" wa authorized a a contribution to the program of better in truction in public schools. Between us, the ecret of it popularity is not that there is anything "better" about it, but it is the appeal of the subject matter. Children like to read about and learn more of the ways of wild animals. The mo tintriguing part of the bulletin i doubtles that part howing ho\ to tell the track of various wild animals. What a sati faction a boy get in saying he ha found the track of a fox, weasel, mink, raccoon and the like!
Boy are instinctively intere ted in , ildlife. So why not utilize that intere t as a springboard to launch them into constructive thinking about wildlife and then into action with home projects?
Along these paths of plea ant knowledge the stud nt pick up some broadening facts and experiences. He finds that some bird are harmles and are not the predator he once killed with satisfaction.
His mind is astounded at the enormous number of in ects injurious to farm crop , that common bird detroy each year, and that as friend they are to be protected and not killed just because they are bird. Thu the tudent become conservation minded.
Quail and fi h have been made subjects of home project in the cooperative Ulldertaking. iuch i to be learned about quail and fi h, their food, the nature of their habitats, their enemies, and their management, all of which is educati e.
FOR in tance, in studying quail, the student learns what grain and in eets it eat. Whether these are available in one form or another for the needs of the quail throughout the year, and if not, where he could plant feed crops in wa te place. Then he must think about covert to which the quail can fly to escape it winged predators; place where it can hide

it ne t and its chick. Predators mu t
be known and their, ays understood
if the are to be controlled, and thu the student extends hi knowledge of
bird life and predatory animal .
To operate a home project for fi h,
the student find it necessary to learn something about the kind and amount
of water the pool must contain, the
amount of hade, the desired aquatic
vegetation and the kind and amount
of food to be upplied, so that \ hen he has learned to operate his Ii h pool, he has had an introduction to the literature on Ii hand ha broad-
ened hi knowledge in an intere ting field of science.
It i so ordained that Georgia is a
tate of great natural resources, hap-
pily adj usted to the requirements of wildlife, with more than half the
tate' area in forests, with numerous
stream flowing southward through the tate, with coastal waters teeming
\ ith marine life, with ideal climate
for a great variety of wild foods.
Wildlife is here in Georgia and it can be made to contribute to the welfare of Georgia's people. It should
be dealt with intelligently. Study of wildlife therefore has a vital place in
the educational program of the state.
FISHERMAN'S PRAYER
"Give to us, 0 Lord, fair days. Lead us beside the still waters, rippling as the suu declines, with the gentle urge of the south wind. Embroider the banks of Thy streams with lacy finery of plumed and treathing tree. Prevent my flies from entanglement in their hair.
"Fire the forest with the crim 011 blaze of the cardinal, with the gold of the oriole and with the punctuating dots of the red wild raspberry.
HPermit me, too, to enjoy those trees 'that intimately live with rain,' and 'which lift their leafy arms to pray.' Permit the perfume of an ocean of wildflowers to permeate my nostrils. Direct my steps to a cool, gurgling, gushing spring, from which I may quaff the mo't glorious liquor in the world. May You see that my cup runneth over.
"Grant, 0 Lord, that the green pa tures through which I pass may prove a promised land. Temper the sun to a shrinking tender pink. Help me to appreciate, 0 Lord, Thy stream that laugh and chuckle as they dance, gleefully towarcl the di tant sea. Induce the birds, unfrightened, to ing as I lunch, my table a Rock of Ages. uffer the wild things to come to the brink, and drink, in confidence and in peace and in ~arety.
"Help me, 0 Lord, to cast my line in pleasant places. For me, Sir, unveil the unri es and feature the sunsets. Di cover to me the snow on the mountain tops; and the valley hade, that I may better appreciate Thy works.
H:\rake it plain that this earth i warm and friendly, and glowing and full of promi e. Let me be sure that Your rainbow arches for all. Aid me, 0 Lord, to see with penetrating eyes and to know with an understanding heart those natural wonders that God hath wrought, mine to enjoy as days too quickly pars. Interpret them in the imple word of a fi herman-St. Peter was of our clan.
"Do the e things, 0 Lord, I pray unto thee. nd although the creel may prove empty, and the rod broken, the line tangled and the /lies missing, thi will I know:
"That, patterned in Your Image, I shall return from the tream a better and a happier man, more fit to take up the routine of daily life. I will be aptly accoutered to trudge the long, long, trail which, 0 Lord, I pray, will lead to peace everlasting. Amen."
-The Ohio Conservation Bulletin.

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AuguBt 1940 OUTDOOR GEORGIA

Shooting Under Fire

T HROUGH eptember 1-21 at Camp Perry, Ohio, on the beautiful shores of Lake Erie there will be a gathering of some 6,000 or more riAe and pi tal shooter to participate in the ational RiAe and Pi tal matche. Thi i the large t annual porting e\ent in the nation, far urpa ing any other port in number of competitor. Team or indi\'iduals from 4 tates, Hawaii, Ala ka, Canal Zone and Puerto Rico, swaggering cow puncher from the far we t, trappers from the north, banker, broker and p licemen, hooters from every profesion, will be rubbing houlder and talking the same language-gun and hooting.
Vi ualize, if you will, a well-kept gras y firing line, nearly two mile long, lined with the nation' be t marksmen, far out on the edge of Lake Erie, the white, quare target with the tiny black spot in the center, looking like a strip of adding machine paper stretched acro s the horizon, a many a 2,000 hooters competing in one event. You can readily
ee that the winner of uch an event mu t be ab olutely right in eyerything he doe , holding wind-doping, coordination, equipment-pltl a lot of luck.
There will be no one man to dominate the matche , but there will be a hundred or a who are equally good, and the one who get the break will win, and by their can i tent hooting will place their name somewhere around the top. There are alway exception and ome unknown shooter may "click." It is this situation, more than anyone thing, that bring the e hooter back year after year. ome will eventually win, while others will never make the grade, although they will have a lot of fun in trying.
I \\ ELL remember my first trip to Camp Perry on the Georgia Civilian Team of 1929. I had only a few month experience in .30 caliber hooting, ju t a greenhorn among all the veteran expert
hooter, amazed by the great magnitude of things there, but I learned a lot under Captain \Villis . Hedden, . . A., our team coach. One day he had his old
o TDOOR GEORGIA August 1940

friend Lieutenant Sidney R. Hind, a fine long range hot and veteran of many International Free RiAe Team, to give u coaching at 1,000 yard. What a kick we got out of it when hooting ide by ide with him! He u ed a heavy barrel Martini Free riAe, and thi gave u a compari on of the equal value of each hot-our again this. \Vhen he left u on our own, it \Va difficult for u to tay on the paper.
At that time Johnny McDonald, of Atlanta, and I decided we would ne\'er be atisfied until we had a heayy barrel Bull gUll, and I wa determined to have one of tho e International Team hield ome day on my own hooting coat. But that's another story. Of all the matche at Perry the long range have more fascination for the majority of the shooter than all the others, and probably of all the matche at Perry the Wimbledon Cup match is the mo t ought after. It calls for two ighter and 20 hot for record at 1,000 yard. AllY riAe, allY

ight . It brings out each year the late t in heavy barrel Magnum and Springfield . The match wa won la t year by a young marine, Alfred L. vVolters. He et a world' record of lOO-27V u ing a \ inche ter lodel 70, 300 lagnum Bull Gun and \ estern handloaded match ammunition, th(" previou record was 100-19 s. I predict that thi record will be broken before long at Perry, providing, of cour e, the weather i favorable. Thi prediction i ba ed on the simple reason that the hooters now have a way paved for them, with the knowledge that uch a core i pas ible, herefore only dreamed about.
WITH the pre ent day long range riAe, uch a the lVlodel 70 Win-
che ter Bull gun or imilar arm designed for the 300 Magnum cartridge hooting accurately enou~h to break dinner plate at 1,000 yard, there i no reason why the record hould tand long,
(Continued on page 29)

Georgia's civilian rifle team, front row, left to right: Jimmy Holmes, Miller Gowen, Joseph Felker, Coach Ernest Sellers, Captain Johnny Norman, Lloyd Cummings. Back row: Russ
Vibberts, Oliver Nikula, Tom Riley, Arthur Ferguson, Rufus Evans.
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LUNKER

T H1 i the story of one big lunker that didn't aet away, even though he did pounce on a very mall bait. He was certainl the large t largemouth black ba taken on a fl rod in any of the water around Augu ta in 14 year, and is a likely nominee for the bigge t ever caught on a fly in Georaia.
The big fello, has given fl fi hermen ub tantial support in their argument that the long rod and mall lure will take big fi h, and he ha proven that there are till re ordbreaking bass in Georgia waters that can be caught if fishermen will ca t som thin a the want at them when they want it.
On the managerial end of the fly rod was Paul John on, pit her for the Augu ta Tiger in the outh tlantic Leaaue, and in the ba k end of the boat handlin a the paddle, wa Roy Krou e, ugu ta port man. The tI 0 ,ere fi hing in the Richmond Factory pond near ugu ta on the mornina of July 2 when they caught the ba which weighed 12 pound , after they carried him into the city to di pia him in a fishing conte t.
John on wa whipping the water of the run in the upper end of the pond about 6 a.m., when the old lunker truck hi lure. He wa u ing a ponge rubber water cricket, with a red body and white rubber legs, tied to a 2/0 hook. The bait, an underwater lure, wa being fished about four in he under the urface on a ize D line and a four-foot, la-pound te t leader.
T HE run in the pond i comparatively narrow at the pot where the Ii h struck, but John on and Krou said he put up a game fight
nevertheles , especially for a fi h of hi ize and one who e more or Ie
languid life in the till water of the pond had do u btl e affected hi tamina and fiahting abilitie .
Fortunately for the Ii herman, hi run were made down the stream
and Krou e followed him for at lea t 75 yard during the battle which con-
tinued for orne 15 minutes before he wa finall exhau ted and brouaht to the landina net.

The Ii h wa entered in an Auausta conte t and when weicahed in :t 12 pound wa found to be the larae t by fal, aught with a fly rod, fhat ha been e)_hibited in the Richmond County capital. ince the co n te t tarted 14 ear ago. ome Ii hennen expre ed the opinion that he wa the
Paul Johnson and his bass.
largest ever taken in Georaia water on a fl rod, \ hich, if true, mean that John on ha hung up a record for him elf, his Ii h and Georgia Ii hing.

Augusta Pitcher Fools 12-Pound Largemouth With Curve Fly on Outside

BACK TO NATURE

Continued from page 11
ear, while my hand quivered like a tuning fork.
"I b lieve you are cared,' remarked Jim Pan, critically. hat makes you hake o?'
"It' probably rheumati~m ' I a ured him, unwinding the snake, lipping it into the bag and breaking all peed record getting my hand away.
hortly after that rattle nake epiode, I he I aturali t, by fal e and flattering word, per uad d me to climb _everal para angs up a lofty tree to the ne t of a red-tailed hawk.
I poked my head over the side of the ne t I received a peck in the forehead from one of three half-fledged nestlings. I pre umed that the bird took me for orne kind of a bug climbing up the tree that way, and I can hardly blame him. In the nest wa a terile runt egg, alway a prize to ornithologist.

"There' a runt ega in the ne t,' I hellowed down to my friend, who had been itting in the hade fannin a him lf a he watched me labor up that tree.

'Bring it down he houted back excitedly. "Don't you fall, for I haven't aot one in my collection. '

I wa much touched by his olicitude for my afety. There i onl one way to carry an egg safely while climbing down a tree. Op ning my mouth a widely as pos ible, I inerted the egg and started down.
Everything went well until, about ix feet from the ground, a dead twig caught in my trousers and uddenl broke. I came down with a ru hand truck the ground with such force that I bit clear through that wretched ega.

IC

ay with the wi e kina of

1 rael: ' any w ate r cannot

quench it nor can the flood drown

it," referring to that egg, ,hich I

rearet to a , wa not quite fre h.

The laturali t wa much irritated,

aying that he had wanted that egg

for hi collection. I a ured him that

o far a I wa concerned, he , a

entirel y welcome to it.

ell anyway" aid the aturali t, half an hour later, a I rin ed my mouth for the fourteenth time at a little brook, 'you've had a real taste of 1 ature today"-and he wa qui te righ t.

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Al~gllst 1940 0 TDOOR GEORGIA

This Month's Cooer

T HE huntin<Y _ea on opened on u<Yu t 1 in 18 countie of northern Georgia on the gray quirrel. Thi is what in pired rti t Lane Gib on to collect hi brushe

of lea e and <Yra and hred of tree bark i protected from the element by the turd wall of the tree trunk which urround hi home.
In the ummer he chan<Ye his liv-

and paint and journey forth into the ing quarter. He makes a ummer

mountain fore t to find the cover house of twig and leave and bark

picture he painted for thi issue of
o TDOOR GEORGIA.
fter _everal day of watching the little gray animal and making many ketche, the ar-

hred in a winging arboreal fork. He spend the ummer in thi ventilated abode, and move back into hi winter quarter when icy wind blow.

tist finally found

the cene he

wanted. It wa

nacted on the

trong trunk of a

white oak. Sev-

eral m 0 r e days

were required to

complete the pic-

ture. He had put

away hi bru he

and paint - ev-

er thing but the

ea el and picture

when one of the

old timers hap-

pen d to ee him

from the r 0 ad

above. He came

down to ,here

Gib on at, look-

ing over the fini hed work.

An artist goes squirrel hunting.

The arti t, a little uncertain, watched the mountaineer out of the corner of hi eye. The old man looked first at the drawing then at the tree in front of the easel, back at the drawing and again at the landscape.

I N HI food habit the <Yray quirreI i omnivorou, that is, he eat both vegetable and animal matter. The squirrel is commonly pictured as living entirel on nut. Hickory nut, pecans acorn and other wild seeds form a lar<Ye part of hi diet where

and when they ar available. He also

"THAT' the fir t colored photygraph I ever seen," he finally
aid. "How long did ou have to et before them young quirrels come down on the tree to took like that? '
In gath ring information for hi picture, Artist Gibson learned a great man more fact than he wa able to

eats buds, fruit, roots, seed, and grain of many kind . When pressed for food, the even relish mu hroom . His animal food con i t of variou insect and their lar a of bird eggs and even young bird, when he can locate the nest and the parent bird are not too viciou in their defen_e.

pre nt on canvas. He learned, for

The squirrel ha many enemie.

in tance that the gray squirrel i by far the mo t plentiful squirrel of the Georgia \ ood . From the mountain to the coa t the lively little creature i found-from the woodlot behind the hou e to the city park, and to the va t wilderness area of the tate.
The gray i an intere tin<Y little animal. He makes his winter home

Be ide man, he must con tantly be on the lookout for hawk owl, weasels, foxe and even nake. At the first ign of danger the gra will flatten him_elf again t tree trunk, limbs or scamper ha tily to the shelter of the den tree.
When Arti t Gib on returned to the office with hi picture he brought with him a liberal art education on

high in the hollow of a tree. Hi ne t quirrels.

o TDOOR GEORGIA August 1940

GRAY SHADOWS
(Continued jrom page 12
near r to where I lood gradually took up the chorus. A whi tIe of W!n<Y overhead told me that mallard- were on their wa upriver to feed.
I moved on lowly down the creek. By now the un had climbed the re-t of the hill beyond Jeff Long hou e. It ent golden shafts of light to penetrate the thin colorful foliage and pot the brown swamp floor. I became con ciou of ma ive gray and brown tree trunk which oared to almo t incredible heights b fore their limb began. The rna sive dome of leave and twig and limbs, the ubdued color and textures and sound of the wamp forest-all gave me the arne humble feeling I had once experienced when I stood beneath the rna ive man-made dome of a world famous cathedral.
By now rpany of the squirrel had gone back to their nest or to their tree hollow home . I wa too imbued with the pirit of the morning to care. I walked on and on down stream, forgetting that I had a rifle in my hand forgetting Jeff Long' quirrel tew no longer even thinking of m leg ,hich \ ere 10\ ly con<Yealing in the frigid water of Big C pre . omehow the morning wa too perfect to again de ecrate it with the rattle of a rifle. Time and time again I pas ed up fleeting gra targets. Jeff Long voice tartled me.
"yo oRE \ alking too careles -like to kill quirrel." He was tanding on a shoulder of the creek leaning against the butt of an enormous poplar.
"Ho\ many did you get?" he asked.
I 10\ ered my eye III embarra ment.
Jeff, I mi ed every quirrel I _hot at."
He norted. "You ain't hot many time. I heard e~ery ound that came out of that pop-gun under your arm." "We eat bacon then, I aid only half hopefull . "I <Yot two old boo quirrel " Jeff replied. "I figured if I didn't, we wouldn't eat atal!." He looked at me u piciou ly. "You ain't 0 hot with a rifle. lext
time you can carr my 8-gauge hotgun."
I had no reply. My thought already had raced ahead to that avory dish of quirrel tew we would sit down to at noon.
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BOOK REYIEW

GEORGI

G IDE TO IT

TO N ID CO TRY IDE by

the Worker of the riter Pro-

gram of the Work Progre dmini tration. 1940. The niver ity of Georgia Pres, then, 559 pp.
2.50. Georgia' complete tory at la t ha b en told-one that bring into focu to national resource, culture, and products that ha made the large t ta~e ea t of the Mis i ippi one

of the mo t important.

The book brin<Y out fact that few native Georgians kno\ of their own tate. It i widely known that W B, Georgia oldest radio tation, wa the fir t in the nited tate ponored by a new paper, the fir t to

feature regular nightly program, the fir t to employ a broadcasting slogan, and the fir t to ound mu ical not -

for station identification?

ot only i Georgia' hi tory and

background given, but the fir t part of the book i divided into ection

that portray the natural re ource , arch olo<Yy a<Yriculture, indu try

tran portation, religion, e d u at ion, art, literature and mu ic for which Georgia i reno, ned. Thirty automobile tour are completely outlined, with all the landmark not d and the

tory behind each full told. Georgia too often ha been regarded a the tate ju t north of THE vacation

tate.

The beauty of the book i deri ed from it picture. There are 64 page depicting landmarks of intere t, beau-

tiful old home, scenes from the state's in d u t r ie, natural enic beauty, views of Georgia cities,

chool and colleges, and her recreation and vacation spot . The book i conveniently divided into four part -the fir t giving the general ba kground of Georgia. The econd part, that of cities pre ent Atlanta, ugu ta, a annab, Macon Columbu and Athen with a map of each ho\ ing the point of intere t in each

town.

The third part outline thirt tour ranging all 0 er the state, with detailed de cription of town, illage and countr ide. Each tour is a com

plete guide to that _ection of the tate.

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Perhap of greate t intere t to Georgia port men i the part of the book devoted to wildlife. Beside a report from the nited tate Biological urvey, Ii ting the kind of game in the tate and the approxi mate number and location of each there i intere ting information conerning wildlife refuge and game management area.
" tudie of the Biolo<Yi al urvey show that the Okefenokee wamp i becoming increasingly important a a winter refuge for migratory waterfowl at variou time of the ear. The wood duck i a ear-round inhabitant that breed in the quiet, ilderness, and in recent years the ring.necked, pintail, and black duck have come in increa ing numb I' for a winter home. As many a 85 pecies of bird have been recorded here in the sum-

mer and 90 in the wint r. Robins. car dinal, woodp cker, ruby-cro~vned kinglet, red-\ in<Yed blackbird en-
Ii en the \ amp with their color and
ong. Food plant for, aterfO\ I and

bird are abundant.

"In the ,ater are more than 50 pecie of fi h. includin<Y , armouth

pick reI, short no d <Yar-, ucker,

perch, catfi h, jackfi h and large-

mouth ba ."

The book, which i a part of the

merican Guide rie ,l attractive and, ell-edited and would be a com-

pliment to any library. In a pocket

in ide the back cover of the book i a lar<Ye map of G orgia howing cities,

airport,

. and tate highwa s,

cenic view boating, hunting, .Ii h-

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KATHLEEN CRuce.

HUNTING TARIFF
(Continued jrom page 10
We can and hould aet together. But whether adjoining tate will reciprocate or not, I propose that:
1. Georgia make its resident and non-resident fees identical and publicize this change a widely as possible.
2. We take the matter up with adoining state and ask for reciprocal treatment. Failing to get it (as we probably will) lose no opportunity to point out the difference in license fees to citizens of

tho e states and endeavor to attract them to our fields and stream in ever increasing number.
In clo ing let me remind you again that this i YO R magazine, to reflect the , i he of the port men of Geor<Yia. I , ould like a letter or a card from every sub criber of the ma<Yazin <Yiving me the benefit of hi opinion on thi- radical change. I am advocatin<Y it per on all . I do not in thi olumn reflect the editorial
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August 1940 OUTDOOR GEORGIA

FROM GEORGIA ED.IORS

Why Not Georgia?
The extent to whjch wild:ife work in Georgia has been neglected - 0 tensi bly through lack of fund is indicated in a report of the Bureau of Biological urvey which state tl,at 196 federal aid wildlife re toration project have been appl"oved in the past 21 month. There are none for Georgia.
The projects include re earch into problems of wildlife management, re toration of area of land or water to provide additional benefits for all forms of wildlife, and acqui ition of lands for wildlife management and breeding areas. Georgia needs projects of each type, not alone one. An opportunity has been presented for the work with ule tate contributing only 25 per cent. of the cost. Either through lack of fund or lack of foresight nothing yet ha been obtained by thi state, potentially one of the greatest wildlife area of the nation.
Alabama, for example, is having made a state-wide urvey of wildlife re ources.
orth Carolina has obtained even project for variou types ranging from a urvey of farm game management practices operating under field conditions to the development of new refuge. South Cal"oljna ha centered its effort on the reestablishment of quail on improved area in two projects. Tenne_ ee also has obtained two projects. The e nearby state nly Florida of the sUHounding state ha not yet joined in the program-are concentrating upon the development of wildlife re ource for the benefit of their sport men and a an additional lure for the lucrati e touri t trade. Georgia, with equal or greater facilities, doe nothing.
ndoubtedly great strides have been made in wildlife work in the state recently, but the unan werable fact remain that not enough ha been accomplished earlier to provide the groundwork for taking advantage of thjs government a istance.-AtLanta Call titution.
Go Easy on Deer
Report come to this office to the effect that several deer have been seen in various sections of the county and that some per on are contemplating organizing hunting partie to exterminate them.
One hould go mighty slow in this, as these deer were originally placed in nearby countie by the government and a heavy penalty faces anyone shooting them.Buchanan Tribune.
Pollution Blamed
Fishermen in thi section are becoming distre ed over the great number of dead fish found in the Ochlochnee river and are calling upon the state game department to do omething about it. Unfortunately, thp. game department can do nothing. The fault lies in the inadequate s~ptic tanks of the City of Thomasville. Until a modern sewage di po al plant is built, the fish will

li~ell' keep on dying, and the community WIll be lucky if only fish are affected.Thomasville Press.
More Help Needed
Georgia 4-H club members and the wildlife ranger are doing a great deal to fo ter the game and fish supply of the state_ A little more attention to conservation of our wildlife will see the state reap a wonderful harvest from this ource of income.-Valdosta Times.
Eight's enough, (two under the limit) observes N. S. Noble, managing editor of The Atlanta Constitution, who is shown with
rainbows taken from Dick's Creek.
Action For Protection
The pre ervation of wildlife in Geergia eem to be a matter of continued and keen interest. The federal government i much concerned over tlu problem and 0 are tho e who are commi sioned to see that the state game laws are obeyed.
Attention ha been called to this phase of Georgia life by a provision in the general presentments of the grand jury of the Superior COUl"l of Montgomery county. This wa the item in the presentment that has attracted the notice of w-ildlife enthuia ts:
We recomnlend to the Director of Wildlife of Georgia that the eason for killing deer in said county be closed for the period of five (5) year, and that the director put in force this reCQJnmendation so a it will be unlawful to take or kill any deer in said county for the period of five (5) years.

The open season for deer hunting in Georgia i now very hort compared to what it was ill former year. 'JlI-lere wa a time when deer or other game could be killed at any time in Georgia, but intelljgent legi lation has brought an end to thjs. The deer in outh Georgia, we believe, has increased considerably in numbers under the pre ent clo ed eason plan. But the thinking men of Montgomery county mu t be concerned over the rapid di appearance of deer in that ection. Otherwi e they would not have had their grand jury take uch action as tlu .
Deer should be protected and if they are being killed out in Montgomery county a closed sea on for a five-year period might be a de irable provision.- avannah Pres.
Protection Need
promjnent Broxton CIllzen recently made the ob ervation that if ilie area along the Ocmulgee River was protected for three to four year it would become one of the fine t bunting pre erve in the outh without restocking it with deer and turkey. He told of eeing a flock of 20 or more young lurkey in ~he wamp section thj spring.
Each year turkeys and deer aTe ki led indi crimjnately. yet they continue, de pite all the de tructiveness, to inhabit the section. Would that some way could be found to protect the river wamp for a di tance of fifteen to twenty mile for a period of year" .-CoUee County Progres .
Profit or Politics
Dr. Clahu Lloyd, president of the county game and fi h club and wildlife enthu iast, ha ju t relea ed a bit of material to how the advantages of th seven-man commi-
ion to head the tate wildlife divi ion as again t the present inefficient, wasteful, abominable political set-up. The Eagle comm nd the sportsman and Ullst the voter wi U e to it that the gulJernatorial candidate who pledge lumself for such a program is given their upport.
Georgia received 155,000 for its wildlife development la t year, under its political y tem. 'i i consin, under a commjs ion form, received 1,004000. And that morethan-one-million-dolJars was expended in streams and fields, enriching the farmer, the landowner and giving the hwller and fi herman omething to go after.
Last year, Wiscon in, under a commission, reI e a sed 213,000 quail; Georgia [limed loose Ie than 7000. Wi consin gave farmer-bot club nearly 50,000 quail eggs. Georgia gave none.
Governor Rivers spouted a lot of weasel words about a commission form and then did nothing about it. The pre ent candidate are being approached and a ked to I nd their support. statement from them should be forthcoming oon, but if none doe, then the voters should repudiate lhem, one and all.
There are millions of dollars in cold cash awajting the farmers and landowners if the wildlife of the state i developed. There is relaxation and sport awaiting the hunter and fisherman. But the governor and en ators and representatives must change the pre ent hopele s me s and inaugurate a sy tem iliat work .
Politic ha ruined wildlife in Georgia long enough. It is time for the tables tv be turned.-Gainesville Eagle.

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FISHPONDING
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lever include logs in the dam to save dirt for this will be a source of trouble when the log deca . Where the water head is Ie s than 8 feet it is not necessary to make tamped cores, etc.
Most dams are built too narrow and with sides too steep. I suggest a two-foot slope to one-foot rise. That is, a dam five feet high and five feet wide on top should have a base of 25 feet, ten feet for lope on each side, plu the five-foot center. The ideal would be three to one, for that is about the ratio where the lapping of waves cease to cut away the dilt. The two-to-one ratio i practical and can be u ed by planting a grass sod when the dam i finished. Where possible, the dirt should be taken from above the dam so that the excavation will be in the pond when finished. Never dig the dirt from near the dam, for you might want to raise it later and hence widen it. All later addition and repair hould be added on the upper side of an old dam for this new dirt tends to be pushed against the old and pack, thereby ealing and stopping ~eeps and crayfish holes, decayed root crevices, and other flaws. The wind board, or that distance from pond level to top of dam, should never be less than two feet. On large pond or those with large watersheds thi should be increased, as the more water going over the spillway the higher the pond level.
T HE next and important part of the dam is the spillway. Its size i determined by rainfall, slope of land, speed of water run-off and size of watershed. The spillway must be built to accommodate the "floods," the ones that come once in 10 or 20 years. The spillway can be made of wood, brick, rock or cement. It consists of a level spillway with wings at each end and a trough at the bottom to stop the eroding force of falling water. The cheapest pillway to build is one that will empty at the side of a pond. The water pour over and meanders off gradually to the branch far below the dam on exactly the same principle a a terrace.
The most common mi take is making the spillway too narrow. Thi is false economy, becau e the wings are about one-half of the expense and they are the same whether the spillway is wide or narrow. Only a little more material i required to make the spillway wider and in so doing decreasing the required safety margin of water level to top of dam, and

what is more, decreasing your chance of losing the pond when the flood does come. Always make the dam highest in the center 0 in case water goes over, it will run around the end rather than make an expensive middle break. A safety pillway of dirt sodded in grass far to one side i always good insurance. This is merely a lowest point where high water can go around with least damage.
The wings of a spillway are merely to protect the sides from the flowing water. They may be made strong and u ed as a foundation for bridge in case the dam i to be used as a roadway.
T HE trough is an important part of the spillway, but many times is overlooked. Properly made, it is merely a floor from two to six feet wide at the bottom of the spill way for the water to fall on. At the outer edge a lip i built up four to six inche . The trough hold four to six inches of water so that the water falling over with force i cushioned and the force spent in the curl made on hitting the lip. This means that the water leave the pillway witnout power of suction, which undermines a spillway without a trough.
Many types of pill ways are in u e and each ha advantage and disadvantages. The hidden or culvert spill way consist of a quare, oval or circular spillway in the pond near the dam. Water flows over and is conducted away through a pipe under the dam. This type spillway usually has an opening in the bottom or side for draining the pond. This is a fine type of spillway, especially where a road goes across the dam. The main disadvantage is ex-
pense of construction. The center-of-dam, over-flow type
spillway usually is made with a removable section for draining the pond. This type is expensive because of the amount of material required. Cost is somewhat lessened by its taking the place of considerable dirt for building dam. With this type it is well to bank dirt on the upper side of spillway to Ie sen chances of seepacre under foundation.
The side-of-pond, over-flow spillway is probably cheape:>t to build and erves the purpose. It is easy to get good foundation, there is little pressure to cause seepage, and the amount of material required is minimum. Thi type has the disadvantage of no drainage unless a drain pipe is buried in the center and under the dam.

August 1940 OUTDOOR GEORGIA

with JOHN W. BEALL
Violators and Their Methods

T HE Divi ion of Wildlife ha 6O-odd rangers in uniform ubject to call any where within the state. Each ha a territory of hi own to patrol regularly, generaIJy two or three countie. call may be expected any time during the day or night, 0 a ranger i on duty 24 hour each day. _even day a week.
In the law book of Georgia i a ection which permit ining in the Broad River from July 15 to ugu t 15, provided the per on eining have the proper fi hing Ii cell e and u e legal me h nets_ One afternoon during thi period la t month the ranger who patrol the Broad River ection called for help with patrol work. In thirty five minutes two ranger had reported and
ofour hours and fifteen minut after the io-nal wa given fourteen ranger had answered the call and were checking licen e , making ca e against violator and performing other duties required of wild]jfe ranger.
There were 135 per on on this eining expedition and naturally thi was a problelll that required the alLention of rangers until the ru h wa over. This nleant a ranger' campfire, for at lea t a night.
Due to the well-organized plan that previously had heen made by the di trict chief for uch emergency ca e one per on had a umed aU re ponsibility of e t tin g up camp_ ite wa selected in an open place "hich wa urrounded by ov rhanging tree and thick mldergrowth-about half a mile from the river. The tent was pitched and cot placed for eight men_ Half of them re ted at various interval during the night, every four hour exchanging a cot for patrol watch. camp fire wa bui-t and upper prepared. for one of the fixed rules when rangers are working in !!roup is "good meal must alway be prepared and erved on time.'
On thi particular occa ion the man in charge of the camp elected a site in a hurry and it wa about three o'c1ock in the morning when one shift of men realized that camp was pitched in a swamp pa ture. True storie had been exchano-ed, experience related in length had cea ed and nothing wa left of the camp fire but moldering coals when a noi e broke 100 e from the wamp that ounded like a group of aIJigators at a convenlion in the Okefenokee wamp. The ound circled the group twice and then approached the tent from the rear. ix ranger rushed out almo t at the arne lime and found a buH about ten feet from the tent. This big bovine wa mad about omething. He excavated dirt

all over the place. He 10\ ered his head as if to get up team to move the tent out of the pa ture. He finally disappear d in the wood again hut pa modic bellow kept everyone on watch the re t of th night.
uch trip hring to mind other _imi!ar occa ion that happen often in the lives of rangers. On uch trip around the camp fire while the coffee i boiling and the egg and bacon are getting cri p you hear intere ling alld true experiences. On my last trip , ith such a group I wa determined
to make mental notes of the report on the various way per ons u e to violate the
law or tried to outwit the uniformed hrigade. A good ranger enjoy unu ual cir-

cum tance that lead up to an apprehenion or prevention of some illegal act, but eldom relate any of hi activitie to individuals. How vel' around the camp fire with ranger a an audience he i eager to tell of hi experience.
"What kini of fish trap are they u ing in your section this year?' )OU a-k.
"Ill the muddy water I find wire ba-ket anywhere from three to six feet long with a muzzle from one to two feet wide and baited mostly with peanut m al cakes, cotIon seed meal cake . corn, bread or cantaloupes. I 0 imilar hasket made from white oak trip in tead of wire are u ed.

Junior Ranger Sam PloH of Murray County (left) and Wildlife Ranger Glenn Bryant with fish baskets taken from the Conasauga River and quail traps found in Murray County fields.

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Per~on fishing with thi type of basket are not tying wire to the ba ket and 10" or limb, but sinking them, mo t of the time, in deep waters. When they fi h them a long pole with a hook on the end is used to lind the ba ket. Thi makes them harder to find but 1 located one last week that take the prize. It was unk in water about ten feet deep near where the mouth of a clear tream emptied into the river. It wa baited witll a flash light. A two cell fla h Ught was sealed in a fruit jar, \ itch left on and this put in the back end of th 4
basket." Another ranger spoke up: "1 found ome
basket in tIle Chattahoochee River two or three week ago that were made by tretching nets around white oak hoop. Two of the e were between fifteen and twenty feet long with a ix-foot diameter at the en
trance of the trap."
"On the Ogeechee River the traps are built and fished entirely different. Most of them are smaU box-like traps made of wire and put under logs and on points near the bank. 0 bait is used in these traps, for the secret in catching fi h in these trap i setting
them where the fish run."
"j\fo t of my stream and lake are clear and 1 have plenty of trouble with fellow gigging fish, mostly at night. When they use torches, fla h light, gas lantern or earch light with batterie you can see them several hundr d yard and they're easy to apprehend. A few night ago 1 found some fe!lows gigging and with a strange device. I will hav to admit [ ju t tumbl d on to them for the way they were fixed I never would have been able to ee them at any di tance. It was a fishing pole with a gig pu hed several feet up one end. Attached to the end of the pole in the water wa an electric light and a wire that was attached to the po: and extended into the boat and fa tened to a battery. A trigger wa made into the handle and wide rubber band were u ed to et up force and shoot the gig into the fi h. Tbe boat was moved lowly a:ong the tream with ligbt and gig under water and the rubber band trigger et to fire the gi" about t~vo feet with terri6c force. With such a deVIce the gigger could not be seen, for the light was under water and the aim was certain even with amateurs. All they had to do wa to place the fork part of the gig ju t over the 6sh and relea e tIle rubber band and the pear would shoot into the target.'
"My biggest headache is per on u ing gill net and trammel net. They et them when the 6 h are bedding and cut stream off during high water. However I had an unusual experience in a pond la t summer. The pond wa mall but deep and when I arrived on the cene a motor wa running and they bad pumped over haa of the water out with a large suction pump. This pond had lot of 6 h and these men were preparing to pump enough water out so they could eine the fi h.
,. few people have been bad about hooting. poi oning and dynamiting fish in my section. e have been checking 0
10 e on iliese type of violation that the
report came to me ju t before 1 left on
thi a signment that a man had a machine
hooked up to generate enough electricity
to charge a deep bole in tbe tream and
kill the fi h. l"U be checking on that:'
"There eems to b a feeling down in
my territory, with a few old timers, that
the only way to catch fish i to grabble
them. ' triking' fish and 'muddying' fi h
al 0 were common pra tices until recently.

In larger and deeper tream fi hermen take torches or search lights at night in one hand and a piece of iron rod about thre feet long in the other. Fi h will come to the top of the water when they ee a light and one stroke of an iron rod kill them:'
"I apprehended a group of men this summer poisoning fish by beating up green walnut into a fine pulp and pUlling them in the tream. This
L. A. LANFORD
Ranger L. A. Lanford, 38, of tone Mountain, has b en claimed by the old man with the ickl who patrol the happy hunting "round. Lanford died at hi home July 16 following an illne that had do"ged his heel for everal months. The ranger joined the taR" la t eptember and did out tanding work between trip to the ho pitat. He made a courageou fight against odd that were too h avy for any man to handle. In addition to hi regular dutie Lanford contributed outdoor features to the DeKalb ew Era and other paper. Wildlife ranger of the Piedmont District were honorar pall beaJ'er at the funeral.
is a deadI)' poison and these men realize the eriousne of uch a practice now. They were handled by a stern judge."
"Certain individuals are always trying to twist the law and thi wa the ca e on Jackson Lake when two men fa tened three boat together, extended wire netting three feet above tIle boat and about three f et below. By moving uch a contraption lowly along the bank ba and pickerel are forced to jump into the boat. Thi ha been ruled an illegal device so [ hope I won't have any more trouble with the e parties."
The most inter ting part of a ran"er' work in apprehending violator i beating the grapevine. The grapevine method of communication i a wireles , inde cribable procedure, but is ure notice from one violator to another that a ranger is omewhere in tIle territory. t time per~on will even call from one town to another notifying where the ranger i and the per ons will hurry to 6 h tbeir ba kets before the ran"er has time to get to that section.
ALLIGATORS
(Continued from page 14
During the net i nO" ea on the males are ver noi y and quarrelorne and it i best at this time to leave both the 'O"ator and the nest alone, for sometime re entment i expressed in no un ertain tone .
Well, we have depleted our sto k of alligators and are reapinO" the reward. What are we goinO" to do about it? Of our e, we can leave what f w we have left alone and let th m multiply. Thi hould be done and we should try to RE TORE AT RE' BAL-

ANCE but it will take a number of year. In the meantime, let' keep down the number of terrapin and hold them in check as much a poible.
This can be done through the liberal u e of turtle traps. Placed at variou trategic point in a pond, it i urpri ing the number that can be taken from a small body of water.
A CHEAP and effective trap may be made of chi c ken wire, haped like the fi h ba keto It hould be large and roomy and the entrance hould be oval shaped instead of round. It should be large enough for a terrapin to pass through and large enough to allow any fish to escape which might happen to enter the trap. Bait it with old beef, a mall rabbit or the entrails from a chicken. Vi it your trap often to free any fish taken and remove the terrapins a the oon die in thi trap.
Another effective trap i a barrel, submerged in the water to within a few inche of the top. Place a lanting board up on the trap that lopes off into the water. Bait this with any kind of meat or fish thrown into the bottom of the barrel. Terrapins falling into this trap remain alive and tho e turtle good for food may be taken home to the pot.
H we tr at nature fairly and give her a helping hand when we can we will be fully repaid in time.
A party from Atlanta after buitding a cottage on lake Blackshear and Cedar Creek said, "t do not see how we: built such a nice cottage, on such a beautiful location, near such good fishing for so little money,"
A few choice lots left. Phone or write-
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CORDELE, GEORGtA

FISH in the famous OGEECHEE {(IVE{(

On Federal Highway o. 80 21 miles from Savannah

Good Boars

Picnic Grounds

Modern Hotel Dining Room

All accommodations for a pleasant fishing trip

Write or phOl,e
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FISHING LODGE

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SHOOTIIG
(Continued from page 21)
although the old record was many years in the making. Thousand-yard shooting calls for all of a rifleman' skill, his keenest judgment in wind doping and the be t of holding.
The 300 Magnum no doubt is the finest commercial loaded match cartridge on the market for such work. Since 1935 when Ben Comfort won the vVimbledon at Perry under difficult conditions scoring lOO-I4V , it has been top each year. Last year in the Herrick Trophy Team Match the Marine Team scored 800-800 pin I23V, an average of I5V per man, a new world's I'ecord, using the 300 Magnum Western load. This giant .30 caliber cartridge, firing a ISo-grain bullet at a velocity of 3,160 feet per second in a 30-inch barrel owes its success to les er wind drift and its fine accuracy.
Jut by the way of tarting something new, I would like to see the 2So Dubiel i(agnum take the Wimbledon this year, this i the 300 Magnum case necked to .28 caliber. While there would be no increase in velocity, the long ISo gram bullet would be better, ballistically, than the .30 caliber 180 grain and would offer Ie s wind resistance. John Dubiel was a firm believer that thi cartridge was superior to any other at 1,000 yards and" was to ship me a rifle for test along with the 300 Magnum I wa having built. But unfortunately he died before it wa completed, and I never had the opportunity to give it a trial. ome shooters now are haying target rifles built for the .30 caliber Newton cartridge. It i rimle s, with a greater powder capacity than the Springfield, and can be u ed in shorter actions than the long Magnum. 1 can ee no advantage in this cartridge, however, over the 300 Magnum. I prefer the Belted Magnum case. It is easier to get correct head space with this case than with the rimle .
o shooter's training is complete until he takes at least one trip to Camp Perry.
CIVILIAN hooter having a 1,000yard range at their convenience are very fortunate. The long range are becoming more scarce each year, therefore the majority of civilians cannot hope to compete on equal term with member of the fine Service teams who go up three month before the matches begin, and learn every breeze by its first name.
everthele ,they are having to look to their laurels in many ca es. In 1938 John A. Norman, of Macon, won the Camp Perry Instructors Match with a possible SO-7VS. Johnny again will represent Georgia this year at Perry on the Civilian team.
Five of the new highly-touted M-l Garand semi-automatic rifle will be isued to each team at Perry. It will be intere ting to watch the reception this new rifle receives at this world's hardest boiled small arm te ting ground.
Georgia will be represented by one of the strongest Ci vilian team in years, for fiye times over the tryout course on di fferent days, and conditions this team averaged IS points per man higher than the 1939 team. Earnest eller, a veteran of many Camp Perry Matches and econd place winner of the vVimbledon Match in J935, will coach the team. Johnny Norman is captain. Georgia may well be proud of such a quad, under the leader hip of the e experienced officials,

and we hall be eagerly awaiting the reports from Perry.
Here is the team: John A. Norman, captain, Macon; Earnest E. S llers, coach, Atlanta; Arthur Fergu on, Macon; Rufus R. E\'ans, Macon; Lloyd D. Cumming, Columbus; George VI/. Cook, Atlanta; Oliver A. Nikula, Macon; Miller Gowen A t Ia n ta; Luther R. Gower, Atlanta; Ru s E. Vibberts, Atlanta; Peter Con 0, Savannah; Jame R. Donovan, Savannah; James O. Holmes, Atlanta; Joe. K. Felker, Jr., Decatur.
Left to right: 300 H. and H. Magnum, .30 caliber Newton, 3006 Springfield, and .22
long rifle.
MOUITAII MARAUDER
(Continued from page 9) ute the old mountaineer talked in low, eager tone to hi hounds under the front porch. There was a rattle of chains, and the wind snatched away all other sounds.
Dawn had thrown its gray tints over the mountain world before Zeb returned. He chained hi tired dogs and went into the kitchen where Sue wa preparing breakfast. The woman turned a menacing glare upon him.
" ow, Sue," he said. "Don't 'Sue' me, ' she retorted. "At your age, you're liable to catch your death of cold in the mountains." "I'd rather die of pneumony," Zeb replied, "than starve to death." He returned to the living room where he made a fire and warmed his hands over the blaze. Half an hour later, when Dearborn made his appearance in th kitchen, breakfast was ready. They ate a mea-

ger meal of biscuits, sow belly and black coffee. The Silvy household
wa clo e to the end 0& its supplie .
Dearborn wa drinkihg hi second cup of coffee when Zeb aro e without a word and left the room. In less than five minutes he returned, and with a sudden motion of his hand, flung the fresh skin of a huge pan ther across the table, in front of Dearborn.
"There she is," he said, "and she' worth one hundred dollars."
Sue started. Dearborn spilled coffee in his lap. He reached for the skin.
"MY GOD, man! Where'd you get it? "
"On the mountain," said Zeb" "last night."
Dearborn felt the skin with his fingers to see if it wa real. He looked up at Zeb, his face a picture of mixed emqtions.
"You're a fast worker," he said.
"Yeah," admitted the old moulltaineer, "I kind of get things done that oughter be done. That skin'll cost you one hundred dollars."
Dearborn smiled wryly. He reached into his inside pocket and extracted his check book. With fingers that trembled a little he wrote Zeb's name on the blank line.
"You certainly must have had that big boy tied out somewhere," he commented.
The sun had climbed upward far enough to thrust its face through a ragged hole in the gray heavens when the game warden left.
Zeb and Sue tood on the porch and watched him trudge out of ight down the road. When he had disap peared, the woman turned and faced her hu band.
"Zeb, where'd you git that skin? You didn't catch it last night."
"Why, gal," he protested, "what makes you think I didn't?"
"I'd a 'heard you yellin' all the way down Cabin Cover if you had."
ncle Zeb chuckled.
"You're dead right, Sue," he aid.
"I potted him over on the new game refuge yesterday morning where I was trying to git a shot at a deer. I went back and skinned him last night."
The fir t Geor<Yia Department of Game and Fish wa et up by legislative action in 1911. Out of this organization grew the present Divi sion of Wildlife.

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"THE OLD SALT SEZ"
(Continued from page 17)
hou e in t. imons ound, and Captain . O. Harrison of avannah Beach caught an 85-pounder in a ound near avannah Bea h. Captain Harri on' ilver kin" made 14 runs and 10 leap before being brou"ht in, and ha au d a lot of avannah fishermen to break out their heavy tackle for a tr at the arne thing.
o you don't have to go any farther than the Georgia coa t to find all the tarpon fi hin" you want. The re there for anybody that i equipped to take them. At Dover' BlufI near the mouth of the atilla Riv r, a party fishing for channel ba had to stop becau e tarpon were hitting so hard that they were 10 ing tackle ju t as fa t as th y could rig up. At Warsaw Island, near avannah Beach, one party had sev n trike from tarpon, getting from one to three leap from each fi h before they broke 100 e.
either of these partie wa equipped to do battle with a tarpon-th ir outfit were either too light or the did not have enough line. I ha e received any number of report of tarpon all alon" the coa t. They have b en en at olf I land, Egg I land, Cumberland I land, Hampton Ri er, Turtle River, t. Catherine ound, 0_ abaw ound Green I land ound at the mouth of the Ogeechee Ri er,
ar aw ound Bull River Tybee Inl t and other places that I an't call to mind. A look at an coa tal map will how you that these place ju t about cover the Georgia coa t.
4.! D now, I gue s ou wallt to f t know what you have to do to
catch a tarpon. The fir t thing to do i to get a guide who know ,here they are. You'll find these at avannah or t. Simon -this I am sure
of, and there are probabl other nearb place that can furni h adequate guide ervice. p to now no bod had reall gone out for tarpon in Georgia water and all of the fi h-
in" camp are not yet prepared. Guide boat captain at avannah and t.
imon can furni h ou with the
nece ar ta kle if ou don t ha e it, but it i much better to 0\ n our own outfit, and thi i the econd im-
pOltant thing to ob erve. Tarpon have been caught on orne
rather que tionable ri"s, but I had rather pend a little more and get an outfit that I have confidence in than to have something hit-or-mi s. Here's
what you need. A good aIt water rod at lea t seven feet from butt to
tip; a tar drag reel with a capacity

of 200 yards of 18 thread, 54-pound te t, Cuttyhunk line' line for the reel, equivalent to 18 thread 54pound te t; a ix-foot wire leader (stiff wire about 90-pound te t is better), and about a 9/0 hook. For bottom fi hin" for tarpon, u e a inker ju t above the leader, heav enou"h to cany the line to the b Hom again t the tide, and a medium- ize crab for bait. You can u_ the crab, law, hell and feeler, but ou'll handle it beller if ou remo e the claw- and hook him near the point of the shell from bottom to top. For drifting, and what you might call top fi hing, remove the inker, and use either whole or strip mullet, or a mall catfish for bait. In u ing catfi h, cut off the dor al fin near the body and hook the catfi h through the body ju t under the dor al fin. For trolling, an a ortment of feathered jigs i recommended, some u ed with trip bait and orne without. orne, or all of this, may be confu in", but you can depend on your fi hing "uide to tell you hOI to rig up and hook your bait properly. nd after all you ve got to depend on him an how be cause tarpon are cau"ht with different rig under diff rent condition and you can t er well know what to u e in the wa of bait or lure until you get to the fi hing grounds.
N0W, don't "et the idea that to
catch a tarpon, all you have to do i have the proper outfit and go wher they are running. tarpon' mouth i about a hard a any rock you've ever seen, and th yare not ea y to hook. ome xperienced fi hermen say that one tarpon cauO'ht for eery seven hooked is a good average. Others put the odd hi"her and some 10\ er. But, and thi i the thing, even though you hook and lose a dozen, to fight and win the on ou do bring in is worth all the time and money you pend to get him. If you doubt thi, just talk to a man or woman who ha caught on .
Tarpon will be running in water alon" the Geor"ia oa t through the month of eptember. 0 you've got a little time left to "et our during the current ea on. And before I forget it, I d better tell ou that tarpon are not caught a Ion" wa from shore. They are u ually caught in inlet, ounds and tidal ri er , so you don't have to worry much about getting easick. And now that ou know where they are and how it' done, pack your duffie ba" and go get your tarpon.

YOU NAME IT!
This drawing is the right foot of an an,ma'" that is destroying chickens, turkeys and guineas in Bulloch County. The person who submitted it to County Agent Byron Dyer said that this is the actual size of the track left by the unidentified marauder, which has been so elusive in its predations that nobody has seen it. Fox hounds, coon dogs and possum dogs have refused to run it. Its
tracks are from 2'12 to 3 feet apart, accord-
ing to Dyer. Here is a good chance for you sleuths of the woodlands to exercise your imagination. The first person to identify the track wins permission to trap the "ghost" animal.

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CIRCUIT WRITER
(Continued from page 16)
Ketchin. The following hi tory is given:
"On July 17, ju t as day was breaking I was aroused by my dog barking and fighting; when I went out in the yard I saw only my dog, but the fox ran up behind me and bit me. I ldlled the fox with a hoe."
10. On July 25 we received an order from Ihe niversity Hospital at Augusta for six anti-rabic treatments. The patienls are residenls of Blythe, which i localed in both Richmond and Burke counties. The foUowing information was supplied with Ihe order:
"The history of this is that a cow was bitten by a mad fox and the family exposed 10 saliva from cow."
The following additional information accompanied the returned treatment blanks:
"The cow was a pet and was bitten by an unknown animal. The fox bit the mule the next day. The fox wa killed by the owner of the mule."
FISH PONDS
A good fi hing hole is rarer than fresh air in a meeting of the totalitarian tycoons, and there perhaps never will be enough productive fi hing spots to sati fy the demand of Georgia anglers. But don't be surpl'ised to see a sudden upturn in the number of good fishing holes.
Artificial ponds are popping up on farms in all sections of Gcorgia. Thc stimul.us for the udden pond development program might have been the work of junior wildlife rangers seeking to win a stalewide conlest sponsored by the Division of Wildlife. Regardles of its origin, the pond caDlpaign i picking up and lale la t month the WPA offered a large hand when R. L. McDougaU, stale administrator, revealed that this agency would ceoperaIe wilh Georgia countics in construction of pond The re pon e has been too slow, but thi likely is because the potentialities of such a program have not been laid in the laps of persons in position to inaugurate such a project.
This i an offer, or an invitation, that should not be passed by. The WPA will furnish three-fourths of the expense, and certainly there are many counties that can supply the other fourth. Statewide pond-building under this arrangement would lessen the "when-can-Icatch-a-fish" crisis and at the arne time take the burden off the trout streams that are running into traffic jams at every bend.
FERTILIZI G
Increase in pond interest has provoked experiments that show fish grow fa ter when fertilized. Ca on Callaway, of LaGrange, has pioneered in fertilization of fish ponds and results obtained at hi Blue Springs Farm, near Hamilton, show that more pounds of fi h can be grown per acre than pork or beef. This opens a view to the commercial possibilities of ponds properly cared for. F. K. Stennis, of Noxubee County, Miss., made a careful experiment with black bas and found that fish placed in a fertilized pond "weighed from 11,4

to 1%, pound while fish taken from a pond left on its own wei hed from 7i! to %, of a pound" after one year.
fallie FusseU, )'oung 4-H club girl from Webslcr County knew nothing about this. But Mattie had heard that fish ponds required fertilizer for be t results. She could ee no way of purcha ing fertilizer for her crop of young
mudcats. So she conceived the plan of washing guano sack in her pond. She made a house-to-house canvas of farm homes in her ection.
Her offer was free laundry with reo turn of all fertilizer sacks. She found ready customers and 300 sacks were rubbed in tbe faces of the bull-heads. Mattie estimated that at least 100 pounds of fertilizer went in her pond. This pond not only erves as a watering place for livestock and cattle, but at the same time is producing meat for the Fu sell table.
This is one of the outstanding jobs in conservation ever reported in this state, and is a reminder that the youngsters are game and fish conscious and need only the cooperation of oldtimers to bring bacl, an abundant supply.
METHOD
Experiments have hown that most of the food for fi h in ponds is furnished by plant so small that they can be seen only through a microscope. These microscopic plants float through the water, fish culturists explain, and if present in sufficient number give the water a light green or brown color. Many fish eat them direct~y, and other fish food, uch as insects, tadpoles, crayfish and other small animals depend u'pon these plants for food. Fertilizers increase these plants and thereby incl'ea e the growth of fish.
At Auburn, Ala., where management of fish ponds had been studied over a long period, the following amount of
a. fertilizer are recommended for an acre
of water at eight applications year: 40 pounds sulphate of ammonia. 60 pound superphosphate (16 per
cent.). 5 pounds muriate of potash. 30 pounds basic ~lag, or 15 pounds ground limestone. These materials may be applied sep-
arately or mixed J ST BEFORE they are applied b r 0 a d cas t toward the deeper water, not around the edges. The Division of Wi~dlife will mail particulars on method of fertilization upon request.
G NI G FOR SHOOTER
Rufu~ Godwin, Commercial Hi g h (Atlanta) coach, is beating the Georgia bushes for the ational Rifle As ociation.... His aim: more and better shooters-boys and girls-with a clear knowledge of safety. . . . The South

Georgia Hunting and Fi hing Association will meet to organize September 3 at Sylvester.... Bert Sumner is the man behind the pu h.. . They tal,e their hunting and fishinJ seriously in
South Georgia and representatives at a preliminal'y meeting at Albany indicated they were ready to fight for a new set of game laws. . .. Even the candidates for the General Assembly are being called on the carpet with the well-knOwn vote at stake. . . . There likely will be more than promise coming out of it. ... W. C. Bussey, Atlanta boy, caught a 21-pound carp in Piedmont Lal,e (municipal) just two blocks off Peachtree.
o CHI

Bird dogs are learning to confine

their retrieving to the hunting eason.

. . The fishing season caught dogs

owned by C. B. Baxley, and H. C.

orris, of Atlanta, biting plugs and

coming up with a mouthful of barbs.

.. An operation wa required to free

orris' pointer from a green darter.

.. Every month the women are pop-

ping up with fishing feats.... Mrs.

G. P. Hunter and her granddaughter,

Virginia Leathers, of Athens, pulled

big rainbows from Seed Lake.... The

fi h weighed 3i1h and 4 2 pounds, fair-

sized minnows for Georgia waters....

First prize in the Venice- okomis tar-

pon contest wa won by Harold 1c-

Kenzie, of Atlanta His fish weighed

144 1 2 pounds

Judge G. C. Ander-

son, of Waynesboro, is cracking the

whip over stream poisoners.... News

item: Judge Linton G. Lanier of the

Statesboro City Court fined a fish trap-

per $100 and added a one-year sentence,

the latter being su pended with the

understanding that the defendant not

be al10wed to fish for this period.

Other judges, please copy.

SAKE STORIES

Hines Wood, of Canton, found two

cottonmouth moccasin in a collision

over a bullfrog

One had his legs,

the other his head Wood killed the

snakes and the frog leaped back in the

lake. . . . A junior wildlife ranger from Cobb ounty killed a chicken snake that had swal~owed 14 quail eggs.... The ranger hatched the eggs under a bafltam hen.... A king snake stepped out of bounds and stole six quail egg from a nest at the State Game Farm.... The first one was a "Chinese," the snake found, and later unswallowed the whole half dozen.... Superintendent Gaither captured the wayward king and a igned it to a rat eating mission in North Georgia.... R. L. (Pinky) Torbush, of Red Oak, is glad the fish laughed at his red wigglers.... Coming back from a luckless trip, Torbush poured the worms on a fire that was burning his auto and extinguished it. ... Charles Hood, the fox hunting man from Waycross, with a rod and reel. ... He landed a 92-pound tarpon off St. Simons and went into the lead among Georgia conquerors of home bred silver kings.

OUTDOOR GEORGIA AuguBt 1940

letters To The Editor

EDITOR

Your i the only book

Outdoor Georgia: that I it down and

read from co v e r to

cover before I lay it down. othing keeps

me from it-not even a command from the

wife. The articles are really worthwhile

and I hope that you can keep the magazine

up to the level on which it ha been started.

There was one little item in an article on

rifle that wa new to me. I got my rifle,

went down to the Ii h lake, did what the

story aid, and knocked over a nake and

a few turtles.-Eitel Bauer.

Thank you, [r. Bauer. great many portsmen we know would like to have a wife with the proper training. This taff to a man would like to know your ecret.


EDITOR

Let 01 e congratulate

Ontdoor Georgia: you on O' T D 0 0 R

G E 0 R G I . I had

mi ed the first i ue but had been told
that it was well worth seeing. '0. 2 is ju t

about all I think a tate magazine should

be.-J. Charles Poe, Commi~sioner Tennes-

see Department of Conservation.

uch a comment from an out tanding con ervation leader in one of our iter tate i ind ed encouraging.


EDITOR

r.ly letter of a former

Outdoor Geor"ia: date enclo ing a ub-

cription wa a re luest

for a copy of the fir t i ue of 0 TDOOR

GEORGI . I hould like to get thi copy

a- I do not want to mis a single i ue of

what I think i the be t porting magazine

for Georgian. I enjoy everythinO' in it.-

Thad A. Hn"he .

The editor incere' y hope that every Geor..-ia port man will feel that he ha a part interest in 0 TDOOR GEORGIA.


EDITOR

I y subscription for

Ontdoor Georgia: your magazine. Fine t

ever. By chance O'ot

one to look over. If possible would like

o. 1. 2 and 3. m a northerner who

came here in '37. Bought land, built a

home. 01 old on Georgia after eeinO' the

other tate .-William Ritter.

Mo t G orgian will agre with ~[r. Ritter that the more he ees and learn about our tate, the better he will like it.


EDITOR

Plea~e find enc]o ed

On/door GeorO'ia: dollar for which plea e

enter my ub cription.

I was at my COllage on Lak Burton and

aw a copy of OUTDOOR GEORGI and

enjoyed reading it very much. I wa very

much urpri ed to know that thi magazine

wa out. I am interested in the wildlife of

this state. part icularly in 1 orth Georgia.

and would be glad to cOClperate in any way

to improve game and fi h resource. Y u

may start my ub cription with the fir t

issue a T noticed th one] read wa the

econd.-F. B. Leather, Athens.

EDITOR

I hould like to thank

Olttdoor Georgia: you for ending me the

June is ue of 0 T

DOOR GEORGIA. After looking it over,

it wa imply easy for me to ubscribe for

it.-Clarence A. Dnncan, Atlanta.



EDITOR

Among the fir t ub-

Olttdoor Georgia: criber to 0 TDOOR

GEORGI were

harle Cowan J r. and Joel CO\ an of

Carter ville. Charle i four and Joel i

ix. The e youthful reader already are

ardent hunter- and fishermen. They liked

the picture s weJ] in the lir t i ue that

they were not ati fied until their father

had read them every story and article.-

R. L. Cornwell.

Ace Advises

DO YO
Hlmt and fi h legaIl,- on a lice.re? hool dove or quail out of s ason?
Take all ~-ou can get? Give a report of "our kill? Allend sport men's meeting-? Take an interest in wildlife? Read wildlife literatu.!'e? Know the game laws? Respect landowners' rights?
hoot toward livestock? Kill fur-bearers when hunting? Protect bird' nests?
hoot OVe,. baited areas? Correct ~'oung violators?
10 e farm gates behind "ou? Practice aCet,. fir t method? Leave seed stock in the covey?

~ QUESIIO_S ~ It ._SWEIIS
QUES. How many kinds of fish have been found in Georgia?
AN . There have been 353 species of fish recorded up to date.
QUES. From what fund is the wildlife program wpported in Georgia?
A . The Division of Wildlife and it programs are carried on with col lections from license fees of hunter and fi hermen.
Q ES. Is there a difference in the markings of the male and female Bobwhite?
AI S. The cock bird i ea ily di tinguished by the white line from the forehead over the eye and down the sid s of the neck. The hen i u ually malleI' and an be recognized by it browni h ellow collar.
Q E . What insect spends years in its adolescent period for ju t a fet horl weeks of adult life?
. The even teen-Year Lo u t or Ci ada (in Georgia it average about 13 year ). A the egg hatch th young larvae work their way into the O'round to beO'in their many year~ of ubway tunn linO', feeding on the jui e of gra and plant root.
QU E. ame the hawks that give tILe most trouble to the state' upland game.
AN . The harp. hinned Or Little Blue Darter and it larO'er ou in, the Cooper' Ha\ k. Other hawk rarel ever menace game birds.
QUE . Does Georgia have any game that is not protected by a bag limit?
I . Jo protection from overhuntillg i. given the opo sum raccoon, mink, mu hat, rabbit, quirr I fox, and bear.
Q E~. Is the Red-Winged Blae/c bird prot.~cted by federal law?
1\ . Thi i~ a migratory bird and come. under the prote::tion of til::-
igrator Bi I'd Act wh ich protect dove
Q E . Is the chukar partridge a native of I orth America and how large i the adult bird?
j . The chukar i nali e to ia but th specie commonly propaO'ated in this countr ( lectori Graeca) come from India. Th adult chukar average 20 oun e .

What's on your mind? Write it off to OUTDOOR GEORGIA.

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August 1940 0 TDOOR GEORGIA

JUNIOR RAN~BR GTRAlL
By Bob Atkins

f t,ll' Y program that involves 75,000 of anything is worthwhile, but when 75,000 boys and girls are a sociated with a campaign to protect and restore wildlife it is time for sportsmen to celebrate.
The junior wildlife program ponsored by the Division of Wildlife was spawned last January. It was started when Wildlife Ranger Earl Lord obtained 100 from Fuller Callaway, LaGrange capitalist-industrialist, to be awarded to boys and girls of Rockdale County for outstanding work in conservation. This set off a drive that wound up in July.
The young army of junior Wildlife rangers not only accompli hed much with planned game mangement work, but perhaps their mo t valuable contribution was the example they set and the start they made toward an appreciation of the state's natural resources. The project inoculated the future hunters and fishermen with at least a beginner's knowledge of the value of game and fish.
The physical advantages already have shown up and the youngsters are seeing their efforts rewarded with ripening grain and growing bird and jumping fingerling. Actually, the junior rangers in pired the construction of approximatel 350 fi h ponds. Over 100 more were reclaimed. They placed close to 1,500,000 acres of Georgia oil under modified game mangement. Estimates made by the young ranger place 200,000 qua1l, the state's brag bird, on this land.

be enroute back home after two weeks of observation in the state that is regarded as one of the leaders in wildlife work.
E XACTLY 8,718 boys and girls and teacher com pet e d for awards, with the girl working for two prizes of 100. The winner were: Mark Hiram Carter of Lake Park and Emerson Bryson, of Preston, 4H club; John Wyatt Payne, of Allentown, and Jerome Webb, of Hahira, F F A chapters; JOh11 T. Bailie Jr., of Preston, county agent; Eugene W. Able, of Lake Park, and

Clyde Greenway, of Cadwell, vocational teachers; Carolyn Morri on, of Glenwood and Geraldine Fletcher, of Valdosta, 4H girls.
The contests were won by close margins, indicating a widespread intere t over the state as a whole. Runners-up were awarded broocl quail.
Judges of the contest were G. V. Cunningham, state 4-H leader; C. A. Whittle, supervi or of research and publications of the department of vocational education. Morgan Blake, former ports editor of The Atlanta Journal, and . S. oble, managing editor of The Atlanta Constitution.

QUAIL AWARDS TO RUNNERS-UP ,

MOUNTAIN DISTRICTS Pairs
4-H CLU B BOYS G.org. Chamb.rs, Carroll Counly, Bowdon.... 5

4-H CLUB GIRLS

Cf1 istine Burrell, Habersham County,

Clark.svill. .

.

Sara Ann Nix, Habersham County, Aao _ .

F F A BOYS
Herberl Aik.ns, Union Counly, Blairsvill . Ralph Nicholson, Rabun Counly, Rabun Gap

VOCATIONAL TEACHERS

J. F. Cobb, Cobb Counly, Powder Springs 10

R. L. Johnson, Fulton County, Fairburn

10

Carson Britt, Dawson County, Dawsonville 10

H. L. Fry, Rabun Counly, Rabun Gap

10

COUNTY AGENTS

J.ss. James, Cobb Counly, Marietla

10

S. C. Gunnels, Habersham County,

Clarkesvill.

.

10

TOTAL

_

85

FLINT RIVER DISTRICT

F F A BOYS

Edward Jones, Worth County, Sylvester... ..... 5

VOCATIONAL TEACHERS

Clovis Turk, Milch.11 Counly, Sal. Cily

10

E. H. Cheek, Early Counly, Blak.ly

10

TOTAL

.

...................... 25

PIEDMONT DISTRICT
4-H CLU B BOYS Emerson Bryson, Webster County, Preston 10 Bennie Bearden, Webster County, Preston...... 5

4H CLUB GIRLS
Louis. Flurry, Baldwin Counly, Mill.dg.vill. KI.IIi. Eason, Jasper Counly, Shady Dal .... Mildred Finch, Greene County, Greensboro_...

F F A BOYS Billis Grimsl.y, Twiggs Counly, Danvill........... 5

VOCATIONAL TEACHERS

Troy Edwards, Twiggs Counly, Danvill

10

E. A. Edwards, N.wlon Counly, Oxford

10

COUNTY AGENT David L. Mos:e.y, Twiggs County, Jefferson.... 10

TOTAL

_

65

PLAINS DISTRICT

4-H CLU B BOYS

Kobt. Thompson, Montgomery County,

Mt. Vernon

_

.

Berlin Moore, Wayne County, Odum .

F F A BOYS James Alfred Mikel, Wayne (ounty, Screven
C. E. Papp.I, Jr., Wayne Counly, Sc ..v.n ......

COUNTY AGENT

J. A. Mauldin, Dodg. Counly, Easlman

10

TOTAL

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T WELVE months ago les than 2 per cent. of this acreage was under conservation.
This make the story of the junior wild lifer read like an overnight dream. But the fact remains that the dream is true. All the boys need i ome encouTagement from hunters and fishermen. With thi co-operation they alone will replenish Geor<Tia' upply of game and fi h within five years, it is believed.
A an incentive to the junior rangers the Wildlife Division offered free trip to, Wis onsin to the seven leading participant in the pro<Tram. Two vocational teacher, one county agent, two F F A bo and two 4-H clubber were offered thi trip.
The winners were announced this month and as this is read they will

G.orgia's wildlife contest winners meet Wisconsin officials at the capitol in Madison.

o TDOOR GEORGJA Altgltst 1940

33

THE SEASONS CHANGE
(Continued from page 15)
waterfowl will be pre ent in a 10' calit , and climatic difference from north to outh make it difficult to provide an equitable di tribution of hunting durin u a short ea on. Duck increa es thi year make it po ible to pread the hunting over a longer period but horter _ea on ma again be una oidable and will be invoked if condition call for them.
Maryland, irgwla, orth Caro lina outh Carolina, Tenne ee, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, is i- ippi, Arkan a, Loui iana, Texa, and Arizona make up the outhern zone.
DAILY hooting hour for water fowl and coot hunters will be from unri e until 4 p. m., in tead of from 7 a. m. to 4 p. m. Jack nipe may be taken from unri e to un et.
The daily bag limit on gee_e, reo duced la t year from 5 to 4 ha thi year been lowered to 3. The bag limit on duck remain at 10 a da .
A in pre iou years the number of waterfowl that may be po e- ed at any time i limited to 2 day bag, but a new rule thi year make it po ible to po e the legal limit for 20 day after the close of the ea on in tead of 10 day .
pecial protection, a formerly, io; afforded can a back, redhead, buf flehead , and rudd duck by limiting to 3 the number of anyone of the e species that may be included in the daily bag and providing further that not more than 3 of thi entire group in the aggregate may be taken in a day. The po e ion limit on the e birds al 0 i double the daily bag limit.
The bag limit on coots i 25 a day and on jack nipe- 15 a day, and a formerly the pos es ion limit for the e pecie may not at an one time exceed the daily bag limit.
Clo ed ea on throughout the nited tate and Ala ka are continued on wood duck, Ro ' geese and ,an. There i al 0 again no open a on on snow gree e and brant in Florida and state north thereof that border on the Atlantic coa t.
Hunter may u e bow and arrow or hotguns not larger than 10 gauge, as formerly. The 3- hell limit on repeating hotguns, either hand-operated or auto-loading, i continued, and it will still be illegal to take waterfowl by mean of bait or the use of live decoys.

ALL per on over 16 ear of age hunting migratory waterfowl are required to have with them an unexpired Federal figratory Bird Hunting tamp validated by their ignature on the tamp. The e stamp, common1 called duck tamps may be purchased at po t offices. They co t one dollar.
The open h 0 0 ti n g _ea on on woodcock ha e been reduc d from 30 da to 15 da ,but the daily bag limit remain at 4 and the po _e_ ion limit i till 8. Woodcock aloma be po se sed not more than 20 day after the ea on' clo e.
William M. Wright, of McCaysville, who says he has fished Jacks and Conasauga rivers for over 20 years and has never failed to take the limit. He took these trout from
the Conasauga August 3.
The daily bag limit on mourning or turtle dove and white-, inged doves ha been I' duced from 15 to 12. ot more than 12 of either of these pecie, or of the two together, may be taken in anyone day, and the possession limit at anyone time may not be more than the daily bag limit. Adj ustment in the open seaons on these bird have also been made.
Dove in the outhern tate aLo suffered from the evere \ eather la t winter, and thi , with over hooting in orne area in recent year made the bag-limit reduction es entia!. Thousand of dead do e were found after the evere weather in the outh la t January.
SHOOTI IG dove that have been attracted to huntinu area by use of bait i prohibited a- formerly.
Dove may be hunted from unri e to un et.
Open eason on mourning doves, ometime aIled turtle dove, are as follows, both date inclu ive:
Georgia, in Troup, Meriwether, Pike, Lamar, Monroe, Jones,

Baldwin, Washington, Jeffer on, and Burke Counties, and all counties north thereof, October 1 to October 31 and December 20 to January 31; in remainder of tate, ovember 20 to January 3l.
Florida except in Dade, Bro\ ard, and Monroe Counties), Iovember 20 to Januar 31. Dade, Broward, and
Ionroe Counties in Florida, October 1 to ovember 15.
Other rule included in the new regulation govern the hunting of band-tailed pigeon, rail, aud gallinule . The e birds may be hunted in eason from unri e until un et, with the exception that the coot may be hunted from sunrise until 4 p. m.
The daily bag limit for rail and gallinule, other than ora and coots, i continued at 15 in the aggregate of all kind. Other bag limit are a follows: ora 15; coots, 25; and band-tailed pigeons, 10. oras and coot rna be taken in addition to the limit on other rail and gallinule . Po ses ion limits for all th e pecie rna not at anyone time exceed the daily bag limit.
The open sea on on coot are the sam a tho e for waterfowl, the pecial coot ea on provided experimentally in Illinoi last year having been eliminated. The ea on on other gallinule and on rail i from eptember 1 to 0 ember 30, both dates inclusive.

J. D. RYAL DRUG STORE

A Good Drug Store

105 Eleventh Ave.

Phone 12

CORDELE, GEORGIA

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Augu8t 1940 0 TDOOR GEORGIA

Georgia hunters of migratory waterfowl will have 60 days this winter instead of 45 as last year and may begin sbooting geese and ducks at sunrise instead of at 7 a.m. The new regulations on migratory birds set by the Department of Interior moved the opening of the dove season in Georgia's northern zone from September 15 to October 1 and reduced the bag limit from 15 a day to 12. Liberalization of the waterfowl laws changed the opening of the season from ovember 15 to November 2. The bag limit on geese was cut from four to three a day with the possession limit six, not more than 20 days after close of season.
Seasons And Bug Li,nits

GAME SUNDAY HUNTING UNLAWFUL
Bear Deer a (Bucks only) Opossum (with gun and dog) Raccoon (with gun and dog) Opossum, Raccoon, Mink, Fox, Muskrat (trapping) Rabbit Squirrel b

OPEN SEASON (inclusive)
Nov. 20-Feb. 28 Nov. IS-Jan. 5 Oct. I-Feb. 28 Nov. 20-Feb. 28

DAILY BAG LIMIT
No limit 2
No limit No limit

Nov. 20-March I No limit

No closed season and no limit

Oct. I-Jan. 15

15

SEASON BAG LIMIT
No limit 2
No limit
, No limit
No limit
No limit

Quail c Turkey d Ruffed Grouse Fox (with dog only)

Nov. 20-March I

15

Nov. 20-March I

2

No open season

No closed season and no limit

30 week, also possession
2

MIGRATORY WILDFOWL

DAILY

POSSESSION

BAG LIMIT

LIMIT

Dove e

Split zone seasons

12

12

Duck f

Nov. 2-Dec. 29

10

20

Goose f

Nov. 2-Dec. 29

3

6

Jacksnipe

Nov. 2-Dec. 29

15

15

Coot

Nov. 2-Dec. 29

25

25

Marsh Hen

Sept. I-Nov. 30

25

25

Rail

Sept. I-Nov. 30

25

25

Gallinule

Sept. I-Nov. 30

25

25

a, b, c, d, e, f-see exceptions.

;

EXCEPTIONS
a DEER- ov. I-Jan. 5-Appling, Ben HiU, Bryan, Bulloch, Camden, Charhon, Cha}ham, Effingham, Glynn, Jeff Davis, Liberty, Long, McIntosh, TattnalJ, Telfair, Ware and Wayne. No open season in
Banks, Dawson, Fannin, Gilmer, Habersham, Hall, Lum.pkin, Murray, Pickens, Rabun, Towns, Union, White, Whitfield, Marion, Schley, Webster, Chattahoochee, Muscogee, Stewart, Talbot, Jenkins, Montgomery and Echols. b SQUIRREL--Aug. I-Dec. 3I-Catoosa, Challooga, Dade, Dawson, Fannin, Gilmer, Gordon, Habersham, LUlllpkin, Murray, Pickens, Rabun, Stephens, Towns, Union, Walker, White and Whitfield-Nov. 1Jan. 15 in Appling, Ben Hill, Bryan, Bulloch, Camden, Charhon, Chatham, Effingham, Glynn, Jeff Davis, Liberty, Long, Mcintosh, Screven, TaunalJ, Telfair, Ware and Wayne.
c Q AIL-- ov. I-March I-Appling, Ben HilJ, Bryan, Bulloch, Camden, Charlton, Chatham, Effingham, Glynn, Jeff Davis, Liberty, Long, Mcintosh, Screven, Taunall, Tellair, Ware and Wayne.
d TURKEY- ov. I-March 1 in Appling, Ben HilJ, Bryan, Bulloch, Camden, Charhon, Chatham, Effingham, Glynn, Liberty, Long, McIntosh, Screven, Tatnall, Ware and Wayne.
e DOVE-Northern Zone, Oct. 1-31 and Dec..20-Jan. ~I (split season) in counties of Troup, Meriwether, Pike, Lamar, Monroe, Jones, BaldWIn, WashlDgton, Jefferson and Burke and region North thereof; Southern Zone (alJ counties South of tho e listed), ov. 20-Jan. 31.
f DUCK A D GOOSE- 0 open season on Wood Duck, Brant, Ross' Goose, Swan and Snow Goose. Daily bag limit on Canvasback, Red Head, Bufflehead and Ruddy Ducks not over three in the aggregate. Possession limit not over ten in the aggregate.

MURDER, INCORPORATED

NOT 0 long ago the poli of ew York Cit uncovered a ring of gang tel'S who were organized under the name "1urder Incorporated." Thi gana pecialized in s tematic killing. For one thousand dollar the would' liquidate' an specified individual.
ou probabl throw up yoUl' hand In horror at such a thouaht. We did. The id a wa almo t sickening. Wanton de truction of human life i a ghastly manner in which to earn one's daily bread.
But we had to admit that the name of the corporation was well chosen. We found it so expressive that we conceived the thought of using it here in our own state. We know a number of hoodlums to whom it would apply if only we could contrive in some way to get them organized.
'Murder, Incorporated" would be an apt nam for that ring of per on who sell and purchase game birds and animals of Georgia. Tho e who sell do the killing. Tho who bu pay the price for the killing. The group would be a nice, sociable one. W do not kno\ who will belong thi fall and winter but for the pa t few years the group would comprise succe sful busine s men, lawyer, doctor, tenant farmers, landowners, hou ewive in prominent familie , hotel manager and oth rs whose names would urpri e many of us. It would e en include tho e who order game on the menu where it i served in certain hotel.
T'hi group would not embra e the port men of Clarke, Oconee, Oglethorpe and Jackson
countie who join d together a few niaht aao to form a new port man' league for that ection of the state. On of the primar objective set up b the leauue wa the elimination of the sale of game in Athen and the counties surrounding it. One of the club member made a igorous and ensible talk in which he howed that no man could continue to d troy the source of life and exp ct that life to urvive.
"Successful farmers save some of their grain for seed," he said. "No successful livestock farmer sell off his breeders year after year. The surest way to kill a tree is to hack away continuously at it root. That is a fundamental law of nature, and we can expect it to apply to

our game birds and animals as well as to all other life."

During the 1939-40 hunting sea on, the Divi ion of

Wildlife e timated that more than 150,000 quail were

sold in the tate of Georgia. That e timate wa be-

Ii ved b orne to be can ervative. Tho~e quail could

be replaced at approximatel

for each pair of

birds, if they could be found in uch quantities. Thi

mean that last y ar our propo_ed organization "Mur-

d l' Incorporated, ' took out of the hone t portsmen's

pockets more than 300000. That \ a almost 100,000

more than the total mone s recei ed from all huntin a

and [i-hing license fee in the tate, 100,000 more

than \ as pent to protect and restore all the game

bird, animal and fi h in Georaia.

M A JY times those who tand up on their heels and
loudly lament th fact that our game i fa t vanishing are cla ified a "queer." We think they are correct in ome small degree when the deplore the fact that ur game is being laughtered and old on the market pia e in th tate. But it does not oncern us, even thouah our next door n ighbor has a standing order for a dozen quail each week.
In short, we close our eyes to a vicious gang of lawbreaker, many of them our best citizens, who thoughtlessly help to keep alive a racket which amounts annually to more than $300,000 in this state alone.
If thi grand little sportin a game bird wa taken by porting method and then sold for public con umption we might pas ibl devote one tin portion of our hearts to a little kindliness toward tho e who make a part of their yearly income from the ale of game. But th are taken b ever method, fair or foul. They ar often hunt d at night and ,shot on the around \ here they are bunched together for warmth and protection and wh re every bird may be taken with one shot. Ian time they are caught in wire trap where the birds kj)) them elve A ing against the wire. La t pring on of the wildlife ranaer found a trot line baited with quail head. Tho e birds for ale ar never given a porting chance. In addition the are wiped out, seed to k and all.
And _0, \ e propose the oraanization and nam it " furder Incorporated," for all who belon a in the rank of tho e racketeers who either bu or sell the game bird of our state.

o TDOOR GEORGIA. eptelllber 1940

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The

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Walked

"You are not only unwise," Ted Freely said, "you are plain crazy."

T HE Barwick u e m nam with the arne feeling that the name Hitler would be u ed in a emitic camp. When th r member me at all, it i with apologie:>. In fact, I have a uspicion that I am no 10n'Yer wel orne in thw Barwick hou ehold.
I n _pile of m strained relation with thoEe wonderful people. I till have a mo t vivid memory of Buck land Plantation. the Barwick domain. If I had to pend the remainder of my day in an on particular pot on earth. 1 think that I hould choo e Buckland above all the re l.
This liul kingdom lie in the bend of a outhern blackwater riv r, which i farnou for it fi hin a. Like many other outh rn river, thi one has

chang d it ou r_e through the wamp time and time again. making sloughs and dead river, whi h are a paradise for huge black ba and for the flight of big green head- that wing down out of gray northern kie in No ember to spend the win ter.
Bu kland it elf i one huae, high plateau ab ve th river. It lie in a big bend of the _trea m, and it twenty thou and acre have been made into the fin t shootin a preserve of the ,tate. Quail, turk y and deer form th rna population of the Bar wick hinterland. After a da at Buck land, man sport men I know would be di appointed in heaven.
Each year the big ocial event of the Barwick plantation i the deer

hunt in the bend of the river. From all over the tate, port men gather at Buckland. There i a pack of dog k pt throughout the ear for thi one Deca ion. For t, 0 da the hunt con tinue and terminate in a venison banquet that no one ever forg t .
I P RTICIPATED in one Ban ick hunt. I hall never participate again. for th will never aaain _end me a little card reque ting that lap pear at the 0 ial function of the ea ,on. Perhap I wa a victim of circum Lance . Circum tances are often a good pea on whi h to hang our o:hortcoming .
omeone has compared th mornina air to wine. Buckland air ha the arne effect when it move acro the

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fore t and lough and wamp on a ovember mornin a. But havin a been
exhilarated more than nece ar the e enina before, I did not e pecially care for morning air, hen one of the dark attendant of Buckland knocked upon my door at five 0 clock and aid, " offee be ready in half hour, suh!"
I crawled out, wondering how I had received th brui e on my l'ight arm, and why the pace between my ear felt 0 huge and hea y. I dre ed, remembering that Jim Barwick had made the pecial reque t that everyone be on hand at five-thirty for br akfa t.
It \ a really an old fa hioned, outhern breakfa t of grits fried owbell , biscuit and coffee. Perhap the mo t deliciou item on th table wa the gla of \ ater from Buckland s deep well. After the econd cup of coffee, Jim Ban ick appeared at th h ad of the table.
"It i a custom,' he aid "to draw for po ition on the deer drive. Each tand i numbered. ome are better than other _ ou will be placed on the number of tand you dra\ from Ule hat."
A negro boy brought in the hat. Ever hunter reached up from hi seat at the breakfast table and withdrel a lip of paper.
'Who got number thirteen thi year?" Jim Barwick a ked.
I glanced at my number. It wa thirt en. I held it up. The eye of twenty hunter singled me out at the table. I thought I could ee di appointment in Jim' eye. I heard one of them mutter, "Look out hirttail."
I knew that when a hunter hot at Ule d er cro ina hi stand and mi sed, the other hunter descend d upon him and cut off his hirt piece b piece. I prided my_elf on being an excellent hot with rifle or shotgun, 0 I a ked the rea on for the remark_
"STATIOI number thirteen," aid Jim, i the place wh re the
bigge t d er in these part will cro s. He ha cro _ed that stand ever year for the pa t five. ! 0 hunter ha ever been able to bring him down. For that rea on the negroe on thi place have named him the 'gho t,' and you have elected the 'gho t tand.' La t
ear every man on the hunt got a deer but o. 13. The ghost ran directi over him and kept going. He mi sed three hot at clo e range."

"Li ten, Jim," I aid, "I've been tr ing to tell ou for two da that I don t like deer huntin a with dog and hotgun. Give omebod else thi number of mine and I'll kick myself a buck out of the edge of the river ,vamp.'
The owner of Buckland looked at me my teriously.
"A man said that once before. e found him a week later drowned III Ba lough on the outh ide."
"You've got no choice," aid Harry Whiting.
"The hell I haven't" I replied. "What happens if I jut don't take thirteen ?"
"It will be left vacant," aid Jim, "and the ghost will live another year."
It wa all so ab urd that I had to lauah. Here \ a a aroup of adult port men playing a game that would
He was the biggest white-tail at Buckland.
not do j u tice to the intelligence of my ten-year-old kid.
"Thirteen or no thirteen,' I said, "I don't like doggin a deer. and you can count me out on the tand. I'm going to wander on the other side of Buckland and kick a d er out of the bu he ."
Ted Freel hook hi head 01emnl .
'You are not only unwi e, he aid, 'you are plain crazy. If you break a leg or fall in the quick and pit at Adam's Branch save your hell until tonight when we'll be looking for you.
Dawn had painted the ky beyond the river in crim on when the car roared away from the plantation

house fi lied with hunter, dog and negro beater . I tlue ' the .35 into the back _eat of my own automobile and rode ofT in the oppo ite dir ction from that of the big hunt.
T H~ ~o,re I ~hought about BarWICk -ghost and the TO. 13, the more certain I wa iliat the hunter were "pulling my leg." I kn \ that I wa the onl newcomer to the plantation hunt. Mo t of the gue t at Buckland were those who came year after year to hunt wiili Barwick. They knew I wa very much opposed to the t pe of hunting which required the running of deer with dog. Repeatedly I had written that more deer were wounded and went off to die, or drowned wimming cold streams with hot muscles than were ever brought down by hunter' lead. That wa why th deer in our state were fast disappearing. I could see that it was a trick to ger me on one of ilie deer stand. But I had refu ed to b tricked.
I left my automobile at the junction of the High Bridae and Ba
lough road. Perhap if I went back in tOl ard the qui ksand pit or toward Ba Branch I might walk into a flock of turke or even kick up a deer. I did not much care about killing an animal or bird. The morning air had uddenly become he hand exhilarating really like wine.
It mu t be ilie in tinct of man to kill. I had not walked four hundred
ards from the automobile, when the bru h cracked in front of me. Two bucks bounced out of the thicket and fled like pecter to\ ard the edge of the swamp. One was the biggest white-tail I had ever een. I swung my rifle around, pulling the trigger each time I caught him over the sight. On my iliird hot he pitched headlong in the tall sedge. He wa warm and quivering \ hen I operated on hi jugular.
I at down and moked a cigarette, almo t l'egretting what I had done in the heat of excitement. There would be enough deer kjl\ed on the hunt for all. y kill wa u ele slaughter.
I rode back to the house and got two bo to help me. We loaded the buck on my car and brought him into the yard where he wa hung on a rack. My day wa over. For some rea on I did not have the lighte t de ire to go back into the wood. I pent the remainder of the morning
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What Happened When Stand No. 13 Was Left Without a Gunner

o TDOOR GEORGIA September 1940

5

Illulltrated by JIM SPRINGER
A rattlesnake emerged from the other end of
the log.
T AST week I read in the paper ..L that there were 13 million
Americans addicted to the pastime of fishing. This week there are at least 13 million and 1, for I have joined the ranks of these desirable citizens. I am now an angler. Trout are my favorite species.
If any veterans of the invisible leader think I am making progress too rapidly, I would remind them that Mr. Webster defines an angler as one who angles-not one who catches fish.
Under such a definition I am an angler for trout, having just re-

The Dean Agrees That If You Spare the Rod You
Spoil the Man.

I noted a real need for orne improvement, I hastened to accep t Jack's invitation to pend a few days at his cabin ina remote section of 0 r t h Georgia.

turned from a week-end in the Blue Ridge mountains with Jack Pickerel,
a writer for 0 TDOOR
GEORGIA, who, in a few easy lessons (that is, ea y to me) demonstrated the art of fly casting.
But I'm not sure I'll be accepted by the clan, even though I bear the scarsup and down both shin -of my struggles in the wiEt waters of oontootly Creek. Old Timers in the ranks of trout fishermen may look upon me .as golfers did on the lady who had taken one Ie on. It eems that she was passing through the porting good section of a department store with a friend who asked if she wouldn't like to take a golf Ie on from the pro. " 0 thanks, my dear," she replied, "I learned
yesterday. '

" TOW let's see the clothes you expect to wear while fishing," said Jack, when we were comfortably seated in the cabin.
"Oh, I'm well supplied, Jack," I replied proudly, opening my suitca e and throwing four pairs of white trou er on the beel. "You see I realized that I'd get wet 0 I brought enough that I'd always have a dry pair to put on."
I thought I noted a look of disappointment on Jack's face, but he merely aid. "1 ow, let' see the hirt ."
I added a pile of white shirts to the deposit of white pants.
"Don't you have any dark shirts?" he inquired.
"One," I tated, displaying a brilliant blue which I had always enjoyed wearing.
"I'm sorry," ob erved Jack in a kindly manner, "but you can't wear those clothes while fishing. A trout in a pool would pot you a clearly a you could the Wrigley sign in Times quare. You know a trout' eyes magnify eight times, and tanding in a stream in white clothing would make you more con picuous
than that mountain which i the biggest thing in the landscape."

T HIS thing of joining the ranks of the devotees of the nation's favorite sport was no rash move on my part. I had been contemplating such action for years. Some of my friends had suggested that fishing would improve my disposition, so, when even

B Tl hadn't told Jack the wor t, and if he noticed it he was kind enough to say nothing. The fact are that I had a white hat, white shoes, white socks, and even white horn-rimmed un glasses. My entire wardrobe was white.
It had never occurred to me that the fish would be particular about
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September 1940 OUTDOOR GEORGIA

C~R~ .. . 'WRITES MORE l
ABOUT -LICENSE RESTRICTIONS

T HAT gu over there ,ho i helling out 12.50 for the privilege of hooting quail in G orgia for two week ha ju t 9.25 Ie to pend with our merchant than if \ e'd charged him 3.25 for a hunting licen e. But that ain't the wor t of it. We've kept a dozen good guys out of the state. Fellow with mone to pend, fellow who would have bought .a license if we'd charged them 3.25 like we charge our own people, fellows who would have bought gas (paying the tate tax), hired guides, paid hotel bill , etc.
There is a lot more to it even than that. For yon fellows who tuned in late, look up "Hunting Tarifi" on page ten of the August issue of 0 TDOOR GEORGIA. We invited comments from the Who's Who of Georgia Sportsmen (our subscribers).
o far it i unanimou. Georgia portsmen are aying in no uncertain terms that they don't believe in a di criminatory tariff again t nonre ident port men.
I wi h I could answer e er one of tho e letter but I am ju tone person. I can't. ot and do the other thing that mu t be done. But the
taff of 0 TDOOR GEORGIA thanks
every port man who wTote to u on lhi matter. We are agreed that the non-resident license is unfair, erve no u eful purpose; that it abolition would attract many desirable portsmen to Georaia, benefiting both our port and our business intere t _
Morri Ackerman veteran outdoor col umni t of the Cleveland (Ohio) Pre , read what \ e had to ay. He aid orne kind thing about it and then teal our story with one that i better, showing what it co t a man out of Ohio to hunt out-of- tate and what it co t an out-of- tate hunter to bag a deer in the Buckeye tate. Thank you, Morri ckerman. e are getting omewhere when writer like 'Iorri Ackerman throw their lot in with u in thi fight.
Dr. W. A. Clarke, of Atlanta, write u: "I used to fish a great deal in Florida fresh water but 1 quit it ten years ago, not because 1 did not like it and not because 1 did not have the money, but it irked me to look up someone to pay 6.25 for a few days' fish-

ing. . . . I'm heartily in favor of your abolishment of non-resident hunting and fishing licenses.... You will have more hunters but I do not believe you will have less game."
And Dr. Clarke gives plenty of good reasons for his conclu ions. Florida ha 10 t a paying cu tomer. How many doe Georgia lose the
same way?
J. K. Hamon add hi voice with:
"Our present fee is exorbitant and

I~ cu~e:~lemonth Elmer Ransom will disand distribution of hunting and fishing licenses. He will ask Georgia sportsmen whether they prefer the present system (through the DepartI ment of Revenue) or the old system (through agents in all parts of the

state).

-'

deter some real port men, and at the arne time encourage orne who call them elves portsmen) to iolate the law. One fee hould erve re ident and non-re ident.'
Hugh Jordan of Je up i a man after my own heart. He agrees with us and is going to do something about it. He s.ay , in a laconic letter that i to the point: "I intend to take thi up with the man elected from thi county to the House of Repre-

entatives and in i t on hi upport for a uniform license fee for everyone."
Dr. McLaurin D. Brooker, of Tennille, writes us a number of striking incidents where the imposition of a non-resident fee for hunting or fishing operates to the detriment of everyone concerned. And Dr. Brooker warms the cockles of our heart with a word of praise for OUTDOOR GEORGIA. We couldn't have put the book over, Doctor, without the support of sportsmen like you chaps who wrote us about this matter. We've got to know what you 'want before we can give it to you.
We want you fellow to continue to \ rite to u about thi non-resident hunting and fi hing license matter. The writer believes that the arne fee hould be charged the nonre ident that i charged to the resident, and \ e ha e given our reason therefor. If you ee eye to eye with us, let u know it and if you believe otherwi e, thi i your chance to put your elf on r cord. Dig up a three-cent tamp Gu ,and tick it where it will do the mo t good. We are going .after this non-resident fee busine s. A tariff of any kind between tate line i dangerou, outrageous and unpatriotic. That's my feeling. What's yours?

When you go hunting remember that this is the wrong way to cross a fence.

o TDOOR GEORGIA. eptember 1940

7

ALL-

The hound bayed his way to immortality as our pioneer hunting dog.

AMERICA

I A CO TRY where every type of hunting from falconing to wolf cour inO' and from duck hootinO' to bear baiting i religiou ly practiced, it i trange that only one form of hWlting i original. The follower of the "tree hound" are the real merican hunter. The other million of American hunter follow port that oriO'inated in other land.
The American Tree Hound or Trail Hound ha an intere ting hi . tory. He ha never been recoO'nized a a breed, but many authorities believe him to be the onl trul American doO'. The American fox hound and the Bo ton bull terrier ar the only recognized American breed. When the country was young the pioneer needed onl the cur, but a the frontier were conquered and game became harder to kill he began to look for a doO' that could help him hunt. In his quest for a hunting dog every type of hound and hunting dog was imported to the new world.
Record of George Washington and other early American portsmen mention importations of blood hound fox hound_ ba et, beagles, harriers and gre hound. Each hound \ a bred for pecial work and the men can u ed them all, but none uited him. A dog which pos sed all the hound qualities of huntinO' and trail ing was needed-one that would ta at the tree or den until the hunter
could take the game. Th blood bound could do thi,
but h bunted too lowly. 0 the arl br eders would cro blood hound tock on any hound type tbat _howed aptitude for tree work. Grad

uall y b elective breeding a new formation and di posItlon and by

hound wa created that 'ombined all "mouth' or hunting bark.

the hound qualitie plu the now fa-

In rural Georgia the tree hound i

mou 'tree bark."

the most common dog. Po urn hunt-

ing is the mo t popular and profit-

T HE ideal tree hound is a large able hunting in the state. It i the hound with a trong body, weI mo-t popular becau e it aive more

developed barrel with traigbt back. people plea ure and recreation, and

Hi head i larO'er than the fox mo t profitable because the hundred

hound', \ itb large intelligent eye of thou and- of fat Georgia 'pos urn

and fairly long ar. Hi leu mu de are well develop d and hi back leg

cauO'ht each fall are an important and deliO'htful food for the tabl .

are straight. Hi tail i large and carried at abel'. H rna be an color but the hound tri-color, white, black and tan, i the favorite.
The tree hound ha everal distinct

COOL bunting i a more ~xciting port than 'po_sum huntlllg, for thi animal i harder to tree and give a real fight when cornered. When he ha the ad antage of fight-

famil strain. The '-Black and Tan" ing in wat 1', it take a real hound to

i a favorite. The "Blue Tick" i al 0 kill him.

well liked. He is di tinO'ui hed by

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mall blue pot

in his white coat. The "Red Bone" i often olid red

The Plott, which originated in North Carolina, is equally as good on trail as he is fighting coons.

or dark brown

and is often u d

as a combination

fox and tree

hound. The e and

everal other

les er k now n

type are found

in Georgia where

the are used for

hunting 'po urn

coon and 'var-

mint."

The alue of

the bound is de

termined b hi

bunting and

game taking

ability, b hi

ph y i cal con-

Bif R. .f. e~Lt

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September 1940 0 TDOOR GEORGI

WHEN THE DOVE TRAVELS

e. Bif q.~idz .fUt.coJn

. Fish and Wildlife ervice.

f t,l CCORDI G to Roman m thology the dove i the bird of enu, while to the ancient Greek, Aphrodite, dra\ n in a chariot to whi h do es were harne ed, was the a-odde s of spring. Few bird are more ardent in their ourtship than the doves, which undoubtedly motivated the ancient when they dedicated them to the goddes of love.
The bird which thu figured in ancient lore wa probably the turtle dove, an Old WorId species. This name i , however, commonly applied to Lhe mourning dove, known to ornithologi t a Zenaidura macroura. It i trictl an American bird. In some ection of the outh the confusion of name is heightened b the application of the name turtle dove" to immature mourning dove which are omewhat malleI' than their parent, and ar gra er in plumage and without the iridescence, or to the till maller, quare-tailed a-round dove.
ince the extinction of the pa engel' pigeon, the mournin.a- do e i the onl orth American member of the family that ha a long, pointed tail, which in it elf will alway erve to idenLify po itivel one of the e bird. In other words, all doves with pointed tails are mourning doves.
aturalist recognize three races, or sub-specie, of thi bird: the West Indian mourning dove (Zenaidura macroura macroura) , which, a its name imp lie , is confined to the West Indian region; the eastern dove (Zenaidura macroura carolinensis), which i found over all of ea tern
orth America west to the Great Plains, where it range 0 erlap that of the third race, the we tern mourning dove (Zenaidura macroura marginella), which i found westward to the Pacific oa t.

The sede tar charact ri tic i mo t promin nt in the bird of the outh. The e t Indian form i not known to make any kind of a migration and it i probable that many of the ea tern dove that breed in Georgia and other outhern tates do not at an time tra el more than a few hundred mile from their nesting ground . Neverthele ,even the doves hatched in the outh ho\ their hereditary migration instinct, a nestling doves banded in Lee County, Ala., have been recovered in the vicinity of Thoma ville, Ga., during December of Ule arne year. Similarly, dove banded at Key We t, Fla. have been reco ered in Cuba, the-e bandina- records co n s ti t uti ng the onl definite occurrence of the eastern race in the West Indie .
Becau e of the Iona- breeding eason of the e bird in the outhern tate, it not onl i inhumane, but it is poor manaa-ement to hoot them during eptemb I' in that region. It i sometime argued that if the doves are not hunL d in that month ilie

migrate out of Ule tate. The falla y of this tatement i ob ious \ hen it i kno\ n that a ide from the ca ual record in Cuba, mentioned above, the winter quarters of the eastern mournina- dove are almo t entirely in the outhea tern tates.
l'.TE ERTHELESS, it is interesting
1 ~ to examine the banding file in
the Federal Wildlife Service to learn just what doe happen. The tudy rna be confined to Georgia, although imilar evidence exi ts for other ouiliern tate.
A ide from, the record of bird banded within the tate, there are available for tudy 83 cases, each repre~enting the recovery record of a banded dove. These are of birds banded in eleven states and one Canadian pro ince. From the e idence presented b the e data it appears that h a migration of doves come to Geora-ia from Illinois, ichigan, and a achu ett and it i more than probable that additional large
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Dates and approximate locations of banded doves from northern states taken in Geor-
gia last season.

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T HE natural hi tory of the mourning dove i of unu ual intere t. There are few other American bird that have both edentary and mia-ratory groups. It is, of caul' e, probable that individual doves either are year-round residents of one locality or are regularly migratory. At lea t there is a yet no evidence that a dove may be a resident one year and a migrant the next.

OUTDOOR GEORGIA Septe,nber 1940

9

The Old Salt too~ to his oar and fought the grasses along Half Moon River, but if the marsh hens were there they were diving and fOJgetting the way back to grass which once was crowded with these birds.
Ebbing at High Tide

17 E . over-and-under looked ~ big and clum y a he quinted through the smooth barrel for a la t fleck of charred powder that per i tently eluded hi churning mop. It wa only a 16, though, and had been hot onl a few time.
He was thr atening to shelve it for keeps in favor of a 20 double when I reminded him of the tide report, the tid that was coming in Wedne day.
letter from the Old alt had told of '8Yi.-foot tides Wednesday and Thur day. A brisk nor'ea tel', too and thing should be ju t right."
The Old alt meant jut right for marsh hen . Ken had n ver blown smoke at a hen. nd th only thina I had on him ,a a knowledge that the bird al 0 wa called the clapper rail and kept up a lot of noise with its raucou ackle along the Georgia mar he.
But ever ince I had owned a 410 I had wanted to aive it a workout on the clum hen. I couldn't hit an thing el e with it. Election time wa near and nobody but Ken and I would get excited over our fir then hunt, regardIe s of the big fus we made prepari.ll a for it.
We barged into Savannah loaded with enough hells to fight a war and
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a refrigerator that would ice a quartered bull moo e. We could pack it in a da , we figwed. From the way the boys ba k home had talked we were going to have trouble with the hen roo ting on our barrel . One hunter admitted that he took rail only with ticks. I had actually begun to apologize for not bringin a along an air rifle. .22 would have been better I thought, but for the danger to other hooter and fi hermen in the marshland.
Fifty bird and ome picture . That wa what we had ahead of u -in one day. Behind u ,e had left more promi e of hens than the politico had been making for vote . That wa th reason for our bia portable icebox.
H ALF oon River wa rolling again t the roots of the palms along the northea tern edge of Wilmington I land when we shoved off under the power of a pair of eahor e . Ken knew the waterfowl laws and protested the u e of motorboat .

"Ya uh! but u ain't awine after no duck and de hen, dey sta s heah de ear roun'.'
That wa David lone' wa of ayina this wa the only way to hunt mar h hen, a non-migratory bird. It wa too much trouble to paddle. Elbow weat and alt don't mix with Da id. David wa th Old Salt' veteran colored guide. He wa in tructed to comb the gras while Ken blazed away with hi 0 er-and-under.
The Old alt hadn't been out on the water for a long time.
"he' ablowin' ju t right and we ouahtn't to mis today."
o he volunteer d to run the motor while I depopulated the hen family up and down Half Moon River, a tidal tream that flow between T bee Inlet and ilmington Ri er. Thi~ ri er i famou for it large atche of winter trout and for years ha been a mar h hen convention ite.
The Old alt no d the bateau up-
tream.
'W'en we get up onder, we'll pull
out farther and the ought to be
jumpin ."

Is the Marsh Hen, Favorite Bird of the Coast, Following the Melancholy Trail of the Passenger Pigeon?
eprember 1940 0 TDOOR GEORGIA

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He wouldn't accuse a mar h hen of f1yin<Y.
We reached the shooting marshe behind Ken and hi Geechie colored guide. obody heard a shot. Toward the north there were 11 boats, by count, and the only one producing was a skeet shooter banging away at plovers, and killing them, damn him.
"Shh! Shhh-hh-h! hh-hh-h," and finally, " HOO!" The Old Salt was in action with a briney baritone.
T HE mar h hen , just I ike common barnyard fowl, have to be shooed out of their hiding places in the bunches of marsh gras. But today the "hooe might ju t as well have been directed at a school of porpoises rolling in the main current.
The Old alt throttled down to a jog and criss-cros ed through the <Yrasse , then did it all over again.
We worked out through a narrow inlet and almo t brushed ides with Ken's boat. They were" hooing," too, but the birds were still out for lUllch.
The Old Salt was puzzled. He had never failed to hoo 'em up in drove here_ He pointed the boat toward a bank of old oy ter shells. We could ee the fishing fleet toward the ea t.
"If they can be found, they'll be here," he sighed.
The Old Salt took to his oar. He fought the gras es and the weeds. He churned the raft of lush and drift" ood_ He sweated and he shooed. I hooed, too. But not a bird flushed.
"Some of the fellows ay they're divin<Y and tayin' under. They can do it. The water is warm and 'twouldn't surpri e me if they tayed under fi e minute ."
We waited around, but if the birds were diving they were out-diving the Old Squaw and forgetting the way back home.
Blam! Ken's over-and-under bel hed behind u . Blarn! It rumbled again.
We looked around jut in time to ee a bird crumple into the water. The second shot had stopped a lone hen-Ken's first mar h hen and his la t this year. Maybe for all time.
But for me-not a bird, not a feather. Jut a trip halfway up and halfway down Half Moon River. A coat of brine instead of bit of burned powder wa what I cleaned from the barrel that night.
Our refrigerator was clean. It till
I_
Our fIrst marsh hen hUllt wa for exercise.

H OWE ER, we were in the ame boat with nearly all other hen hunters. Boat after boat carne in without a bird. Some had two and the "game hogs" had as many a five. One Cha tham Count native had scoured the marshes all day and flushed eight birds. He brought back seven.
There were report of a many as 15 bagged, but we didn't ee them.
In tead we heard a chorus of ' no birds."
It was not hard to convince us that the hitherto rail paradi e had become a deselt. The "ater wa there and the gra was there, but the hens were gone.
Other found the ame conditions and portsmen called for a clo ed ea on on the bird, which for years had furni hed early sport for hundred of coastal hunter.
The hens are scarce. Entirely too scarce. There perhap should be a closed season for a long as two years. McIntosh County ha brought back the hen with a long closed seaon. Other countie could follow the
same plan. portsmen appealed to the director
of the Divi ion of Wildlife, whose hands are tied with weak laws. He

ha no power to close easons In uch an emergency.
Leading sport men find even the hardware tore which' ell marsh hen load joined the "protect the hen" brigade. The Old Salt program on Radio tation WTOC urged hunters to "spare the few remaining for brood tock."
Blame for the udden disappearance of the mar h hens-they were abundant last year-is laid primarily to the storm along the coa t in late Augu t and to overshooting over a long period.
Ivan R. Tompkin , of the . S. Dredge DeWitt Clinton, believe the hurricane took a tremendou toll of birds. Pointing out that the wind velocity at the peak of the blow was 94 mile per hour, he says that most of the rail population, having no lee from the northerly wind, must have perished. He explains that drift trash and old logs were carried over marshe tha~ have not been flooded in 18 years.
Another report told of nearly 30 oung birds which had been blown into a farmyard. The birds were "dried out" and retu rned to the mar he in good condition. Thousands of other bird doubtless met a more haples fate.
MARK tubbs, of avannah, also is a "closed season" sympathizer, although he has a tore heav-
(Continued on page 24)

Ken and his first and only marsh hen are shot at the landing on Wilmington Island.

OUTDOOR GEORGIA. September 1940

11

with JOH W. BEALL
Control of {(abies Among Foxes

L ITTLE at~ention was pai? to the queer actIons of foxes 111 Burke county until Rosa Bell Lewis, negro woman of Keysville, Ga., wa bitten as she attempted to run a fox away from her chicken house. The econd ca e involved another negro woman. On June ro, Holli Golden wa working in a cotton field near a wooded area. A fox jumped from the bru h and fastened it teeth in her leg. Dr. ]. :-1. Byne, Jr., who ga"e fir t aid treatment, reported that it wa nece ary to take e"en
titche to clo e the wound. The head of thi animal was ent to the tate laboratorie in tlanta and a report of po iti"e wa received from the examination. Dr. \V. D. Lundqui t, Burke County commi ioner of health, admini tered anti-rabic treatment.
Iany reports similar to the e have come from all part of the county. One ca e im'oh'ed a litter of puppie owned by R. E. Rollin and Dewey Rollin, boys living in the Gough community. The fox attacked the puppie and took one of the litter out of the dog hou e. ttracted to the cene by the crie of the puppy, the puppy' mother killed the fox. Several day later the puppy that wa re cued from the fox refu ed to eat. 'While trying to force food into the mouth of the puppy, the Gough boys were cut about the hands. Dr. W. B. Hirleman, veterinarian, pronounced the puppy a rabid. The dog wa killed and examination of it head brought a po itive report.
On June 20 the Fi h and Wildlife Service became aware of the unusual condition that had developed and sent W. T. Harrod of Savannah, to a i t in the campaign to top the epidemic. Harrod and Ranger Charlie Harper went to work and et trap in the harde t hit area . In an area of Ie than a quare mile twelve foxe were caught. ome of the e, though apparently normal, were found to be rabid.
T HOUGH the trapping of foxe wa a ucce , the method was too low to stamp out the infected animals. Fox hunter were consulted. They were reluctant to a ist in the de truction of the
foxe. However they finally were im-
pressed with the seriou ness of the it-
uation, and almo t 100 per cent of them
pledged cooperation. Especial credit i due R. C. vValker, of
Sardi . Without payor other compensa-
tion, he went to work with his pack of
hounds and the fir t day out bagged
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three foxe . Since that time \Valker ha upplied many a head for examination.
In uch a ca e as Mr. \Valker' an outider cannot help but realize the erioune of the campaign. Here is a man who Im'ed his fox hunting. going out and painfully destroying the port 0 acred to the cha e clan. ther hunter oon were enli ted and the Fi h and Wildlife en'ice ince ha employed hunter with good dog to aid in the fight.
A reign of terror de cended on Burke county, and people walked the road with ticks and club in their hand-. If you inquire of anyone as to the need of being thu armed your an wer will be something to thi effect: ..!, e got di tick fo dem mad foxe :' Thi i typical of the reply you will recei"e from all the darkies. Due to the fact that Burke county i largely made up of negroe , especially in the rural ection, no white citizen have
Setting a trap for a rabid fox.
been bitten by a fox. everal white perons have recei"ed treatment cau ed indirectly by domestic animal that have been bitten.
OK July ,. ndy Ray, nationally known trapper, arrived in vVayne boro to a si t Harrod and Harper. By thi time the pread of the di ease threatened to completely wipe out the fox population. Through the added experience and the bottle of bait that Andy brought along, thing began to pick up. The bait consist of nine parts wolf urine and one part glycerine. The instincts of the fox are very similar to that of a dog and the bait used is intended to play upon that in tinct rather than the appetite of the

animal. A fox coming within ten feet of this bail will top long enough to in-
ve tigate the cent and usually re ult in a catch before the animal leaves the scene.
Trap are not fa tened to any tationary object. They are usually tied to a
tick about two feet long, which allow the fox to leave the cene of the catch, thereby making it pos ible to u e the
ame et everal time. Thi tick oon tangle in the bru h and the animal i u ually found within a few yard of where he wa caught. In a trap et by Ranger Harper three fox and a kunk were caught in four niO'ht. This i
another thing that Harper and Harrod were taught by Ray.
To date, in Burke county alone, nine
people ha"e b en bitten by rabid foxe. Several ther have taken t r ea t men t cau ed indirectly by the bite of a fox. O"el' fifty domestic animals ha,'e been
killed as a re ult of bites. Dead foxes can be found in almo t any wooded area and ome dead animal have I een found
e"en in the city limits of 'vVaynesboro. At first the epidemic wa confined to the area between Brier Creek and the Ogeechee Ri"er, but at the time of this writing, Burke, Jenkin, Jeffer on and Richmond counties were affected.
According to reports from Federal Authoritie thi i the large t outbreak of rabies among wild animals on record.
The Rockefeller Foundation in Montgomery, Ala., i examining the heads of
the animals taken. Dr. Charle N. Leach i making a detailed research of the brain and ali vary gland, trying to
oI am more about the my teriou di ease. ugu t [3 the commis ioner called a meeting of repre entative from all ection of the county. Thi meeting wa at-
tended by Dr, ]. M. Sutton, state "eterinarian, Dr.]. 1. ellers of the tate health department, L. C. Whitehead of the Fi hand vVildlife ervice, and Charle N. Elliott, director of the Diviion of 'vVildli fe, a well a local health officer and other intere ted in the control of the epidemic, At thi meeting it wa decided that all dog in Burke county should be quarantined for a period of ninety day.
Record how that over a hundred head have been examined ince the first outhreak. everal times that number have probably died and numerou dead fox have been found in area where formerly fox were plentiful. In such areas fox
(Colllilllled all page 2"')

September 1940 0 TDOOR GEORGIA

HU TI GBEER THE I BIA WAY

T HE devotee of Robin Hood among Dixie nimrod will have a chance to bring down a buck with hi arrow-provided he i a good enough hot-when the outh first bow and arro\ buck deer hunt open October 29 on the Blue Ridge Wildlife anaaement Area in Georgia's Chattahoochee ational Fore t.
Hunting i one of the la t escape of modern man from the shackles of civilization_ Hunting as a port long ago upplanted hunting a a mere mean of obtaining meat. It i a happy mean of aetting awa from de ks and counter to the open freedom of the hill. And the sport of huntina reache its zenith in thrills and zest when the bow and arrow are used. It was natural, then, that the art of archery wa recognized and included in the plans for thi hunt, which i the re ult of fourt en year of cooperative restocking and protection by the nited State Fore t Servo i e and the Di ision of Wildlife of Georgia. Deer now are plentiful, and for the fir t time ince the work was initiated port men will be given an opportunity to utilize exce s numbers.
Game animal are a crop of the soil just a are corn, timber and apple orchards. A such, game animals hould be managed on sustained yield principle 0 that a good stock alwa remain to perpetuate the pecie. nder the arne principle, the crop ~hould be "harve ted" by reducing over tocked area to the number which the area will upport. The national fore t of the country are managed for "the greate t good to the laTge t number of peopl in the long run" and this managed deer hunt i an activity which will react to the ben fit of outhern portsmen.

and detailed information can be obtained b writing either to Charles Elliott, DiTector, Wildlife Division,
tate Capitol Atlanta, Ga., or Supervi or Wm. H. Fi cher, Chattahoochee
ational Fore t, Gaine ville, Ga. A wilderne tent camp will be set up in the heart of the 40,OOO-acre area to erve a headquarter for the hunt. Here in the picture que outhern Appalachian is the peace and tranquillity of the primeval forest, as our ance tor found it when they landed on these wooded hores. The thrill of the chase today i ju t as keen a it \ a centuries ago when Robin Hood and hi merry men shot the Icing's deer in herwood Fore t

and those who wear allegiance to the long bow doubtless will welcome a sporting event that i rare in the
nited tate. E en if one lUi ses his buck, the tang of pine in the October air, the blue haze of the mountains, and the glo\ of camp fire still beckon and call as they did in the day when the Red Man roamed the hills and bagged hi game with bow and arrow.
THE PLA
Area to be Hunted-Rock Creek drainage; Noontootly drainage; Jones Creek drainage; ~1ontgomery Creek drainage: within the boundaries of the Blue Ridge Wildlife Management A rea. ,
Boundary Posting-Ko exterior boundary posting will be necessary ince the boundary
(Contilllled all page 26)

T HE provi ion of the plan reserve the fir t five-day period excluivel for the archer. A cond period will follo\ exclu i ely for the riflemen. Thi appear to be a break for the archer, but a fair one, and the arrangement wa aareed on b both state and federal official .
In keeping with outhern ho pitality, archers from tates other than Georgia are eligible for permits to take part in thi hunt. pplication

I was practicing with the .22 when he got in my way.

o TDOOR GEORGIA. eptelllber 1940

13

I I THE word- of the late I anu Morri-, dean of the niver ity of Georgia' Lumpkin Law chool, "The rea on they call the learned profes~ion learned is because it i learned.' Therefore, to rep re en t men a la\ yer must know men; to prote t their property right mu t know bu ine and to pre erve the natural re 0 u rce of our tate he mu t have some knowledge of oil and water and of the other ba ic reources themselves.
The learned fraternity, to be hone t and capable, mu t know more than law; it mu t know a much about fructus naturales as it doe about fructus industriales_
Co u r t can well afford to take judicial cognizance of the alue of furred and feathered life and the maintenance of the balance of nature. Too few farmer appreciate the a ita n ce to crop their winged friend render_
Court can affirm there are portsmen who recognize the importance of wild life in the economic cherne of thing and play the game, ith a ju t reaard to a policy of enjoying life by livin a and let live according to rule_
MA TER farmer. and port men who are consIderate of our most valuable asset, our wildlife, create no problem for a con ervation program. But, agricultural ignorance, the elfi h greed of outlaw hunt men and fi hermen threaten the economic life of the tate far more than a urface view would indicate.
A con er ation pro!n'am mu t accept thi challenge and fight it ubtle deva tation with all the power of educational per ua ion. When education fail the only recourse of the state i to the har h J:jandate of leaal penalt .
Puni hment i where con rvation me he with law and depend upon the court . It hould be remembered thi appeal to law and order does not nece arily mean the end of education for the offender. More often it i an opportunity for the judiciary to as ume an irnpre ive pedantic garment and in truct.
Court hould cooperate with every conser ation program, not in the , letter of the la, that killeth but in

By GORDO W. CII MBERS
Judge of Augu La City CourL

the pirit of the la, that let liveth.'

In an effort to meet the challenge

Lawyers for the defen e, pro ecutors of problems confronting the Depart-

and judge hould be an educational ment of atural Resources, Divi ion

faculty functioning a an auxiliary to of Wildlife, in the State of Georgia

the corps of experts retained by the the author of this article, in his de-

tate to preserve it natural re ource . ire to cooperate and do ju ti e to

Mo t legal and judicial minds are the cause, found it necessary to do

well equipped with know ledge of a bit of tud which extended it elf

tatute, common and natural la\ for into r arch a interest developed.

thi extra judicial duty. But, when it comes to applyin a natural law in its

Ju t to illu trate how study widen the mental horizon and po ibly

relation to wild life; the value agri- tend to make a better public ervant

culturall derived and the worth of if not a wi~er judge, the writer will

preventative medicine a practiced b

indulge the vanit of ubmitting

"claw, fang, beak and mouth' in the from thi point on a brief of infor-

air field and tream many of u mation gleaned from that tudy:

woefull lack proper kno\ ledae.
I T WO D be too much to expe~t the legal fraternity to take a

FI HER E alone pend more than i paid for all other port combin d, in luding the attendance

our e in ornitholog and it i not group. Add money expended by

nece ary. Expert have blazed the

(Continued on page 25)

trail and estab-

Ii hed facts. It

i only e sential

tha t the legal

faculty profit

by thei r re-

earch and ex-

perience to the

end that it may

carryon the

good work.

We must ac-

cept the theorie

of our fact-find-

ing commission

the experts, un-

til experience as

m colleague

would a re-

ver e stare de-

cisis. We ha e

e er right to

have faith in the

ornithologi t

and agronomist.

Their error

have been few.

Their cientiJic

conclusion

have declared

dividend in

doll a r sand

cent because

based on common sen e.

Wildlife Ranger Dan Royal checks the bag of Spurgeon Chandler, Georgia boy and pitcher for the New York Yankees.

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September 1940 0 TDOOR GEORGIA

-

WHY don't you inlanders break out your duffie bag, gas up the family puddle jumper, and come on down to the coastal country for some good fi hing? ow don't ay that fi hing is no good in the fall. Don't ay that the fish talt hibernating as oon a September hit the calendar. Yes, I know that lots of folks have the idea that fall and winter fishing is ju t so much wa ted time, but down here on Georgia's coast, fi hing is at it peak during the fall months, right on up to Christmas.
La t month, I told you omething about winter trout (weakfish), tho e speckled beautie , that invade Georgia's coa tal water. I related omething of their habits and the methods rna t frequently used in taking them. And thi time, I want to tell you where to go to find them and a little about what is happening just now.
Get on any highway leading to the coast and keep going W1til you hit coa tal highway . o. 17. When you hit 17, you've hit the winter trout country and every few mile along its entire route you'll find good fishing camp and waters teeming with trout-winter trout, one of the fine t salt water fi h in the Atlantic. Other species are being caught at this time of the year uch as chool, stag and channel ba , whiting, sheephead, and flounder, but trout are the most plentiful and the easiest to catch. And don't think they are not game. You can horse them in with heavy equipment and lose all the
port of the trip, but on light tackle, they'll provide all, and ometimes more, sport than you ever found fishing for rainbows or black ba .
IF YO 'RE a stranger to the coast, you want to know something of how to get to the fishing camps and what you'll find after you get there, so I'm going to help you with a brief de cription of some of the camp.
When you come to Savannah, you can have the choi e of fishing from anyone of 12 fishing camps. Savannah offers any kind of hotel or

tourist home accommodation you might want, and orne hotels and tourist home are located just a stone s throw from the fishing camps. On occasions, fi h are running well at one or two camp and not a well at others and for thi rea on you
hould make a check up as oon a you arrive in Savannah, and find out where catche are being made.
Wilmington I land is on the Tybee highway, just 7 miles from downtown Savannah and on it you'll find 6 good fishing camps. Lee's at the Turner's Creek Bridge i the first. Then, in the following order, you come to Boyd' o. 1; Siever'; Boyd's o. 2; Morri '; Pittman' and Fennell's. All of the e camp have bateau to rent, and most of them keep a supply of live hrimp in seaon. one of these camp keeps rental outboard motor, but will arrange for fishing guide on request. Boyd's o. 1 camp offer a complete marine ervice, having marine ways for everything from small cruisers to large sea-going yachts. The other camp , while not offering complete marine service, keep a good number

of dry fi~hing boats ready for visiting sport men, and either operate or are near tares where upplie can be purchased. Daily reports of good catches of winter trout are coming in from the e camps, the largest catch reported a far this sea on being 34 fish.
AT TYBEE 18 miles from Savannah, and on the same highway a Wilmington, you'll find Arnold Boyd's Camp and Scottie's. Both have plenty of good 11 hing boats, the bateau type, and Arnold Boyd has 2 large cruiser for deep sea parties.
In that section near Savannah, known as Montgomery, there are three place to rent boats. White's Place on hip y a r d Creek, Bell Place at the Montgomery Public Landing and Johnny Bailey's Place on Shipyard Creek. The waters in thi ectiol1 u ually provide good catche , and report have come .in of catches in the 20 several times recently.
The last of the avannah camps is (Continued on page 22)
It says not to play 'em too long-and you can't string 'em.

OUTDOOR GEORGIA September 1940

15

Bif IJll.en M. Pet:i/l4on
Alabama Cooperative Wildlife Re earch Unit

No GRE TER thrill comes to many port men than drawing a b ad on a fa t flying tar"'et early on the morning of the fir t da of the dove hunting ea on. For many years it ha been dove hooting that brings the fir t comfort to the itching trigger-finger of re tIe outhern portsmen.
The importance of do e hooting in the field of outdoor port ha long been recoO'nized, but only in recent years ha dove management been given detailed tudy. Con ervationminded gam admi ni trator and sportsmen are now giving more and

bama, M i

i PP i Loui iana and

Tenne ee.

Detailed in e tigation ha been

made of the habits, home life activi-

tie, and management problem of

the mourninO' dove. eemingl, the

mo t important factor now affecting

the production of dove in the outh.

ea tithe huntin.,. ea on. Like all

other bird dove can increa e in

number only by a series of impor-

tant events, namely, mating, ne ting,

egg-laying, incubating, and rearing of

the young. This Eeries of events mu t

be maintained in an unbroken chain

if more bird are to be produced.

From Fledg

more thought to the maintenance of our dwindling upply of dove, and wa b ,hich their number may b increa_ d. The do e is an important game bird in all outhern tates, and the problem of dove management appear to be imilar throuO'hout the outhea tern region.
For nearly fi e year a comprehenive stud of the mourning dove has been under, ay in the outhea t. The work ha been conducted by the Alabama Cooperative Wildlife Research nit which i spon ored by the Alabama Department of Conservation, Alabama Polytechnic In titute, American Wildlife In titute and the
. Fi h and Wildlife ervice (Department of the Interior . Headquarter ha e been maintained at uburn, Ala., and do e pecimen for tud have been obtained in Georgia, la-

I T] O'enerally ac epted a unport manlike to hunt an game

bird during the mating period or

br dinO' sea on. The mourning dove

cannot b considered an ex eption to

thi rule, becau e ample time i avail-

able for a hunting eason after om-

pI tion of the mating period. An

in i"'ni ficant number (Ie than 4 per

cent) of the adult doves fir t come

into I reeding condition during the

latter part of Decem ber. Through

January and February the number

increa e O'radually wllil March,

when more than 75 per cent of the

bird are in breeding condition. Dur

inO' the remainder of the pring and

throu.,.hout the ummel' th mating

ea on rna be con idered a being in

full progr

sharp d cline occur

lat in eptember, which i coinci-

d nt , ith con truction of the late t

Male (right) does his share of incubation.

ne t for the ear. On 0 tob r 1 the breedinO' _ea on may be con idered definitel clo d, and durinO' October and ovember none of the bird are in breeding ondition. It i obvious that the hunting ason should be limited to date within 0 tober, 0vember, and December in ofar as the breeding sea on i concerned. The month of Januar could al 0 be included in thi group, a onl about 8 per cent of the bird are then breeding.
l 'HE fir t functional dove n tare found late in February or early March. Onl two egg are u ually laid for each brood, but everal broods may be reared during one eason and in the same ne t. The incubation period la t 14 day, and the young u ually remain in the ne t

Mourning dove ne tlings O'TOW ery rapidl ,but upon leaving the ne t the O'rowth rate i lowed do\ n owing to increa ed a tivit and the n ces it of learninO' to shift for them lve. J u eniles that have re::entl y entur d from the nest make poor tal'get and when killed by hun ter they are u ually di carded a being unfit to be included in the baa. Young dove u uall y attain maturity at 3 to 4 month of age, but the are quite acceptable both for sport and table u \ hen 7 to 8 week of age.
FRO information concerning the n ting eason it may be een that the ne tlings hatched early in spring ar mature by Augu t, while tho e that leave the nest in eptember and October do not rea h a size uitable for sport or table u e until late in

eng to Flight

11 or 12 day. e ting in ignificant number con tin ue through pring and ummer, and the la t brood are tarted during the latter half of eptember. On or before 0 tober 15, the la t ne tling of the year take the fir t AiO'ht from the ne t in \ hich the were reared.
In order to avoid the hooting of dove during the ne ting ea on, hunting hould not be permitted until ollle time in October. Only a r lativel few late brood occur during earl October but a significant number of dove are incubating eO'gs and rearing nestlinO' durinO' eptember.

o ember or early December. If all the oung dove are to be protected from shootinO' until the ar large enough to be u ful no huntinO' should be permitted until lat III o "ember or earl De ember.
An ideal hunting sea on _hould give the do e- adequate protection durinO' the tim the are mating, n ting, and rearing their young. Maximum production cannot be expected if the hunting ea on i permitted to interfere with nature' method of increa ina the dove population. A hunting ea on e tending from lovember
(Continued on page 25)

Management, and Not Restrictions, Is the Answer to Better Dove Shooting

14 days laterone hatch, one pip.

Stung By A Paper Maker

T HE other da I wa ,alking do\ n an 0 b scu re trail which followed a mall, tumbling mountain creek. The bushe overhung the footpath from either ide and I had to pu h my way through them.
uddenly the air wa filled with a roaring ma of tiny black bodie .
omething which carried all th characteristic of a red-hot needle tabbed m leg. talmo t. the arne in t.ant. my arms and the back of m neck were targets of the darting black bomber.
I acted b in tinct rather than from an thought. pro e e. I plunged for the t.hick brush, , ith t.he quick, but fervent. wi h that. I would not. land prawling acros the neck of orne mad rattle nake.
I had tumbled into a mall hornet. ne t. I thanked m luck tar that. the colony I had been unfortunate enough to find wa not. a large colon . I lay where I had fallen in t.he bu hes and watched the defender ret.urn t.o th ir home ba e. The buzzed around for a few econds, ,ailing for a n w attack on their paper domicile. I had no idea of making a econd attack, and on by one they filed ba k into the tin opening at the bott.om of the paper ne t.
De pite the urpri e and the evere pain from the few ting I r ceived, I at for a long time watching the colony at its dail work.
W HILE I at. there a wildlife ranger came up the t.rail. He had seen my aut.omobile parked beide the road and had come over t.o see whether I wa fi hing in hi rearing pool or in the closed tream of the management. area. I e, plained t.hat m onl activity at t.hat particular moment. wa in remembering that I had been pra ticall kayoed by the little black and bald-faced warrior.
"I've known t.hat. ne t \ a there for a lon a time, ' he replied "but. ince
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hornet kill Rie and other in ect that chew on me, I've never bothered it."
I had never topped to wonder what hornet reall did feed upon. I asked more que t.ions. One wa whether that particular wildlife
Summer home of a hornet colony.
ranger had made a life tud of hornet . He laughed.
"I'm ju t up po d to know about. the critt.er in t.he wood ," he said.
While we at there I learned many more thing about hornet. I learned that. the hornet belong to t.he" 0 ial In e t ," ,hich include ant and bees and wasp -tho e in ects which live in ocial group or colonie and carr on a miniature civilization of their own.
T HE bald-faced hornet. i a kind of \ asp. He i one in ome 10,000 pecie of wa ps found on earth. Like mo t. oth r wa p he make hi urn-

mer home out of paper. When winter come, he abandon hi air-,conditioned house and move into hi \ inter domicile in an old dead tree, or in some hollow tree trunk which hut out the ic bla ts.
B watching wa ps, man fir t learned how to make paper. The hornet i one of the fine t paper maker of all the wa p . Hi hom i huge and round and ver complex, even though he make it in a imple manner. He locate some tree where the bark ha been torn away, leaving the \ ood expo ed. With hi powerful teeth he crape off thin layer of wood. Thi he chew into a pulp. He pread the pulp on the ne t in a thin la er. It dries as paper.
The ranger explained that one of the be t natural trout baits any fisherman ould use were grub from the nest of a hornet colony. He aid al 0 that many hunter u ed th paper nest a a gun cleaning material.
"That's fine," I ulYge ted, "but with all tho e red hot warrior hanging around the ne t, I II stick to artificial llie on th end of my h'out line and to cloth for cleaning my gun."
The ranger laulYhed.
~~yo can get the nest in the fall after the hornet have aone in
the t.ree . You can get the lITub by
pia ing your hand over the end of
the ne t, ubmerging the nest and drowning the hornet in ide. There is
only one entrance to their home, ou know.'
I did not know it and I refu ed to take a chance. Tho e insects could warm out much too fa t for me.
I a ked the ranger onl one more que tion b fore , e went back dm n the trail to our automobile. I a ked him if he called tho e horn t social or sociable in cts. I had heard him correct! y the fir t time.
JIM CGRAW.

epternber 1940 0 TDOOR GEORGIA

First All-American
(Continued from page 8)
In training the tree hound the most important point is to hunt the young hound as often a po ible with tbe best old hounds a ailable. If he ha good blood in him, he will quit cha ing cotton tail, if you hunt him hard and let him see old hounds work. Tree hounds seldom develop at an early age. 10 t often they are two or three years old before they have enough patience to "stay at the tree." Well kept howld are useful to an old age and many times very old hounds have been known to "hold a tree" for an entire night.
Go 'possum hunting this fall. This i one port in which there i never a complaint of a shortage of game. A sack, an axe, a lantern, and a flashlight and all i ready. The houllds are 'raring to go when they see the lantern. As you wait for YOUT neighbors to come over after supper, the hounds bark and play about the farm yard-eager to hit the trail. The ame lazy hound that were so bored by the long summer months.
The farms, the wood lots, the creek and swamp that we know so well by day take on a different character at night. The cow trail we have followed so often leads u through a mysterious and fascinating land on a dark late fall night when we follow the "lantern toter" on a 'possum hunt.
B ESIDES his big bag of game, the 'po sum hunter gets real sport, recreation and adventure. Let a goodmouthed hound strike a hot coon trail and send his challenge rolling over the hills to the log where you have been "sitting awhile and givin' 'em time to hunt," and a thrill will run through you a sure a you are a red-blooded Georgian. The hunter follows every move his hound makes for the great hound's voice tells every move he makes. The hunter thrills with his hound when the trail is hot and worries when the hound is baffled and hi yell of succes "he' treed," follow the steady bark.
If you have never heard a good hound's tree bark when he knows his coon is up the tree, you have missed one of the most thrilling and the most American of sports. When you hear the Georgia hunter yell encouragement to his hound on a dark
ovember night you are hearing the original rebel yell. 0 one can decribe the hunter's yell or the hound's cry, but there is no mistaking their challenge to the world. Together the hWlter and hi hound match their

wits and together they share succe . Nothing can be more proud than the hound when hi master "shine " the eye of a bil! coon in the tree he has named with his tenor or bas voice.
If you want a sport that is never dull, get a good tree hound and match your \ its with Georgia' sly coons and cautious 'pos ums. It's the real American port.
The Ghost Walked
(Continued from page 5)
reading one of my books I found in Jim Barwick's library.
The other hunter came in at noon. I met them in the yard.
"What luck?" I asked of Ted. He looked at me with the same sour expres ion I had seen on the faces of cat .
"You brought us bad luck. We didn't see a deer. The dog jumped a big buck early and he went out through the north pasture with every dog after him. They're still looking for the dog ."
Jim joined him.
"yEAH, it's the first time in the history of Buckland that we
didn't bring home at least half a dozen deer. It's your fault."
"I got one," I said.
Jim said," ertz," and turned away. Then he wung back.
"You got what?" "I got a buck," I aid. "Where?"
I pointed to the rack. Jim took one look, then leaped in the general direction of where the deer hung. One by one he examined the feet of the animal. Then I noticed that one of the hooves was half gone.
"Holy smokes," Jim Barwick said under hi breath. 'It's 'the ghost'." He just stood there with his mouth half open.
John Clearey tepped back to where I wa .
"Jim'll never for gi ve you," he said. "You've broken the tradition of Buckland and his heart along with it. He's been living ten years to kill that buck."
"Why didn't he take the gho t tand then?" I asked.
"It i a paleaozoic custom at Buckland," John said, "that stand I o. 13
would get 'the gho e."
I'm waiting for my invitation back to Buckland this year. It hasn't come yet. Perhap it wa 10 t in the mails.

o TDOOR GEORGIA SelJtember 1940

ANSWEf($ I
(to questions on page 2)
1. Yes. 2. Northern or Mounwin. 3. Wood du.ck. 4. Ruffed Grouse. 5. Two. 6. Fauna. 7. Vixen. 8. No, a mammal. 9. Rattlesnake, Copperhead, Cotton mouth moccasin, Coral Snake. 10. parrow h.awk. 11. 15 and 30. 12. Six OlL/lces. 13. As destroyers oj insects. 14. Duck stamp. 15. Beaver. 16. Clapper rail, Mud h.en, Railbird. 17. Buck. 18. Upstream. 19. o. 20. Mallard, Black Du.ck, Bllle Winged Teal, Green Winged Teal, Ringneck, Scaup oj Bluebill, Pintail or Sprig, Widgeon, Bald-

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AN EDITORIAL
D R. CLAB LLO D, pre ident of the count game and fi h club and wildlife enthu ia t, ha jut relea ed a bit of material to how the ad antaO'e of the seven-man COIDlTIlS IOn to head the tate wildlife division a again t the pre ent inefficient, \ a teful, abominable politioal et-up. The Eagle commend the sportsman and trust the voters will see to it that the gubernatorial candidate who pledge him elf for such a program is given
their upport. Georgia re eived 155,000 for its wildlife development la t year, under its politi al ystem. Wi conin, under a commi ion form received 1,004,000. And that more-than-one-million-dollars was expended in trearn and field enriching the farmer, the landowner and giving the hunter and fisherman omethinO' to go after. La t year,

Wi con in under a commi ion, relea ed 2~3,00~ quail; Georgia tW'ned 100 e Ie than 7 000. 1 con In O'ave farmer-boy club nearl 50,000 quail eO'O' . GeorO'ia gave none. Governor River pouted a lot of wea el word about a commis ion form and then did nothing about it. The pre ent candidate are being approached and a ked to lend their upport. A statement from them hould be forthcoming oon, but if none doe, then the voters hould repudiate them, one and all. There are millions of dollar in cold ca h awaiting the farmer and landowner if the wildlife of th tate i developed. There i relaxation and port awaiting the hunter and fisherman. But the O'overnor and senators and representative mu t change the pre ent hopeIe mes and inaugurate a system that work . Politic ha ruined \ ildlife in Georgia long enouO'h. It is time for the table to be turned.-Gainesville Eagle.

AN ANSWER-
Mr. A. F. Deall, Editor, The Gaines-clille Eagle, Gaincsvillc, Go.
DcaI' A1Islin:
I have bcfore 1IIe a copy of 'yonI' editorial fr01ll a recellt isS1te of The Gaillesville Eagle, in which 3'01' called Ihe presellt organi::ation of Ihe lVildlife Diz'isioll all "illeffcctllal, 'waslefnl, abolllillOble polilical set-'IIp."
If the statelllent in your paper is for poNtical reaSOIlS, thcn you can sial' readillg here. B1I.t if y01l are hOlleslly illtercsted in Ihe improvelllcni of Georgia wildlife cOlldiliolls, as 1 believe )'OU are, Ihen you will be illieresied ill ollly a few facts abollt Ihe present set-ltp.
It 1IIakcs 1IIe feci prelly badI), whcn I reali::c Ihat I have devoled sOllie sixteen or scvcllicell hOllrs each day for Ihc past 'year 10 Iryillg to place this orgalli::alioll on a sUlllld basis alld thclI have failed to sitch all c:ctelll Ihal aile of Illy friellds rates the orgalli::alioll all the bottolll of a polilical heap.
1 regret very IIlIIch if 3'01' thillk z e are polilical. I 0111 vcry slrollgly ullder the illlpression that, although Ihe Division of Wildlife is 1I0t ant of politics, we have politics elltirely ou.1 of the Division. Onr 1/len were sclected elltirely all. a 1IIerit basis last Sllll11l1er. The mell who have 1I0t prodllced a good job ill the work assiglled 10 Ihcm have beell replaced. Hie have 1I0t droppcd aile sillgle case 1IIade agaillst gallle law offellders. tr<Jen Ihough s01lle of Ihc cases werc lIIade agaillst

vcry slrOllg friellds of Ihis adlllillistratioll. IVe have had pressure 10 have politicia1lS put all 0111' pay roll. a such appoilltlllenis have been made. The Goverllor has baclud lIS '1'1' ill these decisiolls.
Dr. Clab1ls Lloyd kllows Ihal we are behilld his 1II0VClllellt IOO per cellt 10 create a C0111111issioll for this deparl1llellt.
We have advocated this becallse z 'e felt
it was Ihe ollly way 10 get Ihe deparl1IIellt 0111 of polilics so Ihal every govenlor who callies alollg can/101 appoint llew personllel who will discard policies and praclices alld slart all over agaill. Dr. Llo),d klloz s lurd! I stalld on the 1IIaller of a cOlll1llission. I do 1101 care aile whil who has Ihis deparllllclIl, but Ihey should slay 10llg enollgh 10 do sOllie good.
Most of the slates l'cceive all of Iheir 1II0ney for operatillg purposcs frolll 111t111illg alld fishillg licellsc fees. Georgia is 1/0 exceplion 10 Ihis. 011' receipls for the fiscal 3'ear elldillg I939 were approxi1IIaiely I50,000.00. For Ihe fiscal 3'car jusl elldillg, aliI' receipls wcre 1II0re Ihan
20",000.00 or 35 per celli 1II0re Ihall dltrillg the last 3'ear. SOllie of this is dlle 10 stricl ellforcelllcllt of Ihe gallic laws, sOllie 10 educalioll, sOllie 10 1IIallY other reasolls. It look /fIiscollsin alld other stoics half a cenlm'y 10 build Ihe illC01lle from Iheir h1lnting alld fishing licellses 10 over a million dollm's.
At the end of thc fiscal 3'ear I 939, Georgia had on halld Io6 pairs of laying quail 01 Ihe ga1lle farm, alld approxi1IIately IAOO birds for rclease.
AI the elld of Ihe fiscal 3'ear I9"0, we had 5n pairs of la3,illg quail 01 aile

ga1lle farm. /fie had dislribnled I5,000 quail eggs 10 farm boys alld girls who have lived ltp to snch requirelllenis as planlillg food palches f01' quail, pla.cillg a certain a1ll0ullt of Iheir land ill sallCtuary, alld killillg a cerlain Il1tmber of prcdalors. These eggs were dislribuled 10 1II0re thall I,OOO farm boys and girls in Georgia. aile WClIt or will go for political pllrposes. 1Ve slill havc SOllie 5,000 eggs 10 dislrib1lle. AI Ihc elld of the 3'ear jllst galle by we also had all halld at Ihe game farm 2AOO youllg birds for the p1lrpose of i1llproving our stock alld for release to prolecled areas. ~Ve are bllildillg IowaI'd Ihc relcase of Iho'llsallds of gallle bi'rds cach )'ear, but it lal~es li1lle.
My ollly inleresl is in the illlpl'ovelllellt of zlIildlife cOlldiliolls in Georgia., ill brillgillg beller 1II/II/illg alld beller fishing to the sporlslllell. 1 do 1I0t ~ive a do III II abollt polilics. Believe thai or 1101. It docs. howevcr, h1lrl all)' program we 1/lldertake as well as 0113' work we are doillg for Ihe illlprovelllellt of wildlife cOlldiliolls 10 have sllch 1IIisllllderslalldi,tgs OcellI' or 10 have 1IIisillforlllaiion disse1llillaled.
I do 1I0t believe I could possibly do an), 1II0re thall f ha'i!e dOlle durillg Ihe past year for the illlprovemeni of wildlife cOllditiolls in Ihis state. If you al'e cOllvinced we are goillg bach ard illstead of fOF.vard, then I have failed s01lltr&hcre. A lid as f say, if '\IOU arc sillc~re a.lld 1101 playillg polilics, f should itke z'ery 1II11ch 10 sit do' It alld discllss this 1II0rc ill de/ail wilh yO1/..
Charles 1\. Elliott.

AN EDITORIAL ..
T HE reader i urged to read the letter el ewhere on this page from Charles T. Elliott, commissioner of the tate Divi ion of Wildlife. And The Eagle wi hes to publicly thank r. Elliott for his forthright reply to it editorial and hi mo t enlightening report on the progres his department i making. Mo t ignificantly The Eagle is elated to learn that I'. Elliott i '100 behind the mo ement to create a commi ion for thi department.' Mr. Elliott kno\ ,a well a does thi n w paper, that a commi ion form i the one and onl \ a of keepinO' hi department out of politic and turning it over to the farmer and sport men, who support it. Thi new paper did not make it taternent recentl "for politi al reason ," Like
r. Elliott thi new paper doe "not give a damn about politics"; in tead, it damn politic every time it get a chance. But thi new paper i intere ted in wildli fe, its

propagation, pre ervation and enjoyment. And it knowthat if the Divi ion of Wildlife \ as not in politic, it would not be hog-tied to th other divi ions of the Department of atural Resource. The hunter and fisherman pay for the \ ildlife divi ion by pUl'chase of licenses. The other divisions are upport d by appropriated funds, but due to politic the wildlife fund were thrown into the same common pot. Th re ult, until I'. Elliott was able to eire t an improvement, wa an "ineffectual, wa teful, abominable political et-up." The Eagle i happy to learn of the new order and eaO'er to ee orne of it ben fit in thi ecbon. o long so barren that a hunt would turn into a hike and a fi hinO' trip into a drinking part to e cape boredom. II'. Elliott de erve the upport of ever port man and farmer in hi effort to secure a commi ion form for hi department. He will certainl have the wholehearted upport of thi new paper.-Gainesville Eagle.

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September 1940 OUTDOOR GEORGIA

SOLID DEFE SE
In many ection of the tate wildlife rangers are leaving patrol work to the common mo quito and getting full coverage. The e mosquitoes, however, don't appear to be of the common variety. They are de cribed by hunters and fishennen a hoI' e on wing, with the same lu t for blood a a wea el, the appetite of a woh'erine, and the range of a fox.
p and down and acros the wamps and river banks they have moved during the past two month and there was
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no letdown during the September cool spell. The whine of these winged monters has been a dirge to both fisherman and hunter. They have made both daylight and midnight attacks along the Broad and Little River and their raid along the Ogeechee have been the most de lrucLive in hi tory.
E\'en high in the mountains complaints ha\'e accused the e in ect of hauling off fishing tackle and then running off the anglers in the face of net and spray and all homemade preparations.
Rangers insist that it i practically impo sible to break through the mo quitoes in the wamp of outheast Georgia.
''The de ire of out-of- eason quirrel hunter to get the jump," explained Ranaer Charlie Harper, "ha been greatly reduced. In fact it completely topped violation ."
J. H. Braswell of Waynesboro re-
ported that his mosquito spray seemed to attract, rather than repel, the flying fiends. "They swam} 0 thick you can hardly see where to ca t your lure."
High water and ideal breeding condition because of overflow streams are blamed for the record crop of mo quitoes. It works both way for the bass, which get their hare along the edges and at the same time makes fi hermen too carce to do any damage.

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Two boom, of the black powder variety, attracted Ranger A. Mc mith to the edge of a swamp in Troup County.
He found a negro with a long inglebarrelled gun.
"Have any luck, George?" " awsah, bos, none 'tal!."

"Didn't you know it' again t the law to hunt out of eason?"
" awsah, boss. Ah jes' brung di along wid me. Thought mout ah cud git me er s(luh'I."
"Where are you going?" "Ya sah, bo , down heah to mah Ii h ba k ts." "Where arc your dogs, haven't you got any?" "Ya sah. But dey's Lied under de hoo e. Ef I bring 'em wid me, dey' bad 'bout runmn' rabbits."
McSmith looked in a ack hung across tJle negro's shoulder. He found two rabbits.
"Two hot and two rabbit. If you had brought your dogs you could have aved tho e hell."
"Ya ah, bo , but r e avin' em up.
We' all gwine po urn 'n' coon huntin' tonight."
POEM WITH A LESSO
The Dem'er Post recently carried a full page picture layout depicting fore t , tream and wildli fe, and underneath wa the following poem penned by Gene Lindberg:
OBJECT LESSON
Nature, like 111011, destl'O)'S her handiwork.
Tall forests that have lived for cel".. tu.ries
Are blasted ill OIL hOllr wheIL the 1 illd, That alice brollght rail/, drives fire throllgh the trees.
Mal/, too, will build through patient, peacef1l1 years;
Thel/, with a spark of maduess, he 1IIakes war
WI/ich kills, or 1IIailllS hilll, 1 recks his homes alLd fields
Alld leaves him poorer, weaker thalL before.
MOIL is a fool, bu.t atllre is a sage. She COIL l"eplace the trees her fla,lIles have killed.
B1/t lIlalL 1111/,St come to her fOl' wood and stol/e
AI/d SOlid alLd lime aud steel with which to b1/ild.
Perhaps this l'oaril/g fire is her voice Of protest raised agail/st the crime of waste.
COl/structiou., like all worthwhile 1 ark, is slow.
DestmctiolL is blil/d fall)" born of haste.

o TDOOR GEORGIA. epternber 1940

BACK TO ATURE

H. ne\'er

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Puonwdeerr'tanedlevethn~

young quail language of

their clucking mother. They didn't know

whether to run from or to her when she

uncovered a worm and went into her

cackle. They never could understand

why they had to crawl through wire to

get to a food trough and drinking ta-

tion.

One afternoon they heard a whistle. The second afternoon they heard the ame familiar bob-white sound, but did nothing about it except Ii ten

a little longer.

"Bunk," clucked their bantam fo tel'
mother. But on the third afternoon the young
chick didn't believe it \Va bunk. On
the next, under the long hadow jut before du k, a young roo tel' bird, fully three week old, an wered the cal!. It was ju t a peep. But to hi brother and si tel' it aid: "Follow me."
They did.

The Gordon Co u n t y agriculture teacher and his faithful bantam were deserted.
But now the young bird are whi tling in the wood and e\"ery afternoon they fly pa t their old home and thumb their no e at e\'ery chicken in the yard.
They \ ere kidnapped by a whi tie and like it.

GETTI G EVE
]. C. Kemp of Gray on, Ga., had been hooting at quirrel in hi be t bottoms corn field. The animal were hauling off choice ear of corn. Mr. Kemp early one morning had peppered everal quirrei with bird shot and cha ed them out of the field, for good, he hoped. Late in the afternoon he decided to check up on the re ult of hi attacks. A he walked under a tall poplar on the edge of the

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field a large roa tin' ear, hal f gnawed, canle tumbling down on hi head. The blow tunned him, but he recovered in time to see a mi chievous cat quirrel bounding to safety and barking every time he marle a tree. From then on the Gray on farmer wa shooting for keep.
And up in Cambridge, Ohio, another quirrel gained temporary revenge before paying \"ith hi life. \Valter Blake shot a grey quirrel out of a tree and leaned his gun against the trunk to pick up the anima!.
The quirrel came to life, ran up the gunstock and knocked over the gun. Blake wa hot in the seat of hi pant.
FOX HU 1'1 G TRIALS
All fox trails are leading out of Sumter County and all fox hunters are heading into thi capital of hunting. The field trial of the Georgia Fox Hunters A ociation will be held at Americu, October 16, 17 and 18, and a record attendance and entry i expected. Mem-
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"The Old Solt Sez"
(Continued from page 15)
Falligant's Place, at Coffee Bluff about 10 miles from the city. This camp is on the Little Ogeechee River and at times orne mighty good catches are made near there, but so far this season, the trout have been caught in other water .
Being 0 close to good hotel and restaurant facilities, none of the Savannah camps offers rooming or cab in acconuuodations. They leave all of that to those in the busine s and confine themselves to furnishing you with boats and doing their best to ee that you make a catch worth talking about when you get back home.
A D now, leaving the Savannah area, let's take a look at the camp along the rest of the coa t. Thirty-one miles below Savannah, at Midway, you turn left off of route 17 and head for Yellow Bluff. Signs pointing to the camp are conveniently located along the road, and after about 15 miles on a good county road you reach the camp of the Yellow Bluff Compan y operated by Roger Youman . Yellow Bluff has both cabin and dining room accommodations and the waters thereabout offer some of the finest fishing you want. And about a mile from the Yellow Bluff Company camp i Hoke Youmans' camp, where bateau or cruisers can be rented. Fishing guide are available at both places, but arrangements hould be made in advance before going to Yellow Bluff or Hoke Youmans'. To reach either by letter addre s them at Dorchester, Ga.
Back to route 17 again and on south through Riceboro until you see a large ign on the left pointing to
ick's Place at hellman's Bluff and one telling of Williams Bro. at Contentment Bluff. These camp are about a mile apart. Contentment Bluff has plenty of cabins with everything furnished at rea onable rate. The Williams brothers operate a store there and furni h almost any supplies you need, and boats and guides al 0 are available. Shellman's Bluff is a very popular fishing pot, but no cabin accommodation is available. I ick's Place, the principal fishing camp, has plenty of boat and motors available, and can arrange for guides ,hen wartted. To make advance arrangements for the e camps, address them R.F.D., Darien, Ga.
The next stop outh is Pine Harbor. A large sign on route 17 points
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to Doty's Camp at Pine Harbor, ju t 3 miles to the right of the highway. Doty's Camp offers complete accommodation ,cab'ins, restaurant, bateaus and speed boats, with plenty of bait always on hand. And the be t catch of the season so far ha come from Doty's Camp, 64 winter trout. Address Doty' Camp, Pine Harbor, R. F. D., Darien, Ga.
By THIS time you are ready to go a little farther south through Eulonia and Darien to Brun wick, St. Simon and Sea I land, the last stop on this fishing trip. There are lots

information, or if you wish, I'll help you plan your trip. Write me at WTOC in Savannah, telling me about when you want to make your trip and where you think you'd like to fi h, and I'll let you know how you'll find conditions.
If you've never done any winter trout fishing, you're in for a real fisherman' treat. You'll have morethrills than you've ever expected. And remem bel', from now until Chri tmas i the best time for winter trout, so come on down to Georgia' fisherman' paradise and learn for yourself just how many whoppers I've been telling.

Buddy Alexander, Atlanta boy, and a string of largemouths and crappie taken from High
Falls Lake near Griffin.
of places in and around Brunswick where bateaus can be rented, but the most popular fi hing camps eem to be Taylor Bros. Camps on St. imons and ea Island. The water around St. Simon have produced good catches of trout even during the ummel' when things were dull elsewhere. Catche running into the 50 and 60s are not unu ual and plenty of boats and guide are available at either of these camps. A with the other camps along the coast, it i well to make arrangements for your fishing trip in advance. Addre s the camps at St. Simon, Ga.
In planning your trip to the coast, remember that the fishing camp operators probably kno' be t about the time and place to go. Tidal conditions have a lot to do with whether you make a catch or go home with an empty bag, so find out when the tides will be best. Any fi hing camp operator will be glad to give you this

When The Dove Trovels
(Continued from page 9)
increments have their origin in Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and ew York.
The next point in our study-and one of the greatest importance--concerns the dates of recovery of the e migrant birds from the north. Of the entire 83 cases, only 3, about 3.6 per cent, were recovered in September. These three were banded as ne tlinO's, one in Massachusetts, one in Michigan, and one in Wisconsin, and all were killed in the fall of the same year in which they were banded. The bird from Wisconsin made a remarkable peed record, as it was banded at Racine on Augu t 9, 1932, and 42 days later, on September 20, it was killed at LaGrange, Ga.
GOI G on through the months, we find that only one of the northern-bred bird was recovered in October. In ovember, however, the northern birds really begin to appear as is shown by the 13 recoveries (15.8 per cent) for that month, 24 (28.8 per cent) for December, and 31 (37.3 per cent) for January.
From these facts there i only one conclu ion that can be drawn concerninO' the hooting of mourning doves in the south during the month of eptember. It was obviously cruel and inhuman, re ulting in the wholesale starvation of fledglings still in their nest. From the tandpoint of sound O'ame management it i of equal importance to point out that the birds hot in September were almost 99 per cent local birds. The full-feathered, powerfully flying miO'rant from the north had not arrived at that time. The evidence at hand suggests that in the southern states the months for real sport with these fast-flying targets are November, December and January.

September 1940 OUTDOOR GEORGIA

RiFles for Squirrels

T HERE are three chool of quirrel hunter. One makes a pecialty of " till hunting." Member of thi clan take their shooting eriou Iy and generally are trained riRemen.
The largest group u e orne model of .22 caliber repeater and frankly, I believe these fellow get more pleasure out of the game than any others.
Then there are the gunners who u e shotaUD and tree dogs, or ju t the gun.
The latter chool ha never developed the skill with a rifle that quirrel hun tin g require. They hould be put on the right track, for hooting larae and heavy load of hot at the e game little animal cannot be called a port in the true sen e. The only excuse for the u e of a hotgun i in cases involving a hunter who actuall need the meat for food.
Mo t hunter \ ould rather u e one of the popular .22 caliber repeaters, uch a the Remington Fieldmaster the Winche ter Model 61 or the Model 63 Winche ter Autoloading. Any of these riRes can be fitted with one of the low priced hun tin g scope, which eliminate much of the aue work in ighting. The are ea to carry, and when a fa t second shot i needed, there i a maaazine full at your command. This makes it ideal for runnin a game. It is urprising the kill one can

d velop with thi type of riRe b tickina to it and learning it thoroughly. I think that of all the riRes I have ever owned I have derived more pleasur from one of the e slide action models.
SOME hunter go into the wood with a heavy barrel .22 caliber target riRe, or maybe their favorite big game gun with reduced loads, equipped with a fine target cope with mi rometer adju tment from four to t n power. Th e nimrod find some likely looking pot and make them Ive comfOltable, where they can command a view of 50 or 60 ard.
A heav riRe and cope is no hardship here, and there i an advantage with up rior accurac and iahting equipm nt. These hunters will kill with the majority of all shot fired at squirr I up to 60 ard, and it i a rare occurrence to get longer shots, particularl in thick foliage. There i no gue work on the hooter' part and ea h shot can be placed exactly where it i wanted, either in the head or shoulder. Thi i a hu-
.22 Caliber Remington Fieldmaster.
.22 Caliber Remington Speed master.

o TDOOR GEORGIA. eptentber 1940

mane and cientifi wa of hooting and no quirrels will e cape to die a lingering death in their holes. The taraet scope can be used to examine an u piciou looking knot or movement and a glance is sufficient to determine whether it i game.
W HE u ing the high- peed hollow point cartridge it is advisable to sight the riRe in at 60 yards, and very little allowance in sighting will be necessar up to that distance. 1 once experimented for everal months for a uitable load for my 30-06 Springfield porter. My aim was to ecure the lightest low velocity load I could get, combined \ ith fair accura y at 50 yard . 1 tried every light ca t lead bullet that I thought \ a accurate, with various powder charges, but was never able to work out a very atisfa tory charge that could be depended on to put the fir t hot from a cold barrel ju t where I wanted it. I wa not ati fied with the accuracy, getting roo man unaccountable shot. I finally gave up the cast bullet and \ ent to jacketed one. The best load for the pringfi Id to come
from the experiment wa the .30-.30 caliber 110 arain Winche ter H 0 II 0 w point with 5.3 grain Hercules Bullseye pistol powder, or the 93 gI'ain We tern Luger .30 caliber bullet and 5 grain of the abo e mentioned Po\ der.
This produced groups from one to one and a half
(Continued on page 26)
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Ehhing of High Tide
(Continued jrom page 11)
ily toeked ,ith hell for u :: durin" the hen ea on. Among other who have activel campaigned for aredu tion of the ridiculou Iy large bag limit of 25 and a controlled shooting
period are F. C. Batte, Jr., Frank L.
Perr ,Lt. R. P. Erdman, 1. 1. allahan, D. H. Phail, Charles . Otto and
rthur olomon Jr.
The are con ervation-minded citizen ,ith a clo e-up vi \ of the marsh hen cri i . Their recommendation hould not be ignored.
The Georgia coa t ha offered the fine t mar h hen hunting in the whole countr ason after sea on. The birds can't la t, however, in th face of heav hooting and bad break from the weather.
An ffective plan, ina much a the ea on cannot be clo ed except b legislative action, would be obs rvance f a elf-imposed bag limit of, _a Ii. e, by all hwller .
ome of them , ill give thi g tion the rude razzoo. Other agree. B that a it rna , the fa main that the bird are on th wa out and omethin" mu t be done about it to ave one of the coa tal countr' acred outdoor port.

I(ongers' Compfire
(Colltilllled (rolll page J2)
have either died out or mO\'ed to ollle place not affected. In a hipment made on ugu t 20 compri ing a total of twenty head, eight of that number howed po iti\'e evidence of rabie .
Fox hunter in other ection of the

I DlA SIG 0 FI H

E. . Langley. of 94 Kirkwood Road,

danta, will never be convinced that igns

don't have a meaning. He aw what he

con ider d a lucky ign ]wle 19 and went

to Lake Rutl dge to ee if the fi h bore it

out. He at down on a rock and caught

18 large catfi h 12 bream and many mall

rr. fi h which he retul'l1ed to the water. ext

year

Langley will be back on that

same rock and you can bet it'll be on the

ame day-rain or hine.-H. /17. urrellcy.

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10 Miles South 0/ JIaldosta
CHICKE S AND STEAKS
A Specialty
DINE AND D CE
Large Spacious Dining Room

IT'S A WINNERl

dt;~
ot AGAINST Lhe RULES
A RETRIEVER wiLL he4,
LABRADORS an1
ENGLISH SPRINGER
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Trapper Andy Ray and a fox taken in Burke County.

country argue long and loud that "it i only an excuse to rid the country of the fox." Their judgment i ba ed olely on the fact that Burke county is, fir t of all, a bird country. ollle of the bird dog fancier are the IllO t ardent fox hunters in the entire tate.
vVith the coming of cooler weather the epidemic i dying down. Veterinarian tell u that rabies i a rare occurrence in the winter and ob erver expect that by December the ravage of the epidemic will entirely di appear.-Char/ie Harper.
T RKEY, GRO SE HORT
The wild turkey and grou e crop in orth Georgia appear to be hort thi sea_on. In the management area, where 010 t of these bird are found. heavy rain in the pring took an unu_ually large number. In making the round over the hill and up and down the tream I have een few young bird this ea on. Trapping of predatory anima! helped maintain the upply la t year after a good hatching season. In view of thi we had looked for a large upturn in the population of both grouse and turkey. However, unle I am badly mi taken, weather ha collaborated with wildcat, skunk and other predatol"S to low up re toration of the e upland game birds. ext year the breaks should be with the bil'd and I look for an abundance in three or foUl' years.-W. W. Dockery.

THE LURE THAT TOOK THE 300 BASS, CARRIED "BILL'S 13" PORK RIND 0 IT.
"Bill' 13" Pork Rind is CLEA ER, WHITER, A D TOUGHER and there are MORE trips to the jar. There are ix fish luring tyle. Mu kie--Ba -Bas Favorite--FlyFly Favorit Frog-25c per Jar.
Dealers your Jobber has ;'Dltl'" 13"
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September 1940 0 TDOOR GEORGIA

AJudge Speaks
(Continued from page 14)
hunters and big business becomes tremendous. Conservation wi II at t1' act this money to your tate. We mu t help con ervation.
Fi h, especiall y minnows, kill more mosquitoe than all the insecticide manufactured. Thi i good preventive medicine. As a public health measure, as well as providing a sportsman' paradise, smart pond possessor place a little cotton seed meal at the water's edge which will fertilize an abundant growth of the lush grasses necessary to expedite growth of fi h life. Dynamite and other illegal device destroy all fish life. We must help protect it.
Friendly to the coastal regions are certain sandpiper which protect our oy tel' indu try by feeding on the worms that destroy mollusks. These sandpiper must be protected by the portsmen and also by the com-t .
Without bird the flowers would die, bee starve, fields vani h, and
Several OUTDOOR GEORGIA subscribers recently have changed their addresses. Some have notified us themselves; others have had the post office send a removal card. But ju t to be sure that you continue receiving OUTDOOR GEORGIA on time when you make a change, personally notify us.

B'ZZARD in the hinterland, gull on the coast, do more sanitation work than all the scavenger department of our great cities. Their practice of preven ti ve medicine shamed man' Public Health Department. BaL in the belfry give sermons a more impressive quality by blocking the drone and bites of insect interrupters.
Closed sea son , bag limits and rules are not 0 prohibitive as they are preservative. A little restriction now means an abundant life later. One fi h not c aug h t during the spawning sea on means hundred of fish later. One bird killed off the ne t kills eight or more.
You and I, as jurists, must help to take the titch in time-not only for our children, but al 0 for our elve .
From Fledgling TfJ Flight
(Continued from page 17)
20 to January 31 has for everal years been in effect for the lower coastal zone of the southern tate. Thi i the mo t uitable ea on of such length that could be selected inofar a the mating, nesting, and production of dove are concerned. Thi eason does not at any time interfere seriously with breeding or ne ting, and ample time in the fall i permitted for the development of the late hatched nestlings.

the forest corrode. The chickadee and woodpecker and all their relations protect our lumber industry. 0 bark crevice is too small for them to get the worm out of, early or late. The few rotten trees in the forest paradoxically protect the living timber by providing homes for the tree' defenders. An orchard full of bird bears worm Ie fruit and mourn not in caterpillar shrouds.
Bird' vegetarian diet con ists largely of weed seed. The tree parrow consume 875 tons of weed seed annually in one tate, Iowa. He i ably a i ted by the quail, destroyer of partridge pea, beggar lice, nail grass, lamb's quarter, corn cockle, spani h needle and boll weevils. A hedgerow covering a covey of quail in your cotton field and arsenic can blow away.
There are state and federal law to protect these birds.
I1lu tration could go on forever disclo ing the disaster that come from throwing nature out of balance. Let me add ju t a few more before concluding this effort.

I A ZO E farther north, u uall including the northern part of Georgia, Alabama, and Missi ippi, dove hunting in recent year has been permitted during part or all of September. Dove shooting in September is deplorable from any conservation or biological viewpoint. In early September the adult are mating, and throughout the month many. nests contain eggs or nestling. Approximately one-third of the adults killed durin a early September leave nestling to perish of starvation, and many other are taken at a time when they have eggs in the proces of incubation.
For so long as dove shooting was legal in September, all other dovemanagement problem were overshadowed. With adequate information available concerning the habits and home life of the mourning dove, no true sportsman or con ervationist could give upport to the hunting of thi fine game bird at times when it wa mating, nesting, or rearing its young.

o TDOOR GEORGIA. September 1940

PARKER'S/,
DEER
HUNTING
Parties up to thirty (301 by day or week

GUIDES, DOGS, CAMP AND MEALS FURNISHED

For full Information

write

JIM PARKER

LUDOWICI

GEORGIA

SPORTSMEN
When hunting in South Georgia visit
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Highway.
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All Any Hunter Can Eat
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Hunting Deer

(Colltill1ud from page 13)
of the management area is already marked. The boundary between Jone Creek and Nimblewill reek will be marked, and the boundary between Montgomery Creek and Hightower River will be marked, as Kimblewill
reek and Hightower River are excluded from the hunt_
Dates of Hunt-The bow and arrow hunt will begin October 29 and will end ovember 2. The main hunt and wildernes hunt will
begin November 4 and end Nove"?ber 9. . The bow and arrow hunter wtll be given
five days in which to make a kill, and the wilderness and main hunters will be divided into two tbree-day periods_ The first period will be rovember 4 to the 6 inclu ive, and the econd will be November 7 to the 9 inclu ive.
Number of Hunters-The bow and arrow hUllt will be limited to fifty hunter. The wildernes hunt will be limited to twenty-five hunter per three-day period. The main hunt will be limited to fifty bunters per threeday period.
Hours-The hours for bunting will be from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Checking Station-It will be located at Hightower Gap at the junction of the Rock Creek road and Btue Ridge road at the south entrance of the Wildlife Management Area.
Number of Animals to be Removed-Buck deer with visible antler, and hogs of both exes may be killed. The number of' buck deer which is desirable to be removed from the area i estimated at fifty. :fa limitation is set for the removal of hogs. Each permittee will be allowed to kill one buck deer, and any number of hogs. Hunting cannot be continued after a hunter kill one deer.
Selection-Hunters will be selected by a public drawing at G a i n e v i It e, Ga., by the Gainesville hamber of Commerce on October 12. Application will be available to the public on October I. The clo ing date for receipt of application will be October I J. Application may be sent in in groups of two to live so as to a1low acquaintance to hunt together. Prior to the public drawing, all applications will be placed in groups of five, and drawn in packets of five. Official of the . . Forest ervice or Georgia Divi ion of Wildlife will be eligible
for the hunt unles the quota or hunters is
filled by others.
Methods-All hunting will be of the till hunting-stalking type. ,",0 dogs will be allowed. The area will be divided into five hooting compartment a follows:

I. Rock reek. 2. Lower 'oontootly Creek. 3. pper oontootly Creek.
4. Jones reek. 5. Montgomery Creek.

Upper and lower Koontootly Creek compartment will comprise a wilderness hunt. A 25Jllan camp will be located at the junction of Fricks reek with Noontootly Creek. Thi camp will cOI1Mist of tentage, COtS, mattressc and fuel wood.
Hunter mu t provide their own blankets, cooking utensil and food. The main hunt will be operated under the check in-check out ystem. This hunt will comprise the Rock Creek
drainage, and its tributarie ; Jones Creek a!1d
it tributaries; and .l\Jontgornery reek and tts tributarie . Headquarters for the bow and arrOw hunt will be at the tent camp 011 Noon tootly Creek. Archers will be allowed to hunt all the shooting compartment during the fiveday period designated for this hunt. Headquarters for the wilderness hunt will be at the tent camp on Koontootly Creek. During tbe fir t three-day period of the wildernes hunt, 25 hunters will hunt lower Noontootly hooting compartment, and during the econd three day period 25 men will be allowed on the upper Noontootly shooting compartment.
On the main hunt, all hunters will be checked through the checking station at Hightower Gap. The first three-day period, fifty hunter will be di tributed on the Rock Creek shoot ing compartment, and duri.ng the .ec<?nd three day period, 25 hunters Will be dlftnbuted on Rock Creek; 10 hunters on "Montgomery Creek; and 15 on Jone Creek.
The hunter will furni h their own tran por tation on all the hunts. The automobiles for the wilderness hunt and for the bow and arrow hunt will be parked at the 'Winding tail' Guard tation.
On the main hunt, auton10biles with tlleir occupants will be checked through the check ing station and parked along the Rock Creek Road, Blue Ridge Road, and Winding tail' Gap Road, at de ignated place.

Fees-The rollowing fee will be charged:

J. Bow and arrow hunt

$7.50

2. Wilderne hunt........... 7.50

3. Main hUllt

5.00

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In tho e ca e where $7.50 i charged, the $2.50 differcnce i to cover the co t of etting up and maintaining the camp, furni hing tentage, beds, and fuel wood.
Weapons-On the bow and arrow bunt, permittee DlU t be equipped with bow and arrows uitable for killing a deer.
On the main hunt and wilderne hunt, firearm will be limited to riflc of a caliber of not les tban .250-3000, and hotguns of not Ie s than 20 gauge. The only .idearms permissible on all hunt will be hunting knive . Rifle ammunition must be of the softnose or expanding type. hotgun ammunition will be limited to ingle solid ball type.
Patrols and Personnel-The District Forest Ranger will have full supervision of the hunt, and hi word will be final. The supervi or will detail uch fore t officer that are nece ary to upplement the tate organization. The tate will a ign four \>Vildlife Rangers to the area throughout the hunt. All tate and government per onnel a signed to the hunt will be under
upervi ion of the Di trict Forest Ranger... Prior to the hunt tt WIll be the respon Ibiltty
of the diHrict ranger to a sign all admini tra tive officers to pecific job and thoroughly acquaint them in the execution of the e jobs. All the shooting compartment must be ade quately patrolled. In order to accompli b thi , three officer hould be a signed to patrol dutie On the main hunt, and two on the wilderness hunt. One officer will be a igned to duty on the bow and arrow hunt. In addition, one of~ ficer mu t be available at the checking station during the main hunt and the wilderne hunt.
Guides-No guide are necer ary. The full responsibility for making the hunter's trip a pleasant one lies witb the officers on detail,
It is against the law to shoot does.
who will in truct, aclvi e, and cooperate with the hunters to the be t of their ability.
Safety Precautions-Alcoholic beverages will not be allowed on the area. !)errons under the influence of intoxicants will be barred fronl the area. All entrance gates, with the exccp tion of the checking tation entrance, will be clo ed to public travel. Shooting from automo bile will not be allowed, and no shooting will be done within 150 yards of an)' of the dwelling on the area , or from any roads running through the areas.
Fir t aid equipment will be provided at the Rock Creek checking station, and at the Koontootly headquarter camp, or will l~e available from any admini~trative officer. All hunter
upon checking in will be i ued a red, num
bered shoulder band. A record will be made as to where a hunter with a ~pecific number i hunting. On checking out, all houlder band will be collected.
Camping-Permittee hunters on the main hunt who wish to cam-p on the National Forest mu t u ed designated camp grounds. The nearest such area are Lake Winfield cott caml ground, \\'oody's Gap camp ground, and Camp Wah ega.
YfJur Gun and Mine
Continued from page 23) inches at 50 yard. The report i about like the .22 long rifle highpeed cartridge, -and will not scare awa everything in the wood . It is an ea matter to work up a load for the variou .25 caliber high power rifles for small game hooting, using

the 60 or 87 grain bullet, a the
mall bore diameter is in their favor.
On a few occa ion I have u ed the
.30-.40 Krag with the Marble's aux-
iliary chamber for the .32 short
pi tol cartridge. Thi i accurate at
very short distances and only
somethinG' to fall back on in an emer-
gency.
REM! GTO "MATCHMASTER"
Thi i a moderately priced .22 caliber target rifle recently announced by the Remington Arms Co. and Ii ted at 29.95. ~Io t new gun are brought out to improve on ome exi ting model, but the Matchmaster was de igned to meet the need of a large group of shooters who wanted a fully equipped target rifle at a moderate price. It is an ideal rifle for chool team, rifle club, summer camps and the shooters who are not quite ready for the heavier and more expensive model. The Matchma tel' with its medium heavy barrel, match tock, target sights, fa t lock time and cri p clean trigger pull i ideal for four position hooting.
The new gun weigh about nine pound, the target stock has a pecial clo e pistol grip, thick high comb, and long wide beavertail forearm imilar to the fine Remington Model 37 Rangemastel'. The tock i hand ome dark finish American walnut. The medium heavy 27inch emi-f1oating barrel is c a I' e full y bored and rifled for accuracy and is double counter unk at the muzzle.
A new anti-backlash trigger stop gives a clean, cri p, mooth trigger pull, e ential for accurate shooting and high score. A fa t hort-firing pin travel, corrugated trigger, double locking lugs on bolt, and double extractors. a well a a firing indicator, and a po itive ide lever type safety are other feature of this rifle.
It has the go\'ernment type of ling, one and a quarter inches wide, and is equipped with a Redfield globe front sight with interchangeable in erts and a Redfield No. 75 micrometer rear sight with one-quarter minute adj ustments. The barrel is tapped and drilled for cope block, the holes filled with plug crew . The detachable magazine holds ix cartridges and the gun is chambered for the .22 long rifle carttidge only.
ARG S SPOITI G SCOPE
During the recent orth Georgia Rifle 1\Iatches I had the opportunity to u e one of the new Argus spotting ~opes of 20 power, and found that it has all the fine features which Roy Walker of the International Re earch Co. claims for it. Roy was for years with the Bau ch & Lomb Co. and is re ponsible for many of the fine optical in trument now on the firing lines today. Thi new glass is 55 ~IM. objective, with new sloping eyepiece, extra eye relief, choice of three eyepiece of 20X, 12.8X and 26X.
It come with 20X unle otherwise ordered. Noticeable at once i the ea e in potting when one i using hooting glasses, due to the new loping eyepiece, and the fine optical lenses. The cope come equipped with protective metal cap for both objective and eyepiece len e , it is fini hed in attractive glos y black crackle, weigh only 43 ounces and is 15 5/8 inches long when extended.

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13 M/~/i()n ond 1
(Continued from page 6) the kind of clothing I wore. Then I remembered I'd had the same experience years before on a dove shoot. But Jack solved my problem b letting me wear some of hi trout attire.
A trout fisherman in full rigging i a sight to behold. Much more impres ive to me than a bait ca tel' with a hort rod and a box.
When I got ready to enter the stream I felt like ,a Chri tma tree. I had everything hung on or attached in some way except the kitchen stove. We left that with Sidney at the cabin hoping that he would have a hot meal ready when we returned.
I had strapped on a wicker creel that had been given to me in the West many year ago. It must have been made before Conservation Department were established for it was big enough to hold the bag limit for a large party. Ten lO-inch trout in a creel like that would hardly cover the bottom. But I was proud of it. It seemed to be the mo t impressive part of my equipment, with the possible exception of the landing net.
My LA DI G net was big enough to recover a young tarpon. It wa elongated in shape and the end of the net hung almost to my feet. The frame was made of wood, which Jack said wasn't so de irable, as I might fall down and break it. Jack was correct.
Then there wa the bait box strapped to my belt. Of course, you understand, I was fishino- with flie . But, just in case, I took along a little provender which I thought might be more palatable than a di guised fi h hook.
My hat was decorated with a few odd flie, so that they would be handy when I wanted to make a change. But I really feel that uch flies stuck in the hat are the real badge of the angler for trout, 0 I uppo e that one would hardly dare venture out without this emblem of his purpose. My pockets were stuffed full. I neglected to take a loaf of bread, but regretted thi over ight for I noted that trout were very fond of it. In fact, this seemed to be the staple diet of those living in the l'earing pools.
Finally we came to the point on the stream where I was to take to the water.
" ow you fish down the stream about a mile and I'll meet you there," said Jack. "And remember, don't let the trout see you first. Always let your fly float through the

pools and make it act like a live insect floating in the water and strugglino- to e cape."
"0, K., JACK! I'll do everything ju t like you said, , I replied. But when I got in the water I found it wa n't so ea y to carry out instruction. Just getting along, conidering the ob truction and the
wift water, wa a job in itself, even if I hadn't had anything to carry.
Carrying a 9-foot fly rod through a laurel thicket remind me of nothing 0 much a the intricate juggling act that were once 0 common in vaudeville.
I never knew whether to crawl under a log or climb over it-that is, all except one. I was on top of one log preparing to cross the creek when I noted a large rattle nake emerging

though we did ee many deer. In fact, I caught one looking in my window one morning whf\l1 I woke up.
But to get back to the fishing! That's what I tried to do the greater part of the day-get back to the fi hing. inety per cent of my time was spent getting ready to fish. At one time I would find that on leaning over I'd step into the net. Then, when I'd throw it behind me, it would catch on a limb. While getting it
loose the tip of my rod and leader would get entangled in twigs overhead. By that time I would stumble
and the lid of my bait box would strike a limb and fly open. I'd then
retrieve the bait. This happened everal times until finally it occurred in the stream and my troubles along thi line were over a I watched the

C~stin9 for rainbow trout in the Toccoa River.

from the other end. I quickly took to the bank, and probably pa sed up several good pools before getting up the nerve to get back to the water. I was already nervous about snakes for Jack had shot a big rattler as we were walking along the trail en route to the tream.
At one point the thicket was so dense that it was impo sible to touch the ground. I found my elf winging through the branche much like Tarzan. And while suspended in mid-air peering into the leave and branches trying to see how far I was from the ground I thought what a fine place that would be for a bear.
T HE reason I thought of the bear just at that time was because the night before, while visiting with Ranger Woody, he had shown us the impres ion of a bear' track in concrete. He had estimated that the foot was at least 10 inches long ,and that the animal weighed no less than 600 pounds. But during the week-end we did not see a bear (and I am told that one probably never will) al-

bait floating with the cUlTent-in the mo t natural manner pos ible.
At last I caught a fish and put it in the creel. It wasn't very large. I debated about whether to throw it back, but decided that if nece sary I'd say that it was injured in being removed from the hook. (I find that thi is a tale all trout Ii hermen tell as the excuse for keeping those of doubtful size.)
FI ALLY, I saw Jack. He was sitting on a rock in the un as comfortable a you please.
"Jack, I'm sure glad to see you. That was certainly a long mile I've traveled," I called out.
He laughed. "You haven't walked a mile. I suspect not much more than a quarter. I wondered what was the matter and came back to find you. Any luck?" I opened the creel.
Again he laughed. "That's not a trout," he said. "It's just a chub; a forage fish-not fit for anything. Let's throw it away." And so he did.
I couldn't think of anything to

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ay but Jack a ked " 0 you didn't get an trout?"
" 0, but I aw plent of them." 'And I u pe t," commented Jack, "that they aw you fir t. Didn t you get any strike ?" "Ye ," I replied. "One fi h in particular took my fly with a vengeance. And I aw him too. He was the large t trout I ever saw-much larger than any of those caught yesterday and che ked at the ranger tation. But when I pulled in my line the hook wa "'one."
~~HE ~IT olf ~e lead~r I guess," aid Jack. 'The b]O" ones will
do that.' Maybe Jack was ri ...ht. I didn't ay
anything. But I had a u picion that the fly wa not tied securely to the leader. I never have learned to tie the knot 0 that the leader pull against the hook.
"Well, let' all it a day and go down and vi it with Buzz Rolf at the hatchery.
, But the trout. You know we mu t have fi h for supper," I obj cted.
"We have plenty. I kept six beauties. All the other, perhap a dozen or more, I released," said Jack, in the most commonplace tone of voice.
And 0 ended a rookie' fir t day in a trout tream. There are those who might not think it uccessful. But I enjoyed it immen el . During the entire day I never once thought of m per onal problem, or of the war in Europe. I am glad that I am now an angler. And trout are my favorite pe ie .

Cooer Dog
Harry Ro soli i one of tho e l.000 pinch hitters you ometime hear about. The Forest Service artist ...rabbed hi brush and went to bat when Lane Gibson ran afoul of a bad appendix and was forced out of action.
He wound up with a dab of orange on Edgefield Kanza's Don, hand ome young Engli h setter owned by J. D. Crump, of Macon, and a leading filrure in sportsmen and field trial circles of the outhea t.
Don wa whelped March 5 1939. He is sired b Kanza, he by Gentleman Ginger and Fashion laid. His dam is Horsford Drake' Pride, she by Horsford' Dashin ... Drake and Mr. Eugene' ell.
He is one of the handsomest young etter running in field trial of thi ection and might ea il take a ribbon on the bench.
Don alread ha broken into the winning clas . He captured the enior puppy take of the Atlanta Field Trial Club la t March. He ha been in Canada with the prairie chicken during the ummer and under the guidance of C. Bert Black, veteran trainer, who handle dog for several Georgian, including Fred Jordan, pre ident of the Georgia Field Trial A ociation.
The OUTDOOR GEORGIA cover do... will compete in trial at Wayne boro and Albany, and others in this ection during the coming eason.

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Mountain District

. E. Adams, Atlanta; Douglas, Cobt, and Fulton counties; harles 1'1. Adam, Bremen;
an"oll, I-laralroll, and Paulding counties; W. G. Bryant, Dalton; Gor lon, ~ll1rray, and Whitfield counties; J. L. Chester, Robert town; National Fore t area; R. L. Cornwell,
Rome; Bartow, Floyd, and Polk counties; An ... drew Floyd, Canton; herokee, Dawson, and Forsyth counties; W. W. Dockery, Dahlonega; ~ational Forest area; . K. Douglas, Carnesville; Banks, Franklin, and Stephens counties'
Pal :\lcKinney, Jefferson; narrow, Hall, and Jackson counties: C. U. ):[3 ters, Royston; Elbert, Hart, and :\fadison counties: W. H. ~Iiddleton, La Fayette; Catoosa, hattooga, Dade, and Walker counties: J. X. Ros , Dahlonega; Lumpkin, nion, and White counties;
H. H. Seabolt, Higdon' 'tore; ;\ational For
est area: J. E. Wall, Clarkesville; Town,
Rabun, and Haber ham countie ; H. l~. Wal ton, L3wrenceville; ] eKalb. Gwinneu, and
Rockdale counties; Clyde Wehunt, uches; ~ational Forest area; T. )Ioore mithwick, Blue Ridge; Fannin, Gilmer, and Pickens
counties. D. L. Rainey. Canton, is district chief and C. S. Davis, anton, is covering the district at large in charge of educational activity.

Piedmont District

Harlan I-farris, )[acon; Bibb, Peach countie ; Albert Douglas,

I~IfocuJs)toonn~uagnhd;

Clayton, Fayette, Ifenry, and palding coun

ties; J. D. Eadie. B~ena Vista; )larion, chley,

and Web ter counttes; Geston Garner, olum-

bus: lIarri , )Iuscogee, and Talbot counties:

J. C. Garrett, BUller: rawford. ~racon, and

Taylor counties: Alex Lunsf I'd, Richland;

hattahoochee, Quitman. and .. tewart coun-

ties: Wallace ~rartin, Jackson: Jackson Lake:

W. G. Mitchell, ~Ionticello: Jasper, Jone , and

Putnam counties; ~1. A. Reid, Gordon j Bald-

win, Twiggs, and Wilkinson COUll ties j R. B.

Sasnett, Lexington; larke. Greene. conee,

and Oglethorpe counties j A. ~fc. Smith, La-

Grange; Coweta, Ileard, and Troup countie ;

P. B. mith, Thomarton: ::\Ieriwether. Pike,

and pson counties: H. W .. urrency, :\Ion-

roe: :\1 organ, ~ewton, and ""alton counties:

A. E. Thornton. For yth; Hutts, Lamar, and

)10nroe counties. ::\f. D. ~[cRae, )Iacon. is

district chief and H. E. A he )lacon. is in J
charge of educational work.

Flint River District
A. F. _\vey, Blakely: Baker, Early. and ~[iller countie ; T. B. Brantley, Fitzgerald: Hen Hill, Irwin, an I Turner counties; 1\'orwood Casrels, Cuthbert: Calhoun, 'lay, and Randolph counties; A. C. Dunn, Thomasville; Brooks and Thomas counties j Davenport Edwards, Cordele; Crisp, Dooly, and umter counties; Jim Fussell, Fitzgerald: Wilcox county; R. A. Grizzell, Jr., ;\lashville: Ber rien, Cook. and Lanier counties: . L. Harrell, Waycro~ : Clinch and Ware counties; Earl V. Lord, Valdosta: Echols and Lowndes countie : J. H. ~rontford. Albany; Dougherty, Lee. and Terrell counties: J. ~r. Peagler, Bainbridge; DecaturJ Grady. and eminole countie : Dan C. Royal, i\Ioultrie; Colquitt and lIlitchell counties: Earl Holtzendorf, Sylvester; Tift and Worth counties: R. W. Wil liam , Folkston; Charlton and Brantley counties; . G. Young. Douglas: Atkinron and Coffee counties. Fred Brewer, Sylvester, is <1i trict chief and Lewis Smith, Sylve ter, is in charge of educational work.

Plains District
J. E. Bled oe, McRae; J efT Davis, Telfair,
and Wheeler counties; J. D. Foster, . wains-
boro; Emanuel and Treutlen counties; Ed Friend, Augu ta; Columbia, )lcDuffie, and Richmond countie ; J. T. Glawson, Sparta; rGlascock. Hancock, and \Varren counties;
harlie Harper, Waynesboro: Burke and Jen-
kin countie; J. W. Jone J Eastman; Bleck-
ley, Dodge, and Pulaski countie ; S. B. Luf burrow, Sander ville; Jefferson and Wa hington countie ; R. J. )1ay , Lyons; )lontgomery, Tattnall and Toomb counties; J. Elmer Burn, Dublin; Johnson and Lauren counties; R. J. Vibbert, ylvania; Effingham and Screven counties; E. L. cou, tatc boro; Bulloch, Candler, and Evan counties; Ernest
haw, Alma; Appling. Bacon, and Pierce coun-
ties; Frank J. Williams, Washington; Lincoln,
Taliaferro, and Wilkes counties: C. J. Wright, Jesup; Long and Wayne countie . A. B. Bris coe, Swainsboro, is district chief and J. D. Foster heads the educational program.

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September 1940 0 TDOOR GEORGIA

JUNIOR RAN~ER GTRAIL

WILDLIFE WONDERLAND
By Bob Atki"S

T HE 1940 edition of Alice in vVonderland wa written and lived again last month. \'Vi consin was the wonderland
and the visitor in this instance were the eight Junior Wildlife Rangers of Georgia-the boys who earned a two-week' trip through the Badger State with outtanding conservation work on their own Georgia farms.
It would be impo ible to enumerate and de cribe the wildlife wonders of vVi 'consin in anything smaller than a big book of everal volume. The trip wa ea ily worth a year in high chool to the rangers, and to any grown-up it was worth a year in college-two in most college. To per on intere ted in conen'ation it \Va the equivalent of a year in the wood and water of a Ie outdoor-minded or you might ay, outdoorequipped eetion.
The junior ranger aw wildlife at it p ak. They jumped deer from brushes along the road. They took fi h without a wait and two of u , Eugene Able and I, had the thrill of landing a \Vi consin
mu kellunge. There was a thrill-a-minute for thi
group of wildli fe touri t who till wondcr how they do it in \Viscon in.
THE \Visconsin plan work for the bencfit of everybody concerned. Take a look at law enforcement. An example of how it work popped right in our face during a tour through a heavily populated deer country. Two poachers were apprehended for fire hunting. They wcre taken to a justice of the peace, tried and given uspended sentences of a year cach. In addition they were fined 75 each and co t and their gun were confi cated for keep. 11 of thi rcquired two hour. Had they placed the deer in their auto, it likewi e would have been taken.
That's the kind of help the consen'ationi t get from the court. nd you may bet your la t b x of hell., violation are few in Wisconsin.
The fur and game farm at Poynette, howe\'cr, had the Georgia brigade doing thcir loude t "oohing" and 'aahing.' Thou ands of ani m a I and bird are all O\'er the place. Brood tock of wild turkey, grou e, phea ants and chukors are working daily to repleni h the supply in the wild tate. Raccoon, mink, badger, otter. mu krat, deer, and even bear are rai ing familie at Poynette. Just to insure the health of the e birds and animal there are three full-time physician, three chemi t and many other expert On the big farm.
IT wa interesting to observe the reaction of the Junior Rangers to the animal. They wanted to tay around,

but Director H. \V. 1cKenzie and his able as i tant had the trip timed so near to the plit minute that we had to move on to other adventure.
A wimming party in Devil's Lake freshened us for a trip to Green Lake, which included a boat ride and fish chowder dinner, prepared by Guide Bud Norton and his father. t Oshko h there wa dinner on the hore of Lake Winnebago and a theater party given by the 0 hko h Chamber of Commerce.
One dinner followed another and one trip to a key site was followed by another. Then there was Trout Lake, where we landed the two mu kie "keeper ," and
e\'eral wall-eyed pike. An 1 -mile canoe trip along scenic Brule Riyer wa a warm-up for peed-boating at La Cro e on the Missi ippi River.
\Vhen we wound up at fadi on we were wildlife dizzy, wondering how long it would be before Georgia could match thi tate. We agreed it would be many years, but at the amc time vowed we would do our part. I believe that thi trip converted Georgia' Junior Ranger, vocational teacher and 4-H men alike to the outdoor for all time.
l'HE Georgians who for \'er will be indebted to \Vi con in f l' a wildlife
opera that will la t a lifetime included: John T. Bailie, Jr., ounty gent, Webster County. Pre ton. Ga.; Clyde Greenway, Vocational Teacher, Laurens County, Cadwell, Ga.; Eugene W. Able,

Vocational Teacher, Lowndes County, Lake Park, Ga.; Mark Hiram Carter, 4-H Club 80y, Lowndes County, Lake Park, Ga.; Emer on Bayson, 4-H Club Boy, Web ter County, Pre ton, Ga.; John Wyatt Payne, F. F. A. Club Boy, Twigg County, lien town, Ga.; Jerome Webb, F. F. A. Club Boy, Lowndes County, Hahira, Ga.; P. F. Swilley, Junior Ranger Boy, Lowndes County, Lake Park, Ga.; Dick terns, Junior Ranger Boy, Richmond ounty, Augu ta, Ga.; Howard Bower, Junior Ranger Boy, Richmond ollnty, Augusta, Ga.
W. T. Calhoun, uperintendent of Education, \Vi con in' Con ervation Department; C. L. Coon, Recreational and Publicity upen'i or; and two outstanding con en'ation warden, Emil Kramer, and Ora Moeller, accompanied u on the tour and left nothing undone to make it a complete education cour e in wildlife a it should be.
Text year there will be other winner in the tatewide wildlife conte t. They too, will be gi\'en trip omewhere. Howe\er. in tead f 75,000 junior ranger we hopc to ha\'e 175000. And there will be more winner and the party will be bigO'er, although the chief gainer from this army of con ervationi ts will be the outdoors, which in turn will provide better hunting and fi hing, and more intelligent u e of game and fish by Georgia citizen. The e are the aims of the educational program of the Division of \ ildlife.

A remarkable action shot of Vocational Teacher Eugene W. Able fighting a muskie in Long Lake, Wis. The fish leaped out of the water and landed in Able's lap. Junior Ranger Mark
Hiram Carter is paddling the boat.

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29

Circuit Writer
(ColltilLued (rompa.ge 21)
ber hip in the Georgia A sociation i increasing, according to Charles Hood, of Waycross, despite the recent pread of rabie among the cunning red runners in outhea t Georgia. The Americu ection, however, is unaffected by the epidemic.
The hunt in Sumter will be ponsored by the lively Americus Junior Chamber of Commerce and the judges will be: Lee S. McMillen, Laurens, S. C.; W. F. Roper, Winter Garden, Fla.; Dr. Ashley, Dahon; Mis Pansie Ireland, Thomasville; Ray Cassell, Thomasville; A. B. White, Douglasville; Oti Moore, HaJnihon; Joe Costner and G. H. Thomas, Filbert, S. C.
F. B. Little of Fort Valley is pre ident of the Association and John Howar I of Barnesville is t F. H.
The Oconee Valley Fox Hunting A ociation will open it annual cha e at 8 p. 111. October 1S. The two-day event will be launched at a barbecue at the Meadowbrook store, two miles from Milledgeville. This trial likewise attract ome of the fa test hounds of Georgia. The as ociation ha a large member hip and expect one of the mo t ucce ful meet in hi tory.
RECORD SEASON
lthough the trout season will contin"tle open through November J;; the most succe ful fly-casting campaign in the history of the tate already is as ured. Rainbow and brook trout this year collaborated to lure perhaps 30 per cent more fishermen to the mountains than in any previous sea on. There were hundreds of "limit" catches and in the management

area some fi hermen landed their 10 on e\'ery trip into the tream.
Limit creels were reported right Ihrough the closing day (Seplember 2) and among the best catches were Ihose of Dr. H. B. Harris and Dr. Sam Tal-
A day's catch of rainbow by Dr. H. B. Harris and Dr. Sam Talmadge of Athens.
madge of Athens. These devolees look 40 trout on the lail-end of the ea on and eight were over 13 inches.
Dr. Harri write : "All my pare moments, which are fe\\", are pent in the north Georgia mountains and I continue to find the fi hing in the preserve adequate. . . . If trout fi hing becomes any more popular we will have to have more stocked streams. Our local sporting goods tore sold 80 fly rods this pring and ummer." The thens sport man expres ed hope that the present type of restocking program would continue. He also prai ed the work of wildlife ranger, de. cribing them as "courteous and efficient."

WILDLIFE FEDERATION
\Vildlife wa given another shot in the arm la t month when the Georgia V. ildlife Federation was organized at a meeting on Lake Burton (if you haven't already joined, send your donation to Mr . Jo ephine Keith, ecretary-trea urer, \Ve t Point, Ga.). W. Hugh Allen, of We t Point, wa chosen president of the organization and his selection itself should be an indication that at la t a hu tling outfit will "'e working for the game and fi h of Georgia. There have been organizations in the past. They have accol11plished nothing.
This new organization likewise may miss the boat. But if it doe, it will be because Georgia hunters and fishermen at"c 100 indolent 10 get up off Ihe ground and support omething that will go back into their own sport. Allen is a man of action. He i a fellow with boundless energy. And if there is a more enthusiastic wildlifer in this country there can be only one. h would be a toss-up between Ihe president of the federation and Dr. Ciabus Lloyd of Gainesville, who is one of the director .
The director and officers of the federation include the top cru t of Georgia leaders in conservation. A. ]. J ohnsol1, of Savannah, is vice-president and "Mrs. Keith i ecretary-
treasurer. Directors are Dr. Lloyd,
Bert umner, of Sylvester, organizer
of the outh Georgia Game and Fish
Protective A sociation; Charlie J or-
dan, of Monticello, one of the found-
er of the Georgia Field Trial A sociation; A. Randall Tuten, of Baxley; \Villiam R. Coleman, of Hephzibah;
and \V. H. Hackett, of Rome.

GEORGIA SPORTSMEN

Help Protect and Conserve Wildlife by Joining the
GEORGIA WILDLIFE FEDERATION

Send Your Dues to: W. HUGH ALLEN, President
West Point, Georgia



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eptember 1940 0 TDOOR GEORGIA

Georgia hunters of migratory waterfowl will have 60 days this winter instead of 45 as last year and may begin shooting geese and ducks at sunrise instead of at 7 a.m. The new regulations on migratory birds set by the Department of Interior moved the opening of the dove season in Georgia's northern zone from September 15 to October 1 and reduced the bag limit from 15 a day to 12. Liberalization of the waterfowl laws changed lhe opening of the season from ovemher 15 to Novemher 2. The bag limit on geese was cul from four to three a day with the possession limit six, not more than 20 days after close of season.
Seasons A.nd Bag Linlits

GAME
Bear Deer a (Bucks only) Opossum (with gun and dog) Raccoon (with gun and dog) Opossum, Raccoon, Mink, Fox, Muskrat (trapping) Rabbit Squirrel b
Quail c Turkey d

OPEN SEASON (inclusive)
Nov. 20-Feb. 28
Nov. IS-Jan. 5 Oct. I-Feb. 28 Nov. 20-Feb. 28

DAILY BAG UMIT
No limit 2
No limit No limit

SEASON BAG UMIT
No limit 2
No limit , No limit

Nov. 20-March I No limit

No closed season and no limit

Oct. I-Jan. 15

15

Nov. 20-March I

15

Nov. 20-March 1

2

No limit
No limit 30 week, also
possessIon 2

Ruffed Grouse

No open season

Fox (with dog only)

No closed season and no limit

MIGRATORY WILDFOWL
Dove e

Split zone seasons

DAILY BAG UMIT
12

POSSESSION UMIT
12

Duck f

Nov. 2-Dec. 31

10

20

Goose f

Nov. 2-Dec. 31

3

6

Jacksnipe Coot

Nov. 2-Dec. 31

15

15

Nov. 2-Dec. 31

25

25

Marsh Hen

Sept. I-Nov. 30

25

25

Rail

Sept. I-Nov. 30

25

25

Gallinule

Sept. I-Nov. 30

25

25

a, b, c, d, e, f-see exceptions.

EXCEPTIONS

a DEER-Nov. IJan. 5-Appling, Ben Hill, Bryan, BuIJoch, Camden, Charlton, Chatham Effingham Glynn, Jeff Davis, Liberty, Long, McIntosh, Tattnall, Telfair, Ware and Wayne. 'No op~n season i~

Banks, Dawson, Fannin, Gilmer, Habersham, Hall, Lum.pkin, MUrray, Pickens, Rabun, Towns, Union,

White, Whitfield, Marion, Schley, Webster, Chattahoochee, Muscogee, Stewart, Talbot, Jenkins, Mont-

gomery and Echols.

b SQUIRREL-Aug. IDec. 3I-Catoosa, Chauooga, Dade, Dawson, Fannin, Gilmer, Gordon, Habersham,

Lumpkin, Murray, Pickens, Rabun, Stephens, Towns, Union, Walker, White and Whitfield-Nov. I-

Jan. 15 in Appling, Ben Hill, Bryan, Bulloch, Camden, Charlton, Chatham, Effingham, Glynn, Jeff

Davis, Liberty, Long, McIntosh, Screven, Tattnall, Telfair, Ware and Wayne.

c QUAIL- ov. I-March I-Appling, Ben Hill, Bryan, Bulloch, Camden, Charlton, Chatham, Effingham

Glynn, Jeff Davis, Liberty, Long, McIntosh, Screven, TaunaIJ, Telfair, Ware and Wayne.

'

d TURKEY- ov. I-March I in Appling, Ben Hill, Bryan, Bulloch, Camden, Charlton, Chatham, Effing-

ham, Glynn, Liberty, Long, McIntosh, Screven, Tatnall, Ware and Wayne.

e DOVE- orthern Zone, Oct. 1-31 and Dec. 20-Jan. 31 (split season) in counties of Troup, Meri-

wether, Pike, Lamar, Monroe, Jones, Baldwin, Washington, Jefferson and Burke and region orth

thereof; Southern Zone (all counties South of those listed), ov. 20-Jan. 31.

D CK A D GOOSE- 0 open season on Wood Duck, Brant, Ross' Goose, Swan and Snow Goose. Daily ba~ limit on Canvallback, Red Head, BufBehead and Ruddy Ducks not over three in the aggre.

gate. Poslession limit not over ten in the aggregate.

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OCTOBER 1940

OUTDOOR GEORGIA

Volume I

Number S"

CHARLES N. ELLlOn, Editor ELMER RANSOM, Assoeiate Editor

JOHN MARTIN, Managing Editor E. L. GIBSON, Business Manager

CONTENTS FOR OCTOBER, 1940

Cover Painting, Hooded Merganser

Athos Menaboni

Georgia in the Jungle

Edison Marshall. . . . . . . .. 4

Wings Over Georgia

. . . . Ludwig Caminita, Jr.. . . . .. 8

Cat Squh'ls

W. T. Person

12

Nosey

Charles Elliott

16

Breakfast for Bobwhites ...

... J. L. Stephens. . . . . . . . . 20

Ranger Activities

29

DEPARTMENTS

EDITORIAL ........................................................... 3

ELMER RANSOM ...................................................... 7

CIRCUIT WRITER

11

AROUND THE RANGERS' CAMPFIRE

14

BOOK REViEWS

15

JUNIOR RANGER TRAIL

19

NATURAL HISTORY PAGE

22

THE OLD SALT SEZ ..................................................... 23

Published monthly by The Georgia Division of Wildlife, 412 State Capitol, Atlanta, Ga., in the interest of Georgia wildlife and for fishermen, hunters, nature lovers and conservationists. Single copy, 15 cents. Yearly subscriptions to United States and its possessions, and Canada, $1; other countries $2. Subscribers must notify us of change of address four weeks in advance of next pub. lication date, giving both old and new address. Contents of this magazine must not be reprinted without permission. This magazine is glad to receive photos, drawings, stories and articles dealing with outdoor subjects, but cannot guarantee return of unsolicited contributions nor insure against their loss. Contributions not accompanied by sufficient postage will not be returned. Entered as 2nd class matter August 31, 1940, at the post office at Atlanta, Georgia, under the Act of March 3, 1879.

The Cover
A new artist, Athos Menaboni, greets you on this month's cover of
o TDOOR GEORGIA with a paint-
ing of the Hooded Merganser. The name Menaboni is well known where either artists or ornithologi ts gather. Hi work are recognized by authoritie as the mo t outstanding of their kind in America today. Athos Menaboni was born in aple Italy. He tudied in hi native land before coming to the nited States. He was an aviator during the World War and was awarded by his country for outtanding and distinguished service.
Mr. Ienaboni' paintings are exhibited wherever bird lover meet. Hi picture were one of the feature attractions at the American Ornitho logical nion meeting in Boston in
eptember. They al 0 will be on exhibition at the Wil on Ornithological
ociety meeting next month.
Arti t Ienaboni paint from life. He has many stories to tell about his pictures. ot long ago, when he was working on a mallard picture, he borrowed a pair of wild mallards from Cason Callaway. This was during the breeding season, and while he painted the picture, the mallard hen continued to lay egg.
Ir. Menaboni decided that all
egg laid during the proce of painting hould go to the per on having po _ession of the duck at the time. Po session, he insist, i nine points of the law. Con equently, he borrowed a setting hen and placed the egg under her. The hen, being one of the heavy and clumsy varieties, broke egg after egg. The artist rescued the last four egg, which were almo t ready to hatch, and placed them on an electric hot pad. There they hatched. The econd day the young ducklings were placed in the bath tub, and a Mrs. Menaboni said, "They took to water like ducks."
A few days later Mr. Menaboni gave a pair of the young birds to a friend. One of them was killed by a predator. The other was returned, and now three beautiful mallards are added to the enaboni menagerie on Jett Road.
The Hooded Merganser, portrayed in its characteristic flight by the artist, i one of the fish ducks. This bird come southward into Georgia each fall and winter and may he seen on the lakes and rivers of the state from the coa t to the mountains.

The Poorest Excuse Is IgnoraJ;lce

SE ERAL da ago the offi ials of a tate game club wrote us a letter in \ hich the Ii ted the t pe of "ame law iolator found in their _ecti n of Georgia. They said that after much writing and era in", they had finally d cided that every iolator could be placed in one of three la _e .
In las o. 1 they named the habitual, criminal violator, who would Aout an law, rule or regulation which interfered in any manner with hi personal deire. It doe not matter to thi type of violator how hi action affect society as a whole, or even how hi next door neighbor uffers from his mi deed .
In thi group are those who teal game from honest port men before the a on open, who lau"hter "ame bird and animal for ale on the market, who eine the stream, takin" much more than the need who dynamite and poi on, killing not only th lar"e fi h, but every living creatur in th water, includin" the tin insect and microscopic creature fish use for f od. In thi group al 0 are tho e who hoot quail on the ground, take them in trap, who are "ame hog toda , "arne ho" tomorro\, game ho" as Ion" a a fi h wim or a quail flie .
WHY the hone t port men \ ill tolerate uch citizen in the community was b yond the compre-
hension of the "arne club ofJi ials. e certainly cann t understand it. A thief would be driven from town, a murderer hunned a unclean, a ocial per ert cast out, but those who rob the field and streams of their game are not only tolerated, but many times they actually ha e the cooperation of p r on who purcha e ill "al game from them.
CIa o. 2 embraced all tho who felt that huntin" and fi hing wa a God-!!iven right. That t pe of hunter and fi herman kno\ that the game al \ ay ha been plentiful and alwa \ ill continue to be plentiful. They know where the quail hen make her ne t, o the have quail eg"s for breakfa t. They found a brood of young turke two month before ea on opened. oung turke s fried like youn" chicken are deliciou . The per on belon<Yin<Y to thi group doe not under tand that conservation law mu t apply to eery individual if they are to be effective. They kno\ nothing about game and fi h laws and would not ob them if they kne\ . Fir t come, Iir t erved. Their father and !ITandfather followed that rule and had plenty of I!;ame. Why shouldn't they?
CIa o. 3 was listed as the honest sportsmen

who make honest mi take b cau e of ignorance. This group of hunter and fi herm n ar the cause of eternal concern and embarras ment. Embarra sment both for th m_elve and for other. impl because the will not take the time and elfort to tudy the game la\ or learn the re"ulation about game.
WE ARE constantly amazed at how little the average sport man knows ab ut game la\ and game
pecie . everal days ago a w lI-known port man came into
our office. We gave him one of the new hunting folder re entl i ued by the Di i ion of Wildlife. He glanced over it until he came to th pi ture of a wood duck.
"I thi a wood duck?" he e -claimed incredulou 1 . "I ve shot several of tho_e and rlever knew what they were."
How a tl much happier thi world would be if tho e living in it onl would believe with the Greek poet He iod that "The pro rastinating man i ever tru<Ygling with ruin, ' and do ome of the things h plan to do but ne er doe . One of tho thing would be to it dOl n and read a ummary of the game law of th tate. Another would b to stud the picture and read de~criptions of game bird and animal, 0 that he would be familiar with those on the federal and tate protected list.
THE poore t e 'cu e an on can have is ignorance. Especially when to learn i 0 ea y. Information
on the "ame law may I e obtained b addres ing a one-cent po tal card to the Di i ion of Wildlife in Atlanta or to the neare t wildli fe ranger. COil ervation book, givin" de cription of "am bird and animal and fi h, telling of the life habit of an pecie, may be found at almo t an book tor. colored folder de cribin" the most ommon _p cie of Geor"ia <Yam rna be ecured from OUTDOOR GEORGI for th a_kin".
How rnu h more enjo able a da in the field or on the tream can be ,hen you are armed with "ood quipment, when you kno\ the habit of the game ou _eek and when you are properly within the game law 111 eery way.
Know our laws, know our game, and promi e your elf that your name wi II never be listed in the "ame ho" olumn. Your day ,ill be whole ome and full and atisfying, and your memories will never be dimmed by hame.

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3

.!aLOl\'G thi time of y ar. when the leave fall orne of m friend in Augu ta will occaionally invite me on a dove ~hoot, or a quail hunt. One of the number, \ ith whom I have n t hot before, \ iII u uall ay politely omething like thi :
"Well, 'fr. arshall, I gu ss hooting the e li.ttle bird will be pretty ~mall potatoe to you, after killing lion and tiger in the jungle. '
This remark is made before the hooting begin_.
After the fir t bird flu he and ails awa , bird- hot
whi tling b it tail-feather, my companion will u ually add, "Luck thin a for ou, far hall, that bird \~a n',t a tiaer." And before the end of the day, tiaers and lion and uchlike dangerou bat be-
come the theme of many wittici m, around the bottle.
Actually, they are not a lauahin a matter, but it
i well to e plain that tiger do not hur t up from

The great beast, the first wild tiger I had ever seen, and one 0 f the finest in the jungles, came slouching out of the thickets.

under your feet and explode like a Nazi bomb in a munition factory, and lion do not tream into a chufa patch at ixty mile an hour, side- lipping ju t a you touch the trigger, and rhinoceri fail to see at eighty pace the hunting-licen e button on our cap whereb they sail off gobbling. Elephant are not at all like can a back duck, whi tling down the wind.
Tigers like the cow in the famou ong, do not fly. They are chain-liO'htning out to kill, death in fancy-dre ,wh n th get into action but th hunt I' plan hi campaign a a not to let uch a thing occur. When it does occur, it i perfectl po ible that the hunter rna ne er again hoot dove in Geor!cia.
Tiger are hot on the et, with the heaviest piece of artiller that the hunter can tand to. The target i large u uall within thirt pace when the action begin, po ibly much clo er when it end, and vi ible beyond all word . O'reat poet ha de cribed a tiger a "burning bright' and that de cription ha never been improved upon, in the opinion of tho e who have een the great bat emerge from hi thicket, hi tripe a black on hi
ellow hide, hi flat head so fierce, hi lithe power a frightening.
Y E ,h i an ea y target. To kill him require only a fe\ second of inten e concentration on the busine of squeezinO' off the trigger while the barrel hold steady
OUTDOOR GEORGIA October 1940

and the eye true. Yet it i quite po sible to mi him, or worse, to wound him. Those GeorO'ia hunter who have watched bluebill tr ing to make up their mind whether to come into deca will under tand that a man i not ah ay quite himself, after a long watch, in which the air reek with an ammonia-smell and the thicket rustle from a triped, lashing tail when suddenly, there stands the tiger.
What happen then, depend on a nwnber of factor. But thi much i ure: If au mi him you \ ill never forgive yourself a long a you Ii e. If you wound him he will not forgive au a ,10nO' a he can cla\, lap, and bite; and ometime thi i a little bit too 10nO'.
Practically the only big-game hunting done in Georgia i deer shootin<T, u ually \ ith a hotgun loaded with buck hot. The que tion naturally arise in the mind of a Georgia hunter why a 12 gauge hotgun loaded with buckhot wouldn't do for tiger. I can a ure you, it won't do.
12 gauge hell contains about 23 grains of ordinary mok les powder. A .470 hell for my double tiger rifle contain 75 grain of the rna t powerful powder known, and the 500-grain bullet it propels i often none
The feathered game of Georgia, by and large, in the long run, hit and miss, is the best sport in the world.
5

t 0 large. either \ ill a 30-30 riRe

do for a tiger, nor a .30

ou

imply annot compare tiger with

buck, moo e, or even Kadiak bear.

cat ha nine live, and the bigger th

at the more d tru tion he can

achieve with the e e -tra live, before

h b come a rug for our parlor

floor. Few men of my acquaintance

like to hoot a .470 for target-practice

-the sen ation re emble the pia ful

ki k of a GeorO'ia mule-but it i a

comfort when ou and the tiger ar

e eing each other at ten pa es.

But we were speaking of small

O'ame. When I go to jungle, I take

m 20 gauge pump-gun along for

camp m at. L t me explain that I

am not the kind of wing- hot that

hould u e a 20 gauge-I need all

the pellet and spread that the law

allow -but it mild voice and light

ammunition make it the right hot-

O'un on a tiO'er hunt. There i 0 much

O'ame that a first-cla hot could

make out with a .410.

T HE chief O'ame bird of East frica i the guinea-fowl. They are to be found in thou and alonO' the wooded donO'a . Thi fine bird i found onl in barnyard in Georgia, which how that Charlie Elliott, Georgia's enterpri ing wildlife director, ha mi ed a trick. There i no rea on I can think of \ hy guinea-fowl should not be e tabIi hed a a game bird in G orgia upland.
Except for poacher during the propagation period, the job would be quite imple. Every farmer bo know that guinea are half wild all' ady, hiding their nest, rai ing their br ods d pite 'po sum , hal k , and high water, and practically impo sible to atch when the preacher come for dinner. The econd generation hifting for it elf in th piney-wood ,ould be a wild a quail, a good eating, a sporty, and a great deal marter. If Mr. Elliott would turn 100 e four or five gro
f the ommon, garden variety of guinea in our new ational Fore t in Ii e year we would have a new and O'ioriou outdoor port in Georala.
In India ou find peacocks, and their drabber companion , peahen . The are vel' common, and vel' b autiful, perhap to beautiful to b killed cooked and eaten when there i 0 much other game. Th re are wild duck in uch number a old market-hunter, 'born thirty year too oon," t II of 0 er their ru ted \ i el-gun , and ge e, nipe, quail. and a half a d zen varieties of do e and piO'eon some a biO' a ruffed O'I"OU e.

One morning in northea tern India carried back there and could aIm t

I tarted out from my camp to pot mell countr ham, a a big grayi h-

hUJlt with m 20 gauge. Iy bearer, black bea t with bri tie along hi \ hom I called Bimbo accompanied pin emerged into view. tuall he

me, arr ina m econd heavi trifle, wa a wild boar, a tall a a young

a .404 rep ater hooting 60 O'rain of tiger and \ ith tu kalona a our

cordite and a .400 grain bullet, be- hand but a GeorO'ia bo w uld think

cau e tiger are ju-t like G orgia of n thing but an overgrown razor-

O'ame, in it annoying way of how- back hog.

ing up when lea t expected. We might meet a ladang, and again, w might encounter a wild , ater buffalo. The ladanO' would undoubtedly make off, but lone bull water buffalo ar ulky. Al 0, the country wa infe ted with wild elephant who e opinion of white men no jungle Gallup would attempt to chart.

"hoot, ahib!" Bimbo whi pere 1. " e , he run quickly.'
~ hat wa the u_e of hootinO'? I wa holdinO' a 20 gauge shotO'un. When I wa a boy, I u d to make hunting trip into the Oregon hi lis dri ing a team of mule. The traightforward a on EnO'li h I had learned
on tho jaunt had n veL"

W E H D g ne but a hort di tance when \ e aw a ambur

pro en more u ful. FiO'urino- the percentages,

bu k, tanding proud and fine in th

from then on I kept the shot-

trail. The ambur i one of the mo t

O'UJl. We aw no more gam

magnificent of iatic bucks. beinO'

until \ e , ere in a

tone throw of camp.

Then a flock of fruit-

eatino- pig ons fla hed

a cr 0 the trail over-

head, bound for their

roo t. Ge rgia

hunter- know

the peed f

the pig on

tribe in full

flight. Homer

ca II d th m
the n te t f

bi I'd , and th

A sam bur buck stood proud and fine in the trail.

blind poet did

not mis it far.

almo t a large a the American elk. Thi specimen would provide a fat for my , hole camp and the nearb native vi Ilage, and give me a handorne head for my trophy-room. But I wa carr ing a 20 gauge hotgun loaded with bird hot.
Bimbo, the native boy, did not know the differen e between this piece, and the rifle. Guns were gun to him-all my teriou engine of detruction. By the time I had natched th rifle from hi hand the big taO' had imply melted awa into the thicket after an old jungle u tom.
We walked on. Before long I aw a flock of jungle-chicken feedi ng on the bank of a nullah. But I wa carr ing a .404 tiger rifle, and the boo \ ondered why I hould tand ther and make such franti O'esture _ intead of picking off orne meat for upper. ahib are peculiar, h thought. The bird flew a\ a and after exchan!ring weapon and a little con vel' ation, we walked on.
When we reached the hill, ther wa a crash in the thi ket , and then a grunt uch as you sometimes hear in the piney-wood of Georgia. I wa

S '1 RTI TG under the bad lu k of the da , I thre, up the little 20, led the hindmo t bird about eight f t and let fly. The pigeon foiled and cra hed from a clean, full-pattern hit. The urpri e wa pi asant enough, and the ight of the bo ' face when he had retrieved the bird ,a as ati f ing a though I had killed the ambur or th pig. Once more, in hi opinion, I was a "pukka
ahib."
round the ooking-fire that niO'ht, he told hi omrade the tory of the hunt. Ithouo-h to please my god, I had spared Heron and ooer, I had demonstrated my deadl aim by knocking Chirry-er from the air in full flight! Other ahibs mio-ht mi a buffal tandino- till. Hi ahib the merik ahib, who paid him the princel \ aO'e of thirty ent a day, wa a big, ure- hooting ahib, wher upon much 'face" wa gained b all. And I thought be t not to explain the differen e between a hotO'un and a buffalo rifle. I needed all the fa e I ould get for the next hot.
The mo t common of all mall (Continued on page 24)

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October 1940 0 TDOOR GEORGJA

ClmeA,R~. WEIGHS PLAN
OF LICENSE DISTRIBUTION

T H1 matter of , here you buy your hunting or Ii hing licen e , no, ! That' omethinO", e ought to talk about, and believing in a free pre and individual liberty, the editor doesn't bo thi column. What I ay i m 0\ n bu ine and 'our. It doe n't reflect the opinion of the Divi ion of ildlife or the
editorial policy of 0 TDOOR
GEORGI. In August 1939 the Commi ioner
of the Department of Revenue pro po ed that hunting and fi hing licen es hould be bought ju t a auto mobile tags are bought b direct application to the Department of Revenue. Thi propo al was approved and the new y tern went into effect. To O"et a hunting or Ii hing licen e now, you go to your ildlife Rang l' or your hardware tore and fill out an application. To thi appli ation you attach a certified check or a mone order. The application i mailed to danta and our licen e is mailed back to ou.
There is nothing particularly complicated about that, but it brought one awful howl from sporting-good dealers and from orne sportsmen. Dire prophecies were made that the ale of licenses would fall off shu'ply; that sportsmen would hnnt without licenses; that it would encourage a violation of the law.
one of these prophecies has come to pass.
Even 0, if the portsmen would prefer the old method, the d part ment hould make an effort to return to it. nder the old stem ou ould go into mo t hardware, portinO" good or drug tore and buy a hunt ing or Ii hing licen e. The tem wa chanO"ed for a number of reaon. 0 machiner for collectinO" thi mon y wa in operation in th n wI created Di vi ion of ildlife , hich had many diffi ult and intri cate problems to work out, and the Department felt ure of the wholehearted ooperation of the Teal port men in tlle tate. They have re ceived thi cooperation one hundred per cent. uch men were not ea il mi led by o1'ehead~ done out of a fat and juic plum by the chanO"e. The ne, cherne would provide an immediate check on whether a man

had a !icen e 01' not, omething that i obviou 1 impo ible under the old
tem.

UNDER the new stem, the tem of red tap and many groan, the tern which d aler nfidentl

AT THE time the change was made, approximatel thirt th 0 u and
dollars wa due the Di i ion from delinqu nt dealer and much of thi mone has never been collected to thi day.
The dealer, , ithout the inve tment of a penny or the liO"hte t mel' han di ing ri k, were paid from 7 0 to 10%, to handle licen es. For in tance, if a deal r old five hundred 1'e ident hunting license, he made
125. In o1'der to make the same amount out of hotgun hell he mu t ell from forty to sixty ca e of hell or from 800 to 1200 boxe,

predicted wouldn't work, th ild

life Division, through the D part

ment of R venue, old approximatel 3,000 more tat hunting licen e , 8500 more ount licens ; 19,00

more tate fi hing licen

ore Ii

en e of every kind were old and ever penn f the mone went to

your ildlife Divi ion to protect

and perpetuate OUI' port. These are

hard, olid, indisputable facts. ou

can t laugh them, off.

But let's be fair about the malter. It is inconceivable that we could ell

more licen e under an admittedly more diffi ult

y tem th an

we did und r

the imple ytm
whereby ou walked into

your hard

war tor ,ith 3.25

and, without r d tap, , alked out with our 1i cens .
Th differ en e i x plained in two, ay :

Ranger Ed Friend checks the bag of a squirrel hunter.

( ) More rigid en-

and h mu t put hard ca h on the ounter for thi mel' handise and ri k a an ove1' and a 10 in bad account. Do you, onder that he howled?
For the year ended Jnne 1939, dealers were paid 12,146.75 in commission. portsmen pay thi fee, of course. nder the new system thi money has been available to pay your force of enforcement officers and to re-
tock your treams and covert . And don't forget the thirty thouand dollars out tanding with dealers who did not make proper return to the tate.

forcement of the law. It is now dangerou to hunt or flsh without a licen e unless you are willing to pay a fine or face imprj onment.
(B) mler the old ystem, a heretofore outlined, a number of dealers conveniently forgot to end the money to the tate.
Tbi must n t be taken as a refle . ti n on the majority of dealer, who made hone t and prompt 1'eturn . I am mel' ly reportinO" fact which the figure unque tionabl e tablisb.
M y dealer have told me that they would willingly ell Ii cen e without a commi sion in ord I'
(Continued on page 28)

o TDOOR GEORGIA October 1940

7

Canvasbacks stop to feed and rest on a Georgia lake.

T HE fir t light of dawn filtered through the thin drizzle that lightly patted the blind on the edlYe of the alto, ater mar h. deadly ilen e pervaded the countr -
ide. Jim John on contentedly hifted hi cigar, puffed and turned to hi. ompanion.
, It a lovely morning, i n't it? Tho e duck will be leaving her oon, Tom. Ye, ir, we're going to have a good day, lot of duck ."
oung Tom grUllted with atisfation. When Jim John on ai I it wa goin lY to be a good day, well then ir, it wa going to be a good day.
asn't Jim the best shot in Georgia? Didn't he know duck a intimately a he knew hi family? Certainly.
nd didn't Jim bag 100 bird in one morning la t week? 0 when Jim aid it ,a going to be a good ...
raucou ound interrupted Tom'thought. In tincti ely he reached for hi lYun, but Jim' firm finger held Tom arm.
" tead , on, teady. We have lot of time. Tho e bird are ju t a in' 'Good Morning.' They'll be pa ing h re oon enough, and then ou'll ha e more hooting than you II be able to handle for long."
From one direction and another, th ymphony of sound that denote activity in the mar h began pianisimo and almo t imperceptibly in crea d in intensity until it became a

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October 1940 0 TDOOR GEORGIA

oul tirrin a crescendo. Morning wa here.
Thirty minutes later the mar h reo ounded with the continuou thunder of booming guns, and the thick moke of burned black powder lazily entwined itself into the drench d at mo phere and disappeared.
Hundred of lovely feathered reatUl"e filled the air and hurtled th ir treamlined bodie- in front of the blind. weat poured dOl n old Jim John on's face. Jim, working with the fur of a gunner stavin a off the vicious attack of an enem on the battlefield, poured powder and charge down the barrel and, after ramming the wadding down upon each with the ramrod, lifted the muzzle-loading fowling piece to his shoulder and fired with unerring aim. Each _hot had the same effect: Seconds later a black mallard or a teal uddenly plummet d earthward, beautiful but Ii feles .
JI 1 performed like an oiled moothly functionin a machine. Young Tom, too, was contributing to the din that shattered the quiet of the marsh. Ever hot wa accompanied b a word of self congratulation or a moan of exa peration hi reaction d pending on whether he hit himark or mi sed.

The National Wildlife Refuge Is the Solution to Question of Maintaining an Adequate Duck Supply

At the end of the hour, Jim ceased irin a.
"That's enouah for the present, Tom. Let' retrieve tho duck. I think we baaaed a good thirt or thirty.five between u and by noon we hould ea_il get thirty or forty more."
Old Jim John on ha long returned to the earth over which he 0 dearly loved to roam and Young Tom' great-great-arandson i now a freshman at the niversit of Georgia.
What Old Jim and Young Tom did in that Georgia marsh in 1840 cannot be reenacted by Young Tom'progeny in 1940. He can't kill as
many duck in one day, of course, because the Federal migrator), water-
fowl hunting reg u Ia ti 0 n prohibit
daily bag of 20, 30, and 40 duck. The regulation of 1940 prohibit such larae baa becau e there aren't
a many birds in 1940 as ther were a century ago.
How man migrator waterfowl there were in 'orth America when
Jim Johnson reianed as the be t of Georgia s wildfowl r not defi

I
nitel y known. It i rather certain from th a count of writer of the da that the wild duck and gee were numb red in the hundred of million. A recently a 1900 ac cording to the e timate of reliabl ob erver of the period, the continental uppl of I ild duck and gee e wa more than 120 million!
A E./ CLA IATIO T mark i appropriate at the end of the la t sentence because proAigate hunting in the early 1900s played an important part in the dra tic reduction in population uffered by the wild birds. In the opinion of man)' conervationist, 120 mlllion migratory waterfo\ I will remain a population figure of the past, one that will hardly be reaained in orth Ameri a in modern times.
A the waterfowl population began to decrease, alert sportsmen and pro f ional wi Id Ii fe conservationi t , such as the biolo!!lst of the Fi hand
ildlife ervice, warned the puhli that it wa high time that rnore tringent protective measure were taken

; Illegal waterfowl guns confiscated by federal wildlife officers.
to ave the bird from erious depI tion of numbers.
But then carne th 1920s, that decade that W tbrook Pegler aptly t rms 'the era of wonderful non-
n_e," and Jo1m Public continu d blithely on hi way unconcerned with the fact that while daily bag of 25 duck continued the number of hunter increased ach ear and the population of the variou specie of wild duck and gee e decrea d.
Like Wall treet's financiers and Main treet' bankers f the early 1930 the duck and ee e tail-

be n growing slowl . From 1903 to

1934, the er ice acquired 104 r f-

uges. From 1934 to 1940 159 more

refuge were e tabli hed to form

what i nOI a nation-wide network

of 263 refu<Ye for all t pe of wild-

life xtendin<Y from faine to Hawaii

and Puerto Rico to laska.

The object of the dra tic hunting

regulation of 1935 wa to reduce

the annual kill of mi<Yratory 1 ater-

fowl. The reasoning of the Fish and

ildlife ervice biologist wa ome-

thing like thi ; We ha e a crop here

-wild duck and <Yee e, but a crop

n erthele . ow, that rop i being

reduced more and mor each ear b

a serie of factor, one of the prin-

ipal factor bein<Y huntin<Y. e knol

hunting i a mo t eriou factor be

cau e each year, I hi Ie the waterfowl

population has been de rea in<Y, the

number of hunter ha b en increa -

in<Y. 0, to ave that cr p, we mu t

do one of two thing : Reduce the

number of hunter or reduce the

number of birds each hunt r may

take.

In other word if future <Yenera-

tion are going to hunt wild duck,

we of toda must take few r bird

than our grandfather did.

TOI thi matter of re trictive regu-

lations wa an emergency mea ure,

the immediate solution to the prob-

lem. But the ervice offi ial knew

that they had to make plall for a

long-time olution, one I hich I ould

1

"nl11 ..... r

restin<Y, and wintering ground of the e migratory birds,. and, also 1I1 the proce , de troying thou and of a res of wildlife habitat.
Fortunately, however, thi i al 0 1940 when wildlife con ervationi L know better how to manage the wild- .... life re our e of the conti_nent.
The 10n<Y-time olution to sa ing th migrator waterfowl require that adequate areas shall be e tablished to hou 'P. the feathered creature . What might be termecl the hou ing committe for Jature' children has e . tablished th netlork of national wildlife refuge. B careful management, b utilizing the knowledge <Yath red b migration expert, foodhabit inve tigator and biologi t of all kind, the Fi hand ildlife ervice kn II' where to establi h these anctuaries and how to improve the areas 0 a to attract and benefit the variou form of 1 ildlife.
Th national wildlif refuge is the 10n<Y-time solution to the question of maintainin<Y adeq uate populations. There was orne doubt in certain circle a fel year- a<Yo, cloubt that the refu<Yes would help the bird- very much. But there i no longer any loubt, not ince the wat rfowl population ha doubled in I he la t 6 year. From a low of I than 30 million migrator wa ted 0 w I in 1934, the population ha increased to an estimated 65 million in 1940. That' a pretty fast comeback. III Cl!ral". ouJ1ed. and turned to hi.

NOTICE TO LA DOW ERS
Council ail of Wa)'ne Count)' owns 10,700 acres of land adjoining Paulk Pa ture. He is interested in selling hunting rights to an area that has not been hunted in four )'ears. It is well stocked with quail, turkeys and deer. There are many other farmer and landowners in the state who also might want to sell hunting privileges. The Circuit Writer is compiling a list of all hunting territories and wi hes to pass it on to shooters who eek such information from OUTDOOR GEORGIA. Send your name, acreage, location, fees, type of game and other information to the Circuit Writer toda)'.

A OTHER BEAR FACT
It i the law of the wood and it folk that human being are not to be cro ed. When man and hi property are mole ted, animal alway must pay.

to eat. He shows particular disdain for fresh pork, which is the bait that lured him to the end of his game with the pigs.
According to reliable report 43 pig, and eve r a I goats and lambs were taken la t year by bears in the Wellston section along the Ocmulgee River. Bee hiv were raided regularly. If native of this community have their ay-so bear teak, fed on hog meat, will be a standard ration.
BOBWHITE'S BIG DAY
Records are getting monotonou in the Divi ion of \Vildlife. But inasmuch as this one ha a direct bearing on the number of quail in the tate it perhaps should not be dismissed with the customary yawn.
The state game farm in Atlanta made it first release of quail in 1937, distributing 4,265 birds over the state. In 1938 the number .jumped to 5,540. In 1939 (no e-dive season) only 139 birds were shipped to Georgia areas. Last winter there were 551 pairs of grown birds at the farm. With this slim

were distributed among F. F. A. and 4-H club and Junior R~nge s.
Of thi number nearl~ 85 per cent. were hatched and approximately 25 per cent. of the hatch promi e to reach maturity. Total relea e for re tocking purpo es for the sea on thus reached 10,000 bird, or almost twice the previou high mark of 5,540 bird. \Vith 1,000 pairs ready to 0'0 to work again next spring it is estimated that 20,000 quail will go from the tate farm next
ummer into a restocking proO'ram which is de tined to play an important part in improving hunting condition in the tate.
PLEDGE FOR DOVES
A. P. :Mauldin like to hoot doves a well as any sportsman in Georgia. The Atlanta traveling man greeted the opening of the current ea on in the field with his f a v 0 r i t e gun on his houlder and hiO'h hope for a lot of wing hooting. But he had the ame experience that hundreds of others were having. He waited for doves that weren't thcre.
Mr. Mauldin covers the country. He has look~d for the birds while driving through several outhern tates. His survey supplie- a fair estimate of the dove snpply. He reports a "handful" in compari on to the good old dove-shoot days.
11r. Mauldin killed five dove early in the ea on. And now he apologizes for it. He come up with the fir t "nohoot" pledge of the ea on and with it win the acclaim of Georgia portsmen a a bona fide con ervationi t with an active intere t in aving a favorite port for thousand..
Writing to the Division of Wildlife he says that "in view of the scarcity of doves, I think it wonld be advisable, in the interest of futnre sport and for the preservation of the doves, for your department to mail a pledge card to all who have obtained Iicen es and ask them to voluntarily sign this pledge."
The accompanying pledge card was included in hi letter. Thi kind of pirit, coming from a fellow who ranks dove hooting at the top of his list, cannot be pa ed unnoticed. hould others fall in line with Mr. 1auldin here, as well a in other states, the dove might ea ily make a great come-

Ocmulgee's Black Hog Thief Hog-Tied.
But animals are like human being, and be ide showinO' more intelligcnce in many in tance ,often how the ame disregard for the law which govern them.
One uch kind wa a black bear which made a game out of tealing pig. The b ar played hi game 0 regularly that am vV. ); ewberry of the Well ton community in H 0 u s ton County wa in danger of facing the winter without hi normal supply of meat. One pig after another di appeared from the Newberry drove of free forager .
Whereupon Mr. ewberry set a trap. Four more l)igs disappeared before the trap clamped its jaws together on the 200-pound bear which )'ou ee in "pillar and tocks" in the ewberry )'ard. ow the young hog-killer refuse'
o TDOOR GEORGIA. October 1940

E1f;.!Hl;
STATE OF GEORGIA DIVISION OF \"ILD LIFE
Atlanta, Ga.
A. P. Mauldin 1376 Graham St., S.W., Atlanta, Ga.
I hereby pledge not to shoot any doves
during the 1940-~~~~

brood ,tock the Division produced 6,004 quail for port men' clubs over the state and added 449 pairs to the laying stock. In addition, 18,000 eggs

back within a ingle ea on, provided another evere winter doesn't tep in with another killer uch a last year' ice torm.

11

He'p l)o' Se'f

The squirrel was working a limb
of acorns.
! FTER 1I ent year I ha ere f t Lurn d to th sc n of bo -
hood and the experience is addening. The hill are smaller, Lhe red gullie shallower; the swimmin' hole is hardly fit to be called a lough, and Lh creek that wiLh promise of fi h Iured me from farm ta ks in tho e gone days i now a ridi ulou I little tream, unfit for fI or plug.
And the \ ood .. , oh, the pitiful wood! ome have b co me field . orne hav even been field and are now aft r ha ing been cleared and farm d a few year, abandoned to sedge gra s and sprout . . . for iL is nature's modest way to cover Lh nakedne of her charg, mother earth ... and, ome far day, ther may be tree aaain where Lhey tood before. There rna be \ ood again where, 1I ent ear and more ago, I hot m fir L quirrel from the top of a big red oak.
That was a brighL, 001 morning in October, and much \ aLer ha lid beneath the bridae ince th n, carrying, no doubt, an amazin a Lonnage of squirrel-cut rna t LhaL ha rained down over the years from tall oaks hickorie and p can . But the pa ina of ear ha not dimmed the thrill of that day. On the contrary it Land out excitingl again t th dull ba kgrnund of time that wa not marked by red-leLt l' experience.
I wa about twelve Lhen and had reached the point wher I could di cuss the kjJJing of a rabbit, ith nonchalance. The weapon \ iLh which I roamed at large wa an old doublebarrel with hamm I' that tood up

bold and high, omewhat aft l' the fa hion of jacka ear. The pring beneath tho hamm I' \ ere of uch thickn and re iliency Lhat I couldn'L ock the gun with Lhumb alone bUL had to brace it alTain t a kn e and fore the hammer back with the palm of m riahL hand. It wa m father's gun, and the de igner mu t ha e be n thinking of men like he-men who tand ix feet four and weigh 225 , ithout the aid of fat -when they put in Lho pring. M r ammUJlition wa the bla k pow der club hell, which bloom d off 0 much moke Lhat after firing I had to run forward a few feet to ee what had happened ahead of me. All in all, my equipmenL \ a probably uperior to thaL u ed by the Colonials, but little more could be said for it. What I lacked on the mechanical side, Lhough, I made up for wiLh pirit and optimism.
It wa m period of hero-w r hip, and ill allegiance wa wide! and promptlyaiven to an one, ho proved him_elf a formidabl aame getter. During Lhat particular fall, I fell briefly under the pell of a sLringy, lab-footed, dull-eyed colored boy named Lu ' Loone ,Lhe rphan grandson of our wash\ oman, Aunt Louvinia. ncle Howard and Aunt Louvinia owned a liLtle farm ~et 111 a rim of hilly woods.
O lE Ionda mornina, almost a oon a I had arrived with the famil laundr, ncle Howard dropped Lh proud ne\ - Lhat Lu ' had, hortly after dawn, killed two , caL- quh'l " out of Lhree shot.
"Here in your woods? I a ked excitedly.
, ho'. D y right Jmrp 0' at quh'l in de e wood. Lu 'i gittin' to be a crack shot, too."
'Do ou mind, I asked wiLh the ease of a market-hunLer, ' if I kill a few of them?
The old man looked at me and chuckled oftl. Hi meaning \ a clear. " ou go right 'head an kill all ou kin tote," he said generou Iy. But hi manner hinted that he didn't
onsid!<r m a menace to the peace

and afety of hi game.' Ie he'p 0' elf." Lu came into th cabin Lhen,
walking with a \ agger Lhat I ould a ily undersLand. 'Mawnin" he greeL d me. Then, unable Lo wiLhhold Lhe ne\ longer: "All kilt m two cat-squh'l outa three shot dis mawnl.ll ".
'A\, dat aint noLhin'!" Uncle Howard coffee!, wi el attemptin a to off et any tendenc Lus' might have to\ ard "bia-head." "You ouahta got three."
"low, he done right well,' unt Louvinia broke in. "You' pr ud yo elf, an' ou know it.'
. ncle Howard grunLed as if to belittle both her loyalty and Lus' accomplishment, and the matter was abandoned.
But I wa immediately quirrelcon cious. TomorrO\ morning, barring Armaaeddon I'd be in tho e woods at da break, mowina down , aL- quh'l .' D ep do\ n, I en i d Lus'. I \ onder d ho\ a per on felt, walking in with two quirr I dangling from hi belt. 'Loping my hor e home, I Lhought of Lu and built him up a a sorL of combinaLion L aLher Locking and Dead-E e Dick making allowance, of cour e, for appr priaLe diff ren e in skin pi amenLation.
I DID ome figuring: ly ca h-on hand wa ten cent. Thi \ ould purcha e four hell. If I kill d two squirr Is out of three _hot, I'd ha .e one hell left. I d sell on [the quirrel [or fifteen cenL . I'd u e a dim of that and buy four more
h II , whi h would aive me five h lis for the next hunt. And I'd have a ni kel left. In ummary, I'd come out wiLh fi e hells and half of my oriainal tock o[ cash. Th future looked ro y.
On thi ba-i I'd oon be financially independent in a mall wa , and I d have a nice stock f ammuniLion laid b for the fir t now. That i , if it happened Lo be a hallow now' I used a tap- tick when the now wa d ep enough to interfere wiLh a rabbit' running.

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The niuht brought a light frost. I et out at fir t light, gun on shoulder, new hells cl i cking soft I y in my pocket. I stole into the woods a lightly as a striped lizard and headed for the hollow where the tallest oak grew. My heart was thumping like a distant Diesel, and I wa alert to the least sound. In that state, I wa ripe for the shock that a covey of quail provided. They roared up as I was passing a briar patch, sending my heart to my throat, for at that hour the woods were in a deep twilight and rich with mystery. I tood stockstill for a moment, gathering up the loose end of my nerves and feeling very illy.
Somewhere, off to the left, an acorn ]'attled through the limbs. Then I heard the swish of dry leaves off to the right. A squirrel was feeding in one place; a quirrel had jumped in another. Which way to go? I chose the feeding quirrel, for he was more likely to be still than the other, and I wanted a still target. I went to the ]ight.
I LIPPED through the woods. Silence was golden, and I was on the gold tandard right then. I was under a double pressure: First, I wanted to prove myself as effective as the redoubtable Lus'; second, I was the victim of economic consideration. My hells were precious.
I stopped and listened. Faintly, I could hear the fine "rain" of acorn cuttings. I cocked the right-hand barrel, gripped my thumb between hammer and pin, and tiptoed on. I wa breathing hard, but not from exertion; I was weating lightly, but not from heat.
Another acorn rattled down, and I could mark the tree by the sound of it. The squirrel was cutting in a tall red oak that stood about thirty yards ahead and to my left. I chose my route carefully, so as to be screened by the lower growth a I approached. The oak stood halfway up a hillside.
By now the tops of the trees were beginning to catch the first light.
heltered by a holly, thirty feet from the foot of the oak, I stopped and looked for the feeding squirrel. Acorns and cutting fell thick and fast, and from considerable height.
Then I saw a branch move in the very top of the oak. And there was my squirrel! In fact, there were two
quirrel , both busy at work. I

gripped the old gun tighter as I tried to estimate my di tan e from the rodents. The tree was very tall; added to its height was that of the hill on which it tood.
I must shoot from the high side. That was plain. I would be closer to the squirrel from there: My aim would be better, and the pattern of the shot would be clo er. So, I studied the way I must go to reach my vantage point.
T REMBLI G from excitement and suspense, I started the flanking movement. It seemed that I went 0 slowly. Surely the squirrels would be through with their feeding before I was ready to shoot. Or, they d see me and run, leaping with the lightness of thistle from tree to tree and disappearing with the magic of wild woods-wisdom. I'd see no more squirrels that morning, on e I 10 t these. Such thoughts plagued me and made the going harder, until I was tempted to stand up quickly and fire away, taking a chance.
I wondered how Lus' would handle the situation. Quietly, most likely, and without haste. Lus' did everything that way. He'd be sure before spending a precious shell, Lu ' would. He'd use a half-day getting everything just right, or he wouldn't shoot at all. Anybody who could kill two "catsquh'ls" out of three shots must be cold and caut i 0 u and calcu lating. Thus I rea oned, and b visualizing Lus' I was su tained and strengthened.
Finally, on all-four, I reached the point toward which I had et out. I straightened up, resting on my root-bruised knees, and found the top of a persimmon sapling between me and. the quirrels.

Just then, one of the gray fellow beuan to bark. My heart flopped. He had een me. After all thi trouble, I had been discovered. wiftly, he chattered out little tac~ato cough of warning and anger. Rather, I interpreted them to be uch expression . I held perfectly still, hoping de perately that I looked like a small tump, or something equally as harmless.
Then I heard another quirrel barking in the distance. Maybe the one above me was "talking back" at the one acro the hollow. Maybe he hadn't een me at all. The idea brought some comfort, and it encouraged me to ease around the persimmon and look up.
T HERE they were. One of them was still busily working a limb rich with acorns. The other was itting in a mall fork, chattering away as if unburdening vicious go ip.
The time had come! Slowly, I brought the gun to my houlder, at the same time coming to my feet. I laid my sight' down tight on the barking quirrel, for the other was moving about at his work. My trembling finger caressed the trigger.
What if I mi sed? Both squirrels would then e cape, and the roar of the gun would send all other squirrels in the woods scampering to their dens. That was my fear then; I learned better in later years, and came to know that the boom of a gun in the woods i but a short-lived disturbance.
I was tense, fearing to press the trigger and settle the matter for good and all. It was far better to hold the
gun on the squirrel and anticipate success than to shoot and suffer failure.
The gray chatterer sat up traight and uncorked a rapid-fire of quarreling at
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Gettin' Even With Lus' Looney With Black Powder and Hammers
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I sprawled backward beneath a canopy of smoke.

...

with JOB W. BEALL
New Approaches To Old Problems

T HERE are man natural la\ s which man doe not under tand. We know that in the pioneer da fi h and game were plentiful in
eoraia and now, in general. ther i a carcity. Th upply of wildlife is decrea ing ea h year while at the same tim the number of hunter and fi_hermen i arowing rapidly a th population increase in our tate. In the nation the increa e i over a million a year.
Two reason for decrease of Ii h and wildlife upon which the Divi ion of Wildlife place pecial empha i are:
11 Improper method of taking game and 1i h which may be a result of poor law or failur of proper nfor ement .
(2) De truction of the natural vegetation co nd i ti on which provide food and cover.
Tbe Divi ion of Wildlife, in planning it program, has had on main idea in mind and that i to make huntin a and fi bin a better in a tate which probabl ha the greate t po ibilitie of an tate in the union. To carry this out, the program mu t be carefully planned 0 there will be a earl w'plu of all pecies. W know from the la\ of natur that all Ii ing thing under ideal or proper condition will reproduce 0 there will be a urplu. ature take care of this urplu, but with fish and game, a ertain amount can be taken each ea on b hunter and fi hermen \ ithout affecting r production the next year. That i , if it i done in the proper manner. The present program, which i et up for wildlife ranger to carry out and enforce mean that a urplu will be a sured in every ection if the citizen of the
ommunitie will cooperate with
them. Georgia's Di ) )on of Wildlife un-
der the pre ent et-up had been operat-
14

ing one y ar on eptember 1. Trained men have been on the job durinO" this period. Every ranger \ a in tructed in con ervation principle before goina into the field. e realize no\ , more than ever before, th need of well-trained, efficient ranaers to enforce the Jaws and to a i t and cooperate with port men and landowner \ ith their problem in Ii h propagation and aame management.
urve of all progre ive _tate how that much time and effort i being put forth to have trained men in their fish and wildlife department _ eth Gordon of the Penn ylania Game Commi ion, aid re-
cently:
"IN THE beginning, our problem were few, our law imple. Now, due to va tly changed condition, with con tantly increa ing hunting and fi hing pre ure, we are confronted with a different picture. 0 bu ine venture ucceed today unle it product i merchandi ed properly_ The ale force mu t be modern, capable and efficient. Our ale force in wildlife admini tration i the field taff, the men who contact the public every day to ell our ware, who con titute the real

backbone of every con erva tion agency.
"\\le hall alway have a warm pot in our heart for the old time 'game warden,' that old chap who knew all the trick of the trade and who e ole worry was the apprehen ion of crook . He till ha a place in every con ervation department and doubtle always will have. But hi type i rapidly di appearing and being replaced by men who are not only capable in detecting rotten egg, but who can al 0 tell anyone intere ted what to do with good one.
"In the early day, almo t any chap with a littl backbone would do for a field officer. Now the tockholder, the port men, are demandin men who know \\'ildlife problem, men who can pre ent wildlife need and re toration method to all cla e capably and efficiently. The modern ranger i expected to know hi work, to keep up a good appearance and to cover a lot of terri tory efficien tly.
" ince game and fi h re toration i now a complex bu ine , with new problem arising daily, there i no reaon why \\-e hould adhere to ob olete methods. One of the surest roads to ucce i the development of manpower that will a ure the right kind of field admini tration. If it i fundamentally wrong to hand an untrained,
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A wildlife window arranged by Ranger Ed Friend for a leading Augusta department store, portrays the ideal camp for the outdoorsman, hunter or fisherman_
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HEAR fE, MY CHTEFS by Herbert Ravenel Sass. \Villiam Morrow & Co., $2.50.
H ERBERT RA ENEL ASS is one of the most gifted writer of our time, and in hi o\\'n field he i upreme. That field is Indian lore and the magic of the \\"ildcrne . In Hear Me, My Chiefs Mr. Sa has given u a truly remarkable book; notable as the fir t dramatic presentation of the defen e of the con tin en t of orth America. .p to thi time we have been surfeited with dull tomes by Doctors of Philo ophy which painted tbe Indians as a crowd of ruthle savage, bent on murder and pillage and calping and torture. fro a ,without entimentalism, but with rare and gifted sentiment, hows us the Indian as he was-no better, no wor e; a kindly race living in the tone age, faced with the treachery, the di ease, the uperior weapon of a conquering civilization.
Parallel to hi main theme run the magic of this wildlife paradi e which we de troyed with ruthles abandon. He tells us:
"The white man ... destroyed all the billion of the pas enger pIgeons. The immen e multitudes of whooping crane were wiped out ruth Ie sly. The trumpeter wan i now one of the rare t of American wild creature .... The wild ducks now in exi tence are only a fraction of the incalculable ho t that America once had. The Eskimo Curlew and the Great Auk, formerly existing in millions, have been exterminated.
"The 'White :Man-the incredible contradictot-y being out of wbo e oul could come uch beauty a the 'Ode to a Nightinga1e"-killed and killed and killed. He oaked the continent with blood; nowhere el e on the planet ha
o monstrou a ma acre of wildlife been achieved. He looted and riddled and ruined America' treasure house of living wonder. vVhen his work wa done the great herd were gone from the prairies and the sky above America was empty."
Epic figure stalk through the page of Hear He, My Ciliefs. lames that our chool-boy hi torian, more intent on propaganda than on fact, have conveniently omitted. Your reviewer did not know before that four Indians of the ez Perce made a hazardou journey of more than two thou and mile looking for a book that would
give them the story of Je u of N aza-
reth-and made it in vain. He had not heard of plump little Christian Priber and hi dream that almost came true of establi hing on the American Continent, freed of white men, a new Utopia: or of the first, the very fir t, effort to e tabli h universal peace, and that nearly four hundred year ago.
Here i the story of Tsali, of the Great Smokie , one of the truly great torie of America-at once a tragedy and a triumph. And here is the true
account of the diabolical treachery of
the great Mile Standish, quite a dif-
ferent account from that our history

books have given, quite a different picture from the canvas of the poet.
We are 0 accu tomed, 0 well conditioned, to the idea that the Indian wa a bloodthir ty avage that we read the brutal dispatch from General W. T. Sherman (lately done with hi march through Georgia and tran ferred to the Department of the vVe t) with something of a hock. Writing to General Grant he said:
"\IITe must act with vindictive earne tne s again t the ioux, even to their extermination, men, women and children. Nothing else will reach the root of the ca e."
Vile read of broken treatie and scrap of paper where fertile farm and

/,

1/

/

Ho hum! Turn off the clock, Joe-let's sleep a little longer!
the lure of gold were the takes; and always fighting, driven doggedly, immutably back, we ee a great people confronted by a force they little understood. Mr. Sa s has given us a great book, one that will provide in its tense drama food for thought for every literate American.-E. R.
CON ERV TIO OF AMERICAN RESOURCES' by Charles . Elliott. Turner E. Smith & Co., Atlanta.
JAY N. DARLING, the famous cartooni t whose ilent ennon have most eloquently preached the crying need for con ervation, mu t recant. He must revise a tatement O"iven wide pread pub Ii cit y in conservation periodical.
La t year 'Ding" wa quoted a aying that there wasn't a decent textbook on con ervation available for use in the public chool_
Thi is no 10nO"er true. Charle N. Elliott' new boo k, Col/serva/ion of America'll Resources, publi hed by Turner E. mith & Co., Atlanta, meet the long-felt need for adequate teaching material in thi field. It is the mo t out tanding school text in the literature of conservation.

Elliott' book is written in uch simple language that it can be read and comprehended by children in the ixth grade. In fact, even those who cannot read will enjoy looking at the pictures, of which there mu t be nearly three hundr d. In spite of its implicity, the content will appeal to high school boy and girl and adult readers.
The book is divided into twelve unit, including wildlife, water, land, fore t , mineral, plants and animal, and all other natural re ource of the United State. It tre es the relationships of these resource in a con ervation program.
I[any unique features are included in the text. mong them are me age contributed by fifty of America's leading con ervationists_ A number of the e were written e pecially for this book, and bring to the attention of the readers the pertinent conserva tion needs of our country. It also contain fifty con rvation code, which are rule of action \~hich conservation organization have adopted for the pre ervation of the nation' natural reources.
This book was written to fill a distinct need. The paucity of material in the con ervation field available for chool u e will amaze anyone who cares to make an examination of it. Much that has been written i not organized and pre ented in a way that makes it acceptable to teacher and pupil. This book, however, was written for the ole purpose of providing a uitable school text. It will be welcomed by teacher in every ection of the nited tates where conservation
taught.-P. vV. C.

GAZETTEER OF GEORGIA

by Adiel Charle ton,

SSh. ecr.w;

ood. W. Riley, republished 1940

by niversity of Georgia Press,

Athen .

,t LL Bapti ts know who Adiel Sherf-\.. wood was. They will tell you that
he organized the Georgia Baptist Convention, and that he worked with
Ie e 'Iercer in the founding of
Mercer niver ity. They will tell you that hi Ga:::elteer of Georgia was one of the outstanding Georgia book of the early 19th century.
Thi book, published in 1827 by W. Riley of Charle ton, S. C. ha ju t been republished by the University of Georgia Pre ,Athen. Its page are a glimp e back into the Georgia of more than 114 year ago.
A tlanta is not mentioned in the book, or hown on the map attached to the back inside cover. Fulton County wa not created from DeKalb until 1853. Peachtree treet was till a pig trail down the b a c k bon e of Peachtree Ridge.
The large t cities of the tate in 1826
were Savannah and Augu tao Ten
team hips ran on the river between
these two points. filledgeville, the (Collfill1led all page 25)

OUTDOOR GEORGIA October 1940

15

No E had not ad anced far beyond hi fir t birthday when
the time came for our annual
hunting trip to Ocmulga wamp. A
far back a my memory ran, old Jim
Carter and I had lipped away for
two gloriou week each fall of the
year. For both of u late [ ovember
wa the happy, harvest ea on-the
favored ea on of th year. Even
thouah the harvest moon wa gone, the million colors had faded and the leave were on the fore t Aoor in dead, brown drifts, th edge field had not 10 t their gold and the night were cold enough to d mand a blazing heap of log.
The beginnin a of the la t two week of Georgia ovember u hers in open eason on all types of aame -deer, turkey quail, quirrel, duck -the wait for that fortunate individual to whom the god have admini tered knowledge and patien e in the proper dose.
The name 0 mulaa wamp indi-
cate- a drowned and odden wildernes. It is almo t that. Extending along the Ocmulga River for mile before it join the wide, picture que Altamaha, i a belt of wampland. When the water of the river i low thi belt is a dr , Aat fore ted area, with a tree population of oak, gum, hickory, magnolia, ash and many other pecie of southern forest tree. It i broken by crooked bayou and lake where the river once ran.
round it edge roll a bluff, ri ing sharply from twenty to fift feet above the Aoor of the wamp.
On the bluff the character of the

country change. Hardwood and open flats give wa to pine, edge, low-growing haws and other plant which produce an abundance of food and cover for upland game birds.
When the river water ri e above their normal level, the bluff becomes a boundar of the river and the wamp i one va t, \ ooded lake, tudded with aiant tree and mall islands.
I ALL our years of _earching for ideal hunting conditions, Ocmulga wamp \ as the one place Jim and I had found. The quail were 0 abundant in the upland that either of u could walk a few hundred yard beyond camp and kick up a ove or two even without dogs. Turkey ranged the wamp on all ide of camp feedin a on a om and gum berrie and bugs, and many of the big bronzed bird went beyond the lin of the bluff for the low, fat ara hoppers which were so abundant wh n the fir t fro t came. Deer found ideal condition in this hinterland. Man time, while following the dog for quail, we kicked a buck out of a mall pur swamp which branched off from Ocmulga. But the cop_ wa thick and the game wary.
The quirrel around camp were o tame and fat and aucy that we would have found little port in hootin a th m, but sometime in late afternoon, we pu hed our boat a\ ay from the landing and paddled quietly through one of the bayou where the green head come in to roo t.
Jim never went to Ocmulga without hi dog. The day on which we

Jim's Bird Dog was a Cowarda Buck Deer Made Him a Champion

loaded in the duffl and started the
};oI~ui~tiha\br o~ount~de

N
.

kennel a it

was to u and

when we rolled

the trailer out

of it tall m

the garage every dog on the place

went wild.

On that morning where all our

ear began and ended-Jim sand

mine-I found the old sport man by

the shed, hi eye as bleak a a cloud

lost in the sky. I refrained from

punching him in the rib, becau e I

knew hi thought were acred.

'I've got a hunch" he said, talk-

ing half to him If, "that thi year

\ e can make a bird dog out of o ey. Yep-I'm takin a 0 ey

along. We II take him out of thi hot-

hous h lp him to find himself.

And when he doe Clancy will lose

hi place in the un."

"yo RE ju_t a romantic old

codger,' I thought. Aloud I

said, 'Jim, you're crazy. Clancy i

the be t dog outh of the north pole.

[ osey will poil the trip. The dog

won t work toaether and you know

it.' "Clancy i aoin a to work with that

puppy and like it," Jim replied.

I wa uddenly panicky.

"Jim, I've got a feeling that if we

take along that crazy pupp , we are

making OUT la t hunt together. Now

Rodney and King Edward . . "

Our camp was on a high bluff alon g the Ocmulga.

The swamp was a vast wooded lake.

But Jim'

ear might

have been

EY

tuffed \ ith wamp mud. Prince s wa chosen as the

t h i r d dog.

Prince wa a

little ell r

with a range

of experience that equalled even

Clancy', and a no e which would

carry her down the edlYe of a wamp

to find every single after a rise. ot

field trial champion, tho e dog, but

they had good no ,grand heart

and common en e. Few cove e -

caped them in the cour e of a day.

The 300-mile trip outh \ a the

mo t mLerable one in all our ex-

perience. Each time we topped for

ga oline or food, Jim found it ne e--

ar to remove the three dolY from

the trailer and tie them on eparate

lea he . It was only by u h tactic

that he brought 0 ey to our de tina

tion with a complete kin. teach

stop the puppy would place hi tail

between hi legs and seek refuge un-

der the car. Clancy wa making the

young setter' life mi erable and he

made no effort to conceal that fact

from Jim. The old hunter shook his

finger in the big dog's face.

"Some day osey i lYoing to take

ju t enough of this and give you a

good thra hin lY. And if he' not man

enough- 0 help me-I'll do it for

him!"

"You'll have to," I aid. "With all

the pine he' got, o~ey hould have

b en born an 0 ter."

Nosey was a shy and lonely puppy.

J IM did not repl , but gave me a look which made me wish that I had held my tongue. After all, it wa none of m affair, except the bleak prospect of an un ucce ful trip.
eeing the old camp ite omewhat revived m deflated pirit. Thi wa my time of the year. The wood, with their a ortment of fruits, were rich and ripe. The quail were mature and strong, and yet not old enough to have lost their tend me s. For two weeks we would live again-maste of thi wilderne world surroundinz our tin canva home, and our days would be devoted to the edge, to silent talk and to the whi tie of wing at du k.
But for the fir t time in all the year a _hadow had b en ca t over the camp. There \ a ten ion-both Jim and I could feel it. imply be cause Jim was backing bad blood. Who was I to tell him that bad blood ometime come out of a strain of champion. He knew that.
Two da were required to prop' erl establi h camp. By many ad experience we had learned that comfort and ufJicient good food were more e ential to a ucce ful expedition than the fine t wing hot or the heaviest pair of antlers ever brought back to the trophy room.
On the third morning, with the bed fixed and upplies tored; with the boat landing patched and our canva fly hun lY over the dining table, we took the dolY out for a few hours after quail.
On the edlYe of camp -Clancy began working hi wa through the golden edge. omewhere ahead

of bim-very near-he knew that a covey crouched, with eye bright and alert with mu cle ten . Any ha ty or unnece ary movement would explode them like a bomb hell, and the big hi h setter knew it. He performed with the ea e and grace of the champion he wa . Every move ment he made wa a study of poetry and art.
FOR me the beauty of tho e moment before the covey ri e wa 10 t. I wa mad. Whether Clancy found thtj bird or not wa a matter of light interest. I knew I would mi ver hot anywa . That brat of a runt of Jim' dog, 1 osey had aIread poil d my day.
Clanc froze and I thought of the beautiful bronze book end in my librar at hom . Clancy would have been a king if dog had uch thing. Jim' \ ord did not oothe my feeling.
"That Iri_h luck again!" he muttered.
Princ backed and 10 ey topped in hi track. The puppy' action wa by in tinct rather than by knowledge and urpri ed even him, for he tole a cautiou look at Jim. Tbe old hunter wore.
"Look at him! Without training! Lord, what a dolY I've alma t got!" And he a p p a led to some canine heaven for the whole ex e upp!y of ga tric fortitude.
I could not hare his enthu ia m. osey wa a weakling and a coward. When he wa made, his backbone
, wa omitted. He had been in my hair
By the jun gle the kill was his.

for three months. And to mak matter wor e, thi filial ofTsprin lY of a canin mother for orne gha tl reaon had taken a fancy to me.
T HE bird 1'0 e, on roarin lY brown ,inlY- and hot like miniature rocket tm ard the edge of a wamp. At that e act instant, 0 e' c ta y cho to explode. Bounding like something crazy, made out of rubber, h follo\ ed the covey yapping like a b agle on hi fir t rabbit hunt.
Jim brought a tin whistle from one of th numerou po kets of hi hunting jacket and in a fe\ minute
o e r turned out of breath and ager for hi reward for being 0 prompt on the cha e. In tead of pulling hi ear off, as I preferred to do, Jim patted his head.
" ice work, lad. You don't know much about quail yet, but you've got fire and nthusiasm and you've got the blood. ow get out there and hunt!"
The other dog hared m open disappro aI, both of 0 ey and of Jim. The moment thgir ma ter back wa turned Clanc nipped the oung dolY on th rump. 0 ey md not ,himper but came back to me, carryin lY hi tail a a picture of de pair. I had no ympath to ofTer, but Jim con led him b rubbing hi ear and sent him out again, to watch the other dog and copy their action .
Before ,e found ingle bird, o e blundered into a cove . He melled the quail but in hi enthusiasm wa traveling too fast. The bird exploded on all side a he fun1.bled to a point-too late. Aiter that Clancy topped hunting altogether and devoted him elf to cha tizing 0 ey whenever Jim' back was turned. By the time we had killed enough quail for our upper, Jim wa mad, too. I could tell by the opaque light in hi eye and by hi grim ilen e. I firml believe that a tim I cotch aved 1 0 from my irate foot and Clancy head from becoming a ragged piece of catfish bait b Jim' own hunting knife.
FOR ten da Jim devoted mo t of hi attention to the dog, but intead of improving, th situation lYrew ,or. ithout ose, the other t, 0 do lY did the work of champion .
ith him along, they devoted their attention to a crude ort of hazing whi h r minded me of my fre hman day in college. I quit hunting with Jim and went ofT by myself into the wamp , blundering along, 0 worried about the ituation that I walked into a flock of turkey and forgot to rai e m gun. I began to look for-

ward to the clo e of tho e t\ 0 week . Jim himself bad the tubbornness
of hi Iri h etter. " ]0 e ' got all th earmark of a
great dog he' ould a . 'He lYot ever thinlY but the gut. If I , ere in hi pIa e, I'd chew the ear ofT lancy and the bitch."
I knew m reply would not tend to bring peace to the camp, 0 I remained ilent, hoping again t hope that Jim would apply the onl ure remedy to a pineles dog-that of cutting ofT hi tail clo e behind hi ear.
I had a feeling of relief when we awoke one mornin lY to find that fourteen of our fifteen da were gone.
o far we had e perienced no open
Ace Advises
h is only natural for a puppy to make mistake. Be pati nt with him and the odd are that he will reward you . A fuJI bag wilh more bird left crippled or dead in the field i again t the laws of conservation. Take a retriever with )'OU on every hunt thi winter and make those crillple count in your bag.
break, thoulYh ,e had come close several time .
"I'd ta here four or five da more,' Jim aid, when I reminded him that there were uch thing- a office and alaries and familie . "I'd ta here if I wa n't 0 mi erable , ith those dog ."
"Tell you what, I ugge ted. "We've got thi last da . Let' devote it to deer. We'll lea e the dolY here and work out that erie of wamps behind Hickory Bluff. I'd ure like

to hang a lelY of venison In the ice hou e.
ra of sun hine filtered throulYh when Jim agreed. Perhaps we could mend in orne light manner, our friend hip which b this time had becom badl bent.
e left camp at fir t lilYht of dawn. The Lar had gone and crimon flak of cloud heralded the approach of the un. The air wa cri p and clean and faintl fragrant, ith perfume of the \ amp. e mo ed down the brown fore t ai Ie . watching for the outline of a buck or the f1a h of a white-tail.
We were Ie than a mile from camp when Jim uddenly stopp d. Hi hand were ten e and I could ee the mu cle cording hi neck. There wa a patter of tep and the three dog were leaping again t him.
"I can gue ," he aid darkly, "that our dumb ook thought we had forgotten them."
For a moment we tood and d bated. I had the .30-.30 with oftno ed hell. Jim wa carrying hi .35. The dolY ,ould be u ele . On the other hand they could cau no harm and had the entire day to fight among them Ive. It would be an ingloriou climax to an inglorious vacation. e rever ed our fir t deciion to return with them to camp and moved on. I hoped we might g t a buck. It would ave the trip from being a total failure. 0 a we walked, I outlined a plan of procedure.
" omewhere belo, u," I aid, "thi old logging road cut through the next pur swamp. You top there, ,here you can ee anything that cro e the road. I'll take the dog above and work down the wamp. D er track are a thick as chiggers in there."
JI alYreed though without much pirit. I turned off the road and worked m ,a northward through edge and pine thicket. All three dog followed me for a quarter mile before Clanc and Prince turned back to Jim. ]0 e tood throulYh a moment of indeci ion ,ith hi eye on the retreating setter , then swung ba k toward the north with me.
"Go on!" I colded. "Go on ba k! I don't want you m sing thing up today. ' But he circled and ,ept in ahead of me. I had an inclination to hoot off hoth hi ears, ith two well placed .30-.30 , but eventually gave up and followed him.
A we circled, we , orked the swamp arefully. The countr ,a full of deer and I knew that there would be pot where the deer had
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October 1940 0 TDOOR GEORGIA

JUNIOR RANG-ER GIRAIL

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1941 PROGRAM

Bif Bo.!J. ,tltlz,ua

! CRO the water a war i being J-l.. waaed. In Georgia a war al 0
i being fought. Our fight i to con erve wildlife. The Di i ion of Wildlife, with it J u n i or Wildlife Educational Program as the big gun, i fighting side by ide with the boy and girl of Georgia to protect, coner e, and repleni hour wildlif . Our i a war to rebuild in tead of de troy. Drum are heard in the di tance, reinforcement are coming I ith more fighting equipment, the 1940-41 Junior Wildlife Program is biager, better and carri more tool with which to combat the enemy.
Thi new wildlife educational program will be announced on or about
Tovember l. No, let' look at ome of the new
thing found in thi ear' wildlife program.
Fir t ou will find, to encourage ou in thi wildlife work, a big ontest with a number of fine award for bo ,girl and teacher. To tell ou all about all the e award would take
roo t of the pace in 0 TDOOR
GEORGIA, so I will name them only and 1 ave the re t for you to read about when you receive your opy of the program.
The out tanding award will be a "Tour of Georgia." On thi trip' ill b eight 4-H club bo tl 0 vo ational tea her and one county agent. The econd award will be a one week camp in the mountain of north Georaia. Thi award will be gi en to 66 IT member, eight vocational teach r and four count agent. The
la t award I ill be given to eight 4-H club girl and four home demon tra-
tion agent . Thi award will be a trip to the tate 4-H Club camp.
I J THE remainder of the program there are two major project from which to elect one, or maybe a real active boy or girl will take both. Th e t, 0 project are: (1) "Game Management," (2) "Fish Culture on the Farm."
Let u see what the "Game Managem nt" pro j ec t cover and what

the boy or girl electing thi project mu t do. The Game 1anagement project con i t of, first, making a

tant thing that om under thi proJ-

ect i sign ,

the building and these ign to be

paintin placed

~aveorf

survey of your farm to find where the section of the county wherein

cover and feed are needed for wild- your chool and Junior Ranger are

life. Also mapping, if needed, a plan located. The e ign may be posted

to kill or control the predators. This ign or any type warning ign a

will be preparation for planting to bag limit on variou specie of cover and feed for aarne where you game.

find a need for it while making the urvey.
One of the mo t important thing under thi project i the con truction of a brooder and rum ay large enouah to take care of 100 oung quail. Thi i a club project and will give to it builder 20,000 point in the wildlife conte t. In the pring or

THE project "Fi h Culture on the Farm" includ con truction of a
fish pond, according to pecification in our program leaflet. Al 0 Ii ted under thi project i the on tm tion of a holding pond, large enough for _e eral thou and oung fi h to be arried over one ear before being relea d in the ri er or large pond .

In all ca e the e

pond mu t be fer-

tilized and aquatic

plant tarted in

them, al 0 toeked

with forage min-

now, 0 that the

fi h ma have plenty

of food. After the

pond has been in-

pected by a wild-

life ranger, Junior

Ranger may then

be given credit for

thi work and make

application to the

Divi ion of Wildlife for oun a fi h.

Thi outline gives

you an idea of the

nel proaram and

al 0 the big conte t.

Sesbania is a valuable food crop for game birds.

There i plenty of ,ork for every-

bod and lot of

early ummer, e will hip to each al ard for oung ranger. When ou

county approximately 200 three-day- receive a cop of the program have

old quail chick, the young birds to our teacher give you the wildlife be di ided amon a Junior Ranger examination. Then fill out the appli-

Club having a brooder and runway cation found in the program leaflet

con tructed to game farm specifica- and you are ready to go to work, ith

tions approved by the Wildlife Divi- the large t army of boy and girl

sion. These bird, however, mu t be in the outh to conserve, protect and

released on lands that have been pre- propaaate our wildlife of Georgia.

pared for them, and which al 0 must Ever bod join, everybody work, and

be closed to hunting during the fol- let' make Georgia the wildlife capi-

lowing eason. Still another imp or- tal that it hould be.

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Breal~fast for Bobwhites

f t" r Y country boy know that the place to hunt quail i in beggarweed , alon u the edue of the oat field and pea patch, or around an old house-place overgrown with ragweeds. A small farm u uall produce incidentally and accidentall an abundance of bird food although not alway well di tributed over the year.
On large plantation, under extenive grazing with few cultivated field or in wooded area, bird food i u ually carce, and e pecially so at ome season of the year. In Georgia this carcity i ommon in late winter and early pring when bird need plenty of food to be in good condition for the ne ting ea on.
om time it is nece sary to plant ro\ patche or strip of feed a a upplement and the que tion come up about what to plant and how to plant. Factors that determine th choice are many, which include: palatabilit , ea e of growing, ield time of maturity, disea_e and in_ect re i tance, ize of eed, ability of the eed to remain sound under adver e weather condition, and in orne intances the t pe of ground cover deired.
Bird food i derived from many "ource , in cl u d i n u perennial trees, hrub and vines, and annual and perennial leuume and gra _e , etc. An idea of thi wide variety used b bird may be gained b observing old fence-rows which are grown up to oak, chinaberrie wild cherries, plum, blackberrie and many other plants their origin being from seed tran ported there by birds that rested on the fence through the year . Thi does not inc I u de the oft eeded plant which are eaten where found and diue ted.

pound of scarified ed per acre in pri!. Five pound- of beggarweed, 15
pound of annual Ie pedeza planted in the pring or 15 pound of Auuu ta vetch per acre planted in the fall may be own on fire-break_ broadca t. Augu ta vetch rna be own to advantage along fence-row in gra od but not under tree ).
etche hould be inoculated with ba teria which can be purcha ed from seed dealer. The e crop all respond to 200 to 400 pounds of superphosphate per acre especially in the Coastal Plain ar a. Oat and rye can al 0 be planted on fire-breaks in the fal!.
Field crop which hould be planted in row and cultivated two or three tim include: millet (cat-

tailor brown-top), upland rice benne, unflower, se bania and oruhum, of which there are se eral vanetl . The e plant are adapted to well drained oil with the exception of upland rice and sesbania. e bania grow well on wet or moi t oil. II require good oil for uood ield. The two millet are entirely different in t pe of growth and time of maturit . Brown-top mjllet has fine stem and matures earl in the summer, while cat-tail millet ha coarse terns and matures much later. Millets are among the most palatable eed for bird .
oybean have ometime been recommended a bird feed but eem to be valuable feed only in the upper Coastal Plain and north. All that the writer can a i that chickens do not

Fence rows along fields are ideal cover for quail.

W HERE ro\ patch or trip are to be planted, a few uuuestion are offered. Thi i b no mean a omplet Ii t and merel given a a uuide.
Plant like bull-gra s, beggarweed and ragweed may be kept in a field b simple cultivation of the ground during earl prin u and fenced from attle.
Lespedeza sericea i a perennial that may be planted in open patche in the wood. Superphosphate hould be applied at the rate of 300 to 400 pound per acre and the land thoroughly di ked. Broadcast 10 to 12

Benne provides a favorite meal for mourning doves.

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care for oybeans, but he has seen 27 soybean seed taken from one quail crop.
COWPEAS are an excellent quail food and also the vine off r good cover. They can be planted in April, 1ay or early June, broadcast or drilled. Iron or Brabham are the be t varieties because they do not rot in the field as soon a others, and they are al 0 nematode re i tant.
Mo t of these plants are very palatable to livestock and therefore ha e to be protected from exces ive grazing.
Blackberrie-, huckleberrie , chokeberries, and elderberrie play an important role a bird feed in their short sea on .
Pine mast, blackgum berries and acorn furnish an enormous amount of feed and are us ually naturall present in the Coastal Plain.
For songbird, , e can add to the variety of food b selecting ornamentals for landscaping and shade uch plant a chinaberry, wild cherry, privet and plum. Two or three mulberry tl'ees can be set in the poultr yard for food and shade for the barnyard fowl and the bird w:ill find them too. Haws of the heavy fruiting types are often used for ornamental in the yard. The orange and red fruit are not only beautiful in the fall but attract a great number of bird . The haw in addition i an ideal ne ting bu h for redbird, mocking bird, and bro\ n thrasher, provided no cat are allowed around the house.
By taking advantage of food produ ing hade and ornamentals, by simple protection of birds, and putting up of bird hou es, we can have an abundance of insect catcher and songster around the house and garden at no extra expense.
WATERFOWL cannot be legally taken when attracted to fields, mar hes, or other area by corn, wheat rye, oat, or other grain that were not and had not theretofore been planted a an annual agricultural crop, but manifestly to attract the bird for shooting. Pre ent regulations under the igratory Bird Treaty Act, do not permit the taking of the e bird by aid, directly or indirectly, of grain or <Yrain products, or by any other kind of food when so put out that the birds are enticed thereb .
The re<Yulation , however, don't apply to natural wild vegetation aI-

Elderberries play an important role as bird feed in their short season.

ready established on or in marsh or water area or planted there when the normal gro\ th i deficient, with a view to establishing a stand of natural wild duck food. uch planting are desirable, a they grow throughout the year and provide game bird with natural foods. Waterfowl attracted by the ,ild plants here listed may be taken during the pre cribed open ea on without violating the pre ent regulations on baiting.
To aid in the improvement of areas that are uitable for e tabli hing permanent stand of mar hand aquatic vegetation attra tive to ducks, the Biological urvey has listed the principal specie of wild plants likely to produce the be t re ults on three type of marsh or water areas, and present a bri f discu sion of certain problem of ach of the e thTee area, a follows: (1 Area characterized by muddy Ructuating water (as in the Mi sissippi Valley) ; (2) coastal marshe and mar hland ponds; and (3) mi cellaneou areas.
In th Rood plain of the Mis i si ppi River, from central Iowa and Illinois outhward, the prospects of improving aquatic vegetatjon are slight, but fortunately there are fair to excellent potentialitie for developing good food I'e ources on mud Hats and mar h area that are subject to shallow inundation in fall. Wild plants be t adapted to thi purpo e are martweed, wild millet, and chufa. eed of smartweed and wild millet and tuber of chufa should be sown in spring after Rood waters have receded ufficiently, It
may be desirable and practicable in
orne localitie to e tabli h dike,

canal, or other physical tructure to regulate the water How and to inure proper ubmer<Yence of vegetation in fall.
The f 0 11 0 win g p I ant are best
adapted for t,he situation indicated:
For marshy flats and moist margins: Wild millet (c"il/oc"'oo crltsgal/i); martweeds (P 0 Iy go 1/ 11 111) ; largeseed smartweed (P, />el/sylvol/iculII); dotted martweed (P, />1I11cloll/l/l); lady thumb (P, />ersicario),o nodding martweed (P. la/>ollzifolillll/); wamp martweed (P. "ydropi/>eroides) .. mar h martweed (P. 'IIllllilellbergii)-suited to growth in hallow water but tolerates changing water levels; chufa (Cy/>erl/s escl/lel/II/s).
For permanent ponds and Jake: Coontail (Ce1'Olop"yll1111l delllerS1l'l1/)likely to choke out ther ubmerged plants: longleaf pond weed (Polalllogeton olllerical/lts): duckweed (LI'I/lI1a lIIinor oud S/>irodelo />ol.l'r"i::o)-suited to small p nd heltered from wind and water movement; outhern naiad (.Vojos gllodoII//>el/sis).
Fresh-water coastal pond often support a on iderable vari ty of aq ua tic plants, whereas definitely
brackish water have only a few spe-
cie (often onl one or two), exclu-
sive of algae. It happen, however,
that the few brackish-water species
are <Yenerall y valuable, often abun-
dant, and usuall are present wher-
ever habitat condition are favorabl .
0 1 LY f fresh or mildly brackish marshland i , in general, pro-
ductive of good food re ource ; the
more distinctly bracki_h type of
marsh ma have ati factory vegeta-
tive growths in its ponds, but it
emergent plants-cordgras es ( par-
tina spp.), saltgra (Distichlis pi-
cata), needlerush (J uncus roemeri(Continued on page 25)

Plan a Menu for Your Favorite Covey of Birds And Watch Them Grow

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Big Tracks In Georgias Wilds

F EW per ons realize that the black bear is a common animal in Georgia. Bears occur generall throughout the southern part of the state and are found in everal of the large river l am p which tretch like giant finger away from the coa t.
Black bears recently were introduced again into one of the manage ment area of the Chattahoochee a tional Fore t. There the huge black animals are increasing, both in numbers and in size. Jot long ago United
tate Fore t ervice Ranger Arthur Woody, of uche, discovered an enormous black bear track near hi home. Actual measurement of the track wer 101/2 by 71/2 inches. The ranger estimated thi animal weighed more than a quarter of a ton! To prove to in cred ul 0 u per ons that such bear did ex i t in the Blue Ridae fountain, Arthur Woody pOUJ"ed concrete into the track and allowed it to harden. ow if hi tory of the tracks is doubted, he will make more tracks to prove it.
Mo t person ha e a horror of meeting a black bear in the wood . The truth i that even where black bears are numerous, the average hunter or fisherman seldom sees on . Although his ear are attuned only to hort di tance , and hi ight is aood for only a few feet, the nose of a bear is remarkably sen itive. He can smell water, food or hi enemies for great distances and fortunate indeed is the man in the woods who get a glimp e of thi animal.
B LACK bear are hunted as big game in the outh. Tho e who trail the black fUlTy creatures like to think of them elves as hunters on a dangerou mi ion, or that bear hunting in Georaia i comparable to hunting lion in Africa or tigers in India. That is not true, ince a black

bear will u ually run from a man in the woods and many time when he i wounded l ill keep on running.
Bear are omnivorou ; that i they feed on both vegetable and animal matter. Their choice of diet onsi t of berries in season, of insect grub, ants and occa ional small mammals. Many of the e big animals are killed raiding bee hives on the edge of a wamp. ome game expert ay they are not after the honey, but rob the hive for the white bee arub instead. Beca u e of their feeding habits beal' teak are ranked among the mo t deliciou of all flesh of large game animal .
Lem Griffis, who lives beside the Okefenokee wamp in southern Georgia, claim that bear do not hibernate in the swamp. In tead, Lem ays, they migrate southward into Florida during the fall and return during the early pring month.

Lem al 0 say that the bear is king of the Okefenokee. Even in the water he i ma tel' of hi domain. Lem tells the tory of eeing a huge bear lide into Billie Lake late one afternoon and wim toward the opposite hore. An alligator lying again t the bank lowly submerged and followed.
ABO T halfway across the lake the bear uddenl)' thrashed the water with his forearm and then di appeared under the surface. For almost three minute the water boiled. Then the bear's head again appeared on the urface. He calmly warn on acro the lake, crawled unhurriedly out on the other side and walked into the dense wamp undergrowth.
A few da)'s later one of the guides found the alligator on shore where he had crawled out to die. Mo t of
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A blad bear will usually run from a man in the woods.

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FROl\I no\ until \ e have a \ eek or more of ub-freezing weather, fishing along the coast will be at it be t. And if we don't ha e any ub-freezing weather, we may have good fishing all the wint r.
Se eral month ago I \ rote about the winter trout alon a the coa t and tried to tell you ho\ most fi henn n caught them. And right now, the e peckled beautie are being caught dail in increa ing number. I'm aetting good report from all along the
coa t; from abo e Beaufort, . c.,
riaht on down to the Florida line. Trout are not the onl fi h being caught, but they are being brought in in larger number than anything else unle it is yellowtail. And peaking of yellowtail, one party made up of a man, hi wif and daught r came in the other da from a few hour' fi_hin a \ ith a catch of i winter trout and 230 yellowtail .
a be ou don't kno\ anything about yellowtail . It i a mall perchlike fish rarel ever cauaht in the e water and weigh.ing a much a three-quarter of a pound. It ha a ilver cale with a white belly, and the tail i u ually a de id d golden color. Thi i \ here it get it nam. YellO\ tail run in shoal, feed principally on hrimp, and can take more bait off our trout hook than an thina that wim in coa tal water . They have a mall mouth and cannot take a large trout hook a a rule, but they will and can pull our bait off just about a fast a you can put it on the hook. The only way you can tay free of yellowtail when they are around, i to use fairly large bait and keep it in con tant motion. And thi motion that I'm talking about, i the way to catch winter trout for a trout \ ill trike quicker at a moving object than at something till.
SOME analer ,particular! women and children, fi h for yellowtail excIu ivel . The are ea y to catch if you u e a mall hook and mall bait, and when properly cooked they are jut about a good to eat a any fish you can name.

When fried in deep fat until the are cri p, they make a meal fit for a king. You can eat everythin a but the backbone and metime that will fry cri p enough to eat too. hen au go alt wat l' fi hing, y u ought to take the wife and kid along and give them some mall yell wtail hook. The 'll have a fine outing and \ ill catch more fi h (in number) than you do.
Look like I kinda got idetracked talking about ellowtail, 0 let' get back to the trout. a t catche now are being caught on Ii e hrimp, which are plentiful all along the coa t. Mo t all of the fi hing camp have a upply on hand, but hould they be out, you wouldn't ha e any trouble catchin a all ou \ ant in a
Quick, Buddy!-Which way i. the wind blowing? We wanta land!
few minute \ ith a ca t net. The lip ork rig \ hich wa de cribed in a previou i ue i the rna t popular method bein a used on trout, but plenty are being caught with cane pole and ordinary fi hing line. orne of the cane pole fi hermen u e cork, and other u e n ei th l' cork nor sinker. In the laLt r method the line i about the same length a th pole and the weight of the bait i all that i u ed to ink it to the proper fi hing level. Thi i commonly called "whip-line' fi hin a and get it name from the fact that frequent jerk are made on th line to keep th bait in motion.
In the avannah ection, catches of trout are being reported daily that

run up to 40 and 50 fi-h. At Y llow Blull', hellman' Bluff, Pine Harbor and t. imon, to the outh of avannah, cat he numbering in exceof 50 trout frequently ha e been reported. One part of two fi hermen came in a day or a aao with 75 trout that weighed a total of 125 pound .
AT PRE E T the avera a ize of the trout being caught i about
1% pound. orne run a mall a
a half pound and om have been brought in that tipp d the cales at four pound. But whether it \ eighs a half or four pound , if caught on liaht tackle, a wint I' trout will aive
ou all th ' port ou want on a fi hina trip, and provide orne of the be t eatina you vel' had.
heepshead \ hiting, bla kfi hand ba are also being caught in good numbers. The large t catch of h epshead reported lately wa 17 for a total \ eight of 40 pound , and it is not uncommon for a fi herman to orne in with one pu hin a the cales above fi e pound. Th big one u uall are cau.aht on the bottom with fiddler rab a bait although occa ionall the hit hrimp.
Whiting are aught on th bottom, principally over and, and \ ith dead hrimp or piece of larg hrimp.
orne of the whitin a brought in weigh up to 1% pound, but the average i much malleI'. Whiting are not hard to catch and provide very aood food.
The blackfi h bein a caught now ar small and hould be put in the ellO\ tail cIa except that the are not a good a food Ii h and are not caught in a gr at numb r .
mall croaker al 0 ar plenti ful. The al~ caught in the arne manner a yellowtail and blackfi h and are considered b a lot of folk to be a b tter food fi h than yellowtail.
long our coa t the do not run large, but 0 c a ion a II orne onepounder are cauaht.
Ba sea ba , I mean, are running good. When one i caught that weiah under 5 pound, it i call d a chool ba . If it run between 5 and 12 pound , it i a taa ba . But after it pa 12 pound, it i a channel bas . The malleI' ones are being caught in large number, and
(ContilHted on page 26)

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Georgia in the Jung/e
(Continued jrom page 6) game in India are jungle-cbicken . Whenever I see ordinal' bantams liding about the weeds and bru h behind a barnyard, I think of them: Truly a bantam roo tel' i simply a semi-dome ticated jungle-cock. Hi crow, his comb, bi oUl-age, and his cunning have not yet been modified by ci ilized existence. Indeed all chickens, from burly Rhode I land Red to White Leghorns, are decended from tbe little russet poultry of the jungle.
lVl happiest memory of junglecock goes back to Indo-China, and m fir t tiger hunt.
How I needed that tiger! I had come twelve thou and mile, and had killed him so many time in imagination that his real fall to my aim, his striped hide in camp, had become a mental hazard, a battle the winning of which wa of profound p ychological im portance. Yet as the end of the trip neared, it looked as though I were going home defeated_
A VER large male tiger wa eating nightly on a dead buffalo he had killed, but I wa not prepared for night hunting. The best I could do wa wait for him in ambu h from daw)) till dark, and I had waited so in ain for three live-long day. I at in a cramped blind, and this third day would mark the end of the hunt, win or 10 e, for nothing wa left of the carcass but a few bones and crap of skin.
The day drew toward e ening. I had almo t given up hope of the tiger' return. The un went down; the shadows ma ed; the wild parrots screamed in their evening flight.
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And down around the carcass lighted a flock of jungle-chicken, to pick up larvae.
I watched them in complete di coura<Yement, until suddenly they took

dt;~ cl AGAINST L/'e RULES
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W. LATHROP HOPKINS Whitehall Plantation Savannah, Georgia

wing and lighted in the branche of the trees, all clucking and cackling in intense excitement. I had been mentally and pby ically exhausted, my hopes down the well, and I sincerely believe that ave for thi warning, the tiger would have found me off-guard. A it wa , I had time to clutch m rifle, freeze to a stone image, and wait.
A moment later the great bea t, the first wild tiger I bad e er s en, and one of the fine t in all the jungles came louching out of the thicket.
It was a grand and gloriou end of the hunt.
ow the jungle are cl ed to Ameri an hunters. 0 one know when the eas will be afe again. But here in Geor<Yia we have the wild turkey, the quail and the dove. The teal come to the ponds in the woods, and the bullheads to the lake, and the wild geese write rune on the sky.
Once I hot a rogue bull elephant. He wa impoveri hin<Y by hi raids a half dozen little villages at the
jungle rim. He died in tantly and mercifully, but I have no desire to
kill another elephant. But a long as I can look down the barrel of a scatter-gun, I'll hunt the feathered game
of Georgia. By and lar<Ye, in the long run, hit and mis, it i the best sport
in the world.

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Wild rice feeds ducks on the Georgia coast all winter.

Breakfast for Bobwhites
Continued from page 21
anLs) and other -ha liLtI food
value.
The following plant are be t adapted for uch ituation
For brackish ponds: \ Vi Igeongras (Rltppia 1Ilarilillw); aga po n d wee d (Pola1llogeloll pactillallls)-largely in the north; dwarf pikeru h (Eleocharis parvula); horned pondweed (Zauuichellia paluslris).
For fresh or nearly fre h pond and sluggish slream: ago po n d wee d (Polalllogelou pectillalus)-Iargely in the north: southern naiad (Najas guadalupeusis); pondweed (P. pusillus): mu kgra e (CI,araceae); pondweed (P. foliosus),. cia pingleaf pondweed, or redhead-gra (P. bup/euroidcs),. wildcelery (~allimeria spiralis}-in wa t e r with .Iuggi h current; ban a n a waterlily (CaslaHa flaz'a}-in the outh-likely to choke out ubmerged plants.
For fre h or nearly fresh marshes: 'Wild millet (Echiuoclzloa cl'llsgalli): common three- quare (Sci r pllS alllericall1ls); martweed (Polygollltm),. dotted martweed (P. p,/llclatIt1l1),. largeseed martweed (P. pells~ilvallicu1ll)" nodding . martweed (P. lapat/lifoliIt1ll)" waterpepper (P. h'y,.dropiper),. wildrice (Zi::auia aqua-tical-principal value in the north and in part of coa tal outh Carolinarequires oft, deep oil; quare tern spikeru h (Eleclwris quadrallgulata}-mainly in the outh; jointed spikeru h (E. equisl'loides}-in the Gulf Region.
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tate capital, wa called the "metropoli of the tate." The tagecoach ran on du ty roads three time each week bet wee n Augu ta, 1Iilledgeville and Athen .
The population of 1Iacon wa 1,140. Decatur contained ~O hou e and tore. Dublin wa a fair city of 35 buildings. Gainesville had the ame number. thens wa a huge city of 72 hou e .
By 1824 the tate had been divided into 70 countie and contained even con re ional di trict . The censu that year howed 225,0~ white and 175,882 colored per on . The Cherokee nation occupied orne 14,000 quare mile in the northwe tern corner of the tate, with a population of 15,060 inhabitant, of which 1,277 were lave. native by the name of Gue had ju t "invented an alphabet con i ting of 86 character ." The Indian nation a a whole had "learned to u e profan language from the white ."
Back in tho e year elections were held on the fir t Monday in October, and the legi lature a em bled the fir t Monday in ovember. The U. . enator were cho en by the tate legislature and not by the people. The tate la..x amounted annually to approximately 133,000.
The common chool and academie taught more than 14,00 tudents, and the tate college had a matriculation Ii t of 100. Thi wa an amazing increa e from. the year 1819, when the tudent rolls contained only 30 names. Georgia Univer ity, known a Franklin College, deriv d it fund for operation from dividend on bank tock and from tuition fee. Thi amounted to $11,500 annually.
Factories to make cotton and woolen ood had been et up in everal countie , but had oon closed their door . The price of labor wa too high for them to be ucce ful. orne of the imports of the tate were fi h, cotton bagging, shoe thread, saddle, horse, mule and hog. The main export were cotton, rice and tobacco. Stone Mountain wa called Rock Mountain and there were aid to be

o TDOOR GEORGIA. October 1940

rum of an old brea twork found on it ummit. Beaverdam Creek and Rocky Creek were the two mo t popular name of tream in the tate, there being twelve trea'll by each of tho e names. Indian prin s wa the mo t fa hionable watering place" between the a\'annah and hattahoochee River. Salilla had been corrupted from " t" and "Ilia," pani h names meaning "Sain t" and "relic ."
t. imons, Sapelo and the other "Golden I Ie " of the Georgia coa t were thickly inhabited. They were famou for their tropical fruits, uch a olive, orange and pomegranate.
For the fir t time a canal wa contemplated bet"'een the Atlantic Ocean and "Gulph" of Mexico, by way of the t. ~Iary River. the Okefenokee
wamp and the uwanee. urvey had been completed and con truction started on a 63-mile canal between the Ogeechee and Altamaha River. It was contemplated that this canal would pour new life into Savannah, and at the ame time would reduce the city of
ugu ta to poverty. In 1825, 165 po t office were listed for Georgia, and 15 new papers carried the new of the world throughout the state. The e and, many other interesting fact are contained in this book written in pre-Civil "Var day by an outstanding Georgian.-C. N. E.
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Cot Sflun 'Is
(Continued from page 13)
the di tant bark r. The target ,a p rfect.
I pres ed the trigger. The roar of the aun wa deafening, but the roar wa n't the war t can quence. The recoil knocked me flaL on my back. Ma be the shell had carried an extra large charae of po, del', or ma be it was the leaning-ba k angle at , hich I had fired. An ,ay, I pral led backward beneath a canopy of make. The wood rang with echoe . I crambled to m feet and jumped toward the tree out from under th make, laking up to ee, hat had happened.
A LIMB swi hed hiah abo e me. My fir t thouaht wa that the quirrel were e aping. Then, throuah a hole in the thinning smoke, I all' a limp body hurtling down from limb to limb. And, an in tant laL 1', the squirrel landed at m feet. If I had aone forward another tep, the top of m head would have broken iL fall.
It wa dead. I forgot the other quirrel. In fact, I forgot all other quirrels. I aught up my prize b hi plumey tail and felt prouder, I'm ure, than Lord afari e er felt with hi foot on the neck of a dead lion. I , anted to yell: "He, ever body, look what I've done!" I pick d up the "un both end of which had done a "0ad job and truck out home. The hunt wa over. If quirrel had dared me to shoot at them right then, I'm ure I'd have taken the dare. I didn't ha e time. I , anted to get horne and exhibit proof of my pro' e . Of cour_e, I , ouldn't tell a oul that I had been kicked down. a! I came to the winding wood -road that led to nele Howard' hou e and turned to\ ard the main highwa . If I had been walking another yaI"d an hour fa tel', I'd have been run-
ning. "He !" a voice called. I turned and aw Lu ' coming at
a hamhling trot. I waited winging the quirrel lightl , to be ure that h was eeing it.
"Dat mu ' 'a' been you dat shot,"
he aid coming up. "I hot ju t once," I aid pointedly.
"Got a quirr I.' And then, in an exce of pride: "I beat you. One quirrel out of one hot i better than Lwo out of three."

Lu' crat hed hi head. "But you' g t jes one quh'l," he aid ignoring the percentage angle.
"YE but I ha e thr e hell lefL out of four, too. I got one quir-
reI out of one hot, and I've got three hell out of four. I b at you t, a wa ."
" huh! ' Lu' aid. Dey ain t no way to git 'head 0' you!"
I went on then, for there ,ere other who must ee that quirrel. It wa a happy trip home.
Ye Lerday, I went up to the old Howard Moore place and tried to find the tree from , hich I hot that little !!ray fellow. The big oak is gone. All the oak there are aone. I found a orghum patch growing green on the hill ide. But the rup that will ooze from the cane will ne er be ,eeter than the memory of that long-gone morning when I hot m fir t "cat- quh'I."
"Tne Old Solt Sez"
(Continued from page 23 not infrequentl , fi hermen come III with a channel ba running up to 25 pound.
SO YO ee aIt water fi hing along old Georaia' coa t ain'L so bad after all. In fact, it pretty darn good and if you want to find out whether I'm ribbing, ju t come on down and try it for yourself.

And before I fini h off let me Lell you that we've got orne mighty good fresh water fi hing in our fre h water river too. A catch of 75 I' d br a t and bream recently, a made in th
Itamaha River near Ludowici-the catch weiahing about 55 pound. nd
W. J. Hall, of avannah, caught a
big mouth black ba in the Ogeechee River near avannah that tipped the cale at 91,4 pound, twelve hour after it wa caught. The e catch were made on fly rod, and ca ting rod, re pectively.
When you fi h on Georgia' oa L, don't forget that ome of the fi h you catch can be entered in m fi bing conte t. And I ve got man valuable prize to give to lucky fi hermen in December. The top prize i a fivehorsepower out b a aI' d motor worth
112, and you ma be the winn l' of it if ou'll enter OUI" catch in the can t t. lmo t an fi hing camp along the coa t can upply au with a conte t entry blank, but if you, ant to know more about the conte t before going on our fi bing trip, ju t write me, care of 0 DOOR GEORGI , and I'll gladl end you the
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October 1940 0 TDOOR GEORGIA

NfJsey
(Continued from page 18) laid down hortl after the fir t light had filtered thr ugh the wamp.
Our circuitou route brought u to the head of the pux wamp al mo t a mile above where Jim tood. I had tum d back outh when I heard 0 e elp. I wun a in time to ee a large buck break through the frinae of bu he ,with 10 ey on hi tail, and turn into the face of the ri ing un.
y econd hot broke hi neck and the buck pitched forward. I got to him a fa t a I could but 0 ey wa_ there before me. He had the deer by the throat-wa growling like a wolf at the kill. With all his younO' trength, he , as trying to hake the antlered head. I had once een a buck come to life and a a la t, de pairing effort, drive hi antler through the bod of a dog. I attempted to pu h
o a, a , but he snapped at m hand and renewed hi grip on the throat of the deer.
SE ERAL minutes pa ed befor th other dog came boundinO' throuah th dge, eaO'er to be in at the kill. I \ a a unprepared a they for the next moment, but it wa one of those which ha stood out again_t the backaround of a lifetime.
The two etter w re Ie tha n twent feet from th pot wher the buck went d wn when 10 e relea ed hi grip on the tmoat of the animal and \ ung to face them. Hi d ep. almo t breathl - nar! ent Prin off to the riaht and brought Clancy up short. The Iri h looked puzzled for a f1eetin a in tant, then chaxg d in aaain to claim the deer which right. fully belonged to 10 ey and me.
Thi time No did not he itate. Th blood of the hunted wa thick on hi tongue and hi 0\ n blo d \ a hot. His heritage had been out of the vein of champion and in thi dra matic mom n t the hothou e year
ould not ur ive it. Jim had been right. He prang forward and ank hi teeth into th neck of hi rival. Clancy yelped but it wa a much a cry of surpri as of pain. With a t\ i t, he shook him elf free of
o e s hold and bounced away. The youn a Ll well n eUer mo ed bellig rently to the head of hi deer and tood, waitinO' for th second attack. None came. I have never een more puzzled expre ion on the fa e of an living cr atures. To ay that Ian and Princ wer b

wildered would b too mild. lanc backed off a few more feet and La down. The female ircled and joined him. 0 ey ank to the ground be ide the dead body and plainly indicated that he wa read for any trouble.

IT

thu that Jim found them.

For a moment he frowned. Then

a low smile crea ed the corner- of

hi mouth. He wa 0 clo,e to hi

dog that he under tood more per-

f tly than I ever could have told

him.

"Breeding," he aid impl

c 1

a

hard thina to tear down.'

osey remained \ ith the deer

while we hauled it back to camp. He

ontinued to guard it while we kin-

ned it and he threatened to tear into

ribbon an living creature, except

Jim and m who arne near it.

Throuahout the year 0 ey ha

be n in the hand of a comp tent

trainer. In a few da we hall know

how well the job wa done. I tied

the top of m bulging duffie baa thi

morning and Jim ha put a new

\ heel on the trail r. The gold of the

I a e ha changed to bW'nished cop

per the night are cold and the roar

of wing ha beat against my ear

drums for day. By those token I

knm that th old ear ha gone and

that II' 'Il find the new on orne high bluff of Ocmulga \ amp.
Big TraCKS
(Continued from page 22)
hi "innard' had been ripped out by long Po\ erful claw.
Man time the wamp bear will turn into killer of hogs. They will even invade the hog pen of a outh Georgia farm. They kill by powerful blow of heavy paw. eldom doe one of the huae animal become an eater of cows but they have been known to break the neck of a half ton teer, ith one Herculean rna h of hi furry arm.
Bear are dangerou only when they are followed by cub . Then the f male will rear up on her hind leg and face any living creature which threaten the safet of her off pring. The woodsman warily walk around her then, for he knows he mean bu ine .
Fortunate indeed i the one who ,ees a bear in the Georgia wood. The ight may fir hi imagination \ ith man torie, rno t of , hich he will tell ooner or later. But howev r mild the experience i , it i u uall y one he ne er foraet .
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Hangers' Campfire
(Col/lil/ued from !,age I-I) inexperienced per on the urgeon's knife and expect him to do a ucce ful major operation, it i likewi e fundamentally wrong to hand an untrained, inexperienced man a badge. a g-un capable of taking human life by the mere pull of a trigger, and a copy of the game and fi h law, then expect him to handle, courteou ly and intelligently, the many thing c..-.::pected today of a field officer or ranger."
W ILDLIFE ranger- are tranfer red from tim to time to new territorie 0 that the may become acquainted with the Divi ion' problem in all part of the tate, thereby quipping them for po ible promotions.
The fact that our game law are 1eing ad mini tered without fear or favor account for the pre ent encouraging. wide pread re pect for the law. Quick puni hment i the be t wa to top the game or fish law violator.
During the pa t tw 1ve month, eptember 1, 1939 to ugu t 3l. 1940, the tate' staff of 66 ranger checked 39,050 licen es, made 1,746 ca e, or<Yanized 60 adult can ervation club, contacted 933 adult conservation club, organiz d 434 junior club from the 4-H and FFA boys and girl _ vi ited 3442 junior clubs, wrote 2,357 news torie and obtained 601 conviction in tate court . iany ca e have not been tried and veral have heen turned 0 er to federal authoritie , and, ith jud<Ye and jurie ho' ing more intere t in conervation and in proper puni hment of violator it appear certain that the percentage of convictions will beorne gI'eater each month. It should be 100 per cent. But that would be expecting too much. However, it would be much more de irable never to have to make a ca . Policing take ranger a, ay from ,ark that would be directly onstructive hut it perhap ah ay will be ne e ary. The accompanying tabulation hows the activitie of ranger for the eptember-Augu t period, with core made by individual.
Elmer Hansom
(Continued from page 7)
to <Yet the port men to come into the tore. Thi i all ver l7ood, but J don't think p ople hould be a ked to do \ ark for nothin l7. If they are to ell the license ,the hould be reimbur ed for their time and trou bl .
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a matter of fact it i ea il poible, under the pre ent tern, for a wide-awake dealer to handle the licen_e que tion 0 that the port man may walk in a before and walk out with the quivalent of hi licen . 1 know of two dealer who are doing thi and neither of them wish to return to the old y tem. There i no red tape for the port man whatever. It is actually easier for him than it wa under the old system.
From all of the above au mil7ht think that I am an advocate of the present y tern. I am not. I am not an advocate of an sy tern except that system which will best serve the interests of the sportsmen of Georgia.
One dealer tell me in all incerity, and I believe, ith can iderable truth, that if the dealer were allowed to ell licen es he could push their ale and ju tify hi commi ion. Thi may ery well be the ca e.
The que tion i your que tion. The an wer i in our hand . If you, i h to change back to the old ystem l with modification) you hould a
indicate by writing to 0 TDOOR GEORGIA 412 tate Capitol, t-
lanta, Georgia. Thi Divi ion of
Wildlife iew can ervation OT as
re triction, but as providing better and better port for the real portmen of Georgia, with the determination to give the fi h trapper, the illel7al seiner the game butcher and the violator, all the hell we knO\ ho' to give him in protection of your interest. e will pull no punche .
In making the change backif you wi h it made--the dealers must be bonded. Weare deter mined that the money you pay must be remitted to the Wildlife Division, every penny of it except the commissions paid to the dealers. In case the dealer does not wish to be bonded he hould pay in advance for the licen e he obtains, handling them as he does any other merchandi e, be ing assured, however, that he will be reimbursed for any li censes remaining unsold.
THE que tion before u re olve itself into a very simple one. The Revenue Department handled the ale of licen e. If they had been handled b the dealer, the ildlife Divi ion would have paid hardware and porting-good dealer 17,086.70 in commi ions. Thi mone has been u ed to better your port. It i our money. Thi department doe not co t the taxpa er a penny.
ou nm it. You hould have plenty to say about how it i run.
If it is worth this amount of

money to go back to the conveni ence of the old ystem-and it very well may be worth it--or if we can so increa e the ale of li cense that the commission will be justified, then some machin ery could be and hould be in taIled to handle the mattei as " you wish it handled.
I am all the fence myself. I have \ ritten thi article a fairly a I kno, how, pre entinl7 only the fact. If you ha e an opinion on the matter write them in to 0 TDOOR GEORGI . 0 far a I know thi ha been the only are pot between the department and the hunter and fi hennen. It can ea i[ be ironed out.
e would like to hear from ten thouand sport men on thi que tion.
Think it over and write your leller to
u- today.

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October 1940 0 TDOOR GEORGIA

-

BJlNG~B JlCTIVITIBS

FROM SEPTEMBER 1, 1939 TO A G ST 31, 1940

,.

DI TRI T

Lic. Chk.

Mountain .. 13,188

Plains

7,315

Flint R. .... 11,751

Piedmont .. 6,796

Ca es
~Iade
461 641 328 316

Game
lub Visited
385 107 156 285

Game Jr. Clubs Clubs arg. Vi ited
26 1,078 10 671 I 1,023 23 670

Jr. lubs arg.
75 125 137
97

News Con-

tories vic-

tion

883 163

220 251

699 123

555

64

Total ..... 39,050 1,746 933

60 3,442 434 2,357 601

TOTAL POINTS FOR YEAR

Mountain

. 202,270

Plain

. I 1,395

Flint River ............................................. 161,365

Piednlont

. 136,400

MOUNTAIN DI TRICT

681,430

D. L. RAINEY. District Chief

Summary of Activities from September I, 1939 to August 31, 1940

R.\:\GER

Lic. Ca es Game Game Jr.

Jr. New Con

Chk. i\lade Club Clubs Clubs Clubs Stories vic-

i ited arg. Visited argo

tions

Douglas, C. K. 511

26

7

0

67

14

10

7

\Valton

138

23

24

0

84

0

3

14

Foster

543

16

38

2 lOS

6

95

8

Davi, J. L. 250

22

35

2

79

2 128

8

Bryant ..... 549

18

65

1 105

3 115

13

C01'l1well .. , 796

15

14

4

51

6

44

12

Davi, C.

378

14

28

4

33

7

88

5

Docke,'y

639

5

2

0

100

0

ibbert

. 329

6

13

0

41

4

6

4

Wehunt

. 733

o

004

0

0

0

Wall

2,445

49

46

2 147

11 177

34

eabolt

498

7

II

0

0

0

42

I

Ma tel'S

1,448

40

30

1

84

0

30

9

McKinney

997

Bogg

. 27

9o

22 3

1 133

I

1

17

38

4

000

~lartin

364

McConnell

67

Abney

. 127

19

18

oo

3 4

I

51

I

7

1

1

4

II

0

5

0

I

2 0 0

Grizzell Lord

. 58 59

1
o

o7

0 I

6

0

8

305

I 0

Williams ... 218

5

I

0

10

0

8

0

Bcthel

36

3

I

0

13

0

0

3

Adam, C. E. 74

7

4

0

7

I

0

35

Adam. C. :\l.

5

Chester

450

2
I

oI

I 0

0 0

000

0

2

I

mith, P B. 1,143

8

8

3

44

0

67

2

Ros

306

5

001

000

Total

13,188 461 385

26 1,07

75 8 3 163

PLAI S DISTRICT

DISTRICT CHIEFS BREWER AND A. B. BRISCOE

RAXGER

Lic. hk.

Vibbert

81

May, R. J.. 252

Scott

820

Briscoe

702

Ros

. 117

Bledsoe

543

LufbulTOW

725

Beall

. 275

Jones

. 734

obb

12

Shaw

317

\Vright

757

Brantley

661

Friend

440

Harpel'

360

'Valker

63

Jelk

14

Clawson

303

Butner ..... 139

ases Made
15 22 5 29 38 4 20 62
71o
34 29 34 114 32 10
5 10 10

Game Game Jr.

Clubs Clubs Clubs

Visited 2 2
o

argo Visited

o6

ooo

43 23 14

3

I

25

13

1

80

17

2

48

11

I

25

o7

I 100
o0

8

2

65

9

I

42

3 4

oo

88 10

14 1
o

o1 o

8 25
I

3 2

oo

35 33

Jr. 1ubs arg.
o
10 4 3 I
18
o6
26
o
3
8 30
I
o3 o
II 1

Kew Con-

Stories vic-

2 donos

4

16

12

23

32

17

2

12

22

3

36

7

7

47

I 0

20o

24

4

II

3

6

16

69

30 14

13
o

0 3

o2

4

1

Total

7,315 641 107

10 671 125 220 251

FLl T RIVER DISTRICT

DISTRICT CHIEFS J. F. SPOONER AND BREWER

Rr\XGER

Lic. hk.

Avey

452

Ca el

865

Dunn

767

Edwards

1,699

Glawson

346

Grizzell .... 714

Harrell

1,473

Lord

595

Mays, R. G. 479

Montford

725

Peagler

509

Royal

888

mith, L. .. 550

William

167

young

. 359

Turner

.

7

Reid Rutner

o9

Atkins

888

Sasnett

110

Bethel

149

Cases Made
21 18 21 17 J4 23
16o I 21
2 23 37 18 75
o o o
9 I 11

.ame Game Jr.

Jr.

Clubs Clubs Clubs Club

i ited 21
2
12 24
2 2
o7
18 1 3 6
22o
2
o oo
17

arg. Visited arg.

oooo

59 58 134 111

9 10 16
6

oo

I 68

0 3

o 78

15

'0

28

0

o 106

5

oo ooo

44 49
113 42 13

3 7 9
7
0

o

12.

0

000

000

0 o

0 72

0 43

14 3

o1

29 6

4 0

News Con-

Stories vic

tions

19

2

6

0

11

5

113

5

15

8

71

9

3

3

12

0

45

8

9

19

9

2

221

20

48

24

2

0

5
o o o

18
0 0 0

47

0

24

0

4

0

Total

11,751 328 156

1,023 137 699 123

PIEDMO T DISTRICT
DISTRICT CHIEF M. D. McRAE

R.\:\G ER

Lic. hk.

Adams, C. E.

Ashe

Douglas .

J'riend

.

l;arner

.

Lanford

.

Lun ford

~Iitchell

i\lorri'

.

Reid

.

. mith. '1c..

Thornton

Turner

.

Eadie

.

Abne)'

urrcllcy ...

Garrett

a nett

~Iartin .....

J1uchanan

62 295
222 95
322 133 270 1,409
8 235
359 76 202 331 134 546 175 515 593
42

Cases Made
31 9 7
14 71
0 3 13 I 20 49 9 19 27 8 10 18 1 6 0

Game
lubs Visited
13 17
4 4 23 13 11 46 9 19 60 7 3 4
5 3
6 I
0 2

Game Jr.

Club Clubs

arg. Vi ited

0

0

1

47

2

75

1

I

0

28

0

7

4

53

0

99

0

14

0

65

1

43

0

60

0

33

2

3

2

19

8

79

2

17

0

26

0

0

0

1

Jr. 1ub argo
0 3
25 0 4 0 3 9 0 13 17 6 1 I
3 10
2 0 0 0

Total

6,796 316 285

23 670

97

Kews Con-

tories vic-

tions

6

8

49

0

2

3

6

5

7

8

14

0

66

I

58

0

10

0

0

4

56

18

132

3

9

2

7

4

7

6

116

2

3

0

7

0

0

0

0

0

555

64

RA GERS I I THE FJELD FOR TWELVE IONTHS

Point

Wall. Ed (Chattahoochee Xational Forest)

. 29,585

Frie"d, Ed

. 25,775

1\[cl-~il1l1ey, Pat

. 21,795

~od~~~;/ 2~E.::::::::::::::::::::::::::!:::::::::::::::::::

21,420 17,410

mith, A. :Mc............................................ 15,545

Edwards, Davenport

. 15,175

~[ast('rs, Carroll

. 14,850

J{ yal, Dan

. 14,690

~~":~,seJE' l

E:':::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::

14,605 14,445

Cornwell, Ralph ...................................... 13,860

Scott. E. L ............................................ 13,690

i\1 itchell, W. Grant .................................... 13,135

Dunn, .\. .

. 12,325

"- mith. Le\vis

.. 11,970

Wright, C. J .............................................. 11,905

Bryant, Glenn

. 11.895

1~0 ter, J. D ............................................. 11,515

"oung, C. . ,

.. 11,325

Davi, . S

. 11.320

Lufburl-O\\. . B. .

. 11,315

Douglas, .\Iberl

. 11.280

Garner. Geston

. 11.090

~lartinJ \.\Tallace

. JO,515

Dougla . Kenneth ....................................... 10,175

Gla,\\'son. Joe rl~

. 9.785

Grizzell, Ro)' ............................................ 9,670

Ro s. John llri cae, ..\. B

, ......................... 9,605 . 9.550

a_sels. "1\ol'\\'ood

. 9.435

Ilan er. Charlie ...................................... 9,310

lIa\\. I~rnest

. 9,305

Montford. J. I-T. ................................ 9.175

l'hol'otol1, .\. E
J ~Ia)'s. R.

. 8,590
. 8.240

Reid. :II. .\

. 7.980

LUl1sf rei, .\lex

. 7.940

Ave)'. A. 1'.............................................. 7, 60

Abney, Tom

.. 7,075

,rays, R. G........................................ 6.465

\'ibbert. Hob ....................... , ................... 6,390

asnett, R. B

. 6.335

Ashe. IT. E

. 5.325

Seabolt, J-T. n. (Chattahoochee ;..rational Forest) ............. 3,850

Wehunt. \-yde (Chattahoochee Kational Fore t)

. 3,775

Docker)', Web ter (Chattahoochee Kational Fore t)

. 3.725

, RA GERS IN FJELD LE THA TWEL E MONTHS

Point

Atkins, H. E.-I0 months ranger, 2 month Ed. Dir

. 17.450

urrcncy, H. vV.-8~ rllonths ranger

. 16,910

Brantley, R. B.-9 months ranger

. 15,790

Beall, John W.-6 month ranger, 6 month Assl. Dil'

. 13,705

L mith, P. B.-4 month ranger
Davis, J. L.-9 months ranger

. 11,525 . 9.470

Pcagler, J. 111.-4 month ranger .......................... 5.765

Wahon, :Harris-S months ranger

. 5.710

Garrett, J. C.-9 month ranger

. 5,555

Lord. Earl-7 month ranger, 5 months Ed. Dir. ........... 5,080

'Williams, R 'V.-I0 months ranger

. 4,895

Turner, Carver-8 month (deceased)

. 3.845

Bethel, J. R.-7 month

. 2,875

Butner, H. B.-.S .months ranger, 2 month A st. Dir., 3 months

ganle techniCian

. 2.475

Chester, J. L.-5 months



. 2.470

Walker, Hughe -6Y. months ............................. 1,715

McConnell, . G.-3 month .............................. 1,485

Adam, C. 111.-1 Y. months

. 1,235

Boggs, B. F.-2 month ................................... 1,175

Lanford, L. A.-4 months (decea ed) ....................... 1,005

Morris. n. :11.-6 months

.

870

Jelks, X. A.-4 months
TIuchanan, J. A.-2 1110nths (as i tal1t ranger)

.

70

.

240

Cobb. H. P.-2 months ....................................

60

OUTDOOR GEORGIA October 1940

29

Wings Over GefJrgifl
(Continued from page 10
word, when an adequate capital _tock ha been ree tabli hed thena is done now-the reaulation will be drafted 0 a to permit the countr' port men to take the profit, r harve t the urplu tock. Wh n th profit i mall, the a on or bag limit \ ill be curtailed, and \ h n profit are good, the a on and bag limit will be extended.
That philosoph s ems t work ,vjth ucc s ful busine s men, and it i e pected to work for ucce ful con er ationist .

T HER.E are seven national wildlife refuae in Georaia: Th Black-

beard I land Refuae, the WoH I land

R fuae the WiI on Refuae, tll Oke-

0' -

.

fenokee Refuge, the avannah RIVer

Refuae, the Piedmont Refuae, and

the T bee Refuae. TIle late t report

from the e area indjcat that the

refuoae are erving a u eful purpo e. In the fall of 1939, ome 300

Canada gee e ,ere een n the Bla k-

beard I land Refuae, a ,600-acre

tra t at the entrance to apelo undo

About 2_600 mallard and black

duck liked the refuae 0 much that

the remained there all last \ inter.

And the ruddy duck, which i till

on the re tricted Ii t, wa marked

d , n \ ith a wintering population of

2f~6u0n0d

while about

the inventory taker 2,000 oot on the ajea.

interina game bird usin a Bla k-

beard I land during 1939-40 included

ring-necked ducks, redheads, can a -

ba ks, b I u -win ged tea I lesser

scaups, pintails, gad walls baldpates,

buffiehead, and mergansers. s

tholwh that record were not impre -

sive, the refuge manaaer almo t

apoloaeticall explained that the

,intering population wa 0 mall

becau e the W. P. A. ha be n doing

ome de elopment work on the

refuae to impro e condition for a
laroa~r number of feathered vi itor .
There i little n ed to e, plain what

a \ ildlife paradj_e th Okefenokee

Refuge i . Thi 29-l-.000-acre anctu-

ary in the famed Georaia ,amp is

annuall the ,vjnter home of th u-

and of miaratory bird.

Equall popular with the game

bird i the avannah River Refuge,

which ha been termed one of the

!!Teate t feeding ground for \ ild-

fowl in the outhea t. The mallard i

an abundant winterin a duck on thi

refuae, a is the black duck. The

American pintail rival the mallard

in numbers during the winter ea on

there. The value of a refuge where

biologist not only afford anctuar but also provide adequate food and cover for wildlife i shown b the result on the a annah River Refuge, which in 1939 howed an increase of 300 per cent. in the number of pintail \vjnterina there the previou ear.
P ARTIC LARL encouraging to con ervationi tithe effect that the e refuge ha e had on the wood duck. It rna be recalled that when the Migrator Bird Treaty twas pas ed in 1918 the wood duck wa in uch a precariou condition that Federal official found it neces ary to place thi pecie on the protect d Ii t. ince tll n it has been illegal to hoot a wood duck. And the regulation will be continued until the wood du k population ha increased sufficiently to permit afel an open eaon on the e bird .
Many Geor!!ian ar proud of the fact that on the avannah River Refuge the \ ood duck i now quite abundant and, what i more important, is breedin a on the area. In fact it i the only pecie of duck that breed ther.
Other duck that have been reported u ina tbe a annah River Refuge include the gadwall, baldpat, green-winaed tal shoveler redhead canva back, Ie er caup_ and rudd duck.
For thoe p rt m n who prefer huntin a upland gam bird, it may be mentioned that th Piedmont Refuge a 40 OOO-acre tra t in Jasper and Jone Countie, ha been et a ide primarily for the_ pecies. The bobwhite quail seem Lo be the principal game bird on that ar a; in fact, in an inventory made in D ember 1939 the bob-white population on the refuge wa timated to b about 4,000 birds.
All thi have little ianiE ance to orne reader . But con ervationi t and sportsmen who keep abrea t of development in thi fi ld kno\ that an increa e of bird u ing these wildlife refuae is a health ian: It mean the bird population are increa ina.
B CAREF L management of the variou pecie, and b judicious regu I a t ion that permit hunter to take only urplu bird, and not th breedin a stock, the nation' hunter will be rea on ably certain of enjoying their sport thi ear, next year, ten year from now, and many more after that. It' all worked out on a careful, bu ines -like ba i . With

patience, the "company' will reap profit.
The spirit of ooperation between ao ernm nt conservationi t and sportsmen ha in great part been repon ible for the almost phenomenal recover of the continental wildfowl population_ That pirit of cooperation , ill b in aluable in aiding to maintain and even increa e the number of waterfO\ 1. All that lead to better hunting which remind the , riter that thi i the time of ear when old-timer and young tel' alike ar r aching for their hotgun. Happ bunting.

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October 1940 0 TDOOR GEORGIA

Georgia hunters of migratory waterfowl will have 60 days this winter instead of 45 as last year and may begin shooting geese and ducks at sunrise instead of at 7 a.m. The new regulations on migratory birds set by the Department of Interior moved the opening of the dove season in Georgia's northern zone from September 15 to October 1 and reduced the bag limit from 15 a day to 12. Liberalization of the waterfowl laws changed the opening of the season from ovember 15 to ovember 2. The bag limit on geese was cut from four to three a day with the possession limit six, not more than 20 days after close of season.
Seasons And Bag Li"aits

GAME
Bear Deer a (Bucks only) Opossum (with gun and dog) Raccoon (with gun and dog)

OPEN SEASON (inclusive)
Nov. 20-Feb. 28
Nov. 15-Jan. 5 Oct. I-Feb. 28 Nov. 20-Feb. 28

DAILY BAG LIMIT
No limit
2
No limit ,
No limit

SEASON BAG LIMIT
No limit
2 No limit
No limit

Opossum, Raccoon, Mink, Fox, Muskrat (trapping) Rabbit Squirrel b
Quail c

Nov. 20-March I No limit

No closed season and no limit

Oct. I-Jan. 15

15

Nov. 20-March I

15

No limit
No limit 30 week, also
possessIon

Turkey d Ruffed Grouse

Nov. 20-March I

2

2

No open season

Fox (with dog only)

No closed season and no limit

MIGRATORY WILDFOWL
Dove e Duck f Goose f Jacksnipe Coot Marsh Hen Rail Gallinule

Split zone seasons Nov. 2-Dec. 31 Nov. 2-Dec. 31 Nov. 2-Dec. 31 Nov. 2-Dec. 31 Sept. I-Nov. 30 Sept. I-Nov. 30 Sept. I-Nov. 30

DAILY BAG LIMIT
12 10 3 15 25 25 25 25

POSSESSION LIMIT
12 20 6 15 25 25 25 25

a, b, c, d, e, f-see exceptions.
EXCEPTIO S
a DEER- ov. I-Jan. 5-Appling, Ben Hill, Bryan, Bulloch, Canlden, Charlton, Chatham, Effingham, Glynn, Jeff Davis, Liberty, Long, Mcintosh, Tattnall, Telfair, Ware and Wayne. 0 open season in Banks, Daw on, Fannin, Gilmer, Habersham, Hall, Lumpkin, Murray, Pickens, Rabun, Towns, Union, White, Whitfield, Marion, Schley, Webster, Chattahoochee, luscogee, Stewart, Talbot, Jenkins, Montgomery and Echols.
b SQUIRRE~Aug. I-Dec. 31-Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, Dawson, Fannin, Gilmer, Gordon, Habersham, Lumpkin, Murray, Pickens, Rabun, Stephens, Towns, Union, Walker, White and Whitfield- ov. 1Jan. 15 in Appling, Ben HiU, Bryan, Bulloch, Camden, Charlton, Chatham, Effingham, Glynn, Jeff Davis, Liberty, Long, Mcintosh, Screven, Tattnall, Telfair, Ware and Wayne.
c QUAI~ ov. I-March I-Appling, Ben Hill, Bryan, Bulloch, Camden, Charlton, Chatham, Effingham, Glynn, Jeff Davis, Liberty, Long, Mcintosh, Screven, TattnaU, Telfair, Ware and Wayne.
d TURKEY- ov. I-March 1 in Appling, Ben Hill, Bryan, Bulloch, Cantden, Charlton, Chatham, Effingham, Glynn, Liberty, Long, Iclntosh, Screven, TalnaU, Ware and Wayne.
e DOVE- orthern Zone, Oct. 1-31 and Dec. 20-Jan. 31 (split season) in countie of Troup, Meriwether, Pike, Lamar, lonroe, Jones, Baldwin, Washington, Jeffer on and Burke and region North thereof; Southern Zone (all counties South of those listed), ov. 20-Jan. 31.
r DUCK A D GOOSE- 0 open season on Wood Duck, Branl, Ross' Goose, Swan and Snow Goose.
Daily bag limit on Canvasback, Red Head, Bufflehead and Ruddy Ducks not over three in the aggregate. Possession limit not over ten in the aggregate.

ILLE ?
POINT AIMLESSLY AND SHOOT AT RANDOMI
LEAVE YOUR GUN UNATTENDED WITHOUT UNLOADING IT;
CLIMB A TREE OR A FENCE WITH A LOADED GUN;
SHOOT AT WATER OR HARD SURFACES; MIX GUNPOWDER AND ALCOHOL-
01 ~ cvte enJ(i;~ ~ ~ oiIuvu aJ. w.eI1 aJ. tkd 01 ~,.
Treat BVEBY GUN with the respect due a LOADED GUNI

OpenSeason No Bag Lhnit

T HERE was a tory everal week ago about a South Georgia hunter who e dog retrieved two quail which he had hidden in a ru e to e cape apprehension by wildlife rangers. The quail had been hot out of ea on. The hunter had an hone t dog. The dog had been taught to bring back dead bird. 0 he went through his act ev n for the two rangers.
The dog didn't know any better, and he was carrying out his duties. He hunted for sport. The hunter knew better, but he didn't know how good hi dog wa . It matters little that the pre-season hunter claimed that he was shooting doves, for the dove sea on likewise wa weeks away and his gun held five shell . He wa hi master' best friend-a good fellow but he didn't know how to cheat his own port. The birds had been killed. It was a clear case. The dog aw to thi . Hi reward wa a beating with a corn talk by hi rna tel' a pat on the head from the ranger .
The ranaer who apprehended the hunter on charge of killing quail out of ea on were good fellow -but they were carrying out order .
We all want to be good fellows. So far ha this bendover-back fellowship gone that it had pawned and bred a sucker group, a group of portsmen who play into the hand of our none too small army of game hogs. Every eason there i the usual round of underwing whisper of illegal hooting that ranges from bla ting waterfowl on the roo t to killing an eight-point buck at night with a light.
YOU who know and enjoy this tate' woods and fields and waters know what the yarns are: "Bought these quail from a filling tation guy for 20 cents apiece; shot a doe, but left her in the swamp and wouldn't tell anybody; they were coming into the bait 0 fast that I shot myself out of hells and had to lea e with only 75 doves."
The e are familiar torie. Then there i the farmer or landowner who invite in his clo e t friends and tells them to "shoot until you get tired-and never mind about the limits-they're my birds, on my land."
Right here with the beginning of the statewide quail and turkey sea on it is time to top thi exaggerated good fellowship. The real port men must do it to protect their own right. iolation alway will exi t. They can be, and are being minimized by enforcement, but undetected violation that are smeared in our face b the cad with a aun hould be knocked down on the first bounce.
When the fair sport men tolerate unfairne sand e en go so far a to listen to tories of crimes behind a hooting iron they are firing another shot in the same direction. Thi mean that they are selling themselves and their sport down the river under false pretense.
You go into the wood before the sea on opens with your bird dogs and run into others working their dog .
o TDOOR GEORGIA. ovember 1940

The fiT t three or four hunter tell you how promismg their six-month-old were on a big covey down near the branch. There is no evidence of unfairne s in the field. Then you encounter a fellow with a pipe that spouts moke 0 trona that he can re t hi elbows on it. He has a gun and a huntin a coat and in the coat aTe "ju t enough bird to !rive m dog a little retrieving practice."
H IS excuse wa that somebody el e would do the same thing, anyway, why not get them while they la t? This wa his tone of thought, and a pump gun played the mu ic to it. Later omebody call you and tells you that he aw a hunter clean out all but two of a covey that had 18 young bird in it.
The conscientiou hunter will not beat the gun and de troy game before it ha become of sporting size and peed. He , ill not exceed the bag limit. He will buy his license and his duck tamp and stay inside the rule book. But the conscientiou hunter will hesitate to call the violator the specie of vermin that he is. He still wants to be a good fellow.
Let s put away thi sort of tuff and call a thief a thief. One way is to act a a self-appointed ranger and report it to the proper authoritie . A violator of the game laws wrecks Georgia' re toration tructure that hone t portsmen have been building with their own money. He deerves no better treatment than a einer who uddenly decide he wants to turn purist and burglarizes your tackle box.
The next time you ee a violation, or hear an undertone story of how your neighbor sidestepped the game laws, forget that you're a good neighbor. Quit pulling the punches. Don't call a louse a pal and don't breathe hi brand of gun powder. Instead, explode it in hi face. Read the game laws to him. Censor him, even good naturedly i better than not at all. But make it firm. The econd time might stick.
R EPORTS of competent oJ5servers ay that this year's quail crop is perhaps the largest Georgia has had in a decade. There will be many violations. Many hunters will kill over the limit. Some will be caught and fined. Other will kill over the 15-a-day or 30-a-week limit and
ay nothing about it. Still another group will hoot and mirk. They'll laugh at how they "put it over" on the wildlife ranger.
All of them are game hogs of the foule t odor. But tho e who brag about their mi demeanor end rats crambling to the cellar for fre hair.
Quail time i hoa-killin time in Georgia. And the open sea on on smart-aleck game l~ogs is here. The true sportsmen must take a pot shot with both barrels. There is no bag limit on vermin.
3

quail Gunman

I EVER met a better quail hunter than Clement Parker. Or one who was les reluctant to admit it. He was a game hog too, by all the standards the fellow in our local club had et up. He would come in with

his pocket bulging with quail, dump

them out on the counter of the sport-

ing goods store, and then tand back

to admire them. If he had the limit

or double the limit, it made no dif-

ference to him.

~/1~_.::.:.~.;~

It was hard to get mad with Clem. He wa uch a good-
natured, likable guy in every way except

his hunting prac-

tice . He \ as generou and thought-

ful, and would give you the hirt off

his back, whether he liked you or

not. Without a gun in hi hand, he

was the most con cientious sportsman

on earth. But when he tepped out of

his automobile and relea ed his dogs

into good quail cover, his eyes grew

hard and bright. He was out for the

kill.

We finally quit hunting with him.

It was no fun to hunt with a com-

panion who hogged all the shot,

who walked up the covey before you

could reach the point, and who

would kill the la t bird if he could

find them all. It took a lanky, bright-eyed kid

just out of college to break Clem

from a wild-eyed stallion behind hi

dog, into a thoroughbred.

I had forgotten Delmar Scot. I

vaguely remembered that he was cap-

tain of the high chool basketball

team, and that during the years be

fore he went to school he had trained

several good dog for the fellows

around town. ome of the sportsmen

who knew him better than I did made

complimentary remark when 10hn gave the boy a job behind hi sporting good counter.
I DO 'T uppose I really noticed Delmar Scot until that fall. I wa in the tore one day when Clem came in. The pocket of hi hunting jacket were packed with quail. He hauled them out in the usual manner and laid th m on the table. It wa only a day or two after the sea on had opened, and everal of the bird in his bag were only half grown.
"Look at them!" he said. "Didn't mi but three shots. There'd have been six more in thi pile if I'd had time to look for the cripple ."
I had an inclination to say somethinO" I know I would have regretted. Luckily I held my tongue. I tarted to turn away, and probably would have, had I not suddenly looked at Delmar Scot. The kid's eyes were bright and fierce. For a moment I prepared myself to defend Clem, and then the boy turned his back and walked to the rear of the store.
I kept thinking about the way the kid had looked at Clem. I had seen

that ame look in the eyes of men acros the water, when the signal was gi en to leave the afety 0 f the trenche and five thousand men boiled out of that shallow protective hole in the ground. 0 I wa not especially surprised one day when I tood alone in the store and the kid suddenly a ked me carefully about Clem' pedigree.
"He is a portsman," I said. "I think he becomes a little enthu iastic when he get into a covey of quail. Perhaps it i to prove his ability with a shotgun that he brings quail into thi tore and shows them. 0 one ha ever een him beaten in the field."
MY A WER eemed to atisfy Delmar. He nodded and passed
the conver ation to other subjects. Two weeks of the eason had gone
when I wandered into 10hn's place one morning to pick up a box of
shells. An unusually large crowd of fellows was gathered around the
stove in the big open place behind
the counter, prawled on boxes, on the heavy wooden counter, having one of the usual fiery essions about
(Continued on page 21)

Clem Parker Played the Game for Keeps Until His Automatic Backfired.

4

November 1940 OUTDOOR GEORGIA

THE HUNT-November 20 is the big day for Georgia's thousands of quail hun t e r s. The season opened on this date (discounting the November I opening in 18 South Georgia counlies, which is too early, even for game hogs) and new dogs, new guns and in many instances new hunters swung into action. The old timers, too, were in the fields. All of them didn't have Iud as quidly as the hunters shown here. The dogs have pointed a "pet" covey in a patch behind the barn, but the hunters passed them up.

No.1 Sport
Play-by-Play

THE KILL-An even dozen plump brown bodies roared from the cover at the hunter's command to "flush." One bird swung 10 the left (over dog's head) and made an open target. A pattern of No.9 shot stopped him. The others s cat t ere d into singles.
THE RETRIEVE-A retriever saves many birds and this setter, besides being a star performer on finds, brings bad the dead ones and cripples. This one was easy, as the bird fell only a few fee t from where the dog had pointed.

Vulcan of Black Jack Ridge

The big red became a portion of the huge rock while the pack boiled
overhead.

OLD Jep Black pat and quinted reflecti ely in the direction of Black Jack Ridge. The afternoon un, half mothered under billowy, crim on cloud, wa liding rapidly into the tree top.
"Fro t tonight," he observed. Roy Carter hitched up hi breeche and pulled hi eye away from the ridge cre t, back to Jep' placidly moving jaw .. "Fro t won't hurt none," he aid. " othin, but snowflakes big a iceberg would low down that race tonight." Jep nodded and pat again. "Reckon you're right, Bub," he aid, "but they'll ketch old Vulcan. He ain't human, that fox ain't."
The younger man grinned. "That' becau e no mart dog' ever been on hi trail before. Jim Gib on wouldn't bring hi dogs all the way acro the state ju t for exercise. He d be the laughing tock of the whole Fox Hunter A ociation if that champion dog of hi didn't make good." "That may be a champion dog," Jep Black ob erved wi ely, "but I'll wager he ain't never been after no champion fox like ulcan of Black Jack Ridge. That big red devil love a chase better than any pack of dogs I ever saw. Many a time he's howed up in full sight of my pack to lead 'em for half the night. After that he'd get them hounds 0 tangled up it'd take me a week to find 'em all."
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"YOUR dog are crub, though, along ide Gib on ," replied Roy Carter. "When they open up on
ulcan, my money goe over the barrel head that he'll be denned before midnight."
"Better keep yore money in yore jean pocket where it II be afer," grunted Jep.
The moon had topped the gum tree ill Long Branch wamp when
ulcan crawled out of hi den on the ide of Black Jack Ridge. He yawned and stretched hi foreleg clo e to the ground, pulling the kinks out of his muscle in much the arne manner as a dog would have done. Except for hi sharp muzzle and lender leg, Vulcan looked like an old and gentle dog.
He wa old but there wa- nothin<T gentle about him. 0 one knew exactly when ulcan fir t appeared on Black Jack Ridge, but he had become a tradition in the count of hi legal abode. Old hunter poke of eeing him pa s in the moonlight the pack full on hi heel, hi fleeting coat like a dark red flame. They aid that
he was big as a full grown shepherd dog, and could whip the pack if he ever turned back on them, though everyone knew better than that.
A clo er vie,,, would have shown that the outer tip of hi red hairs were white, but no one had ever been that clo e to the Vulcan. They only knew that he was a agacious old animal, who showed his heels to

vel' pack that had ever b l' 0 ugh t him a 1'0 th lope of Black Jack Rid<Te.
HI mu cle fully relaxed now ulcan trotted away from the door of hi den and climbed the hill to a high flat rock overlooking the wamp and ettlement road. p here
he fund the moon above the tree
top, riding the blackened, tarlit kyo He stood for a long minute, turning his head thi way and that way into the cold air current. Borne on thi breeze wa omething he could not quite understand. The night wa calm and quiet, and yet to that trange wild sixth en e the black wind telegraphed excitement. Hi firey outer garment tingled with it; it throbbed in his heart and along hi eins. Thi wa no ordinary night in hi life.
ulcan left hi rock and made a long weeping circle down the ridge along the river and back up the edge of th wamp. He wa not huntin<T.
eldom did he hunt in the early part of the evening. There wa alway th chance that a dog pack from one of the village would clo e on hi h el . Then, too, he had learned long ago that game could be taken more ea ily in the dark hour ju t before dawn. Perhap he wa limbering hi long tapered mu cle . He him elf did not know.
His long run in no way allayed Vulcan' excitement. He came back

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to the rock, breathina gently, Ii tening intently for ound which had not yet come. He forced him elf then

The Voice of a Champion Hound Was Music, Instead of Trouble, to the Ears of This Monarch Red

to lie down on the ro k for a long

hour. The moon had climbed high into
the heaven when along the rolling bo om of the earth came the ound of hound. It wa so faint and far in the di tance that human ear could not have heard it, but ulcan uddenly tood on hi feet. The excitement in him reached a dramatic pitch. Even though he could not
know that Jim Gib on had brought hi own

Long Branch where the hillside jutted out into the wamp. Just at the ba e of the hill a rock ledue hung half way out over the tream. Many dog had been 10 t at thi ery pot when
u lean ran out on the ro k and jumped ten feet downward to the oppo ite bank of the tream.
He cro ed at this point and circled under the hug trees of the ,amp forest. He lay down for an

heel and the race wa on again, aero the wet wamp floor, through inch-deep lake ,hich overed, ide area of thi odden wildernes , through briar thicket in which a rabbit could hardly crawl. The pack never wavered or 10 t hi trail. On they came. On and on, clo e to Vulcan's heels, pu hing the big red fox, giving voice behind Buck the leader of the pack.

pack and Buckaroo, the in tant to check hi breath while the

champion of all th dog in Georgia, to take up hi trail, ulcan knew

pack circled in confu ion on top of the rock. But ulcan had undere timated the experien e and ability of

T HE hour of the niaht lipped by. The race wa graduall becomina a race of endurance. everal dog

that something big was Buck. The big hound carcely he i- dropped out of the pa k. Vulcan

tated on top of the bluff. He came sailing down to the ,amp floor with

knew because their voices were no longer in the choru at hi heel. But

the remainder of the pack on hi the big champion July-Walker never

lowed hi pace or dropped a note

f rom the full bn tone.

ulcan tried other trick he knew.

He cro ed the river on a high, slip-

pery log, circled a dead lake on the

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ide and came back into hi territory. Buck never 10 t a tride. He circled through an old den, where many another pack had spent

about to happen. He did not know

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that he might be treed and thus dis-

ara ed for the first time in hi life.

o he stood, ,aiting for the pack,

, hich had hit hi trail at the upper

edge of the \ amp, to wing by the

foot of the ridge. Then he would cut

down the side of the mountain, how

him lf for an instant, and be gone.

He would lead the pack for half the

night until the sport grew weary to

him, then 10 e them omewhere in the

10\ er end of Long Branch wamp.

the remainder of the night, thinking they had him treed. At thi point Buck circled and picked up hi trail in a matter of econd. Trick after trick failed to 10 e the huge hound whose voice had become like the voice of doom in
ulcan's ear .
uddenly the old monarch of Black Jack Ridge cut
traight a, ay from th ridge and river

O Y one thing worried ulcan. The new pack, with it deep booming new voice brought an unea y tremor to the ba e of his scalp. But e en then thi canny fox did not change hi mind. He cut down the hill circled in front of the pack for a brief in tant, and wa gone like a fleeting shadow into the darkne .
The voice of the pack changed. The trail wa hot. Their leader was Buck, best dog in all the outhland.
o fox ever tood up under the leader hip of Buck not long.
ulcan kne, in tantl that he had
picked up a race thi night. He did not leave thi pack far behind a he had other pack in the pa 1. To confuse them, the fox tried one of his

and wamp. In long '( tride he went, amaz-
ingly swift for one who had spent more than h a I f the night , ithout pau ing to re t. Aero the road, through a farmer's barnyard aero the meadow which la under a heavy blanket of frost. Into the edge of the to, n where treet liaht glittered on the pavement ulcan went before he turned back. Then h paralleled hi trail back to Black Jack Ridae.

favorite trick. There, a a place on

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The Ogeechee River is one of the nation's finest streams for black bass and bream fishing.

Streatn Wealth

W ITH more mil of fi hing lream than any tate in th nation Georgia ometime ha been called "a fi herman' para dise. ' There rna have be n good reaon. The la t time particular attention \ a paid to uch thing, it ,a noted that one out of every 130 re-ident of th tat had put up 1.25 each for fishing licen e . In terms of stati tic_, 23,233 angler in 1938 purcha ed Ii en es to permit th m to inve tigate the basi for the "paradi e" epithet; the tate gros ed cIo e to 30,000 11 a re ult of this curio ity.
For pecifi an wer the e anglers cam back \ ith both large and -mall mouth black ba bream, brook and rainbo\ trout, catfi h, crappie, perch, mu k Ilunge, pickerel, bluefi h. broadbill wordfi h, roaker, grouper, king rna kerel red snapper, and a ba s, in their creels. For ariety, that' not bad. Black ba , bream, atfi h crappie, and perch they could at h within' fi bing di tance" of the large t citi , town , and village in the tate. Rainbow and brook trout they aught in 1 orth Georgia tream and lake.
Jot limited to fre h-water fighter alone, however, is the Georgian bent on port-fi hing. He ha a plendid hundred miles of coa tline where, during the \ inter month , king and
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panish rna kerel rna be caught. Both the e are noted game fi hand highly priz d b angler [or their fighting qualitie and food value. Among the larger fi h better known for their fero iou ne and found in Georgia coa tal, ater are the broadbill wordfi h, tarpon and the hark. The former, often attaining great ize, rank high among the world' great game fish; hark, caught throughout the year, furni h plenty of unequalled thrill and excitement.
T HERE will be Yankee money to over, of cour_e but it's till a ~ood bet that the \ ater of Georgia'BIu Ridge Lake are the equal for muskie of an in inne ota, is con in, or Canada. t an rate, to borrow a phTa e [rom the lawyers, the point i moot. It i not debatable, however that orne of the ver be t of the good fishin a tream in the COuntT are in outh Georgia. Keep in mind the Ogeechee, the Flint, Ochlockonee, the Chattahoo hee, the AIlapaha, and the uwannee' and don't forget Okapilco and prin a Creek.
In the meantime, let get the picture of port-fi bing in a proper perpective. Let' ee first how it look all 0 er the whole ountry from the viewpoint of the Department of the Interior' new Fi h and Wildlife
er ice, then narrow it down to ca es

-that of th ervice In re pect to Georgia, pecifically.
winging \ ith the ea on, one out of e er ten men, women and children in the nited tate probably will be fi hin a omewhere by thi time. For some form of port.fi hing i acce sible to practically ever citiz n-wheth r he be big-game anglin<Y from private yacht or charter boat, sUTf ca ting along more than 4,000 miles of our ea oa-t, fly ca ting for trout in ome mountain stream, or imple hook-andline fi hing in a nearby river or pond-and May June and July are the months of the grand heaira. The port fi heries, accordin a to recent urve and reliable e ti mate b the er t\ hile Bur au of Fisherie , afford healthful recreation to orne 12,000 000 per on in the
nited tate. A angler they pend 10,000,000 a year for licen more than 13,000000 for fi hing ta kl , and an unknown but obviously large urn for trall portation, lodging, auid ,boat and other items neces sarto the pursuit of their port.
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ovember 1940 0 TDOOR GEORGIA

Barl~ing for Beagles

, ONE of the beagle bo . And don't let an bod tell you that a
I beagl i~ a to dog. It i true that
he i the smalle t b und u d in pa k for huntin u, but drop him on the heel of a hill ide rabbit and au ar turning the ke to a da of port that ha no equal.
k the fellow who alread are in the beagling game.
I won't be satisfied until we have a beagl lub in Georuia. e have dog that ahead have proved that th y're a good a an in the country. G orgia dogs have won first place in ome of the top field trial and there i nothing in the way of organ izing a lub in thi state and ub equent arrangements of at least one big trial a year.
The bird dog boy ha e made a su e of their trial and the t lanta fi Id Trial Club i ha in u a lot of fun with two trial a ear. Th Coweta County Club al a uives the point rand etter a uood \ orkout. Then th re are the older and laruer trial at a nesboro, Ibany, Thoma ille and Quitman.
WHAT about it fellow? If the' an have their tyli h point, we certainl can have our cla ical mu sic. I till think w should continue to g to the Cherokee trials in T nne ee.
Joe Engel, the Barnum of ba eball. was on of the gunners behind th

Ch rokee B agle lub. One year auo la t ummer veral beagl r met with Engel and ince then they have had man plea_ant 0' t.together and meeting.
La t eptemb r 15 a club trophy trial wa held b the herokee club and little publicity wa giv n to the event. Howe er, it wa allended by beagler from tlanta tone Mountain, Decatur. Clarkston alld 10nroe. And Georgia b agle came ba k with fir t second, third, fourth and r erve place. Thi mean that \ e have the dog right h re in our own backyard. W ought to ui e them a chance to make voice for the home folk, and I am mighty "lad that
o TDOOR GEORGI and the Wild-
life Di i ion, ill hel p u or"allize.
V I DER the leader hip of ecre tar R. . Hine , the Cherokee lub hope to hav 100 member by the end of the ar. e hould be able to do the am thing in ju t a hart time.
fter th herokee tria I were a er man of the bea"l r drove out from Cleveland and put down e en beagle for a pack race. the No. 1 port in the outdoor to all f u who like the cha e.
When w arri ed at tJle running ground it wa alma t dark, but till light enough to ee the la of the ground. The I 0' IV re relea ed at the fork of l\ a reek and all of

them eern d to know that their owner had been argui ng about th ir merit rna be laying mane on th line. They were whining to "0.
nd the did-to the tune of ate mith, a 13-inch bitch owned by H. L. Jon . of 10nroe, Ga. Kate ex plod d with a cry that ounded like a te I trap had clamp d do\ n on all four of her feet. But a cond later her voice told u that he \ a in hiuh gear on hot rabbit cent. The other b agle tore down bru h and briars reachin u th cene and th were off in full r, a even-piece band going down the bank of the creek.
A DDE halt broke the lllU ic. The rabbit had cros ed the cr ek and the dou held up while the follow d through the stream. In five e onds the w re at it auain.
"H re th come' somebody y lled.
bout that time the rabbit broke co er, 20 pace from u . H ,a the larue t p imen I have ever en in 20 ar of I eauling. p the hill he shot. Then, do u b Ii ng back t the ,amp h kne\ the beagl w r h II-bent for hare.
Th b aule held fa t on the lin, f rever baring down until they hit the cre k again. Another pause hr ke throuuh the cr . Then Hearn' Pee
v \l ee to k the lead. Then all imp
on, an th r Jane entry, pick d up (Continued on page 23)

The lineup at the start of a beagle trial. In another minute the opera begins behind a cotton-tail.

o TDOOR GEORGIA. ovember 1940

9

DUMB-BELLS and CHIGGERS

began working the weed and briar along a drainage ditch.
The young dog, ick, on which I had pinned uch high hope , wa n t doing 0 well. He went trotting down the field, found the easier going of the corn row and loped off ben een the drying talk. uddenly a large cattered covey took wing and the youna pointer ju t stood there watching them di a p pea r and then leiurely started after them.
"That blame dog ha n't a lick of sen e!" I di gu tedl admitted."I may as well wap him or shoot him and buy another."
" ow, don't go flying off the handle," Whopper coun eled. 'Even if he' a dumb a you think, it rna not be 0 bad. In fact," he continued, "I've een the time when dumbne s wa a' as et 'tead of a ly-bilty. There' the ca e of Fe er Pother b f r in tance."
Whopper pulled out hi plug of 'home-cured" and bit off a big chew. We knew what wa coming. The old man wa going to relate another of

hi colorful remini cence to take my mind off the disappointing beha ior of the pup. We settled comfortably on a log lit our pipe and waited. Whopper chewed awhile in ilence, recon tru ting the story. Through hi finger he hot an amber tream of tobacco juice full in the face of a triped lizard fifteen feet away. He then got warmed up:
I WA running my trot lines down near the bridge, when a big car went by, stopped down the road a way , then backed to the bridge. A eriou -looking man of fifty or thereabout got out and come down the fill. He tarted down walking but the bank was so teep he kept getting fa ter and faster 'til he wa in a high lope and by the time he reached the bottom he wa going 0 fa t his feet couldn't keep up, 0 he landed in the gra on hi head. If he'd gone a foot more he d of landed in the crick and cared all the fi h away. It wa 0 danged funny I bu ted out laughin a
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He started down walking. but the bank was 50 steep that he landed
in the grass on his head.

J DD and I had motored out to the farm of 'Whopper" Wilson to give our dog a workout. It wa a nippy fall morning. e put the brace of pointers down in a birdylooking edge field and Judd' Dixie was doing a nice job of hunting. he raced through the sedge around the brushy margin of a cgrnfield and

GAME I CA H CROP
It i encouraging to receive reports from variou part of Georgia that farmers are constructing small fish pond in increasing numbers. Others are planting food and cover crops for quail. It is di couraging, however, that o many landowner are pa sing up both fi h and quail, two ripe money crops which have the advantage over many farm products becau e of the longer season over which they may be
harve ted. The \VPA two month ago urged
Georgia counties to build fi h pond. The federal agency offered to do its hare, which is mo t of the co t. Georgia countie as a whole have yawned through the proposal, which was indor ed by all con ervation agencie and exploited in the press of the tate and in this magazine.
Although no survey ha been taken in thi tate, it i highly probable that wildlife on the farm in Georgia is similar and erves the arne purpo e as wildlife on the farm in Texa .
A survey by the Texa Game, Fish and O,'ster Conmu sion reveals thai wildlife on farm in the wooded areas of East Texas is worth 140.81 in food for the farmer, hi family and part of his stock. In addition in ectivorous birds do far more good in capluring in ecls which destroy crops. Squirrels rank fir-t in imporlance in many section of East Texas. The survey, made in Wood County shows that familie kill an average of 154 squirrels a year. At 35 cenls this tOlals
53 a year. Each fanuly calches an average of 153 pounds of :/ish, which at 20 cents is worth 30. Of fanl.ilies questioned 31.5 per cent trap fur-
bearers, earning 30 a year.
Rabbits, opossums, ducks, quail, doves and various fruits made into preserves, make up the remainder of the natural resources u ed by the average farm family. The total of $140.81 doe not take into con ideration that 36.7 per cent of the farmers own an average of 18.47 hog that feed on acorn mast, nor of timber u ed on the farm.
Various other methods of turning natural resources into income were found in the survey. The evergreen spineless greenbriar with red fruit from Wood county was u ed to fitt a $1,000 contract for the decoration of buildings at the Fort Worth Fat Stock
Show. One farmer. with a six-acre lake
earned fron1 $17 to $25 an acre each of the four years since the lake was constructed. He charges SO cents per

day. one of the other acre on hi farm yield a much ea y ca h.
This brings to your doorsteps the importance of con ervati on, which means the intelligent u e of our natural resources so that a normal supply always will prevail. The ircuit Writer always ha believed that Georgia farmers have worn themselve and their pocketbook out on untillable oil. For years the one-crop method of farming kept rural Georgia' back broken. Fish pond, with fi h in them, provide a certain route to ca h. Land with quail on it likewi e may be made a fruitful source of income from hunting rights. Within phone reach of thi department's elbow are over 100 hunter who would layout cash for a full day's sport with bobwhites.
It's time to get bu y and figure wildlife in the bank book. It therefore hould be dealt with according to the rules, and the ruJe don't allow ex-

ce sive shooting, peddling of birds and unfair fishing. A farmer who throws open the gales and ays "They're your as long a they last boys" is cUlting hi own purse strings and nol bending over to pick up the change thai Lip through.
GEORGIA LEADS ATIO
The duck eason opened in the southern states November 2 and before it clo es there is a likelihood that more Georgia hunter than ever before will point their fowling piece at waterfowl. Many of them will get their fir t duck and more will get their fir t goo e.
DlIcks Unlimited e ti rna tes that 15 million more ducks will fly outh this winter.
Figures on last winler' ale of duck tamp indicate that walerfowl hunting is ubsidizing a big following over the slale. The number of duck stamps sold last season was 85 per cent above that of 1938-39. Sales jumped from 1,387 to 2,569, nUs ing by less than 200 a 100 per cent increase. Although the sta.JUp failed to double, lhe gain in Georgia wa grealer than that of any slate in the nation.
It is e timated that 4,000 Georgians will legally hunt waterfowl thi winter and that 1,000 other will attempt to dodge the one dollar tamp. In ca e you are not familiar with the tamp, they may be obtained at all fir t and econd cia s po toffiees. They are required of every hunter hooting duck or geese.
D CKS KILL SELVES
The old argument over wounded ducks will pop up many time along
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OUTDOOR GEORGIA GAME BIRD TALLY
NOVEMBER DECEMBER JANUARY FEBRUARY
Number in Party
Days Hunted Approximate
number seen Number bagged

Which counLie did you hw1t?.:

,.

Quajl were D the arne D scarcer D more plentiful than, la I year.

Were you ali lied with hunting condition?

.

Did you have diffi ulty finding a place to hunt?

.

hat did your hunting co t?

.

What and , here wa your be t day?

.

arne, addre , occupation

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QuaiJ, dove, duck_, gee e turkeys. When you have completed your season, fill in this tally slip and mail to The Circujt Writer, 0 TDOOR GEORGI . He will be glad to have your comments and uggestions on game bird hunting in Georgia.

o TDOOR GEORGIA. ovember 1940

11

Coastal Comeback

FALL fishing and hunting along Georgia' coa t have staged a comeback that few of us expected. Earl thi year we had the wor t freeze this ection had ever before experienced. Fish and game uffered alike, both being frozen in uncountable number. Fi hand luimp were picked up along the b ache by the bushel and all species of land wildlife were found dead in great numbers. 0 we really haven t been e' pecti ng a good fall, but thank to mother nature, our fish and game have stag d a remarkable com back.
A lot of folks thought that the hrimp crop was totally destroyed and it was badly hurt. But about the middle of the summer, shrimp talted hO\ ing up in increa ing quantities and for the last three months there have been plenty for market and bait. The importance of hrimp to the fisherman is that it i the principal food of most of our fishe and without hrimp in the ounds and inlet, fi hing i poor during the summer and early fall. But we've had the _hrimp and , e've had the fi h, and each succe ive fi hing tide has brought more and better catche .
t lea tome of you reader know that I have a radio broadca teach week day night over WTOC in avannah, at 7 :20 p. m., and that this broadcast i largely made up of storie of catche of fi h made during that particular day. WTOC allows me 10 minutes each night for thi broadca t and a lot an be said in 10 minutes time, but lately I have rarely ever had time enough to get in all of the catches reported each day. And folks making just average catche never bother to let me know what they caught. s a rule, I only hear of catche running from 10 fi h and up, and I'm getting 0 many of these report that sometime I can only mention the catche and am

forced to leave out all of the detail of how they were caught.
A THO SA D fi h i a lot regardless of how caught, but I often report many more than a thou and in a single day' catch. Fishermen are coming in with catche ranging up to 180. The e catches are principally ,inter trout or weakfi h, but sheephead, bass and whiting are usually in the tring.
While shrimp have been plentiful, they are becoming omewhat carc now a they always do when cool weather come along. And as the weather gets colder, the shrimp' ill get scarcer until they di appear in the pring. As the shrimp disappear the trout start hitting artificial minnows and recently, some mighty good catche have been made on clothespin minnows by plug caster and trollers. A lot of coastalfi hermen never bother to go fi hing until the shrimp have di appeared, arauing that there is more port to trollin a than to still fi hin a with live shrimp. Personally, I like both, and catch ju t a many fish one way as the other. It a matter of eason with me, and pretty soon I'll tart trollin/! and will continue that method throughout the winter, or until hrimp show up again.
Cool weather has brought in the striped ba s, or rockfish, one of the gamest fighters found in the brackish water of the coa tal river. Thi fish while at other point on the Atlantic, i cauaht along the beaches and off hore i rarely ever taken any' here alon a the Georgia coa t except well up in the tidal rivers, even into fre h water. The bite on hrimp,
but mo t of the better cat he are invariabl made on artificial minnow.
The striped bas of Georgia water run anywhere from 2 to 30-odd
pounds, but regardles of his weight, when ou get one on your bait or
lure, you'll know you've got 0 much dynamite. And from now, right on through the winter, many Ji hermen

will be on the coa tal river hunting and catching the e fine fighter.
W HILE the fishermen have been having a good time of it, the marsh hen hunter have been doing the arne. From eptember 1 through
ovember 30 of each year, during high tides, marsh hen provide a lot of port for the hunters, but this year we thought we wouldn't even ta te a hen. The freeze of the pring took it loll and the hurricane did its share of destruction. 0, when the hunter went out the fir t of eptember and found very few birds everybod wa alarmed and there was a lot of hollering for a clo ed ea on. But on the high tide of October everybody who went out had no difficulty at all in finding and hooting the limitand until yet, no one ha offered a atisfactor e planation of the eaTly hortaa . I've had as many a 2,200 marsh hens reported killed in one day, and I know that I heard of only a mall part of the actual kill. My reports are for the mo t part from fi hing camp operators who record the kills made by hun ters renting boat from them. From what I have een and heard, I would e timate the number of marsh hen killed 0 far this season at clo e to 100,000 birds, and from reports durin a the la t tides, there are plenty of birds left. The last hiah tide of the ea on begin on ovember 27 and I have an idea that the hunters will be able to wind up the eason with another good hunt.
Mar h hen hunting is about the only kind of hunting that I come in conta t with, and that becau e it i so clo ely allied ,ith fishing. For tho e of you who don't know, marsh hen are hunt d from boats traveling throuah the marshes when the tide are high enough to cover mo t of the marsh gras . Deer and quail hunting, is done on private land, and the hunters rarely ever report their kill . They perhaps don't want to be bothered with a lot of friends on a hunt.
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November 1940 OUTDOOR GEORGIA

BY GEORGIA EDITORI

OBEY THE GAME LAW
The 'possum and quirrel ea n i now open in Bartow County and the restriction are ahout to be lifted on many other game and birds.
During thi period, huntel' may shoot anywhere in Bartow County for only . 1.00 a year licen e fee. Thi gives them penni ion to hunt during. eason on their own land and that of other pr p rty owners, provided they have the permission of the owners.
This $1.00 license fee i a mighty small amount to pa~' for the fine sport affor led the hunter, particularly in view of the fact that the licen e fees are the sole income of the tate Wildli fe Di vi ion, which i doing uch a fine job in making Georgia a prime hunting state. The Wildlife Division, so I ng a football of politician ,i now on a true merit y tem and Georgia bid fair to witne th come-back of what was once a hunter' paradi e. And all for the price of $1.00 t the hunter.
\ e will pend 3.00 in an afternoon to ee a football game, which la t two hour. For only 1.00 we can hunt all ea on and enjoy a port which is enJ yeel by more people than any other port, or combination of port.
\ e mu t cooperate with the \\ ildlife Dil'ision in con erving OUI' game and fish. or el e we will pay the penalty of not hal'ing any game or fi h. \Ve can help finance thi protection by the buying of licen e , for one thing. Then we can help in thi protection by keeping down forest fire and obeying the other gam law. The e laws are for the protection of true port men, and all true portsmen will observe them. If there are th se who don't, the true sport men hould take tep t ee that they are puni hed.
Let's all cooperate in helping ol'ganizations like the Bartow ountl' Consen'ation Club and the Wildlife'Divi ion of the tate of eorgia in carrying on their program of building a more abundant life in the tate.-Barlow Herald.
WAITING
North Georgia dove hunters h moan the hortage of birds thi ea on. Fal'ored with an early eason for hooting becau e the dOI'e i. a migratory bird and i away frOI11 X orth Georgia ection before the regular hunting ea 'on open in November. it i po ible that the continued warm weather ha not forced pecie to tart on their annual migratory jaunt.-Alball)' JOIIl'llal.
GAME CARCITY
Norllt Georgia sporlsmell alld l1e~('s papers are cOlI/f>Iaillillg Iltal Iltere are 110 do~'es litis )'ear. Tltal is, lite do~'es Ito<'e failed 10 Slt07<1 l1P 011 scltedllie ill. lite areas of 1\ orllt Georgia ~l'ltere il is permissible 10 sltool Iltelll 01 litis seasoll of lite )'ear. .llaybe Iltey are IIsillg lite wrollg
killd of bail ill Norllt Georgia. or IIlOybe

lite do~'es are faslillg alld gellillg ready for lite pealllil fields of olliit Georgia. ('lIless lite cold ~l'(!allter of losI ~l'illier Iltilllled 0111 lite do~'es ~L'e lit ill It lite\' ~l'il/ be back ill lite SOlllit Georgia fields Oil scltedllle.-Jlollilrie Obsen'er.
Had there been no baiting of fields and the laughter of dOI'e to the number of thousand: in years gone by, there would be no scarcity now. A Ion a dOl'e baiting wa lawful it wa' natural for hunters t u e that method of attracting them, but the statute outlawing the practice was too late in coming. Even n w Iiolation. of the law are occasionally
Ace Advises
If you want a magazine that has everything for the Georgia sportsmen, send your subscription order for OUTDOOR GEORGIA today to 412 State Capitol, Atlanta.
Make your hunting season complete by keeping a score sheet on your kill and mailing it to the Circuit Writer.
A fair sportsman gives game an even chance. He will not shoot duds on the water or quail on the ground.
reported, and it i hardly urprising that the love crop i reported hort.
port men cannot "have their cake and eat it too." They cannot exceed bag limit. hoot game out of sea 'on, and in other way I'iolate laws placed on the tatute book for the prot ction of furred and feath red creatures, with ut paying the penalty. That has been abundantly prol'ecl in the history of this country.~-:llballj' flerald.

COMEBACK PREDICTED
.\11 01' r Georgia, there i talk ab ut the shortage of dOIe.. The Atlanta nell' papers ha I'e been dealing at length on the . ubject. and all kind of reasons hal'e been put forward for the shortage. The early-season hootinO' and the practice of l'iolatinO' the law by hooting over baited field. and with hotgun carrying more than three hell are given a reaons-and then, too. the record fr eze of last winter is cited.
The record freeze i cited, but we do not believe that enough emphasis i placed up n it. \Ve believe that more than all the other force combined, the freeze of last winter i re pon ible for th shortage-and what amaze us i n t that there are so f w dOl'es because of the freeze but many in pite of it.
It wa. bitterly cold in eorgia. but we l11ust not forge~ that other ections of the outh, accu tomed to weather no worse than our, were el'en heavier sufferer. In Northea t ),Ii i ippi and Northwest Alabama that blizzard was e pecially frightful. with the now fall ranging up to _2 inche and the thermomder going down to I degree beI w. Tens of thou ands of dove all ol'er the outh. weakened by the lack of food, froze to death on the roo t-and in these area~ which were e pecially hard hit. they were all but wiped out. \ e know of one mall spot. no larger than the average lil'ing room. where two hundred and thirty-fil'e dead dOl'es "'ere picked up by ne ne roo
The dOl'e is a prolific bird. The al'erage person, learning that each ne t has only two egg, doe not ee how the dove can multiply very rapidly-but he ol'erlook the fact that each pair of dove raise. ,el'eral brood a year; that by the time the parent pair raises it last bro d, its lirst pair of the year it elf is nesting -and in the meantime the e bird are much les ubject to predators than uch bird a the bobwhite. In spite of it T940 disaster, the dOl'e will come back.-Rome .\"~L's-Triblille.
WHERE RE THE DO ES?
In the field of Oglethorpe C unty, once happy feeding ground of d I'e. not one i to be teen thi Fall, the Oglelltorpe Eclto report.. One sport man t ok a trip of 20 mile la t week, trayer ing grain fields. and failed to see a bird. Editor
hackleford ays he himself drOI'e 125 mile through a ection in which he usually ee dOl'e the year round but could find none.
He i inclined to attribute the situation to the now which covered the gr und 0 long last winter. farmer reported that on hi place hundred' had be 11 fund. tarved and frozen.
The militant Gail/en'iIIe Eagle find the <lme hortage f d ve in its neighborh od but lay the blame on the baiting of .fields and killing beyond the legal 1Imll. "The dove," it declares "i not gil'en the chance of a Jew in 'Germany.
(COl/IiI/lied all page 27)

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Clme4 R~ ... FIRES BOTH
BARRELS AT 'TAKE ARMS' PLAN

BOYS, we're being shot in the rear. Our rights are being sabotaged with infinite cunning. The most outrageous and damnable effort to register firearms in American history has taken place in the state of Pennsylvania. Bob ichols tells all in the ovember is ue of Field and Stream, so we will briefly summarize it.
On the plea of" ational Defense" -God save the mark!-the gunners of Pennsylvania are asked to "regi ter" their shooting irons, number and all.
ow, boys, we ain't got much in Georgia. We're poor a Job's turkey. We've slaughtered our game, broken our law. We've done many thing we should not have done and left undone those thing we should have done.
But one thing is certain. When there was shooting to be doneI mean serious shooting-we've been there with trigger fingers that pulled and eyes that sighted right. Whether it was with Light Horse Harry Lee around Augusta during the American Revolution, with Pickett at Gettysburg or in the thin gray lines around Atlanta, or at Santiago, or Vera Cruz, with Pershing after Villa, or in the Argonne Forest Georgia men have been there when the shooting was hot, and Georgia blood has been spilled on every American battle field.
And all along we've been individualists. We've insi ted on the strict interpretation of the amendment to Article 2 of the Constitution of the

nited tate which reads: 'A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."
T HERE it i boy in black and white. You can believe it or not, but it is that one article that has always stood between us and tyrann and oppression. nprepared in a military ense, always, we have known how to shoot. We have known firearm. We know them today.
In one way or another, crank and crackpots have hammered at this priviledge. nder the guise of law enforcement they have endeavored to abridge this priviledge saying that the forbidding of the keeping of firearms or their strict regulation would prevent
The burglar, the hold-up man, the kidnapper, the mmderer, the wouldbe dictator or Mr. Hitler him elf, would like nothing better than to see the American Sport man deprived of the right to own and use his rifle, shotgun or pistol.
That right is your a mance and mine that we can retain some semblance of our American Way in a world gone mad.
It was, for many years, quite doggy to ape Europe; to expound its "culture" and to run down American arts and literature. Well, boys, it is just about time we got pretty damned proud of these United States and of Georgia in particular. Our country has led the world in applied science. We have had a

form and kind of personal liberty which many parts of the old world simply do not comprehend.
T HIS effort to fifth-column the American port man; this latest brainstorm from Pennsylvania is erious. Don't try to laugh it off. If Pennsylvania gets by with it, the time is coming hortly when your own Wildlife Division in the State of Georgia is going to be asked to query you when you buy a licen e. It will be all very polite. You'll be as med that it is for ational Defen e and you may fall for the trick unless you are forewarned.
THiS 1 MERELY THE E TERI G WEDGE OF THE EUROPEAN SYSTEM. 'Devi ed by some deskchair theOl'i t who, for rea on of his own, is nervous about the ten million sPOlt men in the e nited State.
Do you think that the nited tates and its in titution are in danger
from the American portsmen? I think not. Wherever real patriotism
i concerned, the port men of the
United States are the fighters, not the
appea er . 1'. Eltinge F. Warner, publisher
of Field and Stream, in a tining
editorial, "Disarmament for Defen e" in the October issue of that magazine call attention to a recent effort by the Attorney General of the United State to require all sportsmen to register their firearms. All sportsmen owning, buying, swapping or accepting guns as gifts would be duly "mugged" and fingerprinted
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Bass
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C O 1. CALLAWAY' Blue pring Farms, near Hamilton, Ga., i a single unit compo ed of numerou project de igned to learn and demon trate better ways of living for the South's rural population. orne of the activitie are on well-known ubject of agriculture and land u e. And orne are venture in projects that are worthwhile, but not so well known.
Among the latter i the culture of large-mouth bass, Huro salmoides, for food and port. Ba are raised in state and federal hatcherie and are available to land owner -but how many land owners and pond owners know what to do with the ba s when they get them? The pond culture of bass in Lake Florence at Blue Spring Farms i an attempt to learn the answers of producing bas -how to give them the be t SUTroundings for increa e and growth, how to feed them, how to protect them, how to harvest them.
ery little publi hed information can be had on bas culture. Intere ting and in tructive work ha been done with bass in Loui iana and Alabama, but there is still much to learn. Work uch a that at Lake Florence hould add materially to the ubject.
Lake Florence itself i a beautiful piece of water covering 38 acres on the north ide of Pine Mountain in Harri County. But the culture of ba s is not confined to the lake alone -the watershed is important-and the Lake Florence area includes engineering features and side pond that all contribute to the ultimate goal, the raising of large-mouth bas .

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The water entering and leaving a pond where bas are grown must be controlled and this is accompli hed at Lake Florence by a ystem of check dam and valve. Five main branches enter the lake and the water of each can either be led into the lake or diverted from it. Side ponds varying from 1/10 acre to 1 3/4 acres each, where minnows and fry are produced, likewi e aTe controlled by the same y tern.
THE , protecting the whole area from flooding and exce ive rain run-off, are diver ion ditche. In times of high water and much rain, the diver ion ditche carry the urplu below the pill way of Lake Florence. And when water i needed in the lake the ditche are dry and the lake gets its proper upply. The diversion ditche al 0 protect the lake from muddy and ilt-laden water which rain would otherwi e deposit to the injuTy of the pond fish.
Lake Florence is confined by a 28foot dam on which cro se the lake
drive, a road completely around the lake. A masonry spillway is an in-
tegral part of the dam but eldom

carrie water from the lake, It i a precaution, only. And ju t above it are a eries of screen, 0 that should the lake flood and pillway run the fi h will not be carried out of the pond and downstream.
If a thing is so in bass culture, there mu t be a rea on. The rea on for no water running over the pillway stem from the primary need in rai ing ba -food. Food from the bas mu t be kept in the lake if the are to benefit from it. And man food item are produced be t in water tl;at i till-not tagnant. The ideal condition found thu far i to have the pond full, but not overflowing. Evaporation take care of the water that enter and the upply of water i controlled to attain thi condition.
Thi then i the ph ical et-up of Lake Florence. A controlled waterhed, a controlled water upply, and ide pond for additional food production.
FOOD, and more food means more bas . Fish culturists estimate four or five pounds of food necessaTy to
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Model
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One of six forage ponds which feed hungry mouths in Lake Florence.
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The lake is fertilized at regular periods throughout the year.
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overflow at forage ponds other food before it is lake Florence.
Plants and their root systems growing in the water's edge furnish protection for forage fish and attract insects which contribute to a
balanced diet.

A view of the 28-foot clay dam which impounds lake Florence. The boat house and dock are shown in the background.
Copper screens used in the spillway of lake Florence are constructed in sections so that damaged portions may be replaced at minimum
cost.

Buss Culture
(Continued from page 15) p1'oduce one pound of ba fle h. And good ba s p1'oduction mean about 300 pound of ba fle h produced per acre of pond each year. With pencil handy you can figu1'e the food requirements of maximum ba production in thi 38-acre lake.
E e1'y known source of food for ba mu t be cultivated and u ed and new ource of food continuou ly ought. Food fi h must be harmoniou ly cultu1'ed in the big lake along with the bas, and thi upply augmented by the production of ma imum amount of food fi h in lhe side ponds.
The side pond aggregate an area lightly over four acre. When drained thi fall they were found to have produced an average of 775 pound of food fish per acre, thi crop being compo ed of bream gambu ia minnow, tadpole golden hiner, and some silver ides. Thi crop ,ent into the big lake where lho that do not find their way into the huge hungry mouth of lhe ba ,ill find condition to theu liking fo1' fmther increase in ize and numbel'. The side pond, howe er, being drained into the big lake, will be left dry for a couple of month to aid in getting rid of turtle and undesirable life, then refilled and tocked for another a on of plant production.
W TER plant along the hore line of Lake Floren e attract inect ome of which fall prey to the always hungry ba ,and offer helter
for the maller fish to pawn. The riprap, or layer of rock along the dam above and below the , ater line
erve n 0 purpo e . They protect the earth dam from wa e a tion and ero ion, and al 0 helter minute ani-
mal and in ect life which furni h food to minnow and fr .

Hay is being tried as a helter for in ect larvae and nymph . This seems to be a good breeding place for them and the minno\ eat the urplu a lhey leave the ha and ri e towaxd the urface.
But the basi of the main food upply i the use of commercial fertilizer in the big lake and the side pond. Fertilizer i applied about every nvo week durina the pring, ummer and early fall, or often enough to keep the ,ater a latey green color. Color i important and i watched clo ely. The fertilizer is 6-8-4 and 100 pound to the acre i u ed at each application. In addition to this mi},.'ture 10 pound to the acre of nitrate of soda i used at each application.
Why fertilizer, and what has a field crop food to do with raising ba ? The culture of ba i imilar to that of a cabbage patch in the fumishina of needed food element and the start of thi for bas i through commercial f rtilizer .
The fertilizer tart ba terial action in the water, formin a minute plant and animal life known a plankton. This starts a food chain that ulminate in ba flesh.
BIG fish eat little fi h-and little fi h, too, ha e to eat. The little
fi h get their from the plankton and algae. These little fi h are the aambu ia minnows, bream fry and golden hiner fry. A they eat and gro\ bigger on thi food, th b come attractive for ba .
The fertilizer al 0 et up conditions favorable for other forms of food to develop. In ect larvae algae and tadpole all thri e under thi condition.
Acidity mu t be , atched. Too acid water prevent the proper development of desuable water plant and algae, and how a defi iency of the

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calcium needed for fi h bone development. Thi i kept corrected to a large extent, by the filler, ith which the commercial fertilizer i mixed.
Like any other crop, the fi h crop mu t be harve ted. If undi turbed the larger ba would eventually eat the available food upply and the maller ba . And a food became carce, the number of larae ba \ ould dimini h. To keep a pond in the best productive condition, the larger fi h hould be taken, preferably on IU1'e , giving the younger fish a chance to develop and grow into big one. Lake Florence i approaching it peak of bass production and the fi hing for big ones should oon be at it be t. The record catch of thi year i a ten-pound large-mouth ba caught by Bill Pricha1'd, a project manager on Blue Spring Farm, on October 31. He u ed a brokenback minnow.
Bill used barbless hook on hi pI ua, \ hich i one of the fi hill a rul at Lake Florence. The other rule are to put back all ba under 10 inche , not to take an :fi h but ba and to u e only artificial bait.
OT of mall importance i the protection of the fi h from natural enemi . This is carried on by trap and rifle. The mo t common enemie agaill t which war i waged are nake, turtle, herons and hawk . ince June, 1940, a total of 200 indi idual enemies have been killed around Lake Florence, and the enemie till per ist. Even the enemie a1'e put to u e. When killed they are opened and submerged in the lake to fumi h food for the mall fi h and crawfish. But do not get the idea that wanton de truction of nature' folk is going on at Lake Florence. Only known fi h enemie are on the kill-Ii t. If there i an doubt about the statu of bird animal or whatnot, a pecimen i taken and xamined. If a tomach urvey how he ha not been botherina fish or their food, he i given a clean late and hi pecie i toler-
ated. Lake Florence ha pro en attrac-
tive to migratory wildfowl, and u ually ome i itor are present at all time . Two flock of gee e and numerou duck have tayed for a short time at the lake thi fall, and mo t recent being nine mergan er. The mo t unu ual gue t, 0 far this season, wa a double-crested cormorant. When thi bird wa taken he had a 1/4 pound bream in his throat.

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Natural Enemies or Not?

W E CO ISTA TLY refer to the "natural enemies" of wildlife. An enemy, according to Webster, is "one hostile to wildlife." There is no hostility between inhabitants of the wilderness. Animals or plants which prey upon each other for food, do it through neces ity and not through hatred. It may be doubted, then, that there is any such thing as a "natural enemy."
Every living creature is either a predator or a victim. The predators develop characteristics which enable them to secure their food from the other forms of life about them. The creatures upon which they prey develop methods of escape, such as protective coloration, swiftness and instinct. Some kinds of creatures must be sacrificed that other creatures may live.
I do not imagine that the fungi which derives it living from the sap of a tree, dislikes the tree. It mu t live by projecting its roots into the cambium layer or inner bark of the tree and intercept some of the food which is being carried from the root system to the leafy part of the plant.
o matter what happen to the tree, the life of this particular plant depend upon the food it i able to steal from the tree. It unconsciou Iy is following the law of self pre ervation.
T HE earth is filled with stories of plants and animals which ,ere introduced into new land where they had no predators to keep them in check. Everyone knows the story of the rabbits which were released in Australia. They multiplied so rapidly that they soon overran a continent, endangering even the economic sy tem.
everal years ago a number of elks were brought into Virginia from the west. Their "natural enemies," as wolves and cougars, were left behind. The law protected them from man.

These animals kept their place, remained wild and afraid of people. Then they began to increase 0 rapidly that they became a menace. They broke through fence into garden, ruined field of corn, played havoc with the crops. irginia found il neces ary to open the hunting sea on on elk and call the port men to the re cue.
For many years English parrows were a nui ance. These bird, however, have gradually be orne more carce during the pa t few year . A careful check show that they have picked up a number of predators during their sojourn on thi conti nent and are not nearly 0 plentiful a they once were.
M Iy ornithologi ts have wondered what the history of the starling would be. These birds were brought over to this country sh01tly before the beginning of the twen tieth century to help check the fruit moth in one of the ew England states. Several

The next year approximately five pairs of these birds made their home in thi county. Eighty- even pair were found in 1927 and the next year literally thousands of the birds were there. In, many instances they drove the song birds away. Eventually perhap orne predator will find that they are food to eat and the proce of elimination will begin.
a,t LTHO GH nature eventually adju ts it elf, man is very unwise to try any readjustments of his own. The introduction of new species, the elimination of old, upsets the balance of wild creatures.
It's an old tory that ,'{hen all the hawks are killed to protect quail, the mice and rat also lose a natural enemy and multiply rapidly. They overrun the field and eat up all the quail eggs. Everyone knows also that when all the alligators are killed from a outhern stream, the turtles
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pairs of the birds were relea ed near

a large orchard infe ted with the e moth .

The starling were interested in other ource of food and did not help in the lea t to eradicate the moth.
But taken away from their natural "en emies" in the old world, they began to multiply and spread all over the new wor ld. One pair, for instance, wa di covered in

C I ark e Co u n t y, The skunk is one of Georgia's most destructive predators and his only

Georgia, in 1925.

natural enemy is the Great Horned owl.

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Dumb-Bells and Chiggers
(Continlwd from page 10)
but that fellow never e en roiled. He wasn't mad, either. He ju t untangled him elf picked up his hat and hunted around for hi spec, which b _ome miracle didn't break. He acted like fallin a down thirty-foot banks was omething he did ever morning berore breakfast.
"M y good man," he says, ' is there, by any chance, a pro pect of pursu ing pi catorial port in thi tream?"
1 hadn't the faintest idea what he was talkinp' about, I ut I'm a fellow who i alway willing to gi einfor mati on, even if it is kinda misleadin o' at time. I've alwa s aid that it's better to be fifty per cent right than to be wrong half the time.
" lister," 1 tell him, "thi here crick i I orId re-knowed for it pi ky . . . th kind of thing you mentioned. "
He climbed back to hi car and was back with more fishing doodad than I'd ever een. 1 paddled over andO'ot out of the boat.
"I am Professor Samuel Q. Poth-
ersby,' he announced. "There i a onvention in Atlanta but I am a day earl , so 1 , ould like to spend some of the time fi hing. 1 will pa you well to guide me to the haunt of our native trout."
I TOOK him up in the hill where the lear \ ater come tum b lin g down the rocks into deep pools of peckled trout. He was an entertaining cu s, even if he was 0 seriou . like. He had been to a lot of foreign countries but thi was ill fir t trip to Georgia and he confessed, without changing expression in the least, that he was agreeabl urprised to find mo t of the natives were civiliz d.
We topped at a pool that 1 kn w contained trout and when the Prof a em bled hi tackle and made the fir t cast 1 realized that whate er miaht be hi shortcomi ng fishin a wa not one of them.
1 climbed up on the high bank and at down I hile the Prof stood on the gravel bar below and whipped hi A acro the pool. From my p l' h 1 saw a dark form come from under a rocky ledge and follow the A a short distance, then sink from view.
"Drop it back in the ame place, Profe or, and I' trieve lower," 1 told him.
He didn't get mad like the o-called experts do when you give them advi e, but thanked me and did jut a 1 told him. That A didn't travel a dozen feet before the trout nabbed it

and tarted going places. 1 watched that fish cuttinO' didoe in the water, on the water and sometime out of the water and then 1 O'ot to wat hing the Prof, which wa even more inter ting. He just stood there, calmly puffing away on his pipe, giving and taking line with not a change of ex pression. When the trout turned belly-up he unsnapped the net from hi belt with one hand and scooped it out of the water. Taking a small scales hom one of his numerous pock ts, he weighed it.
"One pound, six ounces," he announced in a matteroffa t tone and then I'm double-be-darned if he didn't put that fi h back in the water and watch it wim away.
1 spent the whole da watching that man catch fi h and then turn them loose. Even if he was olemn a a drunken judge all the time ] knew he was enjoying himself. 1 wa too.
THE sun was dropping behind the mountains when we got back to
the bridO'e. 1 wa lugging a couple
of nice trout the Prof had insisted J
keep, but he didn't have a thing to show for all he had caught. He was in a ru h to go on to Atlanta, now that the fishing wa 0 er for the da , and wanted to know how much he owed me.
"You don't owe me a penny, Profe or" 1 told him. "Anytime ou are back in thi neck of the woods. look me up and we'll fish ome nlore."
1 told him how to find m hou e. "You know," he aid, when he got through thanking me, "I do belie e 1 must have stumbled into ome poison i or else I've gotten the itch." He began cratching like a hound dog after Aeas. "Oh, you don't need to worry about them little bumps," I toll him. 'You onl ha e a few chiggers." I al he didn't know what 1 wa talkina about so 1 explained it.
After some more conversation, stopped in pots by vigorous scratching (the pesky chiggers had e en bor d into my tough hide) the Pro fe or left. He prom is d to return the day after the convention.
A few mornings later the Profe sol" car rolled into my yard and he announced him elf ready for another fi hing adventure.
"I heard a bit of goip in Atlanta about outhern bass," he said. "I d like to see the reaction of tho e fish to Aies. ot that 1 expect any sport, but ju t for the novelty of the experimen t."
(Continzted on page 22)

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(Juflil GUhlTJflh

(Continued frorn page 4)

how the tate Divi ion of Wildlife

should be run.

"What is the use," a_ked Bud Da i

a I walked in, "for the department

to grow quail at their game farm and

distribute them for fellow who never

miss a hot, like Clem here, to hunt

the same fall?"

"I uppose I am the best quail shot

in the state, ' Clem admitted imply.

That wa what he usually aid, a

the conversation would ha e pro-

ceeded nonnall , if Delmar cot had

not poken.

"I can beat you," he aid, quietly.

A cloud of ether poured over that

gang would have produced the s~me

result. For an in tant everyone Just

sat, and looked at Delmar. Clem's

face turned very red. He had to get

hi breath before he could speak.

"What makes you think you an?"

he asked, almost with hi lips alone.

, I dreamed the other nio-ht," Del-

mar said, "that Father imrod him-

self came into this store and called

you a game hog. He told me to take

you out and that if his statement

were true, you would not kill a sin-

~o-nI,e

bird. with

a one

I'm box

willing to take of shell ."

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O E or two of the fellow sort of moved away from the immediate reach of Delmar's arm. Hi \ ords were a little insane. Clem wa alma t gasping for breath.
'You're on," he croaked. 'A dol lar a bird. When?"
"You can't 10 e over fifteen dollars that way," the boy aid. "We'll go this afternoon, if the bas \ ill let me off.'
We all looked at John. It was aka with him.
Clem could not speak a he blurted out of the tore.
When he had gon ,th remaJJllng o-roup talked over thi unu ual bet. They tried to drag more information from Delmar, but he refused to answer que tion . Eery man in the crowd wanted to go along to watch the how, but that wa can idered unwise. The finally appointed Bud Davi and me as Clem s guardians.
We picked Clem up at 1 o'clock. He was still mad. His hand trembled when he opened the door of the automobile. I felt a little orry for the
kid. When Clem get mad he can
really shoot.
We chose Two-Mile bran h, outh
of town, on ome land that I owned.
The bottom were thick with brown-
top millet, lespedeza and imported
beggarweed. The quail were there,

too. Al Brown and I had counted ten mature covey the week before.
We made a few simple hooting rule. Both hunters must approach the pointed ovey at the ame time.
ingl found b the clog would be shot in turn b the contestants. ingles walked up, of course, were the property of the man finding them.
The dog struck bird cent five minutes after leaving the car. They trailed a minute or two and tben pointed.
"Do you want to hoot from the left or right?" Delmar a ked.
CLEM boomed, "Left!" and then approached the covey. The quail exploded under his feet and roared away toward the creek wamp. Delmar brought down one bird that sailed off to hi right. The remainder of the covey wung too near to Clem and the boy did not shoot again. For the first time in hi life, probably, Clem completely mi sed the five hot out of hi automatic. He stood for a long minute, looking at hi gun, at Delmar and then at the swamp into which the cove had gone.
They loaded their gun and"\ ent into the wamp. I had foro-otten what an expert quail man Clem , as. He knew where practically every quail went down. One by one got up under his feet and roared away. At each one he look long, accurate aim and queezed the trigger. The birds flew on, with never the 10 of a feather. Delmar brought two birds out of the wamp, making his bag three.
Clem came out of the wamp with the most defeated look 1 have ever een on a human face. He lipped five -hells into hi gun and walked down to where the dog were making game again. They came to a point.
"You take the wamp side thi time," Clem said.
Delmar shot a fleeting look at the man and obeye I without a 'vord. The bird roared straight away and then turned into the swamp. Delmar brought down two. Clem hot his five hells and the bird flew on.
We walked on and on, behind the dogs, finding covey after cove , and a large number of ino-Ie. Each time he shot, I expe ted Clem to hurl his o-un after one of the bird. The last "'ingle flew ttaight away and both
men shot. "You killed it," Delmar aid. "Nly
gun was off line." Clem hesitated and then pocketed
the bird. "OK," he aid. (Continued on page 22)

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W E CO TED birds. Delmar had tw Ive, Clem one. Clem dug his pocketbook from hi hip pocket and found a cri p ten and a one dollar bill. Delmar h itated, then put out hi hand for the money. The older man turned and talked a\ ay to hi automobile.
Delmar placed the bill into my hand.
"Either give the e back," he aid "or turn it over to the FFA cla s down at chool to help out with their quail rai ing project."
I carried Delmar and Bud Davis back home, and then went by Clem' . I was afraid he miaht do somethin a de perate. I found Clem ittina on the back step ,hi head in hi hand.
"The kid gave me a choice" I aid, "of returning the money or giving it to the FFA on their quail project."
Clem looked up, grinned with an effort.
"I lost it," he said. "I don't want it back."
"OK" I aid. and tarted to turn awav.
''Wait a minute," aid Clem, "1 t me fini 11."
He looked over my head, beyond me to the brown sedge field that bordered Rankin' wood. He mip"ht have b en trying to teel himself for hi word.
"I've nev r been more embarras ed." he aid, "than I wa today. It took a kid with imamnation and with gut , to do what Delmar Scot did to me."
1 ~ensed drama. "What did he do?" I a ked.
n,,"[YE STAKED his job, hi reputation a a sportsman. and even hi hone ty. to bring me to my en e ," Clem ain." uppose I expo ed him. He couldn't even live here an more. He knew that before we tarterl out today."
"What din he do?" I a ked ap"ain. "1 dinn't kill a quail today" Clem aid. " 0 I can't ever !!:O back into the store and brag about aetting the bag limit. Everyone will remember thi day. If I can't brag about my shootin/!. ther i no reason for me to kill the limit. 1 realize now what a fir t c1a ,unadulterated hp,el I've heen. I'll be in debt tn tllat kid for the re t of my natural life for humiliating me and bringing me to my sen es." ''What did he do?" I a ked, ter ely, for the third time. "He made that up about the dream,

of cour e," Clem said. "That wa just an excu e. I thought about that after I had mi ed my econd hot in the wamp. I looked at tho_e shell. For a minute I had to fight myself to keep from u ing one on him. When the truth finally dawned upon me a to what he wa trying to do I played hi game the remainder of the after noon. '
''What. . . !" I yelled.
"That kid," Clem said, "had taken away my regular hell and neaked in a box of shell loaded for big aame-with a inale teel ball."
Dumb-Bells findChiggers
(Continued from page 20) I grinned behind my hand at this guy who thought ba tame and asured him that bass were plentiful in a nearby river. We u e hort ca ting rod . plugs and bucktail in thi part of the country and I wanted to ee how the ba s would take the flie . The Prof' bia car glided along through Ed' pa ture right down to the ri er bank. I helped unload the tackle and tarted lookin a for a likely place to fi h, then looked back to see what wa topping the Prof. He wa un crewin a the cap of a pint bottle 0 I kinda sauntered back that way, tryin a not to look too expectant. He got the cap off and beaan to dou_e some evil- mellin a tuff on hi arm and leg. ''What in the world i that?" I asked, tr ing to hide m di appointment.

"THIS," he announced, "i a concoction of my own invention.
Tho e chigger that attached themIve to me la t week 0 distracted
m attention that I mi ed mo t of the convention. ith ingredient from a drug tore I perfected a formula to repel the little beast . Today I am giving it a practical te t."
He began fi hing and he whipped the river \ ith wet flies and dry flie but the ba just weren't interested. I got hi fly box and pawed through the prettie t collection of fly-tyer' art you e er aw. Right down in the bottom of the box I found a hairy bug which looked like omething only een in nightmare.
That bu a was ju t what those old lunker had been waiting for. On the second ca t an old bronze-back grabbed it and tarted going place. It wa nip and tuck for a minute and then the Profe or tucked when he hould have nipped and the line went slack. The Prof looked at me and I couldn't tell whether he wanted to laugh or cry, but by the time the bug wa retrie ed he wa ju t a erious and olemn-looking a ever.
"What happened?" he a ked. "What happen d?!!!" I yelled, all excited. " ou let the great-granddaddy gain enough line to throw the hook, that' what happened!" "That' funn,' he aid, but he didn t laugh about it. "I used the ame technique I've alway u d on trout.' "Mi ter," I told him, "you 11 have to hange our way of fi hing if you e'p ct to catch the e bass. Hor e 'em

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in becau e if the ever get the lea t bit of lack line they'll throw the hook 0 far it 11 be ru ty when you get it back."
On the next trike he held the rod up until it almo t bent double and paid out line like Old Man Wilkins pend a nickel. That bas wa an acrobat, but the Profes or finally won the argument and hauled him out.
"T 0 pound , eiuht and one-half ounce.' He read the cale and then examined the chunky fi h a if he wa wondering where it got all the Po\ er. A he gently ea ed it back in the water I knew the Prof would always r member outhern ba .
everal month pa ed and I aImo t forgot the Prof or. Imagine m urprL wh n I r ceived a letter from him one da and opened it to find a ch ck for a hundred dollar ! He had old hi chigger-dope formula to a big drug concern and a I had played an indirect part in it discovery, he felt that he owed me part of the loot. 0 effective, a the dope (he, rote) that not one chigger had mole ted him that day we spent on the river.
Whopper aro e, tretched and reached for hi che\ ina tobacco.
"Well," Judd aid,' the Profe or wa n t 0 dumb after all. ot many people an go fi hing and di cover

omething that i ,orth a wad of douah."
, That's ju t the point I wanted to make" Whopper huckled. "That chigger dope was ju t about a effective a 0 much water-oh, ure, , he hurried on a he aw I wa going to interrupt. "The chigger didn't bother the Profe sor after he dou ed him elf with dope. They didn't get on me either. Any dumbbell ought to know there are no chiager on the thick, wet egetation along the river. The are found in the piney wood and ridges where it i dry and warm."
" ow that pup," he continued, a we , alked toward the young pointer, whi h now wa holding a staunch point on the cattered bird _ "That pup i kinda like the Profes or. He has no ima!!ination, doesn't g t excited, but ju t keep pluaaing along and I'll , ager he'll find hi rd ,here a marter dog i po itive there are no bird ."

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(Continued from page 9) the trail to the left and turned the whole pa k back to the gallery. But Pee Wee had one place in mind. That wa clo e t to the rabbit. he made it. he ended the cha e, with the other a no e behind. The rabbit wa divided in e en piece and the bets went to Pee ee' supporters.
The beagle ha the arne relation to the large t of the hound a do cocker to the bigge t of the spaniel f ami lies. In Europe the beagle is used in pack to run down hares. Over here, e u e them ingly and a pack. 10 t hunter run them for the cha e. Other depend on beagle to find and drive from cover the elu ive cottontail.

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T HI dog, which range from 12 to 15 inches, aenerally i looked upon a a bred-down dog from the old Talbot or Engli h bloodhound which wa noted for Iii centin a power, loud oice and durability.
There are two kind of beaale , one favoring the foxhound, the other bearing close resemblance to the Eng. Ii h foxhound. The Engli h beagle run a little larger than our. The American i more throaty and ha a more impo ing headpiece. Thi give him strong r qualitie. a a large brain capacity, combined with capaciou no lJ.a , make a better combination.
Th beagle, like the paniel, breaks him elf. He learn fa t and if he doe n t hunt, hen ou fir t turn him 100 e it will be only a matter of time before he doe. The are n a tu r a1 hunter, althouah they rna get into the aroove fa ter in the company of older dog. Beagles are ideal doa for huntina and for the home. They are handsome and have all the qualitie that make them perfect ompanion
Let' have more of them.
"The Old Salt Sez"
(Continued from pa{!,e 12) But the old grapevine tele~raph oca ionally bring new of a hunt, and what I' e heard 0 far thi ea on indicate a aood supply of gam and man succes ful hunting trip in the coa tal area.
THE be t hunting tory l' e heard o far tarted out with a marsh
hen hunt. 111i particular mar h hen hunter was hunting a marsh clo e to the hore of a wooded i land. He evi dentl hadn't done any hootina at thi particular pot, for uddenly he pied a buck deer tanding in the wood at the dge of the mar h about 50 yard from his boat. Hi gun wa a 12 gauge double loaded with o. 8 hot. He took dead aim and let ,2;0 with both 'barrel and brouaht the deer down in his track. It wa a four-point bu k and tipped the scales at US pound . The hunter never did tell u hm many mar h hen h killed.
lJ.ange thing can happen with hunters and fish rmen, but here' something that isn't trange. If you'll plan a alt water fi hing trip to the Georgia coa t and go fi hing with omebody , ho knO\ the water and how to fi h them, you 11 make a catch that ou can talk about all winter long.
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T HE E figure, however, hardly give a complete picture of the extent of the port fi herie . In many tate, certain cla e of person are exempt from the nece ity of obtaining a license--except in the tate of California for example, no licen e i required for fishing in alt water. All in all, the popularity of big-game anglin a and the number of fishermen in ba and ocean water ha increa ed 0 rapidl , that the number of persons fi hing without a licen e i e timated a nearly as large as the number of licensed angler. It i becoming more and more apparent, then, according to the fisherie ' biologi t , that mere increase of hatcherie output is not in itself enough to guarantee a good supply of fish for
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thi growing body of anglers. Thu I experimental tocking and exten ive tream urve preceding final tock ing are aloe sential and recurring activitie .
Experim ntal tocking indicate tho e stream uitable for different
pe ies of fi h, and the fate of fish formerly planted there indicate what need may be for foraae fi h to a ure growth of new tock, what hould be the proper opening date of fi hing season in variou ector. tream urveys how man-made (pollution factor, for example) and natural hazard which may bar normal fi h life; take note of native predator both bank and tream fi h foe ; examine the waters for adequacy of fish food upplie ; and make aquatic cenu es, finally, which enable ervice inve tigator to evolve program for future management of all tream' fi h population .
It is the ervice's plan eventually to place a regional biologi t in each of the major fore t area of the countr . The e biologi t in cooperation with the tate and other federal agencie , \ ill be respon ible for developing sati factory tocking poli ies for the water under their upervision.
T HE hatcherie , of which the ervice maintain no ov r the nation,
do play an important, and in many case, an indi pen able role, however, in the maintenance of angling resources. In them, for example, the
ervice engage in exten ive lective breeding experiment, mating uperior fi h, and rearing progeny in eparate lot. Thi permit careful election of fish hOI ing qualitie of rapid growth, increa in egg production, and impro ed re i tance to di ease. From the hatcherie_ the

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ervice jut la t ea on di tributed over eight billion fi h and egg of forty- ix different pecie, and Georgia water benefited heavily from the output.
11 together, 1,539,035 fi h wer di tributed in the tate between Jul of la t, and pril of thi year. The included largemouth black ba ,cat fi h, crappie Kentucky ba s unfi h, brook and rainbow trout. The e , ere handled largely through the federal hatch ry at Lake Park ( aldo ta) . although both the Cohutta and Warm
pring station likewise, ere contributor. The Cohutta hatchery, built only two year ago and not on a full produ tive ba is during the last eaon, neverthele turned out over 38 . 000 fish. During 1939 the Warm
prings station was partially recontructed, and unable to propagate it usual quota of nearly a half-million pondfi hes annually.
And from other nearby federal hatcherie were a igned for rearing and di tribution, up to April of the present fi cal year, 228,000 fry ano fingerling crappie, rainbow trout, unfi h, and 270 000 rainbow trout egg. In addition in the Chattahoochee ational Forest near Rock Creek Lake, i a Forest ervice-built tation, maintained by Fi h and Wildlife Service hatcherymen. To thi federal hatchery, from a like one at Walhalla, . C., were this season ent 92,000 more brook and rainbow trout fingerling for rearing to larger ize for ub equent planting in the water of the public domain in which it i located. Other federal hatcherie at
Orangeburg, . c., and arianna,
Fla., likewi e send eggs, fry, and
fingerling of various specie into the tate through ervi e hatcherie , for uitable di tribution.
NOT including blanket applications received from the . . Fore t ervice for the stocking of ,ater under it control in the tate,
450 formal applications for tocking Georgia , aters have neverthele al
read been filled b the ervice for the fi cal ear 1940. It ha all ay
b en the objective of the bureau, and will be of the ervice, to coordinate fi h ultural , ork in the variou ta-
tion 0 a to avoid a practice frequently followed in the pa t, of shipping fi h from a di taut federal hatcher for the tocking of waters in
close proximity to a tate hatchery. We enjoy a cooperative agreement with the Di i ion of Wildlife of the
Department of atural Re ource of (Continued on page 28)

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(Cantil/lied from page Il) the banks of Georgia's lakes and treams this sea on.
Do duck drown themselves? ome will insist they do. Others will almost et off their gun powder aying no. The answer is that they do commit uicide. Whether it i accidental or not, wounded ducks have been known to die from strangulation under water.
A ranger reports that he aw a duck wounded by a long hot. He marked the pot where the bird hit the water. He aw bubble ri ing and found the duck, holding blade of gra in it bill.
WITHI EFFECTIVE RA GE
One of the wor t habits of all hunters is hooting bird that are not within killing range. The 10 of crippled or unretrieved waterfowl and upland bird i a drain on the game population. Many of the e 10 e, of cour e, are unavoidable, but a large percentage result from attempts to bag bird beyond range.
A report of the Pennsylvauia Cooperative Wildlife Re earch nit how that oC 631 bird shot by 176 hunters, 202 birds, or 32 per cent were lost. Extremely long hots re ult in many winged birds which prove difficult to capture, e peciaUy in dense cover.
One way to help correct thi fault, this out-oC-range gunning of which both the novice and veteran is guilty, might be to pace off 50 yard and at that distance look at a target the ize of the game bird you have in mind. The rule would be to hold fire at anything beyond thi range.
Dogs likewi e reduce the los. A retriever will bring back much game that otherwise would be wa ted. The Pennylvania report how that hun ti n g with a dog reduced the 10 of bird by novices from 46.7 to 36 per cent; by average hunter from 39.8 to 23.8 per cent and by veteran from 26.8 to 15.5 per cent.
DOVE GET HELP
La t month this department carried a pledge card ubmitted by A. P. Mauldin of Atlanta. Mr. Mauldin is a dove hunter by nature and practice. He pledged not to hoot another dove thi sea on and urged other to adopt the arne attitude in a move to "bring back the normal upply for next eaon."
J ule A. mith, prominent Carterville port man, was launching a imilar campaign in Bartow County at the ame time Mr. Mauldin wa deciding on a blocked trigger. Bartow County, its portsmen' club and its new papers, the Tribwle-News and the Herald, have set a fa t pace in work for wildlife and it was not urpri ing to ee many dove hunter fall in line with Mr. Smith' ugge tion.
"I believe." aid the Bartow portsman. "that a wide pread appeal carried in the pre of the tate would produce a telling effect on the dove ituation and that portsmen would cooperate 100 per cent. I think they would agree not to shoot any more this winter, knowing that such a plan would provide an abundance in future season ."

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mo t hunter already know, there are not enough good bird dogs in the country today. orne even attribute thi carcity rather than the carcity of bird, to the poor luck nimrod have been having for the past few year.
Ginger of Gordon i one of the youngest dogs to realize this, and last month she did her share to remedy the drawback. She whelped 15 puppies in her second time out. This was big new, even in the office of the Milledgeville Daily Times, the paper that tarted with "a paper in every home" back in 193~ and which ha been accu tamed to big news since the fir t \\'heel of the pre e.
Ginger, a Rip Rap pointer, i owned by J. D. \Veaver, hop foreman of the
Ginger and her litter.
Times, and her litter of eight females and seven male et ome ort of record. If you have a better one, let us hear about it. Only drawback to Ginger' feat wa that ix pup were mothered in crowded quarters. Tenne ee Jack, tar pointer owned by \ . R. \Veaver, aloof Milledgeville, i the ire of Ginger' big family.
WORLD' CE ER
Authoritie on migratory bird, includin Allen M. Pear on, who wrote "From Fledgling to Flight" in the
eptember i ue of thi magazine, ay that South Georgia i the "dove center of the world." Thi means that more doves migrate to Georgia than to any other area. It i a focal point for birds from New England and the midwe t and the number found here in midwinter alway furni he a yard tick on the whole North merican population,
The big cotton ba ket hoot, in which thou and of doves w'ere killed and raked up and piled into ba ket . are outlawed in outh Georgia, Thi i encouraging and hould mean much to the dove family, ina much a overhooting, more than anything el e, i re pansible for the teady decline.
Sporting goods and hardware store are mis ing the revenue from hells and hunter are mi sing a grand port, but mo t of them are willing to wait a year if it mean a dove comeback.
Conservation Comments
(Colltil/lled from page 13) \ Ve do not belie\'e in fi h traps, in trapping quail, in baiting field . It i hard enough for game to urvi\'e as it is, without adding certain death to their lot."
vVith adequate protection Georgia' untilled field can be made an economic a et to the tate and an unfailing arena of port for its men and boys. In theory.

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Federal and State go\'ernments are acti \'e in an intelligent wmpaign for the con ervation of game. But it i obviou that if sensible law for protection are not enforced, our acre oon will be as barren of quail and dove a they are of the pa senger pigeon and the pileated woodpecker.-Atlal/ta J oltrl/al.
"DO BE CAREFUL"
The Sylvester Local reports probablJ' the state's first case of a hllnter getting shot while cli1llbillg over a felIce with his gUll. It seems that abont the tillle ol/e gel/eratioll of hUl/ters either learl/s to be careful ~ itll g1lllS, or is killed off, allot her gel/eratioll rises 1lP al/d 1II1Ist leaI'll its lessoll.-Tiftoll Ga:;etle.
v e are cautioned every day by happen-
ing that are chronicled in the newpapers, to be careful. We approach the ea on when the hazard increa e. You can easily 10 e your life. It is difficult enough to e cape the ravages of di ea e, and 111 thi our best protection is care and caution.
The most hocking of the fatal accidents come along in fall and winter. The friend that kill hi be t friend while out hunting by 11 ing hi gun carele Iy. The little children, left at home to care for themselves that play in the fire and are burned to death. chool building that burn with 10 of life. School bu e in wrecks that re ult in heavy 10 s of life. It would be difficult to prevent the e altogether after the greatest care had been taken, and with all imaginable safeguard. They become crimes when they re ult from care1es ne s or indifference.
vVatch your tep.-Moultrie Obser'l.'er.
o DOVES
Walton county field are unu ually quiet thi year a far a dove hunting i concerned, for there are practically no dove to be had, The big annual ea on opening day hunt produced only a few bird, and our port of dove hooting ha reached a newall-time low.
Game con ervationists in other ection are advocating a plan to replace their depleted upply, and omething certainly hould be done in Walton county.
The Tribulle advocate a 12 month' clo ed hunting eason on dove, in order to benefit from the pitiful few left a eed, \\ e re pectfully call thi to the <)ottention of our enator and Legi lator -elect, for their careful attention and ob ervation.
The prolonged now and ice of la t "'inter killed thou ands of bird in thi county, and reports were numerou of finding dozen of birds frozen and
tarved, they being unable to penetrate the cru t of ice for food.
Given a chance to get ,ell tarted, there i no rea on why there hould not be thou and of dove in our field within a hort period, for farmer are planting infinitely more feed tuff than ever before.
We ay Give The Dove a Chance. The prohibition of dove hooting for 12 month will give them thi chance, and they in turn will give hunters omething to anticipate.-Waltoll Trib1me.
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Vulcon of BloCk JOCk

(Continued from page 7

B CK, though, never changed hi pace, and by thi bur t of peed

the fox left him far behind. It wa

nece ary that he have all hi re erve

energy in hi la t bid for freedom.

He reached the foot of the ridge and

la down to pant for twenty minutes

before th pack came back on hi

trail. They were within ight of him

before he moved. Buck aw him when

he sprang to his feet. The hound'

jaw burst open in a series of gulp-

ing elps. The few dog left in the

running pack answered the challenge

and lunged forward to the kill. But

ulcan wa re ted now and he ea ily

kept the distance b tween

them. The siaht race circled

the mountain and came back

to the ledge over the creek

where ulcan had failed to

lose the pack

earlier in the

evening. With the

pack a Imo t on

top of him he

swung out into

th

w amp,

cro sed the

tream at the

head of the moun-

tain and circled th ridge again, be-

ina careful all the while to remain

within sight of the pa k.

Eight times ulcan made the cir-

cle with the pack in full cr on his

heels. On hi ninth trip around the

ridge, he opened up, leavinO' Buck

and the few remaining dogs in hi

pack far behind. On the ninth trip

when he came to the rock ledO'e, he

did not jump the creek, but dropped

straight down into the water. He

plashed back under the ledge and

flattened himoelf. He became a por-

tion of the huge rock it elf while the

pack boiled overhead, following the

cour e they now kllew 0 well. When

they were gone Vulcan waded up the

shallow stream to a point directly

under hi den ani from there climbed

back to the flat rock on the hill top,

beyond which the fir t treak of

dawn were beginning to how in the

ea tern kyo

OLD Jep Black pat and quinted back toward where th bloodred rim of the _un had touched the top of the gum tree over Long Branch wamp.
"That \ a a great dog, son," he said, 'and a great race he run."
"But he never did corner the ul-
can," said Ro Carter. "I told you that la t niO'ht, didn't
I?' the old man replied. "Jim Gib-

on' dog tayed on hi trail longer than 1 expected, at that."
~~WHAT made you 0 certain that Buck and hi pack would never
run down that fox?" asked Ro Carter.
Jep Black spat again and looked back toward Bla k Jack Ridge.
'I u ed to own that dog," he grunted, "before Jim Gib on got him. He's bigger and more powerful and ha a de per voice than when I owned him, and he know every trick in the books. He know all of ulcan's trick too. There's just one thinO' 1 counted on. Every time I've known that fox to get in a tight cor-
Vulcan climbed back to the flat rock on
the hilltop.
1
~,
n 1', he cook up a trick that no hound can figure out. 0 I'll jut take the dollar that wa burning the pockets of your jean la t night."
Roy Carter grinned wr ly. 'It wa worth it," he aid, 'even if I did 10 e.'
Streom Weolth
(Continued from page 26) Georgia whereby that ag ncy, as much a_ it facilitie will permit, filL federal application for the stocking of water in the vicinity of it hatcheries and deliver fi h, a much as its equipment will permit from our hatcherie for the filling of federal and tate applications.
Incidentally, the tate of Georgia anticipate obtaininO' thi year, four additional di tribution truck to better equip itself for the handling of the increased production of both state and federal stations.
Although the emphasi here ha been apparentl in that direction and although our budget show the
er ice spend about four-fifth of it annual fi h-cultural appropriation for the production of O'ame pecie, this is not to indicate it is by that proportion 0 much more interested in the port-fisherman s lot. We are and alwa have been, in fact, not

game-fi h-minded, not commercialfish-minded-but fi h- on ervatiollminded; and the term" con ervation mean, by our d finition, wi e utilization, whether it be for recr ation or for food use. Among other factor to con ider in this connection would be. for example, the comparative costs of producing game a again t the commercial pecie: 6,146 and 21 respecti el . To make the picture complete, then, it would eem that the Service angle on the commercial fi heries of Georgia i necessar..
T HE coastal ar a of Georgia embrace about 1,000 mile of horeline which, with it ound, e tuarie and tidal rivers, form the geographic area of the fisherie indu trie of the
tate. The mo t important items of _eafood produced in that area are hrimp, had, 0 tel', and crab; with menhaden, for indu trial use only oil and meal for tockfood) also a dominant product. Th re ar also maintained in the state e eraI thriving Diamond-back terrapin farms.
All told, in 1938, our book ho\ that the commercial fisheries of the tate produced 17,835,600 pounds of fi hand hellfi h, worth 380,888 to the 1,173 fi her men engaged in thi work. An additional 1,515 persons employed in wholesale and manufacturing establi hments, were paid
253,675 to turn out the .866,000 worth of manufactUJ"ed fi her product -crab meat, for example, canned hrimp, hucked and canned oy tel' .
Oy ter ,alread a heavy item in this fisheries picture (154,000 pounds, alued at 8,000 in 1938) are, ac ording to our authoritie a neglected item, however. B r planting n n-polluted areas, and with proper con ervation laws rigidly nforced, it is e timated that the annual output of 0 tel's in Georgia alone could be increa ed to an approximate production of 2% milli n bushel, valued at 11/2 million dollars, employinO' about 13,500 per on .
Noturol History
(Continued from page 19)
and terrapin increa e and eat up all the fi h, and the unde irable specie of fi h as the gar and carp, take 0 er and eliminate the game pecie.
We cannot O'et around it. psettinO' the balance of nature by the addition or subtraction of pecie, doe not pay.-JIM MCGRAW.

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ovember 1940 0 TDOOR GEORGIA

Elmer H(Jnsom
(Continued from page 14) like the common criminal which thi di tinaui hed gentleman evidently con ider u.
It also was proposed that a Federal law require that our firearms be kept in a public armory.
ow ain't that something? When you want to kill a hawk on your farm you ride to town, draw out your shooting iron, drive hack to the farm, shoot the hawk which has obligingly remained in place and then return the firearm to the armory under penalty of imprisonment as a dangerous criminal.
nder the plea of national defen e we are being led into a trap. And I hope you won't fall for it. I don't beli ve you will.
MR. WA ER call atLention to little witzerland, which up to thi writin a ha preserved her neutrality, hooting down the plane of an belligerent that violate ~er territory. Mr. arner empha IZ the
wi tern which goe farther than our own. "The citizen of thi courageou republic don't keep their gun in public armories. t all time the citizen of witzerland ha a military
rifle' ithin reach, and he know hO\ to u e it. Every young man i an army araduate. When he ha completed hi military training, he take hi government rifle or hand gun home with him. And each year thereafter he i allotted a certain amount of ammunition and required to hoot hi ammunition in order that he may keep familiar with firearm and know what a good rifle or a good pistol or revolver can do. Even the mo t rabid anti-firearm crank mu t admit that witzerland would be an unhealthy place for ho tile parachute troop to land."
Disarm yonr citizenry and they are at the whim of any person seeking dictatorial powers within your land. These are terrible times. Things are happening which you and I would have deemed impossible a year ago. The e are times when we must keep our sharpest wits.
Our forefathers strongly di trusted anyone who would wi h to di arm us. They di trusted it to the point where they wrote it into our Con titution. We are definitely arm -bearing people and we should remain so. We must et our face sternly against

impractical crackpot, \ ell meaning bungler, and again t tho e who , ould, for per onal power, deliberately trample on our liberlie .
Remember, our arm or navy does not need your hotgun, pi tol or rifle. The couldn t u e them on account of the que lion of mixed ammunition. But a parachutist or a fifth-columnist would dread them beyond measure. There i a pertinent bite to buck hot or to a .32-20 mu hroom bullet. Ten million people in the nited State can hoot a hotgun and many of them are too old or unfit for active military ervice.

T HE time might come-the e are curiou day -when that hotgun or that rifle, eyed by optics trained to the bur ting flutter pf a covey of quail-might very well tum the tide for thi country which we love. Remember Dunquerque, boy , when a fleet of fi hina boat, sailing mack and riff raff of the ea confounded the arm of Hitler.
Thumb up! Thi i a eriou menace. I am not eeina gho t . Let your Congre man and your enators know that you will not be deluded. You will not be di armed.

DU~KS AND
GEESE

a,~ tu, buu. to '4e ~d. that
a,ciuaJ4 quack a.Hd Honk!
CALL-ALL Quacking and Honking D.coys are as Iif.-lik. as the swift-flying ducks and gs. that swing in and land b.sid. th.m. On. of th.s. quacking or honking d.coys plac.d among your regular decoys will give. you an attraction that ducks and geese cannot resist. The.y are easy and simple to operate ana we guarantee them to have perfect calls. De.coys come equipped with 50 f.et of rubber tubing and the small hand pump for p.rf.ct operation by any amat.ur, .ven. Anyon. can call ducks p.rf.ctly with these quacking d.coys without practic.
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g,uV/,UmuIJ No mDIIe
gpodet1 q~ wdlt. .

RETARDO

It k ps fish and gam. sw.et and whol.som. for days alter b.ing kill.d, .v.n in the warm ..t
w.ather. You no longer will have to worry about kping your kill fresh until you can get th.m hom. RETARDO is a harml.ss powd .. that preserv.s, without d troying the original flavor,
it has no odor, or taste, and can be used in milk or cream to prevent souring. RETARDO will
save many tim .. its cost in gam. or fish. S.nd for your packag. today so that you will not los. the gam. or fish from your next hunting or fishing trip.
All you have to do is follow instructions, and draw your gam. or fish, and rub all parts w.1I
showing any bloody app.aranc., and tie up in a paper and plac. in a damp gunny sack and
hang up. It will prev.nt spoilag. for days. Wash off RETARDO wh.n ready to cook. This
product is not SODIUM BENZOATE, and should not b. confus.d with any such product. It is
as harmless as ordinary salt or soda. Enough RETARDO wi I b. s.nt for $1.00 to last s.veral trips.
tJ).~!

K ps All Fish Baits From Spoiling

NO-SPOIL

~IIN -O-T ADS

ODORLES!'>-NON-POISONOUS Is the preservative long wi.h.d for by all fishermen. It will preserve and keep any kind of natural baits, such as crawfish, crabs, shrimp, grasshoppers, frogs, min
nows, helgramites, bugs and worms of all kinds forever. Add powder.d NO-SPOIL to hot wat.., plac. baits in liquid and fast.n tightly. R.mov. aft.. tw.nty-four hours for packing away dry. Soak dry baits in hot water if th.y b.com. hard in tim. from drying out. NO-SPOIL is sold with a money back guarantee, and is the result of years of research to perfect this superb product. NOSPOIL is in a powd .. form, and you only have to add hot wat.. to make up the pr....vativ. Enough will b. sent for making up 1 quart of preserva tiv. with full directions for $1.00. D.al..s packag.s retail for 35c .ach.

Prevent Minnows from Dying
Min-O-~bs wh.n plac.d in a bucket of minnow throw off millions of life-saving oxyg.n bubbl... This e1iminat.s constant changing of the water and insures live minnows when you need them most. One Min-O-Tab will kp a bucket of four dozen minnows for 10 hours. Min-O-Tabs will not deteriorate and are guaranteed to prevent minnows from dying from loss of oxygen. One MinO-Tab may save an .ntire fishing trip from failure and should b. in the fishing kit of .v.ry angler. Ord .. th.m today by s.nding on. dollar in currency (w. do not acc.pt stamps) and your packag. of lif.-.aving Min-O-Tabs will b. s.nt you imm.diat.ly.
Packag. of on. doten Min-O-Tabs, $1.00

Dealers Write or Wire for Prices and Deal.r Discounts.
J. LESTER MORRISON

522 E. MOBILE ST.

FLORENCE, ALA.

o TDOOR GEORGIA Novernber 1940

29

letters to tne Editor

(Conti1l1led from page 2)
cut the covey down to a mere handful of bird before we can get started.
If your department will send ome men, not in uniform, to hunt and find out who is toring the bird in the icehou es and stop the elling of quail to hunter who want to bring home a "kill," you can do more to protect quail than you will ever accomplish with men riding through the counties inspecting the licenses of hunters.
We should have a law prohibiting any man from going into the field a a hunter or a a guide more than one day each week. That would stop the man who run a grocery store in the morning and hunt each afternoon during the early part of the eason until he ha killed out all the covey in hi ection.
Most of the hunters of Georgia are laughing at the attempts of your department in getting out a publicity campaign just before the season open for the purpose of selling state licenses to go out and hunt for quail when there aren't any to be found.
If I buy a license this year it will be in one county only and I hope I have enough sense to not buy that.-Wm. F. Buchanan, Atlanta. Mr. Buchanan has reference to the same folder which Mr. Casteel and several hundred other persons have complimented, verbally and in letters. He may well have a good season of quail shooting in Fulton County, a OUTDOOR GEORGIA has definite reports of 53 coveys within a good walk of Atlanta. Report from all sections of Georgia indicate that the quail crop is the most promi ing in a decade. The Wildlife Divi ion operates solely on fund derived from licenses. Should every hunter stay in ide his county of legal residence and buy a license the wildlife work would continue on the upgrade, and quail still would be plentiful in Georgia.

***

TRAPPER I TROUBLE

EDITOR

I received my hunt-

Outdoor Georgia: ing Ii c ens e today

along with the leaf-

let of game law.

Will you let me make a few prote ts

on the unlawful list printed in the

game laws? or a k an explanation on

same?

I am a 'coon and possum hunter and

have bought over $30 in hunting and

fishing licenses in the pa t 10 year.

Here we go.

To hunt at night with light.

Who made this law and what

meaning of all1'e?

How are us 'coon hunters going to

our dogs through bamboo wamp with-

out a light? How are we going to find

the 'coon without a light?

Here we go again. To sell or offer for sale, barter, or exchange any of the game animal or

game bird, or parts thereof, of the

State of Georgia. Who made this law? And what is
the meaning of same?

What are we going to do with our 'coon and possum hide ? Will we be allowed to sell them without being a violator of the game laws?

30

Here we go again. To use a light of any kind in hunting game animals and birds. How are we going to hunt 'coon, possum, and kunk without a light? Will we have to travel in the dark? Why is it that the rich fox hunters are allowed to use automobile with light on them to go fox hunting? If us 'coon and po sum hunter cannot u e a lantern to ee how to travel? 1940-41 Georgia game laws say: Raccoon (with gun and dog) ov. 20Feb. 28. Well, it is almo t impos ible to kill 'coon in the day time with gun and dog. And I do not cut den trees a that is the worst thing we can do, as 'coon cannot raise unless they have den. A good 'coon dog will tree 'coon in the day time all right, but they will be in the den. I am bitterly against using an ax in hunting any ort of game. I am no turkey or deer hunter although there is plenty of both within half mile of where I live. I try to protect this game for those who care to hunt them. I don't even allow my dog to run them. Will the sportsman that hunts this game be that fair and quare to us 'coon hunters?

Jut this summer I was plowing one day when a big buck jumped in the field and came within 25 yards of me and the mule and stopped and stood while I talked with another person.
I would like to go possum. hunting tonight but I cannot travel in the dark and I do not want to violate the game laws. Although I would not kill the po sums as their hides are not any good yet, but I would like to hear my old hound bay a little, for I have him tied and he is rarin' to go.
Please explain these laws to me by return mail, as I have the pos um hunting itch and there i only one cure for it.-T. . Thrift, Winokur, Ga. More sportsmen of Mr. Thrift's ilk would olve the game and fi h problem of Georgia. There would be no nece ity for law enforcement. Raccoons, opo sums and foxes may be hunted at night with a light, as they are cla ed as fur bearing animals, and not a game animals. Per ons selling the hides of these animals must have a hunting license to take them with dog or gun and a trapping licen e if they are trapped. The laws a Ii ted in the hunting folder are misleading in that they apply only to regulations governing the hunter.

Watch business pick up when I pull the trigger on this hare. November 1940 OUTDOOR GEORGIA

Georgia huuters of migratory waterfowl will have 60 days this winter instead of 45 as last year and may begin shooting geese and dncks at snnrise instead of at 7 a.m. The new regulations on migratory birds set by the Department of Interior moved the opening of the dove season in Georgia's northern zone from September 15 to October 1 and rednced the bag limit from 15 a day to 12. Liberalization of the waterfowl laws changed the opening of the season from ovember 15 to ovemher 2. The bag limit on geese was cut from fOUl' to three a day with the possession limit six, not more than 20 days after close of season.
SeaSOllS And Bag Li"dts

Bear

GAME

OPEN SEASON (inclusive)
Nov. 20-Feb. 28

DAILY BAG LIMIT
No limit

SEASON BAG LIMIT
No limit

Deer a (Bucks only)

Nov. IS-Jan. 5

2

2

Opossum (with gun and dog) Raccoon (with gun and dog)

Oct. I-Feb. 28 Nov. 20-Feb. 28

No limit

No limit

No limit , No limit

Opossum, Raccoon, Mink, Fox, Muskrat (trapping)

Nov. 20-March I No limit

No limit

Rabbit

No closed season and no limit

Squirrel b
Quail c Turkey d Ruffed Grouse

Oct. I-Jan. 15
Nov. 20-March I Nov. 20-March I No open season

15

No limit

30 week, also

15

possession

2 I2

Fox (with dog only)

No closed season and no limit

MIGRATORY WILDFOWL
Dove e Duck f Goose f Jacksnipe

Split zone seasons Nov. 2-Dec. 31
Nov. 2-Dec. 31
Nov. 2-Dec. 3T

DAILY BAG LIMIT
12 10
3 15

POSSESSION \ LIMIT
I 12 20
6
15

Coot

Nov. 2-Dec. 31

25

25

Marsh Hen Rail

Sept. I-Nov. 30

25

25

Sept. I-Nov. 30

25

25

Gallinule

Sept. I-Noy. 30

25

25

a, b, c, d, e, f-see exceptions.

EXCEPTIONS

I

a DEER- oV. I-Jan. 5-ApI)ling, Ben Hill, Bryan, BuJloch, Camden, Charlton, Chatham, Effingham,

Glynn, Jcff Davis, Liberty, Long, McIntosh, TallnalJ, TeUair, Ware and Wayne. No open season in

Banks, Dawson, Fannin, Gilmer, Habersham, Hall, Lumpkin, Murray, Pickens, Rabun, Towns, Union,

White, Whitfield, Marion, Schley, Webster, Chattahoochee, Muscogee, Stewart, Talbot, Jenkins, Mont-

gomery and Echols.

b SQUJRREL--Aug. IDec. 3I-Catoosa, Challooga, Dade, Daw on, Fannin, Gilmer, Gordon, Habersham,

Lwnpkin, Murray, Picken, Rabun, Stephens, Towns, Union, Walker, White and Whitfield- ov. 1-

Jan. 15 in Appling, Ben Hil1, Bryan, BuUoch, Camden, Charlton, Chatham, Effingham, Glynn, Jeff

Davis, Liberty, Long, McIntosh, Screven, TaltnalJ, TeUair, Ware and Wayne.

c Q AIL-- oV. 1- larch I-Appling, Ben HiU, Bryan, Bulloch, Camden, Charlton, Chatham, Effingham,

Glynn, Jeff Davis, Liberty, Long, Mcintosh, Screven, Taltnal1, Telfair, Ware and Wayne.

d T RKEY- 'ov. I-March 1 in Appling, Ben Hill, Bryan, Bulloch, Camden, Charlton, Chatham, Effing-

ham, Glynn, Liberty, Long, lc1ntosh, Screven, Tatnal1, Ware and Wayne.

.

c DOVE-Northern Zone, Oct. 1-31 and Dec. 20-Jan. 3~ (split season) in counties of Troup, Meri-

wether, Pike, Lamar, Ionroe, Jones, Baldwin, Washington, Jefferson and Burke and region orth

thereof; outhern Zone (all counties South of those listed), ov. 20Jan. 31.

DUCK A D GOOSE- 0 open season on Wood Duck, Brant, Ros' Goose, Swan and now Goose.

Daily bag limit on Canvasback, Red Head, Bufflehead and Ruddy Ducks not over three in the aggre-

gate. Possession limit not over ten in the aggregate.

DO lITllO T
--CAMPERS WHO
ARE CARELESS WITH FIRE--
-THE HUNTER
WHO SHOOTS
FIRST AND INVESTIGATES FTERWARDS--

IT~S DANGEROUS TO POINT

MAGAZI -E articles, pictures in rotogravure ection and ne\ storie have a ked hunter to be careful with their gun in the wood . Rule of afety have been made for handling firearm. The principle of how not to treat loaded and unloaded guns ha e been listed. Many port men have pledo-ed not to endanger the live of their hunting companions or of them elve .
De pite all this, the loss of life goe on. Each year in the nited tates several hundred per ons are accidently kjlled or injured by guns in the hands of careles per ons. Few of tho e accident are unavoidable. A little caution b omeone would have aved a life.
Carele ne with firearm is a matter of habit. Care le_sne is the ign of a laz per on. To practice the imple rule of handling a gun afely require thouo-ht and eft"ort. It i easy to leave the hells in your gun when you climb into the automobile after a hard day' hunt, or to forget whether the gun is loaded when you tand it in the corner at home. It i ju t a ea y though, to cuI tivate the habit of removing the unfired shell from our gun when the hunting da i done. It s like itting do\ n to eat, or taking off your hat when you \ alk into the hou .
o one ever taught us to be careful with a o-un. We had to learn th hard way. The lesson almo t ended in di aster, but it wa well learned and never forgotten.
O E nio-ht on Jack on Lake, in middle Georgia, w \ ere loading shell, decoy (it wa in the grand and o-lorious old da of live decoy and t\ ilight hooting) and mis ellaneou equipment into the boat. The wind stabbed like a ne\ knife and we had a long haul back to the bridge where the T-model was parked. We were tired and cold and wet and hungry, and in a hurry.
One of the fellO\ s, pa ing equipment to me to load in the boat, handed me hi gun an old moth-eaten double barrel.
"I it load d?" I a ked. He hook hi head. ithout breaking the gun and look ing my elf, I tos ed the firearm into the boat. "Blam! " Both barrel exploded. The work catch above the trig ger had been unable to hold the pring. One of the men wa tanding in the other end of the boat directly in front of the gun. He bent over and cauo-ht at hi ankle. "I'm shot! 'he aid in the cold, impersonal voice of a doomed man. We leaped forward and caught him I efore he ould topple into the water. We hauled him ashor and at him on the hard and beach. hasty examination in the emi darkne howed that hi boot was not blO\ n entirel off hi foot. e craped together a pile of driftwood and hastil tarted a fire on the beach. B that time he had cut his boot tring and lid the boot and ock off hi foot.
O LYon shot had gone through his boot and into the ankle. Reli ved, we rawled back into the boat to see what had happened. A miracle had saved that foot. omeone had pIa ed a sack of hells in the bottom of the boat. The entire load from both hotgun barrels had o-one into that ack of shell without exploding one. ino-le hot found its way through. Since that day we have never taken the word of another per on, however hone t he mio-ht be, when h tell u that a o-un is not loaded.

H A E you ever topped long enough to examine the mechani m of a hotgun? If you ever do, you'll never again handle that gun in a carele manner. The
afety on a gun only keeps the trigger from beino- pulled by the pre ure of your fino-er. Onl the tiniest uria:;e of steel, a mall fraction of an inch, hold the pring relea e. The upper part of the trigger pushe thi narrow steel margin over and release the plunger that plunk into the hell. It is not neces ary to pull the trigger to relea-se the plunger. A hard jar again t the ground will cause the hotgun to discharge, e pecially if it is not a new gun and the relea e catch i lightly worn.
That i why so many gun kill people when they slide off the automobile fender and fall again t the ground, or when they bounce in the back eat of an automobile.
ometimes the slighte t jar ,ill set the trigger spring free. The gun hoots in the direction it i pointed.
Look for yourself at thi thin margin of steel between ou and death. When we di covered how narrow it wa , cold weat broke out on our forehead. All the time we had been arryino- a hotgun, we thought the 'afety" on it \ a absolute protection ao-ainM the gun firing before the trigger wa pulled.
Many p r on are killed each year because other hunter do n t pause long enough to ee exactly what they are hooting. The wa e of a bush, a movement near the o-round, \ ill draw the fir of ome e perienced hunters.
WE LMO T hot a man once like that, too. We were in the Savannah River wamp, hunting turke . The flock had been scattered for an hour and \ e had begun to "call." A turke an wered our yelp on the other ide of a big slough. We called again and then heard him fly. We braced our_elve , knowing that he wa coming traight in to where we sat. But he did not appear.
Ho\ long we at waiting for that turke , we do not know. It mio-ht have been a minute or it might have been an hour. We were ke ed to the hig-he t pitch becau e we knew the turkey had cro ed the slough and was on hi way to where we at. If we remember correctly, we even released the safety atch on our gun and held the barrel ready to fire in tantly. e had mi d turke s before when the o-ot a fleeting glimp e of u and \ ere gone into the bru h b fore we ould rai e our gun.
uddenly the bu he- shook immediately in front of where we sat. We threw up the gun waitino- for ju t on glimp . of the bird. The bu he shook again and a m9n tuck hi head through. He was crawling on his hand and knee. To thi very day we till do not know what kept u from squeezing that'trio-o-er. He had scared up the turke acro the lough and had crawled on throuo-h the wamp, ver 10\ 1 , trying to find the other birds.
novic . Almo t a dead no i e.
H E SPOITED u and poke pleasantly. He looked at u sharply when we did not repl . For two minute we had to keep \ allowino- our adam' apple before \ e could repl .
One moment of care is brief. Eternity in that dark hole in the ground i lono-. A friend natch d out of the living world by our 0\ n carele hand, will carry ou through a life of remorse. A lifetime under tho e circum tance would be longer than eternity.
It' so imple 0 ea y, to b careful with a gun. And it oon become a habit.

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Perhaps it is not seemly for a man not yet thirty to have reminiscences, but Vereen Bell recalls many incidents with peculiar brightness

T HE small noi es of daylight were beginning. The thrushes whirred in the bm h, sounding more like insect than birds. A squirrel moved precariou ly out on a thin lacework of leaves and limb, ilhouetted against the faint kyo
It wa cold in those deep woods, and my gun wa frozen teel in my hand. Somewhere in the great darkness of trees ahead of me, a flock of turkeys was roosting. Range had said so. Ran<Te lived on the place and we knew he would not be wrong about the turkey. We lir t got acquainted with Range at high chool, during rece s one day, when he had been walking around making peculiar wild-note noises with some ort of device. Upon inquiry, we found that thi instrument was a turkey bone, and used for yelping up wild turkeys. The hunting of Floyd and myself had up until that time mostly been confined to bluejay and quirrel shooting, and the idea of anybody' being fortunate enough to kill a wild turkey awed u . But Range said, "You come down to our place. I'll roost the turkey and next morning you'll <Tet a hot."
I remember the roaring lightwood lire that warmed us at Range' father's house. I envied country boys, who lived in wood inhabited by deer and wild turkey, and who warmed their tai Is at hot lightwood fire in tead of sullen and gaseous coal.
ow we were in the swamp, and daylight was coming. Floyd was seventy-five yards below me. In the di tance, a crow cawed. Suddenly there was noi e of another kind. I can't describe the exact ound of it because I don't think I ever knew the exact ound of it. It wa jut noise, of a blood- tilTing sort. I saw a wild turkey flying, high, going away. And somewhere, another. And then, below me, a shotgun began cra hing. The detonations ring in my ears yet. A big gobbler wa quarterin<T toward me, and Floyd, at fairly long range, was firing at it. He had a six- hot pump gun. ow the turkey, unhit, was almost to me, flying low, thirty feet above the ground. Along the double barrel of my cold gun, I aw the waving beard, the powerful wing. My nervous finger felt the front trigger. I ,a about to kill a turkey!
4

T H the turkey collapsed in mid-air, and tumbled earthward, grazing the top of a palmetto clump, and strikin<T earth with a thud.
I ran toward the place, not fifteen yard from me, to be SUTe the turkey wa dead. He wa . I leaned over and stretched out one of the wings, touching for the fir t time a wild turkey. Then Floyd, white-faced with excitement, came crashing through the brush.
"Who killed him, me or you?" he asked. "Your la t hot <Tot him," I said. "I didn't hoot." People often peculate on the thought of a drowning man. I have come fairly clo e to drowning, and my only thought was," ow isn't this a hell of a situation to get myself in?" (I had tried to swim a alt creek in boots and hunting clothes, holding my gun above the water with one hand.) To me, it' more'intere ting to peculate on the thought of a hunting man. Or perhaps I should ay the remini cences. There are many stories that you recite in your turn around the campfire, and you tell the ones that have the large t amount of drama and unusualne . You tell about the double you made on prigs, or the rare blue goo e you killed in Florida, or the rainbow you caught which had another fly in it mouth. But there's another group of remini cences that you don't tell, because they aI'en't the telling kind. But they stick with you, for no rea on at all; the only common quality of them is the vi idness with which you recall them. Why do I remember that? you wonder. But you do remember it, and with a reaIi m that brings back the scene in photographic clearne , and you hear the sound again, and feel the shape, and even mell the smell . Perhaps it i Dot seemly for a man not yet thirty to be having remini cences. But I recall many incident or scenes with a peculiar brightness. Like the time that first turkey flew toward me, only to fall dead at my feet.
,tr OTHER time, I sat in a blind at daylight, waiting
f t for wild turkey to come into a patch where they
had been feeding. Through the lit of the blind, we could ee them now in the woods beyond, hear them cratchu1g. I made out the dim shape of one turkey on a log. They were headed for the patch.
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like the time that first turkey fell dead at his feet.
Then a lost calf began bawling down in the woods. The turkey got worried, and became till. The calf kept calling for hi mama, while I quietly cu ed him.
Finally the calf' mama found him, and peace reigned and the turke began mo ing again and I killed a t, enty-pound gobbler. I barely remember shooting the turke . But I can hear that calf bawling any time I top and think about it.
Did ou ever try to IUde on a hell bar? The time I tried it wa on a goo e hunt. The morning flight had not been good, and I decided to wade acros a flat to another point and go to the hidden kiff. Halfway acro the flat, I heard a far-off ah-hank. I topped, up to my knee in mud and muck and saw coming toward me four Canailian geese. Land was five minutes away in either direction-too far. I slogged my wa to a tiny island of oy ter hell, and looked back. The gee e were till coming. I fiattened my elf on the shell, in my excitement even tried to burrow down into them a bit. For the benefit of tho e , ho rna be caught in a imilar predicament at some future time, I will ay here that burrowing into an 0 ter bar i not a practical m thod of concealment. At any rate, the gee e came on until they were within a hundred and fifty yard of me then, their keen eye easily pottina me they wung off to the left and went their way.
You ee? othing dramati about that incident. And yet I will ne er forget the feel of those oy ter- hell edge again t my knee.
or will I forget the time, when we were hooting nipe in the marsh. nipe are notoriou ly hard to hit, but bing a nap _hot, I have found them not too difficult, becau e I hoot them before they tart their cork crewing. On thi day, however, the wind wa high, and the snipe were flu hing wild. They flu hed thirty yard or more ahead of us and that' ay they had u completely licked. I didn't kill a bird. We hunted all that afternoon and saw a few ducks fly over, and aw blackfi. h wimming in five inches of water where the had ventured from a nearby ba ou. ot one bird wa killed. I can't think of any rea on why I should remember that hunt. But I do.
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THERE are a lot of things about bird doas that occaionally run through my mind like fla he from a technicolor cinema. I remember ~eeing a dog point a quail squatting in plain view on a tum~. I saw another dog in a katchewan point a prairie chicken that tupidly at on a limb in plain view.
But one thing I will not er forget i the ight of a certain old meat dog retrieving.
It wa like thi . The doa wa owned b a farmer with whom Iocca ionally hunted. He wa a drop, half pointer, and half setter, and he never, on any blue ribbon for look in a bench how. But in pite of his crook d tail and faded coat, he was a dog with a hunting heart; and when the air wa cri p and cold to hi likin a he wa a fa t-going bird dog. A to tyle, he had onl the quality of intensity. When he hit a hot cent, he got down on his hands and knees, a it were, and cra\ led; a ort of behavior not approved by Dr. Benton King and other field trial judges. Instead of erect point, with head and tail magnificently up, now lay down to point. Even so, there was that quality of intensity, and it i the mo t important one in style.
Well, in the years that I hunted Snow-now dead under automobile wheel like 0 many good bird dog he did a number of unusual things. One of them wa the trick you sometime hear abqut, of leaving a point to find a 10 t hunter. I had been looking for now for a good while, and knew from experience that he wa on point. But he was nowhere to be found.
Then, he came looking for me, and when he saw me, he immediately turned and went back in the dire tion from which he had come. I followed him rapidly and cleared a ri e in time to ee now go directly to a spot bet, een a clump of econd-growth pine and point with an utmost a urance. Then he left the point, made a quick whipping circle, and relocated the bird. They had moved off perhap fifty yard while he had been looking for me. But they were there, and he had brought me to them.
S OW was a light colored dog, and, ould ha e been ea y to find in the wood if it hadn't been for hi tendency of pointing couchant. Many time I have walk c1 within forty yards of him, and not ee him becau e he lay on the other ide of a log. One day I saw him working on a hot scent near a lough; then he di appeared. I knew he had not left the slough, but when I got th r ,
now wa nowhere in sight. I walked back and forth, looking behind log and tree, and oc a ionall y topping to wonder if be could ha e aone on another ca t without my seeing him. Snow, lying quite clo e by in a gallberr clumb; apparently aot tired of my un ucce ful earching, 0 with the utmo t caution, he ro to IU feet. till pointing; and, of cour e ) saw him. lthouah I'm a bird-dog man from the ground up, I don't put much tock in some of the torie of dog' intelligence. But I do think that this ill-bred old dog tood up 0 I ould ee him.
All thi happened, however, after now came into m po e ion. The incident I remember mo t vividl wa the first hunt that now and I made together. The farmer
(Continued on page 29)
The author of Swamp Water takes you be-
hind the scenes with his gun and dog
and drops the highlights in your lap.
5

The turkey is the king-the greatest and grandest game bird of the world.

I CALLED him Hippo. ot because of hi ize, as you might u pect, but for an entirely different rea on. I called him Hippo

trophies. The e trophie are the beard of great gobblers, birds that roamed the wild Savannah River swamp country, beard and purred

becau e if I called him "Doc" he lea and with each of them goes a

might ock me. Doctor hate like tory. A tory of the king.

poi on to be called Doc. And ince

Because the turkey i the king-

Hippocrate wa the fir t great physi- the greatest and grandest game bird

cian I beaan with Hippocrates which in the world. Once common from

, as much too long for the wamp coast to coast, from Canada to the

country, and it became abbreviated Florida keys, he ha been ruthle ly

to Hippo which he didn teem to trapped and lauahtered until only a

mind. It stuck. The urgeon i a areat turke

fragment is left to add glamor and glory to the wilde t stretche of our

hunter. ext to his ollection of sun- woodlands.

dry part of the human ana tom , removed from grateful patient, ranks

et he appears to be holding his own at pre ent. HaITi~d by row,

hi colle tion of turkey callers and wild ats, coon, possum, kunks, certain

We built a cabin in the swamp and called it Moccasin Lodge.

hawks, and by hi great-

est enemy,

man, the

wild turkey

has r i en

above th e m

all and by

heer agac-

ity and, is-

dom hoI d

his place and

number. He

IS even com-

ing back

well at place

where he has been aranted rea onable protection, and he can thrive in any communit where there i a reaon able feeding and hiding range.
I doubt if there i a place in the world where the conditions are better for him to thrive than in that tablelike lowland that stretches from Augusta to the ea on both side of the Savannah River. Thi country is not the boggy, insubstan tial quagmire that the word wamp connote, but a table-land, hard and dry underfoot e 'cept in time of flood when it is a raaing no-man's land covered by swirling yellow water; when every bit of flot am arries a wamp bunny and when the wild gobbler rest in trees to look dm n with jaundiced eye at the encompa sing flood.
T HIS is the avannah River wamp ounh' with its deer, black bear, coon, water moccasin, pileated woodpecker, owl, distiller and wild turk y . It is a man' country and it will break your heart if you are oft. Two to ten mile wide and about 200 miles of serpentine length it provide a natural sanctuary for the wildest of our wild creatures.
Hippo and I learned this country from scratch. We had no guide. W procured maps from the Coa t an I Geodetic urvey. We carried a compass and we explored thi wilderness

Long Live the King

and loved iL. e built a cabin d ep in it heart, hri tened it Mocca in Lodge. To build it we Aoated lumber thirt -five mile down the river from Augusta.
In the a annah Ri er wampland the wild turke i untainted with the Je_ l' dome tic breed. Many anatomical differences denote th difference between wild and dome tic turkeys but the invariable mark for the wood man-for the man who know the orth American wild turkey-is the ch tnut bro\ n of the tip of the tail feather of the wild bird. He ha no white feathers there and that i ymboli _ Th tame bird invariabl ha the tail feather tipped \ ith white.
This applie only to the ea tern wi Id turk y-Meleagris gallopavo silvestris-which i- the G orgia bird. Ther are, in fact, six ub- pe ie or varietie of the \ ild turke four of which occur in the nited tate. Th
orth American wild turkey occurs, in the main, from Texas ea t and n rth.
The wild bird i trimmer \ ith a finer heen to the feather. Hi brain bo' i larger. Hi wattle ar not blood red, nor do the degenerate to de\ lap a in th dome tic bre d.
T HE wild turkey is polygamou , on gobbler erving a harem of hen. During the mating gobbling) sea on which be!!in in earl arch, the gobbler trut hi limb atop a tall c pres of a morning until he hear the du tive call of one of hi harem. Thi he will an wer with a re ounding gobble. oon afterward he will A to the around to trut and crape hi wing on th ground gobbling, tr ing to lure his hen to hi

0\ n lit tie

ala de. Fail-

ing t hat h

will ome-

ti me ao to

them. Thi i

a daily pro-

edure until the hen be-

A pair of big bronze gobblers bagged ,n a Southeast Georgia swamp.

gin to e t.

The gobbling sea on i wi ely aaainst that black-hearted villain, the

clo ed to hunting in Georgia. nder crow. For two or three da prior to

th fier urge of creation the gobbler the hatchin a she , ill not lea e the

lose orne of hi cunnin<Y. I com- ne t for an rea on.

m nd thi ea on ho\ e r to turkey

hunters who really 10 e the wamplands. Go without a gun. Go with

THE ung famil tended , ith the gr at t care. er shortl

your turke call, and ou will ex- after the I arn to A , they ro t on

peri nce a thrill in eing thi glori- low limb. A the in l' a e the range

us, pompou bird strut and how of their Aiaht the mother bird take

ff before hi laclie. It i a mistaken id a that the old

them to roo t in tall tree over water. When th huntin a eason pen the

gobbler ma be killed off \ ithout rna \ eigh from i to nine pound .

d triment. The yearling gobbler do The wilderne ha taken it- toll.

not er e the hen . Con equentl if orne of tb m ha e peri h d from

the older CYobbler ar killep off, the early \ lling which turkey do not

egg will be terile and ther will be tand 'ell. orne have paid the pen-

no repla ement of birds.

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The moth l'

turke i a

olicitou of h l' charO"e

It required a blind and three days to photograph this flock.

a an bird

or animal in

all of nature.

B fore he

leaves her

ne t-which

i on the

ground- he

cover it

carefully

\ i t h leaves

aaain t pred-

ator and

particularly

A dark shadow turned majestically and drifted back into the rock-bound depths of the pool.

T HE

had already climbed

beyond the towering granite

wall of antahala, when I

checked into the tanding Indian

anagement Area of the antahala

ational Fore t.

" ou're a little late" the ranger

aid, 'but on the fir t day of open

ea on that doesn't matter much. The

fi h haven t been tried and, ill prob-

abl trike all day."

Hi word, in tead of calming m

anxiet at being late, only erved to

increa my anticipation of thi day.

For year I had heard of the bia rain-

bO\ trout of upper antahala River.

ome of my Waltonite friend had

fi hed the stream back in tho e day

,hen it wa nece ary to pack in a

, hole day aero the ridge. ow a

winding road trailed down through

the gorge along the river.

I pulled on my boot, put my rod

together and slid into the icy water.

My fishing day had begun. The stream

wa lovely, with ample white water

and easy wading. The Master's hand

had been con iderate when he laid

out thi fi hing our e. Tree and shrubs growing beside the stream did not bend over to grab my line or unuspecting fly and there were many places where I could lay the line full into dark pools made by the bending tream or by roaring water fall . Between the pools were many flats of rippling water with deep, dark center loughs.
Almost an hour after I had en tered the tream I \ a tanding in one of the e flat. I had ju t hooked a fish, too mall to keep, and wa bringing him to my net. uddenly I noticed a dark hadow. It grew out of the depth, pau ed for an instant to look at the small rainbow on the end of my line and then turned maje tically and drifted back into the rock-bound depths.
I HAD a udden attack of goosebwnps and with it, a fla h of inspiration. From his deliberate movement , it wa evident the big fish had not een me. I relea ed the little fi h a gently a po ible from the bite of

my hook and moved out of the stream.
Pulling my elf up 011 a huge boulder I lit my pipe and sat down to think the ituation over. The big rainbow wa feeding, or he would never have followed the maIler hooked fi h. Perhap he would trike the right kind of ca t.
A careful examination failed to reveal any kinks or fray in my leader. I knocked out m pipe and tepped out into the stream. everal fal e ca t placed the fly over the pool and I dropped it lightly in the current where it could float out the lower end.
The dark hackle failed and I changed to a black gnat. The fir t ca t brought the huge fi h out of hi t gian home. He la hed into the black gnat and wa off again, almo t a quickly as he had truck.
Again I waded ashore and sat down with my pipe. I pulled down my boot top to let my chilled knees oak up ome sun hine. I at there until I
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DISCUSSES THE RULES OF THE GAME

A LI K gu can disregard the law and not <Yet cau<Yht. There i n't a doubt of it. A ranger mu t often cover everal countie and he cant be in two place~ at the same time. Jut find out where he i going today and hunt or fi h in -ome other direction. imp Ie, i n't it? One might e en get by without making the general inve tment in a hunting licen e. If one i that kind of a <Yuy.
I wa sitting on the fifty-yard line at a football game when a lad made a fi rce tackle. Runner and tackler rolled beyond the side lin . The referee <Yot the ball, turned hi back and be<Yan to tep off the di tan e in ide the playing field. The bo ,ho wa tackled kicked hi opponent in the fac . The referee didn't see it. Th boy got by with omething. Ma b he' a proud of it. Maybe he laughed 0 er it later. I don't know.
Another time I ,a walking over a <Yolf cour e 100kin<Y for ome quail ne t to photograph. Coming throu<Yh the wood at the edge of a fairwa I came upon a player urreptitiou I mo ing hi ball. I think the call thi "improving hi lie." Whi h i quite d cripti e when you come to conider it. I waited for the match at the ei<Yhteenth and saw thi fellow' opponent pay up. The lie-improver surely did well b himself, or did he?
o doubt about it, a fellow can get by with thing in the wood. H can conceal an over-the-limit b a <Y.
othin<Y i ea ier. He can pick up a half-dozen ba b qua i I before th ea on open on the pretext of hooting dove. B the arne token h can forget a troke or two in a golf round and make all the difference in the world when he come to ttle up. Or the next time he pIa bridg he can impro e hi winnings b ome impl tem of con eyin<Y information to his partner whi h hi opponent will ne er u pect.
It i ju t about a easy to make uch a per on ee the light a it would be for a pig fancier to make hi holY go on a diet. Thi <Yu i out for him elf. IO u e to kid ourelv . There are guy in the world who ki k their opponent in the fa e when the referee i n't 100kin<Y, guy

with niblick toes who improve their lies <Yuy who wouldn t he itate to lip a ignal acro a card tabl . I like to believe there are fe, er of the e kind who roam the , ood . I do believe it.
N 01 E of u is too ainU , n r do we hanker after wing. It , ould be a whoppin<Y big temptation to an man to see a wild-turkey gobbler the day befor the ea on opened, and refu e him over the ights of old Bet y. Of course it would, but men have resi ted, men that I kno\ . I can think of a number of thing that \ ould tempt e en a incere portman but I m not talking about that.

r m talki ng about the man \I ho per-
i tentl holY 'our port and mine. Curiou about this ho<Yg fello\.
o malt r \ hat game he pIa ome of the rule dont uit him, and th that di pI a e him he , on"t abide.
And of cour e he foster the idea that the honest p rt man who reports him i all kinds of a kunk. -But let' look at it a little loser.
To whom doe the game and fi-h belon<Y? It isn't the property of the man who own the land. ot in these
nited tate. Ian do, ner can pend hi own ca~h to restock hi tream and cov:1 and till he cannot take <Yam or fi~h bond the
(Continued on page 26)

What's all this howling about? I ain't a coon.

o TDOOR GEORGIA December 1940

9

DOG

TALES

AFE week ago 10hn tarke, the herilf of our county, told me the tory of Old Buck, hi tenant's 'po lim hound. According to the sheriff, Buck broke hi leg one afternoon recently but didn't let that top a 'pos urn hunt the first of the ea on, which had been planned for the night.
The sheriff declared that Buck went hunting ated in a wheelbarrow and treed four po urn without ever leaving thi makeshift ambulane.
I wrote the tor for the newpaper I repre ent and it covered the countr overnight. It eemed to trike dog lover when they \ ere in a repon ive mood and the herilf began to get letters from all ections of the ountr , I got one or two myself. There was an occa ional Doubting

Thoma among the writer but far more people, who were experienced dog men, not only accepted the tory but a ked for the privilege of buyina either Old Buck or one of hi pup.
And there were many other who were reminded of feat of their own dog or dog of their friend . They wrote letter, called over the telephone, or carne in person to I' late tales of dogs that u ed their brain and performed marvelous deed.
orne of the e dog have long ince gone to their reward in orne canine paradi e, , hile other, prai e be, are till with their rna tel' .
The fir t tory carne from a learned judge who \ rote of a little bitch that once trailed an e aped convict for three day and acros two Late. The third niaht, with her ear torn to
It all started when Old Buck treed with a broken leg.
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hred and all four feet drippin a blood he was lifted to her rna tel' addle and ontinued the cha e from there unLil the convict wa captured at daybreak next morning. he got the cent from the bu he which had been brush d b the convict' head and shoulder. Occa ionally he 10 t the trail and stopped yelping. Then her rna tel' zig-zagged hi hor e unLil he caught the cent again.
I repeated thi tory to a chief-ofpolice, who in hi ounger day had wide experience with convict and dogs. He aid the little bitch wa undoubtedly a Lop flight hound but not extraordinar . He knew of numerou imilar ca e .
4 NOTHER story came in about a l-l..pointer, with an injured leg that pointed bird from horseback without mi~sing a cov . The same writer al 0 told a tale of a pig with a piece of a dog' no e grafted on it nout. Howe er, thi i a colle tion of dog torie and pig have no place in it.
The ne t story i about a bird dog that found its no e con enient for other thing than pointing birds. The owner of Lhi dog said he couldn't under tand wh hi scuppernong were 0 low getting ripe thi fall. The my Lery wa cleared one day when he happened to e pot going toward the scuppernong vine. He said that doa stood on it hind leg and nifI'ed around until it got every "'rape that had beaun to ripen. He vowed pot never pulled a gr en one and never mi d a ripe one.
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DEER A D GROUSE
Hunters who went on the upervised deer and hog hunt in the Chattahoochee ational Forest area la t month aw sev ral wild turkeys and many grou e while they froze near a tree waiting for a buck. They were convinced that grou e are so plentiful that they now can be hunted, under
upervi ion for a hort eason, without fear of r~tarding the comeback of thi fine game bird in the North Georgia hi'ls. Thi wa in the Blue Ridge area.
ow comes Big Ed WalI, ranger in the Lake Burton area, with similarly glowing tales of both grouse and deer in hi territory. This area has been stocked for only a short time, but Ed in i ts that "it won't be long before we could have a nne hunt."
'I believe that there are enough native grouse," Wall a}'s, "to warrant a hort open eason--say of 15 day, with a llinit of two per sea on."
\Vith turkey al 0 on the upgrade, the Lake Burton section promi e to be "ready" for deer and turkey hooting within two year and don't be urpri ed to see the return of legalized grou e
hooting by next winter. There i little danger that controlled huntinO" would
eriou Iy affect the population of thi wily bird in hi native haunt deep in the mountain coves.
FI H STORIE
\\. S. Gibbon, the "\Vater Cre King" of Cave Spring, i the late t to report the catch of a catfi h with a plug. The fi h didn't actually trike the plug, but it required a nine-hook bait to bring him in. Fi hi nO" with sucker from hi ere pond in Cedar
reek. where wall-eyed pike are frequently caught. Gibbon hooked a channel cat. The fish pulled a ucker. line and pole into the creek and headed down tr am. then up tream. On thi purt Gibbon ca t a plug at the pole and line. He halted the run with a bad tangle and brought in a 7-pounder which he declared outfou ht any ba he had ever caught.
A Thomaston angler took a fourpound bas from the Flint River by accident. The bass struck at a small minnow near the bank and ran afoul of an abandoned et hook pole. The pole entered the mouth and went through .he right gill and before the n h could wiggle off he was captured.
Thc end of a wary "mule" bas that thumbcd hi no e a't the choice offerings of hundred likewise was accidcntal. In hi fight for freedom he

halted a grinding mill on Frank Gray's :-lcCant Pond, near Butler. The bas, a I-1-pounder, wa crushed and temporarily stopped the mill. \Vhen the miller removed him from the wheel and laid him on the bank a 4-1-pound turtle crawled out to fea t. The reptile wa . lain and in one big day the reign of two long-time feudi t wa ended.
P 0 CHAMPIO June Robert and his mother. 11r . J. P. Robert, of ilvertown, pay no
June Roberts took this 71j,,-pound bass on a "winter" cast in Potato Creek.
attention to the sea on . That i , the warm "'eather fi hing ca~on. \Vhile other fi hermen are churning the tream and lakes during the ummer, Robert and hi mother are oilin up for the fall and winter. \\Then other fi hennen called it off until next pring, the e champion of .p on County began ca ting-ahyay' with artificial lures.
Potato Creek, where many failed to get even a strike alI the sumJner, yielded 32 pound of largemouth bass to the mothcr- on team in one week.
nd they were nshing "mostly for fun" a June put it.
Hi- largest catch hown herewith, was a 7 1A-pounder; Mr-. Roberts' bigge t fish weighed five pounds, five ounces. June also took bass from the same streaJn that weighed four and five pounds.
uccess of late fall and winter fishermen over the tate, particularly in middle and southern Georgia, indicates

o TDOOR GEORGIA. December 1940

that this i the time of the year to get the big one . They're hungry now and when the tream are low and clear and the prize fi h, widJ their ummer
luggi hne gone, hit harder and fa ter.
RABBIT POLICEMAN
Ever. ince the rangers replaced the outmoded ame warden they perhap have been called all kind of name. To some they till are warden and to other they're game protector .
But to an p on ounty negro hunter Ranger Parker Smith is a rabbit policeman.
It eem that thi du ky pursuer of rabbit wa warning ome of hi partners again t hunting 'thout no license ,'.
One of them didn't like the idea of laying down the fee, and indicated he would try to outrun the ranger "effen I ee 'im fust."
"Dat don't mean nuthin' niggah, dis Mi tah mil, he de mos' fastest rabbit policeman in dese woods. You beller git dem licen e , jes like lis."
And down in a outh Georgia county a depnty sheriff told the tory of a colored trpck driver who almo t wrecked tr}'ing to avoid a wildcat that crossed the road.
"Ya ah, bo . I wuz bleeged to, cau e 1 ain't got no hunting licen e . And di here niggah ain't tal,.;n' no chance wid dat game warden man."
A a rule negro hunter are fair sportsm.en. In the colored community of Bon Air, in Richmond County, every male large enough to carry a gun carrie a 1940 hunting licen e.
Q AIL DEBATE
It's till a to -up betw en Lee and Terrell a to which i the "quail capital of the world," Go to Lee and they will Au h ix covey of birds in your face in 30 minute. Cro over into Terrell and they'll do the same thing and tell you that the birds are bigger and the covey Ay fa ter.
Thc fact of the maller i that (lither COUJlty offers IJerfect hunting conditions and the bag JiJuit to anybody who can shoot into a herd of callie and ticklc a many a one.
J. H. Pace of Bronwood, however, offers what he believes is proof that TcrrclI i the top section.
,
"Cotton Boll" Bobwhite.
Everything work for the produ tion of quail. he insi Is.
"If you don't believe it, take a look at thi ."
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11

The Force

System's

the Way &V

T H1 i a tory of ' force training" or "how Tippy came around." Tippy wa ired by Tip' Top y' Top Georgia's out tandinO' field trial dog of 1939. But he wa gun h and Loui G. John on, ju t out of 01leO'e and tricken with a bad ca e of bird dog fever, couldn't hoot bird over a dog that ran from pop gun or anythinO' that even looked like it would hoot.
Loui had been told that Tippy gun h ne wa incurable, but he had hope that after I told him that there wa no doO' that could not be orrected to orne degree, even thouO'h they miO'ht b gun "timid" after long choolinO'.
I learned from Ti p py owner that he wa a daughter of Champion Rum on Farm Bellaire and that her br edjng went back to old lli p Rap. And in her blood wa that of John Proctor, Tip of Joyeu e, eaview Rex and 0 the l' field trial im-
mortals. 0 n e 1 0 0 k at the
trim and rae Tippy. on top of what I knew of her ba kground old me. But here
Iwa- a doO' that I pitied. a doO' with ize and markjng and breedinO', but a dog that came out of th car with her

tail between her legstimid and hy.
We went to a field near Atlanta and relea ed Tipp , to get a line on how he work d. he
shot out like a bullet and her tail and head were hiO'h a- he chop-
ped the field to piece like a plow b hind a high-geared tractor. lark flushed and Tippy gave cha e, ipping and appinO'- omethinO' I like in a oung dog.
I am trictly a gun doO' man. Ho\ ever, every dog that I ha e ever owned
ame from a long lin of field trial \ inner. I have pointer and etters and am partial to neither, but I am a fanatic on breeding. I don't care a whoop what a dog looks like. Bird sen e, the will to hunt, performance and obedien e are my l' quirements.
My method of training are like those of any other dog trainer. I u e the force ystem and in all my experi nee I have never laid a whip on a pupp or young dog. I u e a imple little choke collar. which doe nor tear the kin, and it wa this that I prepared to u-e on Tipp .
T HE collar i made of a _mall chain, two feet 10nO'. To one end of thi i attached a half-inch ring. The chain i looped through thi ring and a one-inch rinO' i attach d n the loose end. Thi type of collar can be lipped easil over a dog' head. It i imple and humane.
Tippy' introduction to the choke wa in my back ard, a I b licve dogs mu t be broken and schooled here before entering the field.
I slipped the hoke over her head

Trainer Smith introduces Tippy to the choke.
and tied a 15-foot lea h to the large ring brinO'ing it around my back. I O'ra ped the lea_h about two feet from th d g' collar with my left hand, holding her cIo e to my knee. right hand held the 100 e end of the leash. I tatted with my left foot for'ard and ga e Tippy the order 'heel." he moved ahead of m . And I jerked backward. Then repeated the order, 'heel."
Within a fe\ day Tippy beCTan to under tand. It wa then that he \ a allowed to move forward without restraint. If he failed to drop at heel on command I reminded her with a quick jerk. TIli wa repeated tim after time and finally the dog worked without the hoke and always reponded.
h ,a no\ ready for retrie inO' Ie. on , and in a garaO'e ,here he couldn't be di tracted b r neiO'hbor ' dog the choke came back into u e. I placed a ix-inch round ti k in Tippy' mouth, giving the order, , hold.' he naturall didn't like thi mouthfull of \ ood and attempted to drop it. I held her to it and finally he O'ave it up a u eles and held to
(Continued on page 18)

Beavers Georgia---

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HERE gia. To

are many thou ands

bea\'er in Georof citizen of thl

tate thi fact will come a a plea ant

surprise for thi animal's presence i

generally unknown becau e it habitat

i limited. And to tho e not initiated in

woodcraft the animal will 0 unno-

ticed. It i true that the tell-tale tump of

small tree and bu he which have

been cut by indu triou beaver are

ea ily een, but to tho e who only give

the e cutting a pa sing glance, it looks

like the workman hip of mall boy

out on a camping trip.

In the pa t ten year the population

of beaver ha increa ed in G orgia by

leaps and bound, tarting from a mere

fraction of what is now to be found in

our tream and pond. Trapping op-

eration had reduced thi valuable ani-

mal to carcity and farming operation

on an intensive cale likewi e had it

part in the reduction.

However, the beaver now ha a

place in Georgia' protected Ii t of ani-

mal and this ha been the main factor

in bringing it back in large number.

Beside thIs. a gradual hift of rural

people from the farm to the indu trial

areas, has left thousand of fertile

acre of bottom land and wamp to

million of eedlino- of tree, the fav-

ored food for beaver. mong uch

pecie are the weet gum. poplar or

tulip tree. the true poplar. and wild

cherry. The fir t three pecie are the

favored food in the Piedmont ection,

while wild plum, weet bay, tupelo gum

and even pine are utilized to ome ex-

tent. Corn from cultivated field i u ed

when thi i. available. the animal cut-

ting the talk at the ground and taking

the entire plant into the water before

eatin it. It i my belief that the pines

are cut more for the u e of the bru hy

top in the con truction of ne t than

for the food value of thi specie of

tree.

Beaver in Georgia do not follow the

cu tomary procedure of their larger

northern cou ins which build dam in

almo t everv locality thev choose to ettle. I n t~ad the): cOt~struct their

home in bank burrow. which are tun-

neled out from a point beneath the

urface of the water to a chosen place

under the root of a tree rowing ome

di tance back from the water. The u e

of dams, while an exception to the

rule in thi country, i resorted to on

occa ion. ually the dam are found

on mall creek or branche where the construction of uch a device i necesary to give the beavers ufficient depth of water for protection from predators, a means of entering their nest from under water and a place to tore their winter upply of food. ually the depth of the treams, their swiftne and ubjection to inten e flood in thi
tate make it not only unnece ary but impracticable for the beaver to contruct dams.
THE only beaver lodge which I have een in thi tate i located in Meri-
wether County at the head of :-Ia engill' Pond. Thi lodge, a far a can be a certained, i not in u e at thi time. It i approximately 30 feet long and about 20 feet wide. At its peak it i five feet above the level of the tream
feeding the pond. It i on a point
where a lough enter the main body
of the creek and is con tructed of thou-
sand of tick from willow. birch and poplar tree cut in the vicinity. Some
of the e tick have prouted and thi
ha resulted in a large number of tree

(for the most part willow) growing from the lodge.
The beaver is the large t rodent in )J'orth merica. R cord how that a beaver caught in the north weighed 110 pound. This however, wa a Canadian Beaver (Ca tor canaden i canaden i ), while it maller cou in, the Southern Beaver ( a tor canadensi occidentali) (found in thi tate) reache a weight of from 40 to 70 pound.
Like all rodent he has four trong teeth adapted to gnawing and it i with the e that he cut tree and eats the bark and bud. The lip are con tructed o that they may be clo ed behind the teeth. thus allowing the animal to gnaw without having water enter it mouth when feeding or cutting under water.
The eye of the beaver are mall and
it i evident that hi :ght is poor, but
hi hearing i very keen. \Vhen diving,
valve in the ear and no e clo e and
prevent water frol11 entering tho e or-
gan . (Colltilll/cd 011 page 30)

A beaver dam forms a trout pool on Rock Creek.

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Just out of shooting range, a cloud of ducks of all species forms over a Georgia coastal marshland.
Thirty-Thirty

! FTER reading the man recent . f t report about the augmented
ho t of our 'ildfowl I am oiling up the old fowling piece and planning an on et again t the regiment of 'qua k" in the near future.
In thi connection, I wi h to register a prote t again t the continuou griping of 0 many members of the Old Duck hooter Inc. again t the wildfowl regulation promulgated by the Fi hand ildlife ervice. If they will just cooperate for a year or two longer and "hold their hor 'they can be a ured of a letting up in irkome re tri tion and' we hall ha e fat year of wildfowling."
That your appetite for uch sport may be wh tted, I am now recounting a tale of the "old day" when the k wa the limit, not ten ducks or three paltr ae e but a pi ture of what the future hould bring forth, partially, at lea t.
Forty-four year ago come Michaelma , I had arrived at thi beach bordering the tlantic. who continuation outhward form a barrier reef bet\ een the ocean and tho e broacl ound which for time immemorial have furnished winter feeding ground for innumerable ho t of wildfowl. De erted at that ea on of

the year, a huge rambling frame caravan ery painted a gaudy yellow trimmed with bright red and urrounded by a mall colony of paintI shacks gave evidence of the typical summer r ort of the inetie. Today, a huge brick tructure take the place of the red and yellow montrosity, while for mile on nd a conglomeration of urfside building fringe the and uch a you would encounter along the New ler ey hore.
I was on m fir t trip to that duckina club down on the bay \ hich for a number of year, wa the cene of my Christma vacation and of a eries of thrill never to be forgotten. A livery stable, run by tormont and Drinkwater, furni hed a driver and an old carry-all. It wa drawn b a pair of tout, but plodding mule which carried u and our hooting dud twent -five mile do, n the bea h to Barbour' . Beyond the line of urf, as we neared our de tination, legion of duck, gee e and wan rode the ,ave a if drawn up on

dre parade to honor the vi itor. t Barbour' a group of gray, weather beaten cabin , , e cro_ ed over to the bay, or ound, ide of the barrier reef, and drew rein at Rickety Dock. A we disembarked and un loaded our good and chattel, the driver threw the rein over the mules' head and tepped down to produce a erie of bla ts from a huge cow-horn which hung from a nail on the back porch of a neighboring building.
cro the leaden water of the ba , a half mile awa la a tretch of low, mar hy land where, black again t the ro we tern sky, loomed a ettlement imilar to that where' e waited. From the murk of that faIth r hore glided a shove- kifI rap i d 1Y poled in our dir ction, and shortly we reached the island to be greeted cordially by the keeper, Waterfield.
e oon were comfortably located before a huge open fire without a care for the morrow, save that condition ,ere favorable for a u ce ful hoot. Before upper aterfield conducted me up to the cupola which

A Perfect Day in a Duck Blind When Birds CluUered the Weaving Sky That Had no Limit.

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December 1940 0 TDOOR GEORGIA

Lesser scaups (bluebills) are streaking targets off the water.

topped the two- tory, farmhou e-t pe clubhouse where an old, bra tele-
ope on a tripod enabled me to obtain a d tailed view of our surrounding.
The pro p ct was thrilling to an red-blooded wildfowler. far as the
ye could ee to the w t there tr tched mar hiland, split up by coves and creek each of which carried a large quota of duck gee e and s~ an. In Hou e Co fi e minutes walk from the hou e, the gla~ picked out bun he of mallard and black duck widgeon, gadwall and teal dabblin" around it reedy hores, two squadron of Canada who fed oraciou I in the middle and orne forty wan the cy"net di tin"ui hed from their nowy progenitors b their gray plumage glided gracefull like to ailboat in the till water at the head of the cove. The dre parade at " urf- ide" had been di missed and the ariou units were peeding back to their evening meal. The ky wa dotted, ith the hurryinoho t : great . s of gee e, long line of wan, cloud of duck. The whi tIe of a million wing, th honking of the goose battalions and the whoopin" of the wan t my nerve a-tingling and m trigger ling r itching.

sula jutted out into the ound. "Gordon's Bend," th blind on it southern bulge a half a mile away was, according to Howard, a choice re ort for Canva becau e of the wild celer bed that luxuriated in the muddy bottom between our tand and this other. t' Rocky Point,' the blind at the peninsula tip, ' i tuh Davi (the club' pre ident) done kill hi elf over er hundred redhead in de big westerly blow las' winter. ' Hm ever we were in for a morning of watchful but futile, waiting a the fowl were not stirring in the light airs.
A darmled market hunter "rigged" his battery outfit directly in front of u but a few hundred yard out and the occa ional pod of du ks ,hich decided to go vi iting, called on thi chap in tead of on u. Perhaps it eemed a more popular cafeteria as there were more wooden decoy duck parked there than in front of our blind. Our competitor didn't tay long as the going was too low for him, and "took up" in a couple of
hour . I a\ one bunch of ix Canvas
dart to him and the h 0 urvivor
from the en uing fu illade were fool-
i h enough to give our' et" the once-
over where they 'sta ed put" a I
made a lucky double. t noon our
own patience, a exhau ted a I had

added only two bluebills to the core,
and we ?ead,ed for reo clubhou e a our belhes foh "r wI' and n eded orne hot grub.
Two years later one morning I regretted 0 de ply that I had not cho en "Lanes" or rather, "Gordon's Bend." The da before I had killed the fir t Can as of the ea on at the latter stand, a peeding incomer so high overhead that he eemed like a bumblebee, but a load of O. t\ o's from my hea eight-gauge had connected. I had drawn "choice of point' that e enino- and in the morning, ,ith a nor'we ter rattlin" the blind, Howard and I d cided on
outh Point a he had marked horde of redheads following th channel which cut by the blind. nhappil, oon after we had set out, the wind died down and a thick fog enveloped us. We could hear the whi tIe of , in"s from th treading fo~ I but the "ra bla,nket hid our decoy. e tayed out the da in the vain hope that the eil, ould lift and trudged ba k in the venin" with t\ 0 redhead and one "oose. Leroy Davi, who had cho en "Gordon' Bend,' awaited our omin" and eemed undul anxious to view our bag. A grin of poorly concealed atisfaction pread over hi round fa e as he hu tIed u into the "UJuoom.
What a i"ht "reeted my jealous "aze! The long center table wa lined with Can as, mo tl drake. Davis had killed t\ ent -five at "Gordon s Bend' despite the fact that he had come in to lunch ri"ht in the middle of the flight, and, according to "0 '
oore, his guide, had used five boxes of shells. Old Bob Smith, the clerk of the Prince s Anne County court, who always saw to it that we were provided with hot toddies when we came in at evening chilled from the da' hoot (he had a china todd kettle with a id handle' hich im-
mered on the h arth before Ih open
fire), had downed ten more of these
(,Continued on page 26)

CO E day the next morning, regular bluebird weather with ju t a breath f a we terly breeze rippling the sound, found me ensconced in "Lane ," the tand which I had drawn. The gr ater part of the feathered ho t had retreat d to the 'Beach Club" but there wa a izable raft
of fo' lout yonder in the ba . Be ide
me at Howard Cooper the bayman, , ho ,a to be m choic a "uide for a Ion" a I attended the club.
hort and tock, hi brown fac
with its tiny r d mousta he bore ever
a note of cheer from its merry blue
e . To my right, a mar h penin-

Canada geese frightened from feedin 9 on a shallow cove.

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100 PER CENT COMMUNITY-The little co m m unity of Bon Air, near Augusta, is comprised largely of colored sportsmen. This community boasts that every man large enough to carry a gun bought his hunting license this year. Here are a few of the colored sportsmen, receiving Ii c ens e applications from Wildlife Ranger Ed Friend of Augusta.

PRE-SEASON QUAil-Ali of these birds were killed legally in one of the 18 counties of southern G e 0 r g i a where the quail season opens on November I instead of November 20 as in the remainder of the state. Some of the quail are mature. The majority are not. The five small quail below weig hed exactly the sam e as the t h re e mature birds above.

MIGHTY WOODSMAN-Pearly Barrs lives on the Ogeechee River in Screven County. Pearly is a woodsman from his finger tips to his brogans. He moves through the woods with the grace of the deer and the silence of the wild turkeys he hunts. His shoulders are broad and powerful despite his 74 years.

NEW KIND OF TRAP-This aerial photograph sh arranged to make "finger traps." The finger n.il slats. Fish are washed by the strong current out upo
Camera Stor
from Ou

FOREST TRAGEDY-On the day the dove season opened in Georgia's Northern Zone, a wildlife ranger snapped a picture of fledgling doves in the nest. One week later, the ranger returned to the site where he had taken his first picture. This is what he found. The parent birds had been killed legally. The infants died of starvation.

em how the rocks in the Savannah River were
il of each trap is a trough built of wooden
o the traps, where they are unable to escape.
~es
;door
Georsia

PIONEER TRANSPORTThis boat was born in the heart of an ancient cypress tree. Hewn from solid wood, it has weathered the winters and summers of fifty-one years. Its first job was to haul supplies and fertilizer across the Ogeechee River before the days of bridges and paved highways. During recent yea IS it has been converted into a skiff for fishing, duck-shooting and squirrel hunting. If you can ride a one-wheel bicycle or walk a tight rope, you will be at
ome in this one-piece boat.
BLIND FISHERMAN-Walter McDonald is chairman of the Georgia State Public Service Commission. He also is an expert fisherman. He is shown here on his pond in Burke County, where he has just hooked a big one. Being blind is no handicap to this Izaak Waltonite. His neighbors say he is the best fisherman in that particular "neck of the woods."

The StoKed C/oim
(Continued from page 8)
caught a glimpse of a fisherman coming up tTeam. I did not want to a k him to go around this pool where I had taked my claim, 0 I waded back into the wift water.
Several ca ts failed to lure the big fish out of his hiding place. The thought occurred that certain mountain fi hermen friend of mine alway "tipped" their hooks with natural bait. This was orthodox enough, perhap , since it wa merely completing the delusion of a fly. Be ides the trout him elf wa not orthodox if he had seen me that first time he came to the surface.
O THE third ca t the big fi h truck. My line zoomed. Back and forth went the trout, working hi way into s, ift water. I followed, tepping deeper and deeper into the pool. Zound ! I had forgotten to pull my boot tops up!
Long minutes pa ed while my feet slowly froze. After a while the trout grew tired and hi head came up. I pulled him into shallow water and slipped the net toward him. It simply wasn't my day. The hook tore through his tender mouth and he waved hi big forked flag at me as he flashed into wift water.
A third time I waded a hore, but thi time I was wet, whipped and wronged by the gods of chance. It wa almost noon, so I called it a day, taked out my piscatorial claim and tramped back to my car.
The roll of that big fi h kept doing thing to my dream. It wa two week, though, before I could ride north again, one hundred and sixty mile to keep a date with the rainbow. As far a I know, it was the only time I ever went fishing with only one fish in mind.
Again I checked in just as the un flooded the checking tation with light. The ranger assured me that no one had landed a big trout out of my particular pool or even in that region. He stated frankly that I would have better luck with that or any other big trout if I u ed live minno' instead of a fly. He even gave me a minnow out of the bucket someone
had left temporarily in the tation. I fished for an hour, trying flies on
the little fellow to see what they were
triking that day. My mo t popular pattern was a Western Bee o. 12. One small trout after another rose to this fly. I approached my pool and
pitched the fly neatly into the cur-

rent. everal ca ts failed to bring the big fellow to the urface.
A little impatient perhaps, I tried Gray Hackle, Olive Quill and Royal Coachman. From tho e normally produ tive Rie I went through half my fly bo . Still no luck. A tick bait on everal f1ie failed to produce al o.
I HAD given that fi h hi chance. I tied on a number 10 nelled hook and put on the minnow. I allowed it to roll down into the pool with tlle current. I did not feel the fish trike, but the minnow moved to one side, _hesitated for a moment and moved
The author and his reward.
again. I truck hard and brouO'ht home a bare hook. My minnow gone, I went to worms.
My fir t cast hooked a small fish. I tarted out with him. Suddenly there was a powerful tug on the line. The water broke and I aw the big rainbow trying to swallow the small horny-head. or hub, which had taken the hook. In my excitement I literall tore the tiny fish from hi jaw.
Everything eemed again t me. I hould have had judgment enough to quit. But I allowed the trout to re t for a while, and then threw another gob of worms into the pool. Almost immediately the big fellow took it. We fought up and down the pool. I do not know hO\ much time elap ed before I finally worked the trout into hallow water. I lid my net around him with little ceremony and a great deal of atisfaction.
I have not yet had time to e timate the price of 17-inch rainbow meat per pOUlld.

The FDrce System
(C,!ntinued from page 12)
the stick a I led her around the garage everal times.
We were ready for more interesting work, so I tood in front of the dog and held the tick about six inche from her nose. pon the order "fetch" he frowned and yawned. But a light jerk brought her mouth wide open and as I repeated "fetch" I placed the stick in Tippy' mouth. This wa rehear ed until he performed on command. Then came a small pad, made of cloth. It replaced the hard stick and Tippy showed more enthusia m than ever before. The pad went from two feet a\ ay to 20 feet, and after a low start, Tipp finally wa going after it upon the order to "fet h." And he was bringing it back without a mis, apparently enjoying her work. Both of us began to realize that we were getting ornewhere.
I BEGAI dropping the pad while Tippy wasn't looking and then ordering her to fetch it. At the same time, walking around, giving the command "fetch-dead" and pointing tOl ard the ground. he knew that he was looking for omething, but didn't know it was the pad until I led her to it and ordered her to 'fetch." When he began grabbing the pad quickly and wheeling toward me with her tail wagging we tos ed the choke a ide and had a lot of fun playing hide and seek.
Up to this point Tippy had learned two thing -to alway be on guard and to be obedient. Thi made her an excellent pupil. he wa eager to learn more. 0 I led her into the yard as u ual. I took a po ition about two feet in front of her. We went to work without the choke. I gave. the command 'hold," pulling gently on the lea h with my left hand and raising my right hand with the palm open. I repeated the hold command and moved bacb ard and away from her. When I reached the end of the leash I ordered "here" and as he approached I topped her with "hold," going through the same motion . This was ea y for Tippy and she graduated into higher education in a hurry.
It was time for the choke again, but Tippy didn't object now. A 30-foot ash cord was tied to the ring a a preliminary to "ign" Ie on. J gra ped the cord with my left hand and took up the lack close to her neck. The cord wa drawn in front of th body, loose and thrown back with the right hand. The order "hie

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December 1940 OUTDOOR GEORGIA

on' was O'lven. Thi wa new to
Tippy but after veral wave with an open hand, timed ,ith jerk on
the cord, he began to know what thi
meant. In practically no time he had got down tq eriou busin and wa
putting nap into her work. 0 I began turning her from left to right and then from right to left. I gave the command "hie on" I would turn sharply , aving my hand in the same
direction. Occasionally I would ord I'
her on, then gi e the ommand hold alway seeing to it that the order
were trictl obe ed.
I HA E to ee the first doO' that did
not have a onetrack mind unle
otherwise trained. Tippy wa no e ception. In her few tim s in the field he had been allowed to cha bird, flu h covey and cut up in O'eneral.
The fir t tim I took her into the field he ran up th fir t co e and chased them out of the countr . This brought back the ash cord and choke. Another doO' al 0 wa brouO'ht in to
help. This dog found a cove and Tippy was made to "back." I then gave her about three feet of cord and flushed the birds. She jumped in after them. Instantly I gave the command "hold' and jerked barply on the cord.
Two more time teadied this overeagerne and I picked up the other dog. I removed the choke and sent Tippy on h I' own. he located a covey and a I walked up I began repeatinO' 'hold, hold." he wa steady, but nervous. I walked up the bird and fired m revol er, turning harply and ordering the dog to hold.
he was taunch. As I have already said-all dogs have a one-track mind. I have heard dog owner rave 0 er hi dog's ability to find covey. But never a word about hi ability to locate and work out single. The dog that search only for cove has a one-track mind. I have heard other boa t of a dog' ability to work out ingle, but never bragging about the number of oveys the dog would find. The" in-
gle-bird" dog has .i uta much of a
one-track mind a the fa t, wide cove doO' or the bird-cha ing pupp .
By no, I wa well aware that Tippy wa a covey dog. he did 110t like the idea of coming in lose. I called her to me, adju ted the choke, attached the cord and ordered her on toward bird I had flushed. be _truck one, the fir tingle she had ever pointed. The bird was walked up and I fired my pi tol again. I

ordered her 011, holdinO' her in close. he later located everal bird that
were widely attered. I have seen three or four men
walk up behind a youn" doO' and empt dleir automatic. The re ult of this fooli hne often "gun shy" the young dog that i un ea oned to u h hea firing. Dis retion hould be u ed in acquainting a dog or puppy with a gun and it deadly fire. Tippy, a ou already know, i a 'correct d gun h." hat cau ed her gun hyne I do not know, but whether it wa timidit ner ousne or reckle shooting he ha been treated for thi pitiful disea e and will be protected again t it return.
Tippy now i not far from being finished and point and hold bird , ith the style of her forefather. In the field h is fa t, wide and bold. In the city on parade he i hauO'hty, proud, and walk \ ith an air of confidence.
Dog of cour e, have different per onalitie , but the force m thod that brought Tippy into her own may be applied to an pointer or etter. Thi i the quicke t and ure t wa to develop a dog's natural talents.

out the pointer would da h madly into the ard pretendipg ome intruder wa there. The etter alwa fell for thi tunt and joined the attack but the pointer never failed to O'et into the bed before the etter di covered it had an wered a false alarm. Thi judge i a little partial to pointer.
The judge' other story was of a pointer who e master, in the pre ence of the doO', aO'reed to ell it at aery flattering price. t lea t the ma ter thought it wa flatterinO', but later development indicated that the dog did not think o. The ale wa completed on condition the buyer s wife approved of the pointer. A day or two later when the wife arrived the dog, that had n eve rom u c h a growled at any person in all its life, leaped at the woman and near! chewed her leg off. And that topped the ale.
O E of the mo t entrancing tories wa sent to me by a man , ho 0\ n a couple of 'po urn hound . He aid the e hound work together perfectly and each ha ab olute confidence in the other's ability. He de-

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"Pointe, on horseback" that neve, missed a covey.

DfJg Tflles
(Continued jrom page 10)
Another dio-nified judge related a couple of storie, both about bird dogs. He aid in hi boyhood hi family owned a pointer and a eLter. The pointer, a i common with shorthaired doo- ,wa cold natured and in winter wa gi en a , arm bed on the porch \ hile the Lter' ith it heavier coat, wa allowed to hift for it elf. Occa ionall however, the setter preempted the pointer s , arm place, wh reupon the pointer cratched at the door tr ing to peruade om of the folk to ome out in the cold and make that etter behave. If the folk refu c1 to come

clared that th minute one of these doo- trik;es a trail the other races off to the neare tweet potato patch and begins CJ'atching up potatoe to cook with the 'po urn.
Another man volunteered the tory of hi 'po um hound that never lie. He said wh n thi hound aid a 'po um wa up a tree it wa up there. Howe er, one nio-ht he thouo-ht Old B ck had beuayed him. The hound treed and th tre was cut, but no po um came down. In tead of being a hamed of her elf Old Beck kept right on treeing. Inve tigation _howed that the axe-man, who was n arly even feet tall, had merely cut the tree above the mar upial.
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DEE
Georgia's First Supervised Shoot the Finest White-Tail Sp

The wilderness camp among the evergreens and hardwood at Three Forks.

FIFTEEI ear ago Ranger Arthur Woody stood on the cre t of Hawk ountain. Below him in the cove under Hightower Gap la the home place of the Hawk family. A seri of bold prin" started th re -the headwaters of famous Rock Creek. Immediately south of Hawk
ountain were the well-wat red lope of Fri k Creek and Long and loontootly.
Th panorama of [ore t land la unbroken before the ran"er's eye. In the tream ,ere native peckl d trout. In the forest co e and on the long gentl lope of the hill were remnant of wild turkey flo k. [w grou that ought the eclu ion of remote cove, and "ray qUirrel, wa the onl game left in that ection of the Blue Rid" .
Whil he tood there, the ranger' thought went back to the year \ hen he wa a bo in the Blue Ridge mountain of orth Georgia. In tho e ear uch thing a national [ re ts and game protection and re to king the tream with fi h, wer unknown. Hi father had killed the la t deer in all that Blue Ridge countr . The
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beal had Ion g ince gone, and big trout were thin"s only in dream.

Perhaps ome

day som one

'ould bring back

th abundance of

game the land of

the Cherokees once

kne,. P r hap

orne da the r e

would be deer in

the [ore ts and big

trout again in the

tream . That job,

like art, would b

long eve n after

omeone had made

a beginnin". The

idea u d d n 1 y

da' ned on rthur

ood t hat perhap no man on

Charlie Elliott and Ranger Woody inspect the first day's kill.

e a I' t h would be better qualified to mak _uch a be"in-

fter all titl had been cleared

nin" than the ran" r him elf. He and the land lying generally outh-

could have a mall part in helping we t of the Toccoa River had been

re tore to the Blue Rid"e ,hat hi placed in national fore t, 30,000

an e tor had helped to take away.

acres were set a ide a a game anc-

December 1940 0 TDOOR GEORGIA

Produces 22 Bucks and Some of ecimens in the Country.

A publicity man gets shot while shooting at a hunter.

the ,i Id Ii f ere sou rc on t hat 30 000 acre be gan.

E E R Y trout fisherman in

the sou t h 'know

the creeks of oon

tootly Jane

ontgomer , Mill,

Rock C I' e e k and

Ro k Creek Lake

in the I' e f u g e .

Man thou and of

rainbow and native

trout h a e been

relea din tho

tream and in the

lake. E a c h year

t I' out fi hennen

eagerly await the

Paying a fine and get ing the gate for killing a doe.

announ ement of open d ate on

tho>:e t I' e a m

tuary. Provision were mad for the They flock to Roc k C I' e e k Lake

protection of thi land from poach. throughout the w ekend of summer.

r , a game warden was located on In countIes deep pool on tho e

Rock Creek where the H8\ k family creeks, the trout hav "Town wi e and

had lived, and the job of rebuilding huge and hungry and only an expert

fisherman can take them on flie or other arti ficial lure. Fifteen year of management have made thi wildlife a~ea on of the most popular trout haven in the tate.
La t month the hunter had their tate of what wildlife management can do for game. They reaped a hal" ve t from tho e fir t big deer Rang r Arthur Wood bought from a far , e tern tate and relea ed at the headwaters of Rock Creek and from
ub>:equ;nt release of deer trapp d on overcrowded area of the Pi ~ah
ational Fore t in North Carolina. The 200 hunter who participated in the organized hunt a, ho' wi e u_e of our game re ource can pa di idend in v r fe' year. The did not ha e to read th tor or look at pi ture to ee the re ult of protection and I' tockin<!;. That hUlTe buck, startled from a thicket or cra_hing down the cove and the innumerable doe and fawn, were proof enough,
The bow and arrow hunter -the Robin Hood -led by orne of the most expert archers of the outhland,
wer fi.rst on the hunl. Twenty of the
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with M. D. McRAE

BLUE RIDGE STOCKED
Mountain Di trict rangers have released 2500 largemouth bass averaging 10 inches in Blue Ridge Lake. The fish were obtained from the TVA hatchery at Norri , Tenn.
ince Blue Ridge Lake i now owned by the TVA, that organization has agreed to cooperate with the Divi ion of Wildlife in extensive re tocking of the lake. In order to enhance the growth of the e fi h a truck load of forage minnow al 0 wa released in the lake for food. While at present the Georgia game code provides no penalty for taking Ii h measuring Ie than eight inches, per on Ii hing in lake that have been restocked are urged not to keep lish under thi size.
The TVA ha tationed a lish technician on Blue Ridge for the purpo e of determining the food available for the Ii h and to ascertain the rate of growth of the Ii h now in the lake. Information released so far from this study indicates that Ii h relea ed in the lake - everal years ago are only no,ir reaching ufficient ize to be taken. This indicates that the lake i overstocked. Fi h culturist maintain that it i very ea y to overstock a lake without lirst det rmining the amount of food available for Ii h and the rate of growth of the lish already pre ent. Too many Ii h for a limited supply of food retards growth.
Blue Ridge Lake i backed by the econd largest earthen dam in the
nited State and is one of the mo t beautiful lake in the outh. Under the pre ent cooperative management between the Division of \Vildlife and the TV the lake. which i the only southern home of the n1l1 kie, hould become more and more a haven for Georgia angler
HUNTI G MAJORITY
While mo t of the hullabaloo is heing made over dove-, quail and ducks,
the army which comprise the big bulk of Georgia's hunting population is
traveling the woods and terrace be-
hind a barking dog or without a dog. Rabbit and squirrel hunters out-
number all the wing hooters in the
state, according to wildlife ranger, who estimate that for everyone bird hunter they encounter th~re are at least three seeking rabbits or squirrels.
The importance of the rabbit a a food product alone makes it the favorite of the rural hunter, who "'enerally pnrsues the furred creature behind trail dog. The most popnlar

way of taking quirrels is "still" hunting, however, tree dogs are used exteu ively.
SKU K FA CIER
The Divi ion of Wildlife la t month i sued what is believed to be the lir t permit in the state for the holding of kunk in captivity.
The permit went to :Mrs. V. Mackey of vVay Station.
Mr. fackey' reque t for the permit, for which he paid the required one dollar fee, contained a footnote saying that th animals were "deodorized."' They are on di play at \ ay Station and vi itors are as ured that they need not hold their no e .
LICE SE RACKET WATCHED
This is the open eason ou hunting license racketeers according to wildlife rangers who already have over 200 persons in the toil of the law on charges of "evasion."
Several of these hunter were apprehended for attempting to use county Iicen es outside their county of legal residence. Penalty for thi prac-

tice is $25-200 fine or 30-90 days imprisorunent.
Many hunters who formerly bought county licenses are obtaining state licenses, the Wildlife Divi ion said, and a decline in the racket is anticipated this ea on. Another practice that is being closely watched is "borrowing" and "lending" of licenses.
DOVES I CREASING
The alarmist, who thought that doves were nearing extinction early in October, have been encouraged by report from outh Georgia that the e birds are appearin in large. but scattered number in grain lield .
Here are the repo,-t of several wildlife ranger observing the migration of the e bird :
Dan C. Royal (Colquitt, ~\'Iitchell counties)-Dove shoot are Rop , but dove and food are plentiful. Food i o plentiful that the birds al-e not sticking.
R. ]. May C~,Iontgomery, Toomb , \Veather too warm and too much feed
Tattnall)- 0 early hoot checked. for dove to collect.

One of fifty-odd wildlife exhibits arranged by Ranger H. E. Ashe at fairs throughout Georgia.

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Circuit Writer
(Colltinued from page II)
vVhereupon he pulled a cotton boll from hi pocke t.
"If that i n't a baby quail chick, I've never een a bird."
nd 0 it wa . The deformed boll has all the motion of a young quail scooting along the ground, seeking cover from perhaps a wildcat, or some other predator.
STILL FUMBLI G
Georgia landowner have been reque ted to register their hunting areas with this magazine, but only a handfull have come through. Apparently there is pro perity on every piece of dirt, or el e the farmer with potential \ncomes from hunting rights prefPto let things go a they are.
The Wildlife Division received requests for licen e applications {rom one to eight out-of-state hunter every day last month. And practically without exception these hunters asked for information on where to go for good quail shooting. The Division was forced to refer them to certain wildlife rangers. Thi involved an unnecessary delay through a Illiddle man.
Wise landowners are getting a mall income from quail hunting rights and those who fail to list their territories with an organ which is in a position to help build up the Georgia farmer's income are merely nus ing out on a lucrative business.
Georgia offer a peculiarly inviting privilege to sport men of the east and mid-west. Here they may come for quail, duck, turkey and deer on the ame trip. Thi i one reason fellows from ew York, Indiana, We t Virginia and other tates are heading for Georgia's all-round hooting ground thi winter. It is regrettable that they are being referred to the ame few landown r who have their birds "Ii ted" with the Wildlife Divi ion.
PATIE CE NEEDED
Con ervation, a ha been pointed out from time to time only to be forgotten, does not mean no hunting and no fishing. Instead, it mean the careful, intelligent u e of our natural resources. In other words, if there were millions of fi h jamming our treams we could forget about tring limit, and if dove and quail were lighting on every bush. bag limit could go-for a while at least.
Two months ago, with the opening of the dove sea on in the northern zone of Georgia, it was feared that dove were on the way out. Just one
dove was worth a column of type.
ince then doves have begun to congregate in mall drove~, particularly in South Georgia, and portsmen have
regained hope for the return of suc-
cessful shoots-hut not this year.
Report of doves in grain field till are none too encouragina . Over- hooting and su tained violation of the bag limit have reduced the birds to a dangerou low. Hunter hould continue to bear thi in mind even when they are stationed in a field where hundred of dove are feeding. In the

~enter spre~d of thi magazine there IS a true pIcture tory of what early season hooting is doing to the dove population. Ranger Ed Friend, of Augusta, made the photograph which how what the hooting of parent birds mean "back home." Thou and of
Mrs. J. P. Roberts and a five-pound large-
mouth bass from Potato Creek.
young bird starve in their nest every fall. Dove hunters hould fight for a still later eason, in tead of jumping the gun on a date that already means decline in the population of what many believe the mo t porting of all birds.
STAMPS-B T 0 RIFLES Ithough thi state i in the mid t of it most successful duck shooting year, apprehension of many hunter in 1 ovember indicates that too many are ignorant of the regulation governing waterfowl shooting and too many till are .. tamp dodger." Likewi e, too many wood ducks are biting the du t in the face of .. hoot-for-anything" unners. Every hunter over 16 year old must have in hi pos e sion a duck staml>, canceled with his signature, before pulling a trigger on ducks or geese. Migratory waterfowl cannot he shot before 7 a. nl. or after 4 p. In., and they cannot be taken with a rifle. There have been everal reports of hunters shooting geese with long range rille. The law on wood duck ha a place and ha brought back the bird, but it a1 0 work a hardship on hunters, who find themselve wondering whether to hoot or not to shoot. Odd are that anv hunter will shoot if he is clo e enough to any kind of duck. Thi has been bad on the wood duck and al 0 ha placed federal and tate enforcement officer in an awkward ituation. First offender, who prove that they hot wood duck without intent. generally are treated di creetly and di mi sed. However, they are told that wood ducks may be distinguished by their head-twi ting, from ide to side, during Aight. And likewise, to a Ie er degree, by their cre t and often by

the peeping noi e which they make

along the air lane .

Here i a methods of

Ii t of hooting

wtahte~rfporwolh.ibCitleidp

it and pa te it on your hunting license.

Rille, automobile; aircraft; sinkbox

(battery) power boat, saillioat or any

device towed by power boat or sailboat;

automatic loading or hand operated repeating hotgun of JIlore than 3-shell

capacily in the magazine and chamber

conlbuled; live duck or goose decoys; the hunting of nllgratory game birds

by means, aid, or use directly or indi-

rectly of corn, wheat, oat or other

grain or product thereof, salt or any

kind of feed whatsoever, placed, de-

po'ited, distributed, scatlered out or otherwise put out.

KEEP G S CLEA
Here' a reminder to hunters. Keep your barrel clean from lead. Shotgun and riAes will not perform con i tently unle s they are clean, and this i particularly true of the barrel. One of the 1110 t effective cleaners on the market today is the Ferret, a hotgun cleaner and lead remover. It i made of Aat, bronze alloy wire 0 the cleaning is done by edges ih tead of by wire ends. The wire is ofter than the steel in the barrel of a gun. Thi prevents any wear or injury to the in ide. Caking will occur in any gun and thi slow up and often mutilates pellets, sending them away from the target. But regardle of what type of cleaner you use, place your gun in order after every trip into the woods and it will give you many Illore year of service.

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Flies for Salt Water Trout

SOME folks ay that there' nothing new under the un, but I just ne er have agreed \ ith that theor . What may be commo p la with you would be entirely new to me, and ometimes we run into omething that i strange to both of us. What I've got in mind just now may not be new to all of your readers, but it urely will open up a new angle for lot of folk -it' FI -fi hinlY for alt water trout.
Now, I II have to confe that I'm no expert or even a no ice at thi t P of Ii hing-I've a tuaU never Ii_hed for alt \ ater trout, ith a Flyrod, but I e been gatherin lY a lot of information on thi kind of fi hing fr m port men who have b en actuall catchin lY alt water trout b the doz n with a fre h water A -rod. And a for port, the a it can't
be quaIled. Th first alt water fly-rod fishin lY
that I ver hard of wa that fol10\ ed b a lot of port m n in outh Florida. everal ears a~o, om body conceived the idea of Fly-fi hing for baby tarpon in the canal bordering the Tamiami Trail in Southern Florida, an I ince then it ha become a major port in that section. And in the pa t year I have heard of Flyfi hin lY in Florida water for trout, but so far a I could learn it had not b en tried b Georgia Ii hermen. But Georgia alt, ater trout (winter trout or weakfi h) are no different from their Florida cou in, 0 I tried to encouralYe local sport men to try it, beli in lY that it , ould open up net Ii Id for a lot of fre h \ ater fi_hermen who would othenvi e tore their
quipment in the fall and be entir I out of the running until prin lY.
The idea wa low in finding any on ert-, and it remained for a vi itor from Kalamazoo, Mich., to make th fir t catch of the ea on-maybe you'd like to hear the tory, but for a lYood man rea ons, I'll have to u_e firtitiou name.
BILL ETHERIDGE of Kalamazoo, who wa i iting 10hn tewart of avannah, wa induced to take time

off for a little winter trout fi hing, by the many lYood local report he had heard. 0, earl on a morning that didn t look any too good from the weather tandpoint, Bill and 10hn tarted for a Ii hing camp located on Half Moon River, about 10 mile from downtown avannah. 10hn expected to furni h tackle for both, 0 he carried along two outfit consi ting of rod and reel equipped with lip cork rilY , and on their wa to the fishing grounds, boulYht about 25 live shrimp from a road ide bait
The Old Salt will dust the brine off his hands December 19 at Thunderbolt and award prizes to winners in his coastal fishing contest. He will award prizes totaling over $1,000 at the largest sportsman's jamboree in the history of Georgia. The Old Salt's Fish Fry will attract approximately 500 (by card only) champion fishermen, outstanding outdoorsmen and conservation leaders, and-
"Well, folks, I'm sorry everybody can't be there, but get in the contest next summer and I'll show you a fish fry on the second cast that will be the whoppin gist thing you ever saw."
vendor. When their de Lination wa reached, Bill of Kalamazoo. breaks out a fre h water Ay-rod and makes known his intention of catching trout with it, and remarked that he didn't know an thinlY about a Ii p-cork rig and didn't \ ant to take the time to learn how to u e it. He wa told that he'd never catch winter trout on a fly-rod, and that if he manalYed to luck into one that he would never land it. But Bill \ a tubborn and
aid he would try the n -rod anywa
so he rilY it up \ ith a new line a 3-foot gut leader and aK o. 5/0 trout hook, bait up with a live shrimp and a _oon a their boat i in the middle of the stream he made hi first cast. ~n the meantime, 10hn had gotten hi _lip-cork rig ready and cast hi bait just below the point where the flyrod baited lin bad hit the water.
wish-10hn get a trike and the slip-cork rig a count for a I-pound

trouL 10hn atche an 0 th er tr 0 u t
weilYhin lY about 1% pound and ju t
a he lYet the fiJI to the boat-wham, Bill ee his Ay-rod bend almo t double and h ha hooked his fir t p kled beauty. The antic of Bill trying to land that fir t trout, broulYht roar of laulYhter from hi companion and an onlooker itting on a nearby dock. I ot havin lY brought along a landing net, there wa nothing he could do but try to play the fi h out and work it cIo e enough to the boat to bring it in with the line, and that" just what he did. The core at thi point was 1 for the fly-rod and 2 for the lip-cork rig, but at the next count and after a thoroughly ati finlY number of thrill, the count tood at 4 for the slip-cork and, b lieve it or not, 8 for the fl -rod. And after 4 hour of Ii hing, the total catch numbered 39 trout with the flyrod fi herman ha ing caulYht the greater number.
You will recall that our fish rmen onl had about 25 shrimp to tart with, and a mo t interesting part of the tory i that when bait tarted running low, the A -caster tarted making t\ 0 and three bait out of each hrimp. He caught trout on piece of hrimp no larger than your liul Iing r and caught everal when hi hook wa baited only with a hrimp head.
T HE tory of thi catch was told on m regular radio broadca t
at 7 :20 p. m., over tation wroc,
the same da it happened and a oon a the broadca t \ a 0 er th telephone tarted ringing. One avannah T coon and ardent portman, aid that he and a avannah banker had had orne special fI -ca tinO" lure made in 1 ew York-had them de_imed for \ inter trout hut had n ver gotten around to tryin lY them out. He wanted to get in touch with the fi herman from Kalamazoo and go with him on a fly-ca ting fi~h in lY trip. Another caller wa a con_truction enlYineer, temporarily located in a annah, who _aid that he
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Dog Tfiles
(Continued from page 19)
The next story may provoke lifted eyebrows among people who e expe rience ,ith dog is limited, but it narrator \ ear by it. He do a lot of fi hing after the hunting season close but until la t ear had never allowed hi bird dog to accompany him to the ri er. However, when he b gan to get read for his fir t fishing tri p la t year this dog came up wagging its tail and carr ing in it mouth an empty tomato can for worm. The dog ha never mi~ d a fishing trip in e.
Hunting dog are not the h roes of all the tories brouO'ht out by Sheriff Starke' tale of Old Buck. Dog that are kept imply for pets and companion come in for their hare of the glory.
One man told of hi bulldog that had been trained to brinO' the mail from the po t office. He _aid he sa, hi dog rushing tow.ard horne with its mouth full of letter and, ith a trange dog napping at it heels. Hi dog jumped on the porch, put the mail afely down, then bolted back to the street and beat the tuf fing out of the trange dog.
A FO TERRIER wa the main character in the next tory. Thi dog had a igned himself the job of keeping the chickens out of the front yard but ometime, when the famil y

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wa away, walked up the stre t to ee what wa going on. Howev r, if he happened to see a member of the family coming toward home he al, a ys sneaked around back 0 f the house to give the impr ion he had been there all the time, and then ru hed out to catter any stray chicken in ight. The owner of thi dog aid it 10 ed a fight and frequently carried a bone down the treet hoping orne neighborhood doO' would try to take it.
A Pre b terian elder toll one of the mo t delightful torie. It wa about hi bo hood pal, a doO' named
hep. Belonging to a religiou famil hep had a high regaTd for the
abbath, thouO'h how he knew unday from week days, nobod could tell. He wa fond f cha ing rabbit and during the week expr _ d his full- oiced joy when a cha e wa on. H ah a fell from gra e when a rabbit wa iO'hted on unda and ouldn't re i t gi ing cha e, but-the elder i po itive of thi -he restrained his barking to a mere whi per.
Another elder told of his dog, J.ack, who followed hilU ever \ here he went eery day e cept on unday morning. When thi elder pick d up hi hymn book and tarted to unday morning ervice- Jack made no ffort to follow but walked around to the ba k yard and waited until services were over.
The experi nee of all the e lover of dogs lend me the ouraO' to reo p at a stor from mown experi en e. I told it a few ears aO' , just after it happened, and hav nev r liv d it down though it i true. It con cerns kippy, a fox terrier I keep 0 I can be sure omebody will be glad to ee me come home.
When kipp wa ju t a puppy I had m upper teeth pulled. For everal week I wa on a liquid di t and talked with a lisp becau e I coyldn't bring my elf to wearing store-bought teeth. I had no id a Skipp had noti ed my condition until one morn ing I was puttering around the ard and Ii ping to kippy who trailed along after me.
uddenly that pup at down and cratched hi head a though he wa trying to remember something. After a minute he da hed off to the back of the garden and began digginO' in the oft dirt. And, 0 help me, if h didn't come racing back and drop a full set of upper teeth at m feet. The fact that the teeth had once b longed to a pig did not detract fr m kippy act and I'll never forg this pirit of helpfulne .
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legal bag limit or out of season. If game belonged to the landowner we would have an entir ly different conception of game management. If game and fi h were pri ate property, the owner might shoot in eason and out jut a he kills a chicken when the parson comes to Sunday dinner. If he depleted his game and fi h resource it would be hi hard luck, nothing else.
Live :fish and game belong to the people_ Killed, according to the game and fish laws, it belongs to that person who reduces it to posse ion and to no one else. Wildlife is a ocial a set, a natural resource re erved for the whole people. This is important because it explains the entire philosophy of game protection and game management. When a fellow hunts or fishes without a licen e, when he hunts or :fishe out of eason, when he exceeds the bag limit, he is taking something that belongs to you and there i no other way to look at it. You would protect your wallet or your watch. Why not your game and fi h?
W HO has the paramount interest in this natural resource? The port man. Who pay for its protection and, ise management? The sportsman. Your hunting and fi hing license fees support the Division of Wildlife. ot one penny come from the general tax fWld. The department is su tained by the fees from port men. You, 11'. Sport man, are it pon or. If the guy with a niblick toe happens to hunt or fish, you suffer most. If George hunts or fishes without a licen e he is riding without paying his fare.
It goe even beyond that, however. Sportsmen spend a lot of money on equipment, transportation, shooting rights, guides, etc. They spend it becau e there is something to shoot in Georgia wood and something to catch in Georgia treams. Ruthless depletion could and, ould end all that. The whole people have a stake. But, the portsman has the largest stake and the port man put his own money on the line to support hi hobby.
His right arm is hi Wildlife Department. My own conception of this department i not as a mere trongarm squad. It would take the ex panded nited tates Army to police the Georgia woodlands again t a mob of determined exterminators. It eems to me that your Wildli fe Department should operate alwa on the princi-

pie that the sportsman should be allowed the greate t .po ible latitude within the bounds of ound game and fish manacrement; that the laws hould be revised from time to time as , e increase in knowledge and, i dom; that your Department hould believe and act on the idea that conservation i not restriction but , ise management-the u e of our natural re ource to provide the most in port and recreation for our lovers of the out-ofdoor .
R ESTOCKI G of treams and covert should be a major consideration. Educational objective hould appeal to the young tel' and the seasoned hunter alike. Through 0 TDOOR GEORGIA portsmen should be provided with an entertaining, authoritative magazine that will serve as a sounding board for their opinions, and which will give them practical advice on scientific game and fish management.
It shall be the purpose of this column to discuss in the future, as it has in the pa t, controversial issue on which there may be an honest difference of opinion. It invite always the comments and advice of sincere portsrnen, and it takes thi opportunity of thankin cr the many' ho have written to its author, and thi regardles of whether we were in agreement or not. Di cussion and the interchange of idea enlarge our knowledge and broaden our horizon. And thi column asks for the ooperation, now and always, of those fine sportsmen who can be ounted upon to lea.rn the rules of their game and to abIde them.
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grand duck that had cut acro from "Gordon' Bend" to his blind at "Lanes." With their rust red fezzes, nowy white wai tcoat and aray canvas portcoat they were an ari tocratic assemblage. We weighed a number of them and they averaged four pounds per duck, a couple reaching five pounds. Perhaps Davi and " ncle" Bob weren't lated. It was the first time an of the local club member bad trimmed this youngster from yankee-land.
NTER 1u n ch, on my fir t day, Howard beckoned me 0 ut ide,
out of ear-hot of the other, and aid: "This evenin' we'll tr Imray Cove. There s a lew of duck u in' there, gra s was all tore up when I come through et yest'da evenin. They come in 'baout foh 'clock."
Promptly at four o'clock Howard

had me tied out in the west box at

'lwTa Grove. He had gone on to

repair the blind at Shedd Co e be-

yond, where and had left

the me

gee e Mike,

were the

Cuheisn~a:

peake Bay retriever, to pick up my

victims. Th ,ind had ri en and it

was now blowing a halJ gale from

the of

we fro

t'ard ty air.

1Trhi negbi nregezwe itfhlatittenaedtatnha~

tall marsh gra s behind me and to

either side, stirred the shallow water

of the broad cove before me into tin

wave, and bowed the sedge along

the farther hore ridge of torn up

\widhgereeonlogdra~sesd

101 clut-

tered \ ith duck feather, as if a

thirt -ton team roller had pa _ed

that wa . In the lee of the blind,

through whose stiff cane top that

projected above the bo proper the

gale ang a weird chantey, a flock

of wooden I lock decoy, black duck,

mallard and widgeon, bobbed mer-

ril . Four o'clock and Old ing down the we tern sky,

tSioml~lsaltiedd-

my desire for quick action as we had

to take up promptl at sun lown, 4:30.

I leaned over to pat like, whose

coat, traight haired instead of kink ,

bore e idence of some Iri h setter

progenitor. The old dog stirred,

pricked up his ear and hi yellOl

eyes brightened \ ith anticipation.

I oting the warning, I traighten d

oE up slowly and peeked throuah a
mall openin cr in the front the

blind to e one of tho e big, red-

leg<Yed black ducks hovering 0 er the

tool. A I prang to my feet, the

duck catapulted traight up into the

air as if impelled b ome tremen-

dous spring. Plenty of space under

him a I quickly di co ered when I

pulled trigger in vain and he had

vanished over the tops of the grass

before I ould bring the econd bar-

rel to bear. Gosh, he wa so clo_e

that it wa like mi ing the broad ide

of a barn door.

Hardly wa I back in my seat,

when a whi tIe of wing drew my eye

to the peephole as seven mallards cut

in over the decoys. Again I under hot

the duck, thi time with both

barrel, as they made their vertical

jump. A pair of gaudily clad hovel-

ers set their wing and dropped their

leg to alight. They were aluted with

both barrel and fI w off nonchalantly

as if to ay:" ot even near us!"
I P LLED myoId briar pipe out

of my pocket, crammed it full of

DilL Best, got it drawin' <Yood, and

1 aning back resolved to pull my elf together and do a little real hootin a.

I didn't have long to wait. The mus;.

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Deer HUht
(Continued jrom page 21) III 11 who dre\ their bow in much the ame manner a tho e men of ancient herwood Forest, went into camp in th oonto tl wildernes. for a we k they ran a d th hill and valley, \ atching for buck ign, crouching at the ound of mo ing leave, tud ing each thicket and ridge top with wary e e. an buck were een, and innumerabl doe but none of th archers \ a able to get a hot.
FOLLO II G the archer w re the lonoa-barrel follower of 1 imro. d who were allowed to hunt only \ Ith rifle and shotgun with a ingle ball and without dog. Accommodations were made in the wild me camp for fifty f the hunter in alternate period. Th remainder of the hunters checked into the refuge each morning were a igned tation during the da and left the manaaement area e er niaht.
The fir t buck killed was a fine eight-pointer, bagged by G. . Cunningham, of then, only a coupl of h 0 u I' aft r day I i g h t the fir t morning. DurinO" the entire week, hunters I rought in from ridge and thickets from near the road and from mile ba k in the wildernes , 22 fat buck deer ranging from pike buck to animal with ten-point head_. orne of the d er were d dared b wildli fe expert to b the fine t \ hite-tan ever _ n in the ea t. One of the bio- bu k ,a said to weigh a er 275 pound .
Many inter tina little torie came out of the thickets dUJ'in a the week the hunter roamed the ridges and
lope after buck. On hunter brought down hi kill mile away from amp. It wa a big I uck and a hea a a hor e. The hunter' companion walked back to camp for help to bring in the fine pecim n. Th companion remain d in camp, I ut two hunt I' who had come in for the morning cup of coffee, went out to help. The located th hunter on top of a rido-e. After an hour of truggling with the animal one of lhe three ao-ain return d to camp, lookin a for more help. Thi time ten hunter who had come into the campfire, olunteered. Th y found the deer and the two hunter on top of a ridge three mile from th wilderne" camp and more than a mile from the Noontootl trail.
A they \ alked up, the hunter who had kill d the deer rai ed hi poslerior e tremit off the ground and
said, "I'm glad you have come to

help me. I ha e been out all day and am tired and hunar . You fellow brin a the de r in. I II \ ait for au in camp.
He turned n hi heel and strode off, I aving the t n men in p session of the deer. One of tho in the party, a well-known trout fisherman and \ riter, fumbled for hi notebook
This hunter missed a buck.
and pe~cil and began writing. "What are you doin a ?" one of the
deer-tuo-g I' inquired. "Justo making a note," he repI'Ied
"to \\'l'ite an article when I get home. The tille of thi article will beTrout Fi herman Goe Deer Hunting and Lands a Big One'."
A OTHER hunter hot at a wild hog. When the huge black animal fell he dropped his !mn and rushed forward to his kill. He \Va half way there \ hen the animal regained it feet and char a d it white tu ks gl anung. Th hunter rever ed direction ,ith the peed of an echo and ran on pa t hi gun, yelling bloody murder. timely shot from th gun of hi companion aved the 0 ~r-en lhu-ia tic imrod much embarra ment and probably a leo-.
Paul Chapman, quare- houldered dean of the tale agri ultural college, 10 t his hi rt tail when he mi sed a buck galloping over hi tand. He

wa followed in clo e succe ion by Charlie Elliott who brought home a patch of fur and a drop of blood on a leaf and ,a lold that tho e ilem wer inadequate. Ray Cart r, wellknown Atlanta port man, wa ano~her victim of the shirt-tail act.
Ev rybody who attended th hunt declared it to be better port than running deer with dog. The early dawn hours, th talk, the sudden app arance of a huge buck in full flight over the brown carpeted fore-t floor -the aid uch vivid picture com ani a few tim to tbe more fortunate port men on thi earth.
Many hunter came out f th wood with tori of grouse, turkey and many squirrel. One of them owed that he at and held hi gun
n a turkey gobbl r while the huge bronzed bird fed up the cove and out of hi ight. From the report all game in thi protected area eern to be increasing.
Official who planned and conducled the hunl were biabl pI a ed \ ith the re ult and aid that uch a hunt, barring an unusual de rease in O"ame or unfortunate condition of any kind, would be held again next year.
Everyone agreed that the fifteenyear oIl dream of Ranaer Arthur Woody ha at la tome true.
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them. Don't move off in the direction they have gone. Even without a caller you can often get a hot by taying
where they scattered, for the dro e
, ill rea emble at that point.
Hippo and I usually build a simple blind of canes in which we can move around without beino- een by the wily bird. Then we wait, often for an hour, without calling at all. Then one of u will risk a call. Don't call too often or too much. If you get an an wer, try to the very be t of our ability to imitate the exact call notes that you have heard. If it be a young turkey eager to get back to the flock, you should be able to call the bird to you. But if the mother h n begins to call you mu t get out of our blind and flu h her. at even another wild turkey can call the brood away from it own mother.
In the fall and early winter the parent broods are together. The old gobblers are together and the yearling gobbler make another group. About the first of January the family separates, the hens going together and the young gobblers together. At this point the turkey hunter find his greate t challen o-e. If he flushe a flock of young gobblers he mu t u e a gobbler yelp to bring them together. If he flushes a drove of hens he mu t u e the hen yelp. Again, however, if the hunter will stay , here the bird flushed he will be likely to get a hot.
T HI brings u to calls and callers. I have no patience with trying to put a few letters of the alphabet on paper and telling you that this is a gobbler yelp and another is a hen elp. It ha no possible meaning. Experien e is the only mentor in the matter of turke hunting. You can't learn it from a book.
If you are a beginner, you could do no better than Hippo and I. Acquire a few dome tic turkey. Li ten to them carefully and spend your pare minute imitating them. For one thing, the practice will hearten you. You can call a tame turkey with almost any type of call. Ala, the wild bird i more difficult, but you will be learning the turkey language.
Of callers there are any number. If you get real good-like Barney
mith of Augu ta for in tance-you rna need no caller at all. Barney can imitate any turkey call with his mouth so that it would fool the wilde t bird. Pas ibly you can do the ame after twenty year of constant
practice. The mo t popular caller i a small
cedar box. Many hunters use a piece of slate to scrape aero the edge of

the box. I prefer another piece of cedar, well chalked with billiard chalk. My own favorite is a box made by Tom Turpin of Memphis, Tenn. It is an oblong, rectangular box with a hinged lid. The lid i chalked and scraped over the edge of the box. With this I can imitate the
elp of a young hen or gobbler, a cluck, or the gobble of a yearling gobbler.
Thi la t call is sometime important between the tinle of the eparation of the flock and the close of the sea on, because the lost gobbler is given at that eason to a gobble which ha nothing to do with the sex urge, and he will come to the proper imitation of the gobble every time.
Then there are the mouth callers. Of these, few are better than the simple wing bone of a wild turkey hen. Some hunter use a leaf, or a small piece of dental rubber and these hunter are often quite proficient. I have a caller made from the wing bone of a wild turkey hen and a piece of cocobolo wood. I carry thi with me ao-ain t wet day. The cedar box i u ele s if it gets wet.
The first two hours of daylight are , orth all the rest of the day put together. It is good practice to locate where the bird are feeding (using, is the hunter' term); get there before daylight and wait. Po ibly you will hear a bird call from the roost. If a he will ound like a turkey in a barrel. Sometimes a flock may be located by u ing this call just after daybreak.
I F YO hear them fly from the roost you may ri k a few call hoping that one or more of the birds are eparated from the flock but don't wait too long. Try to scatter them; make them fly. Thi require a uperior sort of wood manship becau e the turkey' hearing and his eye ight is second to nothing in all the wilderne and he ,."ill lip off ahead of you like some gho tly shadow. You will never know that he was there.
One little story and I am done, becau e no man can teach you how to hunt turkeys. You must learn for your elf.
Hippo and I had hunted hard all during the ea on. Hard luck had hounded us. For one rea on and another we had mis ed, ometimes our fault, sometimes that fortuitous laughter of the red gods who failed to mile on u . The sea on had but a few short day to run and we were in the swamp for the la t time. Late one afternoon we flushed a flock of ix birds. We banged away at the

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empt atmo phere. The bird \ ere a hundred and fift yard away. Following thi we walked around the wamp until it was black dark to b ure that the turkeys were' ell cattered and that they did not get to<Yether. The following mornin<Y thirt minute before dawn we were at the pia 'e we had flushed them. e built a good blind.
I began to call before the un wa up, an 0 casional tentati e yelp, no, a hen, now a gobbler becau e I didn't know what was in the flock. It wa eight 0' lock before we got the fir t an wer, a 10\ and cautiou <Yobbler yelp. I an wered it ju t once and waited. Minutes later I hard the same or another bil"d on the oppo ite ide of us. Thi time it was th imperative cluck of a gobbler. A cluck i hard to imitate. One i lik ly to "putt" in tead, and "putt" in turkey lan<Yua<Ye means" cram, fella, ome-
thi:g :r,ong around here. I'll b e-
111 ou. Hippo ri ked it, however, and a
second later the tW'ke came in like a race hor_e. Hippo's charge of ixes cau<Yht the bird full in th head and at thi in tant the fu- t turke flu hed from a cane patch within twent
ard on m right. I swung the ixteen ahead of him pressed the trig<Yer and the high velocit load of sixe caught him in the head and n ck. Ju t a minute later Hippo and I were solemnl baking hands.
I looked at my bird, bronze and gleaming in the early morning light. "The King is dead," I said.
From a cane break, two hundred yard away we heard the alarm note: "Putt! Putt! Putt!"
Hippo looked at me and <Yrinned: "Lon<Y live the king," he answered, and we shouldered our game and _tarted back to the cabin.
As I LfJfJK BOCK
(Continued from page 5)

and nothing fell. The farmer had killed one bird, too. The other dog we had \ ent in and r trieved both birds. now, contrary to bird-dog etiquette, ,a la t seen peeding in the direction of th departiJl<Y co ey.
" ever een him do that before," the farmer aid-which, of our e, I di<Yested with a grail] of alt.
Presentl no\ appeared. In hi mouth he carried a dead quail-m econd hot had been more accurate than I tbought. now, harper eyes than we, had followed the falling bird and brought him back. A remarkable retrieve.
When I left that day, now rode on the back at.
But now wa a one-man dog, and although I hunted him for two years, fed him, and tried to win bis affection, he never particularly cared for me or anybod else. He wa polite about it, but the only time I could arou e his intere t was when I came out of the hou e with a gun in my hand.
ow ou may ay that he was imply not a demon trative dog. But I know that hi heart remained up in the crub oak country. I kno\ thi becau e lie ne er brought a bird to a hunter again. H would find a dead bird only to drop it. In other ways he was a fine old meat dog, but he never retrieved a<Yain. He wa a oneman dog, and I wa n't the man.
The Old Solt Sez
(Continued froln page 24)
had been catching \ inter trout on a fly-rod ever since he had been in thi section-he aid that when he came here he just didn't know any other
method of fi hing and that ru first
try proved su e ful 0 h had kept it up.
I ew ha a way of g tting around, and those \ ho didn't hear the story over the radio, were told about it b

tho e who did hear it, 0 that the fol10\ ing day it ,a being talked in every porting <Yood . sto'e and other place \ here fi hermen oather.
A a re ult of this first fly-rod catch many local port men have been ncoura<Yed to try thi type of wint I' trout fi hin<Y, and a good number of fine cat he bave been reported. nd tho e who have made the catche a that it provide the fine t port they have ever found.
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who owned him needed money and wa offerin<Y him for sale.
"Come on " the farmer aid, "and I'll how ou a true bird dog. He cain tread ner write but that' about all he cain't do. '
Does he retrie e?" 'Be t I ever een at it. ' We had hunted for perhaps a half hour when now point d. Hi range had been remarkably good, but I wa far from impre sed with his pointing tyle. We walked in front of the point, and a fine booming covey of bird erupted all around u . I hot once and a bird fell. I shot again,

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Noturol History

extensive areas of marshland. Then, too, from the angle of fi h conserva-

(Oontinued f1'om plJ1Ie 13)

tion, the impoundment of water creates breeding place for many specie of

The tail is the di tinguishing mark of fi h, furnishe the proper environment

the beaver. It i generally about ten for thousand of minnows and aquatic

inches long and about four inches wide. insect and organisms upon which fish

It i flat and covered with cales. This appendage is u ed a a rudder when swimming, as a prop when cutting trees at which time the animal stands on its hind legs, bracing with its tail

feed and also produces more acreage of water in which fish may be found.
As for the fur of thi animal, it is a well-known fact that the A tor fortune and many others ju t as famous, were ba ed on the sale of the beaver's pelt

and gnawing away at the tree. He also during the early settling of this coun-

uses hi tail a a platform on which to try. At that time, the beaver kin was

it and when alarmed will strike the the medium of exchange in place of ac-

water a sharp blow with hi tail, making a rifle-like report which warns all of the other of hi kind.
The fur i a very fine, oft, water-

tual money of which there was very little, and many men have been killed, yes, even war fought over the beaver skin.
At pre ent the kin of a prime beaver

proof under-fur protected by course i worth around $20, but the law of

outer hairs. The under-fur i so fine Georgia protect him and federal law

and closely interwoven that

it contain air which cannot

break through and reach the

urface. This impri oned air

along with castoreum, (an

oil found in the animal's

ca tor or oil glands) keep

the water away from the

kin. Beaver will pend

hours combing their fur with

their fore paws and pread-

ing the ca toreum.

Tree are cut in such a

manner that the tump after

the tree ha been felled will

be conical. In the Glacier

I at ion alP ark a tree 46

inches in diameter wa cut

down by beaver. Mot of

their activity is at night,

u ually with from two to a

dozen or more working to-

gether.

Ranger Arthur Woody of the U. S. Forest Serv-

A Northern beaver comes to Georgia.

ice in the Blue Ridge Moun-

tains was fortunate enough

to see two beaver which had been re- prevent the hipment of the skin out

lea ed in the National Forest, cut down of this tate.

an aspen apling during daylight, and

After going into the intere ting hab-

move the trunk (after thoroughly trim- it of thi animal and con idering the

ming and ectioning it) to the water value of both his work and his pelt, it

from a point orne 80 or 90 feet back is small wonder that step have been

from the pond. He stated that the sapling wa about five inches in diameter and' on one ection of the trunk which

taken for the protection of 0 valuable an ally in the war against the exploitation of our oil the thoughtle s reduc-

they were moving the stick was about tion of our fi h population, the de-

five feet long. One beaver on the front

truction of moist and fertile farm

of the log walked backward and pulled land, and in another potential source

while the one at the rear pushed. of income for our rural dweller who

Finally the animal swapped places and may in the future realize an added in-

continued on to the pond with their burden.

come from the pelt of the beaver, taking uch under controlled regulations

Contrary to the belief of many peo- which will be de igned to give us a

ple, the beaver doe not feed on fi h, can tant helper in our fight for con-

its diet consi ting entirely of the bark

ervation and at the ame time a

and bud of tree, root of aquatic veg- money crop in the hape of fur.

etation and herb. They u ually cut

their winter upply of food before cold

weather and cache it on the bottom of

the stream or pond in which they are dwelling.
From the tandpoint of economic,

Thirty-Thirty

the beaver, while in a few case is damaging to property due to flooding crop-

(Continued from page 26)

land and eating corn, is extremely valuable a an agent for the conservation of oil. It is an established fact that
their dams not only catch and hold

cal whi tIe of widgeon, Or baldpate, sounded to the south'ard, a some thirty of the e sporty fowl, after a

thousand of ton of top oil, but the couple of inqui itive circle, swarmed

water tored by such dams tends to retain a constant water table in the urrounding country and also helps to low the run-off during floods. This is

over the et. I managed to catch a couple of drakes crossing with my first barrel and downed a hen with

done by spreading the flood water over my second. Mike plunged into the

water and in less time than it takes to tell, he had the three bird back in the blind. The "hoodoo" wa broken and I started to "go to town."
The ducks just piled into the cove, blacks, mallard , widgeon, a few gadwall and swarms of teal. I couldn't load fast enough to keep up with them and often a bunch had lighted to the decoys before I was ready. Sometime the space in front of the blind was 0 crowded with darting fowl that it was hard to pick a target; that incoming green head, the jack -in -the- box red leg, that rightquartering wisp of g l' e e n win g, or what other of a hundred or two hurtling missiles? However, please God, I had stopped missing and each load of number sixes turned loose from the Damascu barrels of the old Scott brought down a victim. One barrel cut a warth through a swarm of hurrying teal and five of them hit the water. Most of the ducks splashed into the cove but a few thudded down into the mar h behind me and one mallard crashed through the cane surrounding me to land in the blind. The on laught ceased, the flight let up and I counted the lain-twentynine ducks and I had used one box of hell and four out of a secondthe double shot on the widgeon and the teal massacre had made good for my misses. One minute to 4:30. I heard the splash of a paddle, and through the tall edge of the narrow ditch which traversed the marsh north'ard to Shedd Cove. I espied the top of Howard's green ou'wester. Honk-a-honk, honk-a-honk. And the hat disappeared in a fla h. There he came from the outh'ard, a lone gander bound for Shedd Cove. I slipped a load of twos into my second, fullchoke barrel and crouched low, shivering with excitement. Thi old goose was not taking many chance . He wa well up in the air and well out in front, 'way beyond the furthermo t decoys above the Cove. ow wa the time if ever! The brown barrels wung with the bird. A final Bip carried them beyond his head and I pulled trigger.
A wild yell echoed over the darkening marsh, Tarzan, or a bull ape had nothing on me, and a loud whoop from Howard helped too. Stopped in mid-Bight, the great Canada' out tretched neck and head flopped over suddenly on his back and he dove into the cove in a mother of pray, while a host of tiny wavelet slapped against the front of the tand. I helped Howard pick up and we poled clubward in the du k.
Doesn't "thirty-thirty" aptly designate this tale of a ducking day never to be forgotten?

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OUTDOOR GEORGIA

Volume I

Number 9

CHARLES N. ELLIOTT, Editor ELMER RANSOM, Associate Editor

JOHN MARTIN, Managing Editor E. L. GIBSON, Business Manager

CONTENTS FOR JANUARY, 1941

Cover Painting, Mourning Doves

Lane Gibson

A Dozen Doves.

4-5 . . . . . . . . . . . . Dean Hunter . . . . . . . . .

Guardian of the Breed

6 John Clark McCall. . . . . ..

The Outcast

7 R. L. Cornwell. . . . . . . . ..

Winter Foods for Bobwhite

Sydney Franklin .. . . . . 8-9

Duck Disease

Gordon H. True, Jr

10-1 I

Day on the Range

LeGarde S. Doughty

12-13

Water

.

.

Carl D. Shoemaker

14

Sportsmanship vs. Vandalism

16-17

The First and Last

Marguerite Wallace

25

DEPARTMENTS

EDITORIAL ......................................................... 3

ELMER RANSOM .................................................... 15

CIRCUIT WRITER ................................................... 18

YOUR GUN AND MINE ............................................ 19

THE OLD SALT SEZ .......................................... 20-21

CONSERVATION COMMENTS

23

JUNIOR RANGER TRAIL ............................................. 24

WILDLIFE IN OTHER STATES ........................................ 29

Published monthly by The Georgia Division of Wildlife, 412 State Capitol, Atlanta, Ga., in the interest of Georgia wildlife and for fishermen, hunters, nature lovers and conservationists. Single copy, IS cents. Yearly subscriptions to United States and its possessions, and Canada, 51; other countries $2. Subscribers must notify us of change of address four weeks in advance of next publication date, giving both old and new address. Contents of this magazine must not be reprinted without permission. This magazine is glad to receive photos, drawings, stories and articles dealing
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RANGER DIRECTORY
Mountain Di trict
C. E. Adams, Atlanta; ~retropolitan Atlanta; C. G. Harper, Lithia Spring; obb, Douglas, and part of Fulton; Charle M. Adams, Bremen; Carroll, Haralson, and Paulding counties; \V. G. Uryant, Dalton; Gordon, .:\lur ray, and Whitfield countie ; J. L. Chester, Rohert town; )\ational Forest area; R. L. Corn well, Rome; Hartow, Floyd, and Polk coun ties; Andrew Floyd, Canton; Cherokee, Daw on, and For yth coul1tie ; W. W. Dockery, Dahlonega; Xalional Forest area; Paul Swan son, Lavonia; Jlanks, Franklin, and Stephen countie ; Pat l"IcKinncy, Jefferson; Barrow,
11al1, and Jack on counties; Fred Brewer, Jr.,
Elherton; Elhert, Hart, and ~ladison counties; W. H. Middleton, La Fayette: Catoosa, Chattooga, Dade, and \Valker countie ; L. Hud on, Dahlonega; Lumpkin, 'nion, and White counties; II. H. 'eabolL, 11igdon' tore; ~ational
Forest area; J. E. Wall, larkesville; Towns,
Rabun, and Haber h31ll counties; H. F. Walton, Lawrenceville; part of Dc "alb, Gwinnctt, and Rockdale counties; Clyde Wehunt, Suches,; 1\ational Forest area; T. 2\loole 'omithwick, Blue Ridge; l-;"annin, Gilmer, and Pickens countie. D. L. Rainey, 'anton, i district chief and . . Davis, Canton, is assistant district chief.
Piedmonl District
llarlan IIarris, I-Iamiltol1; I-Iarris, l\lu cogee, and Talbot counties; Albert Douglas, Griffin; Clayton, l-;-ayette, Henry, and Spalding couo
ties; J. D. Eadie. Buena Vi ta; 2\larion, 'chley,
and \Vebster counties: 11. E. Ashe, l\1acon, Bibb, Hou ton and Peaeh counties; J. C. Garrett, Butler; Crawford, Macon, and Tay lor counties; Alex Lunsford, Richland; Chattahoochee, Quitman, and tewart counties; Wallace Martin. Jackson; Jackson Lake; W. G. ~I itchell, Monticello; Jasper Jones, and
Putnam countie ; P. K. i\Loore, j effersonvil1e;
Baldwin, Twig~s, and \Vilkinson counties; R. H. asnett, Lexll1gton; Clarke, Greene, Oconee, and Oglethoqle countie ; A. Me. -mith, La Grange; Coweta, Heard, and Troup counties; LI. \V. urrency, :\Lonroe; :\lorgan, ~ewton, and \Valton counties; A. E. Thornton, For
yth; Bults, Lamar, and l\[onroe countie . A. B. Briscoe, ~I acoll, is di trict chief and P. ll.
mith, Thoma ton; A1eriwether, Pike, and pon counties, is assi tant district chief.
Flint River District
A. F. Avey, Blakely; Baker, Earll', and ~liller countie ; T. ll. llrantley, Fitzgerald; Ben IIill, Irwin, and Turner counties; Norwood Ca sels, Cuthbert; alhoun, Clay, and Randolph counties; A. . Dunn, ThomasvilJe i Brook and Thoma counties; J. D. William, Cordele; Crisp, Dooly, and umter counties; Jim Fussell, Fitzgerald: Wilcox county; R. A. Grizzell, Jr., ):a hville; Berrien, ook, and Lanier counties; C. L. I-Iarrell, \Vaycross;
Clinch and \\'are countie ; J. M. Peagler,
\ aldo ta; Echol and Lowndes counties; J. H. Montford, Albany; Dougherty, Lee, and Terrell countie ; Jack :\Ioncrief, Bainbridge; De catur, Grady, and Seminole counties; Dan C. Royal, ~loultrie; olquitt and ~litchell coun. tie; Earl Holtzendorf, ylvester; Tift and Worth countics; R. W. Williams, Folk ton; Charlton and Brantley counties; . G. Young, Dougla ; Atkinson and offee counties. Fred Brooks and Thomas counties; J. D. Williams,
mith, ylvester, is assistant di trict chief.
Plain District
J. E. Bledsoe, fcRae; J elf Davis, Telfair, and \Vheeler countie ; J. R. Smitb, Swainsboro; Emanuel and Treutlen countie; Ed Friend, Augn ta; Columbia, )lcDuffie, and Richmond counties; J. T. GJawsoD, parta; Glascock, I-Iancock, and "Varren counties: J. M. French, Waynesboro; Burke and Jen.
kins counties; J. vv. Jone, Eastman; Bleck
ley, Dodge, and Pulaski countie; . B. Lufburrow, andersville; Jefferson and \ashing ton countie ; R. J. )Iays, Lyons; 'Montgomery, Tattnall and Toombs counties; J. Elmer Burn, Dublin; John on and Laurens coun tie; R. J. Vibbert, ylvania; Effingham and
creven countie; E. L. cott, tate boro; Bulloch, Candler, and Evans counties; Ernest
haw, Alma; Appling, Bacon, and Pierce COUll ties ;~I. A. Reid, \Vashington; Lincoln, Talia ierro, and \Vilkes countie; C. J. Wright, Je up; Long and \\layne counties. J. D. Foster, wainsboro, is district chief.

GIVE US A GAME CODE



I

THREE hundred year ago, \ hen America wa in her fir t growin u pain of development, the entire continent was more abundantly populated with game bird and animal than it ha ever b en. The Indian tribe \ ere comparatively few and far between. The weapon of the red man were crude and ineffective again t tough hide and izzling speeds. ArrO\ could kill at clo e range, but not at great di tance . When a tribe "hunted out" the area around their encampment, they moved on to more productive hunting ground and the abandoned woods and field and tream quickly repopulated themselve ."'The few pioneer and tiny ettlement of this new white American frontier did not wa te their valuable powder for sport. They killed when the table needed meat. Wa ted flesh wa something to be frowned uponnot becau e of portsmanship, but because of necessity. A dearth of meat doomed a ettlement to tarvation and extinction.
A age and eon and uch thin u go, three hundred year i a hort time, yet an old citizen like Captain John
mith, uddenl being brought back to America today, ,ould wear in hi beard that he wa a visitor 011 orne other planet. He would find the fir t American citizen in re ervation , retained a ward of the government. He would find the dim forest trail obliterated, and in their place broad highwa lined with huge truck and peedinu automobile. Citie ha e grown where trail cro ed and va t fore ted area are cut up into farms.
T HE va t herd of bi on the enormou flock of pa engel' pigeons have vani hed. Deer, ducks, wild tmkey , bear, quail. 11 have been cut down to pitiful number, by comparison with those een by Captain John
mith. any factor have influenced thi change in wildlife
condition . In three hundred year "wild land ," \ hich originally covered orth America from coast to coast, are remnant of their former domain. Thi wa necessary in the development of the nation. Foodstuff could not he grown under trees and the trees had to be cleared for farm. Gun have increa ed from a fe\ old flint-lock quirrel rifle to modern, treamlined firearms in the hands of over 10,000,000 person. tream once clear and filled with fi h now carr mud and iIt to the ea uncea ingly and in enormous quantitie . More than 13,000,000 fi hermen take to the water of America each year for the game fi h.
With uch existing situations about the only remedy mu t be orne control of the hunting and fi bing if we are to maintain that type of port in thi country. To di tribute the game equally among all tho e who hunt and fish would be impo ible, 0 la, mu t be made by both the federal government and by all the state to affect a near as equitable a di tribution a po sible. ometime those laws may eem unfair. ore often they are barely adequate to provide for the increase or even maintenance of game population.
It has been demonstrated among progressive states that proper game laws with adequate enforcement can increase the game supply. adly enough, Georgia has long neglected both the e factors. It is fortunate, perhaps, that mu h of the state i in rough woodland and swamp and den e thicket, or the uame upply already would have been gone. Despite abu e of thi most valuable of
o TDOOR GEORGIA January 1941

all re ource to recreational needs of man, fe\ pecie have ever been completel exterminated in thi tate.
P ERHAP the mo t badly needed a t to the increa e of game in Georgia i a new and complete set of law to protect the game bird and animal and fi h. uame code, embracing all the fundamental of game management on a large cale, hould be the protecting barrier between our game and laughter. Thi game code, or sport men' code, should be more fortified by teeth than a earling shark, and must have the upport of every portsman and every jurist in Georgia.
The question is how uch a code may be obtained. Fir t of all, it mu t be pa ed hy the tate legi lature. All old tatute on the book today-the accumulation of a quarter century of law and regulation promoted by indignant landowner , di gruntled hunter and fishermen and unenlightened legi lators-mu t be discarded in favor of this new code, which hould be 0 written that it will give both hone t port men and game a chance.
s an example, the fishin u law g inadequate. For intance, it is against the law to eine in Georuia water , ith the exception of a part of the Broad River between the bridge on the Washington-Elberton hiuhway. Wildlife ranger, however, cannot make an arre t for seining unIe they actually catch the violator in the act. It i not again t the law to pos e eine fi h trap or other illegal device for taking fi h. It i merel again t the law to use them.
T HE r too, no law exi ts which provide for a legal ize or number limit on the game fish of the tate. tring of black bass are aught before they are longer than a man's finger. Allowed to grow for one year and those arne fish would weigh between one and one and a half pounds. ot long ago heavy rains broke the dam of several fish ponds on the water hed of the Ogeechee River. The Ogeechee furnished some excellent fishing for
veral week . Catches of forty large black bas and more than 100 redbreasts were repOlted. What can any man do with 40 large black bass or 100 redbrea t ? Certainly he cannot eat them all, and he leaves none for hi next fishing trip. A you may well imagine, the fishing on the Ogeechee River soon returned to normal.
Quail ea,son open in 18 outhern Georgia countie 20 day ahead of the quail sea on in the remainder of the tate. t that time, ovember 1, many of the coveys are much too small to fly and many, time too small to eat. The true sportsman recognize thi fact and dela hi hunting. The game hog, , ho ha been and will alway_ be with u ,kill the oung bird ,ben and, bere ever he an.
The law requiring the report of deer and tmke kill are entirely inadequate and hardly can be enforced under the pre ent condition. ale of quail and other game has the upport and anction of the court and of prominent itizens in many instances. It i omethinu which hould not be tolerated by hone t citizens. But unfortunately it i .
There are many similar situations which might be leared up with proper law , or be t of all, by an adequate game code. The legislature must pas that code. It will pa the code if the honest hunter and fishermen of thi tate want it passed.
3

A DOZEN DOVES

I T ALL started when a pickaninny shyly barefooted it to our car and jabbered hi mo t polite sales talk: "Pick up doves fo' you
mistah?" That was in front of the hotel
down in Jesup, where we had pitched camp for two day in que t of turkeys that alway went the other way and deer that always turned out to
be doe. Offhand, you wouldn't tag Roy as
a ity editor. He was built more like a box car and had legs like those of a Baby Grand piano. He had played guard, an All-Southern brand of it, at the Univer ity of Georgia. When he managed to sneak a\ ay from hi desk on the ews for a week every winter he followed the geese and ducks back outh.
'Way back when he wa in grammar chool, and on through high school, he hot dove around what we called Dove Hill, just a 15-minute walk from Woodville High where we generally were late for the first cla . Hardly a morning passed that Roy and I didn't unlimber our 12 gauge single barrel on Dove Hill. That was before we knew there was anything like a clo ed season. Too, it ,a before the e gray ghost were
carce. But you can't do much damage
with ingle barrels and with a chool bell pullin<T you away from a natural desire to hunt game in favor of what we thought was an unnecessary search for solution to Algebraic problems.
Anyway, Roy was like a Canada goose. He couldn't re ist the desire to respond to a nostalgic urge that
<hew him back to the same thing
every winter. Our hunt for deer and turkey in
the Altamaha wamp had netted u
nothing but a mallard hen and six
gray quirrel. Quail earlier in the
week had been different. We had our
portable ice bo packed with 30

bird , which was half our possession limit, but enough for an body.
Roy had two more day left on his vacation away from the desk and failure to bag a gobbler in two days hadn't dulled hi shooting ambition. Hi long idle trigger finger till had an itchy ra h.
"I've got a hard job ahead of me," he confided. "We re launching a war on a milk price-fixing racket next month and I'm going to have a lot of hooting on my hand. I think I need a little orientation. And I don't know what would better prepare me than a dove shoot-back on Dove Hill."
W E WERE coming out of the telegraph office, where Roy had sent a reminder to his staff not to forget to carry a front page box on the ice skating rodeo which his paper sponsored every year for the benefit of underprivileged children.
I alTeady was a day behind with m work. And sales were slipping through my fingers. Ammunition came high that way.
So I parred and hoped to duck the doves.
"Well, Roy, nothing would please me more," I lied, "but you know there are no doves thi year. The cold nap and snow la t winter cleaned them out. I'm afraid it would be ju t a waste of time."
He stopped at the bottom step, one foot on the tep and the other on the treet. He took a calculating dra\ on a cigarette, and just looked at me. Re knew I wa talling.
'Yes, and you wouldn't hoot one if he lit on your gun barrel, would you?" he sneered. "You're a con ervationist and probably are going around here with a petition to pare the baby-faced doves-the two that are left."
Roy was a sarca tic fool. He wa back in school and a a college editor he tore down every thing but the

buildings and the football stadium

which he helped build. He was worse

now.

:v IT AS no use, I had to agree with

him to escape his poison. I knew

there wa I wanted

no him

wtoaygooubtacakndt~

after all his grind

with enough wood in his y tem to

hold him till time to go after bass

in the ummer. He'd be back then for

his other week away from the sheet.

Dove Hill was out of the que tion.

A wildlife ranger had told me that

Mr. Waits had died and mortgages

and weeds and young pines had re-

placed what once was a fine corn

field, bordered with peanut and pea

patches. It would have been a long

drive, anyway.

It was true that doves were as

carce as hair on Sheriff Burke's

head and he hadn't seen a comb and

brush in 20-odd year .

Here wa a problem. But I called

Tom McReeder, where I bought

hells and he told me he could ar-

range for a shoot through Dr. Tomp-

kin who owned a lot of land 35

mile from town.

It was noon by now and we de-

cided to wait until the next morning

to hit the field. Meantime, Dr. Tomp-

kins, who had been accu ed once of

baiting fields for his friends, called

and said he'd have a negro tenant to

meet us and serve a a guide.

"You can take alon<T my little

Springer to do your retrieving," he

told u . "Her name's Toy and he's

as tender as a mother eat's love."

B OOKER was a tall gingercake negro. He planted a lot of grain on Dr. Tompkins' place. And this year he had made a good crop of benne on a 20-acre patch. It had been planted for doves, and there wa plenty of corn and velvet beans over the rolling farmland.
Ragweed, another favorite dove food, was abundant on every terrace,

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January 1941 OUTDOOR GEORGIA

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and between the rows of corn, some of which had been shocked, while much of it was left in the field for the bi<Y drove of Poland China hogs which the doctor rai ed a a sort of hobby.
"Dey ain't I een many bird roun dis yeah," Booker 'lowed. "De cold done kilt 'em, I'se mo ' certain."
The colored farmer a ured u_, however, that several small drove had been feeding around "solta scattered like" for about two week.
Dr. Tompkin hadn't even bothered to hav his annual invitation hoot.
Two guns on a dove hoot didn't look very encouraging, but Booker stationed Roy near a small thicket of plum tree and told me to " tay by dis' immon tree. Dey's bad 'bout lightin' dere."
SO I took care of Toy, a mall, but friendly liver and white spaniel. Roy' stand wa about a hundred
yards away. It wa cold and had not the 7
o'clock edict been lifted we'd have been shooting too early. The wind wa tiff and stin<Ying a it ang through the huck on the corn stalks.
Booker swung around the edge of the corn field, circling and working hi way toward the benne patch. His plan was to flush the dov our way.

A meat-getter couldn't pull a feather into the wind-because he was shooting with a pasteboard in hi~ pocket.

A broken talk ent a pair of dove whistling out of the field. Th Y dipped back down, a good sign that there were others feedi n<Y in the field.
A few hundred feet more and Booker had put up a flock of around twenty. The bird split, five of them pulling out and cutting traight tm ard Roy. He wa crouching as they came directly over him and not more than twenty-five yards high. My meat-getter friend came out of his crouch and swung with them. He aimed for what appeared to be a full minute and finally emptied three hell from his plugged pump. He called it a liding trombone and from what he got on thi opening volley it was nothin<Y more than that.
The dove drifted around the loping field and re umed their peace.

Booker wa whipping the field like a field trial do<Y but I wore a slick place on my tree before a loner came hurtlin<Y impatiently down the wind, doing aerial tactics at full peed. He was on me before I kn w it, and a limb absorbed m fir t hot. My econd tipped hi wing and little Toy ran the bird down near the edge of a pine thicket.
Hardly had I reloaded before Roy was back in action with that lidaction gun. Bang! Bang! Bang! Two dove sped on their way.
At noon my bag wa one. Roy hadn't cut a feather with nine bot.
IT WAS evident that if we , ere to get any birds we would have to resort to jUlnp- hooting. Thi i ho\ we u d to get them back on Dove Hill. Condition were practically perfect-bri k wind and terrace that we could keep between u and the birds. It was uncomfortably cold, but this helped our purpose, as doves will wait longer to flush when they have to battle biting wind.
We called Booker in and swung into the wind, traveling diagonally
(Continued on page 22)

A bird pulled out of the flock and collapsed as Roy took a long
aim.

o TDOOR GEORGIA Janlwry 1941

5

By JOn CLARK McCALL

Add was on trial.
A T ALL man of fifty-five lay tretched out on the bed in the small hotel room. Hi wool stocking and worn boots lay on the floor, a half-gone bottle of whiskey on a table beside him. A Ii re sparkled in the grate, for thi was an old hou e of lodging, where the handler~ usually stayed, only three mile from the e tate and hunting pre erve of Gerald toneson, rich tobacco heir and portsman.
omad, a large white dog urled before the lapping flames hi eye lowly blinking-cIo ing-then blinking aaain.
The Quail Championship one of the areate t conte t of the field trial circuit, had been completed at toneon' place that afternoon. And now, Add Allen, alone in hi room, wa ju t a calm a he had been throughout the afternoon' final brace th re ult of which wa re pon ible for the chunk of money in his pocket and the ma ive loving cup which rested on the mantle.
He reached over, took a long pull on the bottle, and fairly said aloud, " omad finally came through j he won like a thoroughbred, a thorough.

bred a thoroughbred; no, nobody must ever know."
Add fell a leep. He may have dreamed of the days when he wa top among field trial handler. He may have dreamed of hi former ucce , time when take money gave him plent to pend, plenty to be thankful for. And he might have been ufTering that terrible nightmare of empty liquor bottles, large gambling debt, 10 s of pre tige and patron ,patron who took their dog away from the _trin a of the deca ing dd "even if, when ober he ,a the be t handler of pointer and- setter e er to blow a whi tie." But Add Allen lept, older, and quite tired after hi fir t field trial seai;on in even years.
MA Y of the wealthy dog owner and their handler had inwardly "booed" when the tately judges announced that omad had been declared champion. Field trials are a clean game and, since Add moral lump, which in part had meant neg

lect of the dogs ent him to handle, betrayal of their owner, and unpaid debt, the galler had thought Add unclean. A , inner mu t be clean.
Field trial men believe in each other. Their trust i in the tud book. One fal ely registered dog could affect the game. Were he not bred as represented on hi paper, hi ofT pring would not be pure, hi de cendant would be even more mixed and finally an entire breed would be altered.
That night Mr. tone on wa ho t at dinner for a few owners, judges, and the field trial cribe at hi plantation. Afterward, he knocked at Add' door.
lowl Add ro e to let him in. "Add I've got a propo ition, , the handsome gentleman said, and
(Continued on page 30)

I;II,
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Nomad's course had been run.

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January 1941 0 TDOOR GEORGIA

The Outcast

BIf R. .P. e~

A 0 RWE T Georgia fi herman climb out of hi boat complaining about the bad fi hing with a half dozen yard-long jack on his tring. a be it would be be tter if they were ba , but, how in the name of I ac Walton can he say that fi hing wa bad?
Like mo t amateur ichthyolo!ci t, I probabl u e the wrong name, but every outh Georgia fisherman knows the outhern member of the pike famil , the long, green, ugly jack. I have no objection if you a he i a pe t, a de troyer of better fi h or that hi rating is low on the cook' Ii t, but I will conte t an reference to hi lack of O'amenes. A jack will strike artificial bait and fight a long a he can. The fact that a muskie of equal ize can fight longer i no rea on for ostracizing hi cou in, the jack.
The trout fi herman con iders himself the aristocrat of anO'ler , but many ba fi hermen will call him a crank. The bait
a ter counts the ba a the only worthwhile fi h but the bream fi herman th in k he is crude-to him the true art i angling for redbellie and blue gill. You have heard of many kind of fi hermen and you have heard them boa t of their favorite fi h but who ever
heard of a 'jack fisher-
man"?
All the "game' fi her-
men might condemn the
jack, but they would all
have to give him a few
point if they a\ him
coming through foot deep
water like a torpedo, scat-
tering top min now in frenzied flight to strike a plug that i a full forty feet from hi bed. If the "ba 'fishermen i n th e F lin t ri er section of Georgia were to tell the truth many of them would really b "jack fi hermen.' The talk bas

in town but if ou check them on the backl ater creek you \ ill find them dropping big slo\ mo ing plugs over logs in the hallow clear \ atel'. The are hopinO' that one of
them i n t really a log, but a big O're n jack with fight in hi heart.

WRILE I wa attending a field trial la t October my south Georgia friend talked 0 much about the good fall fi hing that I decided to tay a day longer and go fi hing. The
local nimrod would tell of the good bas fi hing, the excellent crappie fishing and then they would say, "And jack are biting good too."
We rented a couple of boats an'd hooked a motor on one of them. At sun-up we were working our way up a creek that emptied into the Lake Blackshear backwater. We cut the Doctor loose on a good bank and with the ingle boht Selby and I pulled far up the creek. I rigged up a bait ca ting outfit and began ca ting for ba . elby was using the fly rod and as we drifted down the tream we would try to ca t over ever bas we aw break the water. The creek wa full of game fi h but they were feeding on the top minnow and wouldn't notice a plug.
I \ a casting halfheartedl , more intere ted in watching small flock of teal coming in to feed on the water oak rna t
along the shore and in counting the do e coming in to water when a jack struck. I saw him
trike and mi sol
topped reeling in and waited. He made a turn
,came back and grabbed a mouth full. elby, who i
upposed to be strictly a fly caster, rigged up a bait rod and we got down to erious jack fishing. Even the Doctor, fly fi h-
erman upr-eme, got out hi plug when we floated by hi anchored boat and held up our tring of ugly jack. (Cont'd on p. 30)

If many 'bass' fishermen on the Flint River told the truth they would be 'jack' fishermen.

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7

Winter' Foods of Bobw

These 925 seeds of II different species of plants were found in a single quail crop. Over one-half of the total contents are annual lespedezas and cowpeas. Among the other groups of seeds are partridge pea (A).
ragweed (B). sweetgum (C). and wheat (0).

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EVEN though a quail must eat 12 months in a year, many hunters think only of bobwhite's diet (luring the open season. At that time we hear all kinds of stories ahout ' the kinds of food the birds eat. Many sportsmen and farmers Jnake accurate observations on what the birds are eating, but others sometimes report items in the quail's diet that are not revealed by scientific observation and study.
Since the open season for "pardiges" is here, let's look at the results of a study of the contents of 678 crops, or "craws" taken during the open seasoll throughout Georgia during the past three years. Examining the food found in the bird's crop is generally regarded by scientists as .the best way to find out what the bird actually eats. This study was made by the U. S. Soil Conservation Service to obtain information for use in its work of cOllserving soil and improving conditions for wildlife on many farms in the Southeast.
To simplify the study, hiologists of the U. S. Soil Conservation Service divided the state into two sections. As shown on the map helow quail crops were collected in the northern half of the state, which is known as the Piedmont section, and in the southern half, known as the Coastal Plain.
In the Piedmont section it was found that the seed of annual lespedezas-either Kobe, common, or Korean-was the preferred and predominating quail food. The hirds'

"Wildlife borders," including shrubs, such as sumac and wild plum, and legumes such as lespedeza, fit into the farm picture at the junction of fields and woods.
This strip furnishes food and cover for quail, and also stops erosion.

Beggarlice attach themselves to hunters' clothing, but are not a total nuisance. They are a very desirable food plant for quail, particularly in the Coastal Plain where the plant grows
abundantly in many fields.

'hite Quail In Georgia
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preference for these three seeds appeared to be about equally divided. Closely following the lespedezas, often called Japan clover, were cowpea, ragweed, partridge pea, milk pea, and beggarweed seeds. Pine mast, oak acorns, sweetgnm seed, corn, rye, and sumac seed appeared to be secondary foods. Sumac is consumed in greater quantities toward the end of the open season around late January and Febrnary when other food are more scarce. Since this study was made during the winter months, the crop showed a preponderance of seed and a relatively small quantity of insects, fruits, and green maUer. During summer when more insect and fruits are available these food are an important part of the quail's diet.
In the Coastal Plain, the quail' food, according to the crop study, consi ts mainly of peanuts, small oak acorns, cowpeas, beggarweed seed, and corn during the open season. The crops tudied also contained milk peas and the seed of buU gra s, crabgrass, and panic grass, but only occasionally were these foods found in large quantities. The annual lespedezas are not 0 well adapted to the soils and conditions in the Coastal Plain and consequently are not grown as extensively there as they are in the Piedmont section.

Seed of the three most common annual lespedezas in Georgia. A, Cor mon; B, Korean; C, Kobe. These plants, besides being some of the be
quail foods, are excellent soil conserving and soil building plants.

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One of the best methods of providing quail food well distributed throughout a field is strip cropping. Strips of close-growing plants such as lespedeza are planted
acroSS the slope adjacent to strips of cultivated plants, such as corn.

Sumac seed are eaten by quail late in the season and when snow is on the ground. They therefore are particularly valuable as emergency food. Sumac plants usually will volunteer into woodland edges and ditch banks, if suppressing trees are kept out. Inset is close-up of seed.

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Ducli. Disease

California Division of Fish and Game

EACH year, after they have reared their broods on the northern nesting grounds, thou and of waterfowl ri e on wiftly beating wings and, moved by that strange something that we call the migratory in tinct, begin the long flight outh ward.
As they make their way toward their wintering ground by easy tages the birds encounter many haz ards. There are the guns of an army of duck hunters; drought and famine -the handmaiden of reclamation; certain death in the form of leaden pellets hidden in the mud on the bottom of otherwi e invitinglooking ponds. These and other hazards exact their toll, but still give the birds a fighting chance.
There is one killer, however, that give no quarter. That ruthlessly and needlessly slaughters thou and of waterfowl each year. larked for death is the duck that unknowingly ets its wings over water that harbor the hidden menace of "duck di ease."
"Duck disease" or "We tern duck sickness' is apparently a spawn of civilization and its attendant evils. It i the re ult of drainage, reclamation and deforestation.
Duck disease first was recognized as uch during the latter part of the la t century and did not really at tract serious attention until about 1910. During the last two decade there have been epidemics in rna t of .the tates west of the Mississippi River, in at lea t two Canadian provo inces, and in Old Mexico.
I THE decade 19101920 the mortality among ducks coots and horebirds from thi malady was beyond the wilde t imagining of the pre entday duck shooter. D. H. Madsen, in describing the outbreak at Great Salt Lake in 1910, said:
"Our efforts were confined to gath. ering all the dead one, loading them with pitchforks in flat-bottomed boat and hauling them to the nearest land to be buried or burned. Three men with pitchforks accompanied each boat. I have een many acres of water where these men could, within throw-

ing distance, put in more than 200 birds without moving the boat. Sev eral lakes frequently would yield more than 1,000 dead birds to the acre. We spent days at thi work until the utter useles ness of it all became apparent. The margins of the ponds and lakes became dotted with mound of dead bird resembling rat dens in a mar h."
In 1910 about 30,000 dead birds were picked up on the Weber River flats in Utah, and on the Bear River
ar h in that tate more than 44,000 duck were gathered and buried in little more than a month. In 1913, 46,723 ducks were picked up at the same place in three weeks. In 1929, during a particularly severe epi demic, estimates of dead birds at Great Salt Lake varied from 100,000 to 300,000.
In California the fir t and most seriou outbreak occurred in the San Joaquin Valley at Tulare and Buena Vi ta Lakes, although A. K. Fi her of the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service earlier had reported what may have been an eT)idemic at Owens Lake in 1891. Frank C. Clarke, then investigating the disease for the California Ii h and game commi sian, estimated that at lea t 40,000 birds died in the Tulare and Buena Vista ba ins. The disease later put in an appearance at the Salton ea, at Tule Lake in the northern part of the state, and at scattered points throughout the great Sacramento- an Joaquin Valley.
I 1927, there was an unexpected flare-up of the disease at Buena Vista Lake when the ba in was filled to overflowing by excessive runoff from the Kern River watershed. The outbreak wa unexpected, since it oc curred when the waters were at flood stage. The disease doe not ordinaril put in an appearance until flood waters have receded. Duck disease epidemics ordinarily ubside with the advent of cool weather in October or
Jovember but in this ca e, birds con-
tinued to die throughout the winter.
Wa the 1927 epidemic a ca e of
duck disease that just did not act ac-

cording to Hoyle, or was there some other cause? Certainly the manifestations were out of the ordinary.
Although duck di ease wa early a cribed to a variety of cau esalkali poisoning, lead poi oning, parasitism and many other it now is recognized a a form of botulism caused by a toxin or poi on produced by a bacterium known a clostridium botulinUln, Type C, an organism closely related to the one that is responsible for some forms of food poi oning, or "ptomaine," in human being and domestic animals.
The causative organism was discovered in 1930 by E. R. Kalmbach of the . S. Bureau of Biological Survey. A dweller in the soil, clostridium botulinum i widely distributed throughout the continent, but only make itself known when condition become favorable for its develop ment.
According to Kalmbach, duck dis ease is characterized in the earliest recognizable tage by 'extreme mu cular weakness, brought about by an involvement of the nerve centers. In wild bird, this early re ults in inability to fly and then to walk, falla, ed later by 10 of muscular control of the neck."
There al 0 is a paralysis of the muscle which control the bird's
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I. This drake pintail in summer plumage is showing the first signs of duck diseasemuscular weakness. His wings no longer will lift him from the water.
2. End of the sky hail-neck muscles are weakened and unable to lift his head from the water. This bird has drowned.
3. Some of the waterfowl are given med ical treatment in an effort to increase the rate of survival.
4. Flight feathers are plucked to prevent the escape of the bird during convalescence.
5. Dead birds are burned to prevent the further dissemination of botulism.
6. This hospital pen was constructed in the grove of cottonwood trees so that advantage could be taken of the shade in an otherwise treeless area.
7. Released from the hospital and ready to try his wings again on the long downsouth or upnorth journey.

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Jan.uary 1941 OUTDOOR GEORGIA

CALIFORNIA CONSERVATIONIST

o TDOOR GEORGIA January 1941

11

I T WA a fe\ minutes pa-t e en o'clock. The mornin a wa warm for that time of year; just enough ting in the wind to mak a man rub hi hands together. The car that had been going along at fift on concrete dropped down to fifteen, and 1 \ a shoved forward in the seal. Th ranaer turned into an old road that one \ ould hardl noti e in pas:;ing.
The pringy edan waddled ov r :l twi tina course two thou and ard, the lower branche of s rub oa. whipping the fender in a ort of dull ringing ound. Th car went over a knob of mall grO\ th, then down in that kind of udden dip that make the to mach bob upward, much the ame a in a qui kly droppin a elevator. A doa-Ieg turn to the left, and we topp d at the edae of what had be n a kind of garden ome year (decade maybe) ago. At any rate there was a trip the width of a wagon track and eight or ten yard in I ngth where a fe\ anaemi petunias had quirmed up through
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enough varietie of weed to put a botani t to test. When petunias once take hold th y truggle along somehow.
There wer a few mall timbers along the ground that had not done _0 well. A touch of the boot-tip could turn a four-inch _quare into du t.
The ranger and I \ alked jft paces throuah ara pur to the edge of andy Run Creek. I felt my boot ooze comfortabl into the soft oil and wished 1 \ a bar footed.
The leave of 10 ember formed a great bo\ I around th wamp depres ion. There wa everything from the deep red of s\ eetgum to the bronze aold of hickory, and the merging of the leave turned the
broad rounded land cape into a great
palette with liquid paint all over il.
There wa a commotion omewhere
down the tream. It wa in tant and

forever gone. When the ran a rand I looked there was nothing to see but gro\ ing ring lapping the bank and doubling back.
Wa it a bald bream, the ize of a wood-cutter' hand, _macking the urface for a horsefly in vertical treak from a bed five feet below? a it a two-pound ba in a ickle curve around the stump for a roach feeding at the urface? Wa it a jackfi h in a spear-like thru t out of the hadow for an of a dozen mall creature who_e end, a meant to come in the top-center of a twenty-foot tream of clear water on that certain morning? Which wa it? Or \ hich more proper! , had it been?
I turned to the ranger, a ing noth-
ina, looking him up and down, ith
n . It, a the city man identifying
the wildlife man with thi prelude to
beauty, just at the time when indu -

Duties of a wildlife ranger are not duties at all-they are hour by hour adventures in the out of doors.
January 1941 OUTDOOR GEORGIA

trial whi tIes a few mile north were

calling a part of the world to work.

"Thi man,' I aid to myel f,

"ha n't got a job. He' got a year-

round frolic." Probably it is not realized by many
per on , but coincidence in fiction would not work at all if coincidence had no place in realit . This wa reality, and here was the oincidence: while I , as indulging m innocent env on the ranger, a hot punctured the ilence like a pin in a ballo n.
I began to learn the job side of the ranger' "year-round frolic." For the ranger wa over the creek a far a he could cyo on a twelve-by-tw Ive that had once been a ba ic horizontal in a gri t mill. In one ri ky jump from there he wa near enough th bank to be in water only ankle deep. And I wa right behind him with a great d al of surpri e.
UP THE wooded slope to the id of the ridge we ,ent, pau incy now and then to tr for ome new cent-by-ear direction. Ther \ a no mor booting. We hadcyon a qual'

deal, that challenge from a man of more than medium ize and with more than medium determination in hi face-to a nothin cy of the uniform clipped harpl y a a silhouette,
am Brown belt, .38 in hip-holster, and, mo t severe of all, the traightline slate tet on.
There th fellow \I-a : no licen~e, hootincy bird prot cted by both state and federal law, and calling them up with a mockowl hoot to boot. Wbat followed wa a ombination of efficiency and grief. The ranger confiscated the bird and the automati . He wrote out a bill of charge: ]. shootin cy without a IicenEe, 2. shooting a specie- of bird protected b state ani national law, 3. hooting an automatic without a plug. The hunt man mad hi ignature in acknowledgm nt of the charges, and hi gun was returned to him, but th ello\ hammers were

to haul off to the ar on m back. They could b u ed for evidence, ou ee-if I'm luck enoucyh to make all arre t. '
'I it hard to trap a fish trapper?" I a ked.
"SLICK a eel, those fellow," the rang r an wered. "Be ide-
ou' e got to come to the right hole on the ricyht stream at the right time. The be t I can do is wade and drag
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tel' mile at lea t when 1 .aid to the ranger:
'Look here, mister, i n't it right funn for an owl to be bootincy \ ith the un tanding on top of that hill ov r there?"
"I've been thinkin cy about that:' the ranger an wered. " ometime ~n owl \ ill hoot in da light in a dark
place, but it' ort of funny right now.'

tagged for ourt. It wa ju t about a two-hour tramp
down the creek after that. It \ as slo\ ; ,e topped for many thin cy . Even a turtle dropping int the \ ater off a log ha ~omethincy about it to make ou look. '\i e cam to a orry pile of twi ted wire and one-by-two pine strip cut to pen il length.
-That' a fi h trap I pulled out of
here a month ago," the ranger aid.

The que tion wa selll d \ ithout ornithology in Ie than five mi n-

"Do ou alway wha k them up like that?"

ute. The fellow in the bru h \ a hooting like

"1 o. Onl wh n they are too big

an owl with remarkable expertness.

Right: A wildlife ranger posts a restocked area which is closed to hunting for three years. Below: A ranger prepares to destroy a turkey trap in the
North Georgia mountains.

But he had a

hotcyun in

hi hand and thr e yellow-

hammer in hi bacy.

"Le t e

our I i

en e' the

ranger said

a ca ually

a he would

have poken

oft h e

weather. The

hunt man

had begun to

5ag like an

when fir t

confronted

by the man

in olive drab.

It lllU t have

been an or-

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Blue Ridge Lake, a favorite home for bass, muskies and migrating waterfowl.

W TER i ju t a e _ential to land a it i to man. ithout it neither can live long. In fact everythin u that live and br athe on earth or within the lake, river and ea i dependent upon given quantitie of water to maintain it exi tence. Too much of it i fr qu ntl a destructive as too little of it. II of thi life u taining water fall upon the earth from th kies.
om time it come a a uentl mi t or rainfall and at others with the fur of the torm. It udden or prolonged precipitation produce flood and deva tation while its hortage am:es drought, crop failures, du-t bowl and mi_ery among mankind.
Throughout the age man has fought the consequence of hi fail ure Lo properly under Land thi p.Jwerful force of nature. He ha miurated from one land "of milk and hone " Lo another without giving to hi abandoned 10 ation more than a fleeting thought. He emerged into ivilized state when he gave up being a nomad and ettled down Lo pastoral and auricultural pur uits. It wa alway in orne alle along the bank of ome tream that he made hi new home; for there he found water for him elf. hi tock and hi land. He became'ingeniou in making crud device to lift wat r from the rivers to his higher land. While these devices have been improved upon by pre ent da hydraulic ngineer, the ha ic principles remain the _arne. Dam, wheel, bu ket and diLches were emplo ed and ua e im pie fficiency.

Here in hi ne, home and en ironment he was happ and contented. Hi tribe increased. He r ached out for more land Lo feed hi grO\ ing ueneration . Hi h rd b arne larger and required more gras and pa Lure. Over the ear -and enturie eroion and d creased productivit of the land cau ed by the e increa ed population and u_e made him move out to other location in earch of till new r and more producti e area . Comm rce and trade bet\ een the variou peopl \ ho lived in the fa ored pots grew and flouri hed. Tribe_ and nation fought each other for pos_e sion of Lhe e trade routes and the product that the carried.
aLion ro e became powerful and mighty and di d-and rose again. And so the truggle for food and Ii elihood has gone on and doubtl will till another titanic upheaval of nature bloL out Lhe la t remnant of our earthly reature and in eon of year later tart the pe ie all 0 er auai11. Thu ha been the our_e of hi tory.
T HE E refl ction are made becau e of our trip which ha cro sed the continent in a zig-zag route coveri n u Lhe corn-belt Lhe plain and Rock Mountain state and two of tho e bordering on the Pacinc. One of Lhe great problems which these people throughout all the_e state are tr ing to 01 e i that of the con ervation and wise u e of water. In we t rn ebraska, for in stance, we , ere frequentl told that there ha been a crop failure each

ear for the last eight years. In all of the western tates there are mil lion of acres of arid land covered with aue bru h and scattered patche of thin, dry gra . Great river pierce the mountains, carry off the rainfall at easons of the year when it doe the lea t good to man and hi crop. The Lorage of thi water ha becom one of the great enterprise of thi country. In tead of ru hing in flood taue , to\ ard the ea, carr in u with it the top oil of the fertile valle , man i building great dam torinu up the e othenvi e usele water and doling them out at the right time and in the proper amount to the oil. No matt r how otherwise we may view the e reclamation project thi i the imple and adequate rea on for Lheir exi tence. Man must live, ,e are told and he take from nature any and all thing which he feel are nece ary for this living. And as \ e have already remarked he will fight to gain or keep them. Ho\ much of thi activity will be permanently beneficial and enduring remains for another gen ration to determine. For the pre~ent there seem to be ample j u Lineation for it.
o er in tah we ha e the Bear
River ar he . Acros the tr t of the progre i e city of Brigham there i an ele tric ign which carrie Lhi m age-"Gateway to the orId' Laruet Waterfowl Refuge." And tr tching out in front of Brigham are about 70,000 'acre of, hat at on time wa the greatest breeding and fe ding area for waterfowl within continental nited tate.
tilization for other purpo e of the water ,hich fed the marshe lowly began to dry them up and in the earl l1 entie Dave Mad en. then Fi h and Game Commi sion~r for
tah, began a fight to pre erve and restore them. He led the fight, ome time almo t alone in hi effort, which late in the twenties brought a
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January 1941 OUTDOOR GEORGIA

jiIP

C~R~. StUfJ- T HIS IS THE HOUR

W oELL boys, that .little article in the November i sue of TDOOR GEORGIA about

the anti-firearm crank blew up a

torm. I heard from the crank and

crackpot who declar d that people

were murdered with firearm , and I

heaTd from the vegetarian who de-

clare that only a brutal killer would

want to own a hootin er iron with

whi h to de troy the reatures of the

field and fore t. Darned if I don't

believe '1110 t everybody intere ted

one wa or another, except Adolf

Hitler dropp d me a note. Mr. Hitler

i all for thi bu ine of di arming

the American port man you know.

r. Hitler remember Chateau

Thien. nd marine who could

hoot.

Curiou the good folk Herr Hitler

can work Lhrough to a compli h thi

disarmament, too. Folk who would

ock him with a feather du tel' (no

foolin ) if he ever so much a howed

hi mu tache in their parlor .

Then too I heard from portsmen

who ha e been hooting gun ince

ling- h t da . One of them gave me

a pain in the ne k. I an tand propa-

ganda. I can take it when ome eruy

i feathering hi own ne t. I can even

comprehend orne well-meaning guy

getting off on the wrong track. Lord

know we've had a lot of damage

clone to u in times pa t b erood

folks with splendid intention. But

nothing get my goat like heel' stu-

pidity. (I beg your pardon fellow,

but I erot to do it. It i my duty.)

Thi gu ,rite that he i ,ith me a

hundr d per ent on my contention

that firearm shouldn't be reerj tered;

that no enterin er wedg to introduc

the European y tem hould be per-

mitted. And then he wind up like

this:

"But you're eeing ghost, Ran om.

ro American would tr to deprive u

of our right to 0' nand u-e our shot-

gun-. om rackpot might try to

introduce a law but who would ev n

con ider it. I ot conerr

ot our

state legi lature . CertainI not Georgia. I'll ave my worr in er fellow,

for oLh r thing ."

WOW!!! Rip an Winkle where have you been? county clerk
in California, ent 0 far recently a to refu e to ell a man a huntin er

licen e lmle the man divulged the make, model, number of hi erun, e 'plaining that the information was required for 'defense pillpO e ."
It is reliabl reporLed Lhat uniform law will be introduced in all tate legi lature thi coming ear Lo require regi traLion of firearms. Mind you, thi time the crank are doing it for "national defense, ' hitting the most patriotic group of American citizens in their, eake t pot, for every mother' on of u would do anything for OUT countr and many of u ahead have. Ten year ao-o the crank were shedding tear 0 er gangsteri m and la, Ie n . If fireaTm ,ere outlawed, we'd have no more murder. These people never read hi tory. They merel e an effect-a eruy if killed. If there were no pi tol or rifle or shotgun he wouldn't be killed. There you are. The reasoning i perfect. By the arne token we mierht outlaw bath tub or illuminating era .

Once we let the e crackpot creep up on us, regi tel' our firearm, mu tel' a mall army of bureaucrat and minor official to keep the records, we have a ve Led intere t in the expan ion of uch a program. Job!!! Paid for by ou and me, too, and we would have the devil' 0' n time ou ting Lhem and geLting back to the free American way. We've watched the e creeping para it suck the blood of th ir hosts in other fields. We want none of them.
There is one point about this busine of re tricting firearm that ha received _,cant notice, or none at all. You can have machine and planes and tanks and motorized equipment but nothino- 0 far ha replaced the man behind the gun, the u Itim a te argument in defen e.
,iI D it goe back to a Ru ian
ft ienti t b the name of Pavlov
, ho perform d a very impl experi(Continued on page 28)

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15

SPORTSMANSHIP
The sportsman has learne his recreation by wise perso farmer is the man who furni owns most of the fields and birds and animals are found expect to find a welcome shows the proper respect good sportsman will not ab that hunting is worth payin remunerate the landowner i days in the field possible. 0 shooting will sportsmen ever standing with farmers and la
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If A FARME.R CHf\SE.~ YOU Off fOR COMMITTING SOME.
OcJ>REDATION, DON'T GET MAD AND RcT~L1A.Te.. BY SHOOTING H6 CHICKE.NlO. 'fOU WlLL SURELY GE.T C~UG\;T AND \"\f\VE \0 Pf\'1 f\ fl~E., Tr\E COST Or i\-\E. Cl-\IC..KE.~S

DON', SH TO OCCUPIE fARME.RS 00 RA,TUNG 0 I PA.NE.S. THE5
SHOULD HAV UCEN5E.S RE fE.W YEARS
LE.
PENNSYL.VANIA GAME Nt"'/

V5. VANDALISM
.,1t~at much can be done for conduct in the field. The l,es game for the hunter. He ooded areas in which game " Georgia sportsman cannot ign on farmlands unless he if the farmer's property. A lie his privileges. He realizes for and finds it of value to .,some manner for making his nly by fair practices and fair establish a complete underndowners in Georgia.

""\,\0 INS\STS \-\lS YOUTI1 SHOULD BE

A f=ARMER DOE.SN'T

MIND YOUR WALK\NG

DOWN ALONG T\-\E

EDGE O~ \-\\S WINTE.R

'WHE"\" tiE LD DOES M\ND

BUT HE
\r. "(ou

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PROMISCUOUSLY IF

\ Lit EVE.RY \-\UNTtR TOOK THE.SE S\-\ORT CUTS

NO GRAIN WOULD

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TR E TO BREED
T R E E hound are carce, but a du ky hunter from Trol;lp cou~ty will ell two expert trader wIth perfect voice. nd they will come cheap.
Ranger A. Mc. Smith i forever runninO' acro colored sport men in the field and wood of Troup and Coweta countie . He ha a lot of fun getting torie from them. The ranger had to run for thi one though and he needed the help of hound to complete hi job.
It is lite custom of wildlife rangers to check license in lite field and Smillt left lite road to get lite nnmber of lite Troup rabbit hunter. When the ranger left his auto lite hunter left lite conntry. He swung into the wamp along the Chattahoochee River, with two rabbits in one hand and his gun in lite ollter. The ranger dived into lite underbrush behind him. The hnnter gained ground, but hi dogs were cha ing. And lItey bore down on lIteir tenor. The ranger knew he could follow lite barking dog, so he kept up lite chase.
Finally the dog treed. The hunter had sought a hiding place in a culvert under the highway. mith pulled him out. The hunter was pale from fright and exhau tion.
He had a licen e and pel'll1i ion to hunt on the land, 0 the ranger wanted to know why he ran.
"Ble mah oul, cap'n, ah jes' don't know. Dem badge gadget je put rabbit blood in mah leg. n' dey won't tay till. h m gwine kill dem dog ."
PAYI TG OFF A A THOR
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omewhere. Thi magazine ha carried torie and article by omiC of the nation's leading outdoor writer, all of whom contributed "in the intere t of Georgia conservation."
One of the e is Edi on Marshall, erudite Augu tan whose "Georgia in the Jungle" gave our readers a look in on African big galne gunning. lr. Mars.haLl generally get two figure per word for his tuff. He was promi ed a selI-iJnpo ed 10-limiL dove shoot for "Georgia in lite Jungle," but lite doves haven't shown yet.
But }.[r. Mar hall won't go unpaid. A dead battery on a long Florida highway aw to that. The Augu ta author recently returned from a junket to Florida with a tory of how your favorite publication cam to hi rescue.
He wa low on cash (who ever heard of a writer in uch a curious di-
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The party partIcipating in thi quick buck payoff included heriff V.rarren, Deputy heriff George D, O'Quinn, Leon Manley. Emory Manley and Erving Year\\'ood, all of Eatonton.

lemllla?) when his ballery ulked. A pocketful of credentials failed to iJnpress a ga station operator. JU"t as Mr. Marshall wa deciding to camp on
othe roadside he discovered a copy of TDOOR GEORGIA that had crawled nnderneallt lite back eat. The magazine carried lite writer's yarn and photograph. It was easy to work lite check after lItat. The filling station n1an even offered hiJn a discount, but Mr. Marshall was too happy over his new ballery to consider it.
His next article hould appear in thi ma azine ometime oon. and the dove hoot till hold ood. }.Ir. }'Iar hall, even if you have to wait until next year for the dove to arrive.
Q ICK VE I 0
Deer track in Wayne county are as thick a hog track around the trough at a packing hou e. everal hundred deer will be killed in thi low ountry

A OTHER DIRGE
am Brown, the former Georgia halfback from Albany, pend a lot of time in the field along the Flint River. He' a crack hot on anything that flie -duck, dove and quail.
Thi year, however, he i having to confine hi gunning to quail on hi own place. Thi , of cour e, i the la t word in hunting. e pecially behind Rabbit Thoma, du ky tenant who can drive a wagon to over 100 covey without the aid of a dog.
am likes to hoot dove, though, and the other day he wa bemoaning the scarcity of the fealltered gray bullets. 'Vhen he got through he was reconunending a "closed season next year."
"There ju t imply i no dove hooting w 0 r thy 0 u r time," he argue. "\\ here th re were hundred everal year ago. there are ju t two or three now. Thi i e rio u and I believe port men would play ball for a comeback. '
He recall a hoot in Lee county, back in the good old day, that attracted hunters on pecial train from 1Iacon. Atlanta and Birmingham.
I twas pon ored by the arm maker and 7,000 do\'e were slaughtered in a single day. A fellow who didn t kill at lea t 50 10 t hi hirt-tail a a dub.
ow they're resorting to shooting doves over waterholes as long a it's light enough to see. The law say hooting mu t stol) at sundown, but some fellows with cat eyes are hooting doves until darknes blot out their gun sights.
Thi i a way of killing port, and legitimate dove hooter mu t take orne quick tep, a it is impo ible for any enforcement agency to be everywhere at the ame time, and tate and federal men cannot stop it.

Sheriff Warren and his party.
ection thi ea on. On a hunt near Ludowici last month 20 deer were taken. Hardly a day pa e that fail to bring a report of one or more biO'
buck bei ng ba ged near Je up or
Everett City or ome other \\ ayne beat of the white tail deer.
In most instances deer hunting i- a waiting job. ot lite lIting for an impatient hunter to undertake. In some in tance, however, bncks have been taken in a hurry. For instance, on a hunt last monllt two bucks were hot in two hours by a part ponsored by Sheriff R. E. Warren. The heriff ent two 10-l11onth -old July hounds into a swamp just four mile from Jesup. He had a job to do and thc dogs helped him get to it by bouncing the bucks into (Iuick shooting range and a big helping of veni on.

B ZZARD TURKEYS
You've heard of turkey buzzards, Well, along the Flint River wamp th re are many buzzard roo t, and one of the better turkey hunter in outh Georgia watche the ugly black ca\'enger- a a preliminary to talking hi game.
He is J. W. l\'[etz, a veteran who ha killed over 100 gobblers, he 'reck ins." Metz ha no explanation for his statement that "where there's a buzzard roo t, you're D,ore than apt to find a turkey."
However. it took only two minute before daybreak one day la t month to make what look like a O'ood gue .
:,[etz and hi party of two wildcatfooted into a buzzard roo t. The bird began to move re tIe lyon the gnarled limbs of dead cypre e. On the \\'amp floor, \\'ild turkey beg'l'1 running. They kept on running until they reached the river bank. then zoomed acro and kept on running again. But old man M etz, \\'ho handle a cedar caller like Yehudi doc a bow-string, wung into action. big gobbler an wered and sailed over.
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'Sighting In' a .22

a! ~ OFTE a you have engaged in informal practice with the .22 caliber hunting rifle, ju t so often have you heard the admonition, "hold a fine bead," "hold a cour e bead," or, "aim a little low," and 0 on. Each rifle requires a different method of 'cocke ed" aiming.
It seem that few general pmpose .22 are properly ighted. After shootinO" a great many of the e rifles \ hile doing hooting promotion work during the past ummel', and hearing all ort of advice regarding the iO"ht in each case, I am convinced that poorly sighted rifles of thi type are the rule rather than the e 'ception.
The shooter too often assumes that his rifle i sighted at the factory and need no further adjustment, or, that each rifle present a different problem to he olved onl through the "fine," "cour e," or "hiO"h-low" method. He learn to hold the top of the front sight, the bead, cockeyed in the rear iO"ht to get hits. Under the e conditions good shooting i possible, but extremely difficult.
The rear ight notch is in the hape of a half circle. The bead of the front iO"ht should be held even with the top edge of the rear ight and exactl in the center. For some reason or oth I' the human eye tends to locate the center of a circle. To hold the bead otherwi e requires that the concentration be on the sight rather than on the target, and unnecessary e estrain i the re ult. With a little practice the shooter can align the iO"hts without undue effort. He then

can concentrate upon keeping the bead on the target, and on properly squeezing the trigger.
NEARLY all rifle have ome means of horizontal adju tment. That is, windaO"e. In mo t ca es the rear ight is fastened to the barrel by mean of a rew. This screw can be loosened, and the sight moved to the riO"ht or to the left. There i a notched wedge that can be pushed in or out to raise or lower the ight. Move the rear sight in the direction that you wish the shot to go. If yom rifle shoots to the left and low when the ight are properly aligned, move the rear ight to the right and raise it. Make the e adjustments while hooting at a well defined target and note the effect of each movement. If the notche in the elevating wedge are not right, a fine-cut file is in order. Sometime better aiminO" can be done after making the rear ight notch larO"er with a rat-tail file. On some rifle the rear ight fits into a dovetail lot. In thi ase it must be knocked 0 er \ ith a hammer. se a pie e of hardwood or a bra rod as a punch to prevent marring the fini h.
To reduce the error of aim while

sighting the rifle, re t the forearm of the stock on a sandbag. If the rifle is fitted with a ling, get into it and re t the left arm-not the barrel-on the bag. The barrel must be entirely free, otherwise you will not get the normal grouping of the shot. It is also of great importance that the owner ight hi own rifle. Few persons ee the ight alike. For this rea on, "factory iO"hted rifles" are a myth.
With regular peed .22 long rifle ammunition, the rifle should be iO"hted to hit the point of aim at thirty-five yards. It i well to note here that the rifle i being sighted for hunting and not for target shooting. In the first case, we ight the rifle to hit exactly where the top of the front sight rests on the target, while in the latter case we ight the rifle to hit in the center of the black when the top of the front ight is held at the boltorn of the target.
W ITI;I the iO"hts et to hit the point of aim at thirty-five yards, the hooter can O"et sure hits from point blank up to forty yard by
holding directly on the mark- quir(Continued on page 27)

Two popular models among small-bore shooters.

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1940 Fishing Contest

I T' all over now. The Old alt' 1940 fishing contest i salted away in the barrel. Along with it went ca h for camp operators and ca h and prize for fishermen. You can't beat that combination. For cash can buy more fishing tackle and more trips out to the drop and up and down the finny waterways. And more boats and thinP"s that go with salt water fi hing.
Folk, let me tell you omething about this contest and what it was all about and what happened at the finish line.
It opened April 1 and covered both he h and salt water fi h taken anywhere on the Georgia coa t and in the waters of several adjoining outh Carolina countie . And the conte t area extended inland to embrace the great network of streams adjacent to the coast and pro iding orne of the be t fresh water fi hing ground in

the south. There were 21 specie of fish eligible for the conte t, and the principal requirement were that fish be taken in eason in public water, on rod and reel, and the entry blank attested by witnes e and a merchant or person who saw and weighed the catch. 0 fee of any kind was necessarto enter a fi h, and any re ident of the nited States could place an entry.
The prize award were based on the largest fish entered in each species, with a fir t, econd and third place prize in each cla s. On top of the e individual prizes, there was a grand prize of a 112 outboard motor, the method of a\ ard to be decided by the judges at the end of the conte t.
As soon as the conte t was announced in March coa tal fishermen, and many from other ections, oiled up their equipment and went after

Mrs. Zalie Flinn, of Dorchester, is awarded the grand prize.

tho e prize. And on opening day, the entries tarted coming in, with each successive day bringing more and more. There were not many night during the sea on that my 7 :20 broadcast over WTOC didn't mention additional contest entrie .
W HE T summer arrived I decided to put up a cash prize for the first tarpon of the year caught in Georgia waters. And on Jul 10, Mrs. Alton H. Perry, of Brunswick, claimed that prize with a 90-pound silver king, caught near t. imon.
When the end of the contest neared, there was so much interest in who would win the prize that, with the as i tance of lot of folks along the coast, I planned a fi h fry at the
hriner Country Club in Savannah, on the afternoon of December 19. And that was the fi hingest fish fry you ever heard of \ ith folks from all over Georgia and some other states right there in the first row.
In addition to the winning conte tant, we had with us, congressmen, senators, state officials, mayor of about 12 citie, hotel operators, sporting good dealers, fishing camp operators, and port men by the wholesale. We had ne\ paper writers and photographer, magazine editors, a generous prinkling of military official and others too numerou to mention. And the ladies were there too, having ju t a good a time as anybody el e. Regardle s of their social positions, everybody wa eating fi h and talking fishing with everybody else, and introduction weren't bothered with. The entire lot of about 500 were just 0 many fishermen, bent on ha ing a good time and wapping yarn .
After everybody had eaten their fill of Ii h and corn dodgers we bad a 40-minute radio broadca t. Some of
ou probably heard it. After that we got down to the busine of awarding the prizes.
The list had a total value of cIo e to 1000. The judge named Mrs. Zalie Flinn of Dorche tel', who took fir t place in the heep bead cla ,

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A group of WTOC officials and visitors haul in a flower tarpon at The Old Salt's fry.

with a 10 pound, ..], ounce "convict," as winner of the grand prize.
SOME pecies of Ii h that, ere eligible for prize were never entered; n t beca u e they w re not caught during the eason, but b cau e orne fishermen didn't take the conte t seriOll ly enough. However if I'm to judae from the comment made at the .Ii h fry, there won t be any blank in 1941. Too man folk were kicking them elves when the aw the prize awarded to .Ii h that could ha e been bettered everal time durin a the sea on.
Among the 39 prize a warded, eiaht, or more than 20 per cent went to women. nd I belie e the per entacre of women winners, ill b larger next ear. 0 the menfolk had better look to their fi hing if they really want to tay in the race. In the 19-1.0 onte t, Mr . Perry took the prize for the fir t tarpon of th year and placed cond in the final. Mr. Flinn took the fir t place heep head prize, and walked off with the arand prize. And rs. Agnes Harrison, of
avannah Beach, came in fir t on alt water catfish. There' plenty of
proof that the ladie know what to
do with a rod and reel, and they're

sure to make the competition tough this sea on.
There alread i 0 much intere t in the coming onte t that folks along the coa t are talking about it and a kina for an earlier than April 1 start. I can-t et tell whether or not I can get it' tarted before then, but I do kilO' that it will be bigger and better than the la t one, with a lot more prize and many more conte tant .
Wherever ou live or whatever your occupation, you're invited to participate. 11 ou have to do i to catch your fish in the coa tal water of Georgia, in accordance with a fe, imple conte-t rule. And if your entry doe n't win a prize, ou 11 till have the memorie of orne might fine port along a favored section of the blue Atlanti .
And while you're, aitin a, no, a mighty good time to 'practice up" with orne winter trout.
SALT WATER DI I to
TARPON First-Charles L. Hood, Waycross. 92
pounds; Eecond-:\Irs. A. lr. Perry, Brun-

wick, 90 pound : third-Capt. . O. Jlarrison, ,,"3\'unnah Beach, 85 pounds.
SHARK First-Julian .\. pace, Jr., ~ avannah, 9 feet, inch; second-Roswell . Daniel, avannah, feet.
CHANNEL BASS
First-Vlilliam . Harms, a v 3 n 11 a h, 35 pounds, 8 ounces; second-vValter F. lIarrison. aV3nnah, 35 pounds, 8 ounces; third-
A. If. Harms, J.... avannah, 2S pounds. 6
ounces.
WINTER TROUT (Weakfish)
First-Dr. Alexander Paderewski, avannah. 6 pound. 8 ounces; second-Newt Graham, I sle of ITope, 6 pounds, 4 ounce ; ThirdMrs. F. R. is on, Isle of Hope, 4 pounds, 8 ounces.
SHEEPSHEAD First-~Irs. alie Flinn, Dorchester, 10 lounds, 4 ounce: econd- anford lIall, avannah, 10 pounds, 2 ounce; third-Jame F. \Vibon. avannah, 9 pound. 12 ounces.
FLOUNDER First-~. F .... chaupp. avannah, pounds, 4 ounces: econd-::\] r. Doty Lamon, Townsend. 7 pounds. 8 ounces; third-~Ir . Georgia .\. Boland, a\1311113h, S pounds.
CROAKER
First-If. .\. Bigelow, Wilmington Island. 2 pounds. 12 ounce; second-Hoke . Youmans, Dorchester, 1 pound, 12 ounces.
SEA DRUM
First-H. \\'.... immons, Bluffton, . ., 123 pounds; second-~Irs. R. II. Brown. Gray mont. S6 pound ; third-J. II. Torbert, Townsend, 50 pound .
WHITING
First-R. Ii. mith. avannah, 2 pound, 6 ounce; econd-:\[. K. Collins, avannah, 1
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39 prizes awarded Georgia coastal fishermen as climax to first annual tournament of champions.

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"The Old Solt Sez"
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pound, 8 ounce; Third-lIoke . Youman, Dorchester, 1 pound, 1 ounce.
YELLOWTAIL
First-J. B. Rollins.... Savannah. 5 ounces; second-Mrs. J. L. l'abrikant, avannah, 3 ounce.
BLACKFISH
First-G. Arnold Boyd, avannah Beach, I pound, 6 ounces.
CATFISH First-~{rs. Agnes I-Iarri 011. Sava.nnah Beach, 2 pounds; second-H. A. Bigelow, Wil mington Island, 1 pound, 8 ounceS.

FRE H WATER DI 1510

LARGEMOUTH BLACK BASS First-\V. J. Hall, avannah, 9 pounds, 5 ounces; econrl-Ulin F. tcwart, avannah, 7 pound, 12 ounce.
STRIPED BASS (Rockfish) First-L. R. Reddick, avannah, 22 pound, 1 ounce; econd-Youel We ton, avannah, 21 pounds, 9 ounces; third-L. R. Reddick, Savannah, 21 pounds, 2 ounces.
JACKFISH First- lin F. tewart, Sa\'annah, 5 pounds, 4 ounces; econd-Alphollse ason, Ellabelle, 3 pounds, 8 ounces.
BREAM First-Lolli \Vood, Pineora, 1 pound, 3 ounces.
CATFISH (Channel Cat) First-E. F. cott, pringfield, 5 pound, 4 Ollnces.
Grand Prize-5 ~ horsepower Johl1son ca-
horse Outbnard Motor, valued at 112, donated by tubbs lIardware ompany.
In addition to the e prizes shown. each win ner \Va presented an ash tray from the Penn Fishing Tackle ompany.
Contest Judges-Dr. \Vm. H. Myers, . avannah; J. 1. tubb, Stubbs Hardware 0.; E. M. Lip comb, avannah Broadca ting Company.
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A Dozen Doves
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and uphill. Till would end them straight into the wind. And imilarly, our approach ,a made ea ier.
e almost walked pa t a pair that hot out just aero a terrace Ie S than 20 ard away. I wa on the left and downed the long bird with one hot. Roy took deliberate aim and mi ed his cleanly twi e.
"Too bad," wa the onl remark coming down the wind.
Roy wa the hair pulling t pe. The kind of a fellow who pulled no pun he in the weal'ina leaaue. 0 hi conduct didn't fit the ituation. Eleven mi e in a ro, wa ten too many for a hot of hi caliber.
"What's the matter ,ith ou, old man?' I ventured. 'Maybe you ve got the wrong gun."
He muttered omething and went on to my right and lightl ahead. He wa not a puzzled a I wa and apparentl Ie worried.
We covered the loping ide of three big field walking about three miles and getting up cattered dove fast enough to provide fair hooting. The hots were comparatively ea y, though, and much horter than we could have ever hoped for on a till day. Toy was everything the Doctor aid he wa. he brought in every bird and et down in my face.
Roy mi ed and kept on mi ing, while I did the meat.getting. It was nearly four 0 clock when we reached a branch that eparated Dr. Tomp. kins' field from a \ ooded pasture land.
I had 11 dove. Roy had fired enough to blacken hi houlder and till hadn't bagged a bird.

~~IT J T isn't my day," Roy admitted disinterestedly "I ve 10 t
my touch on this type of shooting." 'Here," I almo_t yelled, "take my
double and maybe ou'll connect. I've got one more to go for the limit. Maybe you can kill one for me. Elevell dove for two guns all day jut can't be true. What would tho e guy who e limit wa controlled by their ammunition not long ago, think about thi ?"
Ro aid nothin a a we walk d alon a the edge of a winter oat field.
mall drove ttled do\ n ahead, in the edge of the benne patch. They were almo t within range' hen they pau ed in the air and settled down gracefully.
Roy walked traight toward the do e . They' hi tied out of the patch and began to h'aiahten out. Roy took that arne long aim and pulled the trigger.
A dove that had pulled a little to the right collap ed and tabbed the earth. Cut feather drifted all over the place. Roy had entered the bird -a perfect hot.
He looked around and grinned. "That reminds me of the way I u ed to do it," he gleamed. "Why didn't you hoot again?" I scolded him.
H E A reaching in the pocket of hi gray flannel shirt. He fumbled and pulled out a mall white piece of pa teboard.
Re'ad that," he ordered. I read. "I do hereby promise, that in the interest of con ervation for the protection of a bird that i fa t becom ina a memory, not to shoot a do e durina the 1940- 1 a on. ' That what Roy was hooting again t. "I couldn't go against that pledge," he argued, "I aw omething about several fellow down here in Georgia igning a no-shooting agreement and that gave me the idea. Our paper i campaignina for a closed ea on." I agreed that it would mean much to the restoration of thi great little game bird. 'That la t on number 12-\ a your, ' he reminded. "I mi sed 'em but I had a lot of fun shooting. Twelve' enough. Let' go hom ." As we walked along silentl back to the car I did a lot of thinkingabout the hardest boiled city editor in the midwest.

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BY GEOIIGIA ED 10111

THE WILDER E
Bear and deer, \\,ild turkey, grou e and phea ant, and wild boar-thi readof but un een game are coming back to Georgia, thanks to the national fore t service and the tate wildlife divi ion, Georgia. a a hunter' paradi e which wa de troyed by thoughtIe glutton year ago. i finally to return to her own, an own of bountiful upply.
\Ve have ju t returned from a hunt beyond Dahlonega along the oontootly creek water hed. Frankly, we would not have believed what we aw had we not een it, 0 wild and Iu h, o tremendou and a tounding. p there there are 556,000 acre of land that :\Iother ature is being allowed to reclaim, where giant hemlock tower to the ky, where thicket of laurel and rhododendron defy man' pa age.
At interval of almo t a quarter of a mile clear, impe tou treams tear down the teep mountain side. Path of deer lead in almo t all direction, here are
een where turkey have been, over there a bear has harpe ned hi claw on a tree trunk. \ here we were the neare thou e wa ten mile away and the next one wa about that far away, too. It wa the wilderne '
\Ve extend our appreciation to the fore t force of the tate and nation for re toring thi va t expanse to it pri tine grand ur, The wanton hand of irre pon ible forebears have robbed e\'eral generation of their heritage, but thank to the e new force. future generation are going to come into their own.
Thi wilderne is no place for him \\"ho cannot take it. The mountain are steep, the water are rapid, the thicket are unyielding and help i afar off. But to tho e who enjoy roughing it, who like to pit them elves again t the mi ht that i nature, it offer a olace that i best expre ed a oul ati faction.-GaillcSI'i/lc Eagle.
GIVE Q AIL A CHA CE
In 18 sou thea t Georgia counties, including Glynn, the open eason for shooting quail began 20 day before the other countie of the tate were aIlowed to hunt the e bird.
A number of prote t ha\'e been made again t thi early opening of the ea on, and the .1facoll Telegraph i one of everal tate new paper which que tion the wisdom of aIlowing the bird to be lain thi early in the autumn.
One of the mo t experienced writers on game and the game la w. ay the Telegraph, begin hi article by aying
that loud rumbling coming from the
coa tal area early Friday morning "wa the io-nal for what many ob erver
call the crime ea on, meaning it i
\\'holly again t the law of nature to
be in hunting quail 0 early. '
The writer oes on to ay that many
bird are known to be onl\' three week old and in rare in tance - report have

been made within the pa t week that quail are till incubating,
plea i therefore m.ade to hunter that they "hold their fire" on immature bird, "not fast enough to be porting and not large enough to eat.' They are "potential victim of a thou htle man-
Ace Advises
Don't shoot th~ last four or fiv~ birds in th~ covey.
The bag limit on doves is 12. It must be observed or hunters might shoot themselves into a closed season.
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made law which drop the lead over their neck 20 day ahead of the tatewide sea on which begin Nov. 20."
It i gratifying to know that an ideal hatching ea on, combined with other favorable condition, ha produced what wildlife ranger believe will be the large t number of quail in a decade, with an increa e averaging between 10 and 30 per cent.
But we agree with the Telegraph that the ati faction derived from finding favorable condition thi year and a large quail population is more than tempered by the thought that every condition will not la t long if ov. 1 bring on a "crime ea on," with immature bird laughtered by thoughtIe or reckle hunter.

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The que tion i therefore pre ented in acute form if it i not a mistake to divide the tate and permit hunting in the southeast ection 20 day ahead of the open season in other counties. If any con iderable percentage of the bird are only three week old and incubation i actually going on in a few ca e it eem evident that real port men hould get together and keep the ea on for quail clo ed all over the tate until ov. 20. It would be intere ting to know what the hunter with vi ion think about it.-Bntllswick News.
MOVI G ROOST
Automobile truck are u ed for a lot of trange thing but when a tired racing pigeon think one looks like home and alight to re t in the cabin, well, that add a completely ne\\' angle.
weary bird, winging it way over LaGrange, spied Joe White' truck and did just that. Mr. White report the pigeon bore tag bearing the name Joe Engel and the number, 26 . He i feeding and re ting the bird preparatory to allowing the racer to continue on it \Vay,-LaCrallge e~"s.
DEER I ORTH GEORGIA
From Chattahoochee National Fore t, in the northern part of Georgia. comes word of a deer hunt-the fir t firearm hunt to be held in the Blue Ridge wildlife managen1ent area of the fore t. Thi hunt i especially remarkable in that it brought the legal bagging of the fir t deer in orth Georgia in the pa t 15 year,
G. C. unningham of then killed the fir t deer of the hunt, a 172-pound eight pointer, and in all 22 bucks were bagged. Two of them weighed more than 200 pound ----and a any veteran hunter will tell you, a 200-pound whitetail buck i no mall animal for thi part of the country. In contra t with the ordinary deer hunt in the outh, thi \Va a rifle hunt for stalker rather than a hunt with dog for tanders u ing hotgun.
All in all, the hunt wa a great succe . Once the wood and mountains of North Georgia were teeming with deer, and it i good to know that this great game animal ha once more increa ed to the point where it may be hunted without fear of extinction. \ ithin the pa t few year, con ervation and game management have been tre sed a never before, but in no field of endeavor ha game management met with uch ucce s a in deer. Pennsylvania I d the way in that field. and the white-tailed, or Virginia, deer i coming back rapidly in many ection of the country which a few year ago had abandoned the animal a forever gone.
The Blue Ridge wildlife management
area of the Chattahoochee National Fore t is within ea y driving di tance of Rome. It open a new vista to port men in thi ection.-Rollle l\ ewsTribulle.
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FLA H! Attention all Future Farmer Bo s, 4-H Boy and Girl . The 1941 Junior Wildlife Ranger pamphlet will be off the pre thi week, and by the time you read thi orne of you already will have received our copy of the pamphlet. The Junior Ranaer program thi year will be in the form of a 48-page pamphlet. It will be an e ce 11 en t wildlife reference book for your own library. Eery member of the Junior Ranger organization \ ill have one of the e books.
If I lold you all about thi pamphlet it \ ould take mo t of the pace in 0 TDOOR GEORGI , so I hall outline only orne of the mo timportant part and I t you read the pamphlet for the detail.
To make the readina of thi pamphlet more interesting we have placed a number of wildlife picture throughout the book. The e \ ill give
ou an idea of how to carryon a conser ation pro!ITam. Thi book contain all in truction and full explanation of how to become a Junior Wildlife Ranger. You also will find information on how to plan and carry out a wildlife project on your farm.
R LES
Here are the qualifications required of all who \ i h to become a member of the large t junior organization in Georgia:
Fir t, all boy and airls mu t be either a member of the Future Farmer of America or 4-H lub. econd,
ou mu t have reached your ~2th birthda and not et our 19th. Third you mu t con er e OUr wildlife in Georaia and plant feed and cover to help in rease it. Fourth, you mu t learn the hunting and fishing laws of Georgia and obey them. Fifth, ou will talk with all portmen in our communit and a k them to help ou carry out a conervation prQgram.
For the club intere ted in rai ing quail, we have outlined a complete procedure \ hich you will find under "Care and Propagation of Quail.'
Club boy intere ted in building a fi h pond will find all information they need under "Fi h Pond Management, and the Construction of Farm Pond "
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To protect your land where you have tarted a con ervation proaram, ign will be needed. e have given in truction in this pamphlet for making and po ting them the cheape t and ea ie t way. The e will be found under "In truction for MakIDa a ilk creen tencil."
CO TE T
We all need orne encouragement on any job we undertake 0 the Divi ion of ildlife will pon or a conte t thi year. There will be over 100 winner ~elected from all parl of the tate. These winners will compete for three big awards. The fir t award i a two-w ek trip over Georgia, vi iting all place of intere t. The econd award will b a one-week amp in the mountain of north Georgia. The third will b a camp for 4-H Girls and Home Demonstration agenl . Thi camp also will be in the mountain of north Georgia.
For all Junior '\ ildlife Ranger not winnin a one of the award, but completing a \ ildlife program on their farm and turning in a urvey map and report of work accompli hed, there will be a certifical for their meritoriou \ ork.
Every Junior ildlife Ranger hould he proud to carry hi commi ion card and to di play on the

right ide of hi che t the Junior Ranger badge.
e receive in the Di i ion of Wildlife Office every day letter like the one quoted below. orne have come in from almo t every tate in the
nion.
"1 lwr talked with some ot the JuniQ1' ll'i!cllife Rang 1'8 around !FayC1OSS. I am 1iery much interested in this w01'k. Thel'e m'e five boys in my
neighborhoocl. besides me. who wO'ulcl
like to join the h~ni01' Ramg rs. "The names of these boys are as fOl-
lows: Robert Evel' tt . age 16' Loron
weat. ag },"j; Hennan Hanis. age 15; Grady Wi/cles, age 13; A. T. McLaughlin, age 15; and 1. Cedric Wilcles. age 15. 1 have discussed this lIWtt l' 7cith thes fellows and they all ag1'ee to join and uphold the de7Jartment.
"I 7couid like for you to send me, edl'ic lVi/cles, Rout d, Waycross. Ga., intonnation about this ancl it there aJ' any tests to take. please send six ot these also. "YOtW vel'y tnt/y, edric Wildes, Rt. d, lVaycross, Ga."
That mean one thing-the potlight i turned on Georgia JWlior Rang r . Let keep it turned on and however late that Georgia boy and girl can really carryon a conervalion program, and make thi the large t Junior Con ervation Club in the world.
Here' a Jew ear, and a new
program. Let' all \ ork and make it the be t ear for wildlife in the hi tor of our tate.

One fundamental of good game management i. knowledge of the predators, .uch as the habits of the Great Horned Owl.
}anuar)' 1941 0 TDOOR GEORGIA

THE FIRST AND LAST

THERE are all kinds of trip, om ou enjo and other you wish you had never been on. Here' one that offers a moral to all aood wive.
Maybe it i n t nice to noop, but I reall plead not guilt . I overheard a friend of mine talking to another over the telephone one da when I dropped b . And it wa too good not to hear. I Ii tened. It \ a almo t a monologu and a I did not hear the other party' mall part I'll ju t give
ou what I heard on thi end. Ju t a I came in I heard Mary ay,
, Why Clara, do you mean to tell me that ou are going fi hing with Bill and ou've never b en befor ?
'My I ar, don't do it. There wa a time when Jim in i t d on takin a me turke hWlting with him. I I a n't a hunter and I ti II am not. I jut plain I am not ambitiou that wa .
o I grumbl d a I tumbled out of bed at three o'clock. It \ a 'old and damp one morning la t Januar. 0 ele tric light -and that one-room cabin ( Oll know the one he has down near th creek that even rats and roache won't Ii e in wa 0 full of fi hin a tackle, gun and h lls that I wa afraid to struggle around looking for that feebl kero ene lamp that Jim keep down there for light. Tho e gun were all uppo ed to be unload d but I ouldn't believe it. I b lie I would have felt aferif ev ry gun in there had been loaded and I had known it. 0 re pectable turke ha any bu ine gettina up at that hour of the morning any
I a ....
"WELL, I finall lit the lamp and found the perfectIy foul three-
burner oil tove. Aft I' a time I got it lit and tarted breakfa t. Jim ate
nough to kill a hor and kept in si ting that I eat somethin a . I never eat breakfast and I ate very little then but I did drink om hot coffee and ate ome of the lea t corched toa t. Jim hurried IDe all the tim.
" e got off finall with hell, aun and a turkey aller that ounded like no hri tma or Thanksaiving turkey I ever knew per onally. I wa calT ina a gun that Jim bought for m a few we ks b fore and had been in i tina I learn to hoot. That thint?; got heavier \ ith e er tep I took

and we walk d for mile in the dark, and I do m an dark. I tumbl d along and just a I wa ready to give up and I t Jim carry me and the gun, we reached the place wher Jim had een 'turke ign. I never knew before that turke s painted ign. From what Jim aid though the idea mu t be to lea e ign to hOI the hunter they (the turkey , I mean) eat there. And to think for all the e years I had thought that bird and animal pent a lot of time neaking around to get away. "WELL there on that spot we sat,
and at, and sat again, with Jim elping or callina or gobbling on that craz ontraption and every once in a \ hile a I _at ther hiver-
"I was in bad standing with my husband-
ing in that quiet place. I heard a noi e that I a obviou I a turke but I never I ill believe that he' \ a an wering Jim e en if Jim doe think o. Did I sa that place wa quiet? It was 0 quiet that a twig snapping ounded like one of those big trees wa falling on you.
'Then in the cold gray dawn ju t before unrise, I jumped up and
elled at the top of my voice: 'There one. hoot.
Jim looked at me ju t on e and I gather d I had done omethin a

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wrong. In that e ond I aot the most a\ ful glar I have ever gott nand heard the turke take off and then like the \ hole place waked at once, four more got up and Aew a\ ay. I hadn't e en known they I re there.
ctually Clara they were that quiet when they weren t aobbling. Well then, without a ingle word Jim put the caller thina in hi pock t houldered hi gun and went I alking out toward the cabin wi tho u t even 0 much a another look at me. I tumbled along after him. It eems, or 0 Jim explained to me later, I muffed the only chane we would have had for a hot at a turkey and I was certainl 111 bad tandin a with my husband.
" WHEN' I remember that morning, I am quite ur that any woman marr ing a bunter, or nimrod as they are called, i feeble-minded and a fit ubj ct for a sanitarium.
ince that memorable da I have had no desire to go hunting for turke , quail, dove or d er. It makes no differen e to me whether yOll ~hould lead a bird or follo\ him. (Thouah I do think it is eru I to lead the poor thing into getting hot. Bird are made to Ay and not to be led. When Jim plan a f \ days fi hing or hunting now, I hedule a game of bridae in the afternoon, go to the matinee or call Madge and we do a job of redecoration on the house in a mild wa . But I don t g t up at three 0 clock in the morning in a cold, dark hou e. Ia t up at noon and it' nic and I arm and liaht in the hou_e. I ill happy and 0 i Jim but heaven help that man if h o ever m ntion going on another hunting trip witl} him. I'll do my hunting in the pouItr mark t.
"Oh, the gun? I gave it to the little boy next door and he pend hi time breakina thing with it."
I uppo e you're I ondering b now what the moral i . If ou don t knol , ju t go huntin a or fi hing with your hu band. The fir t shall be the la t.
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The ranger and I at down at an elbow in the creek where the water turned so rapidly it eemed to lie again t the side of the bank like a polished plowshare. It was noon b appetite, and I opened the brown paper bag I had carried all morning, feeling much like a si sy. We got into the sandwiche and then pulled out our pipes. It was what I had been

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waiting for. I wanted the ranger to talk. I had met him only a day earlier.
I wa thinking omething like thi -or rather feeling-that Ranger Ed was a man who thought first in terms of his job. It was the thing to be done. ext, he wanted to be a good fellow with it all. He wanted to preserve that fine balance between politene and toughness that is probably best described by the word firmness. The arrest had shown that.
I wanted to know thing ; my purpose wa not frolic either. I wanted to know all about thi ranger business. I liked fish. I liked game. 1 liked the wood, the treams, the field . And like most Americans, I liked a sporting proposition whether between bird and gun fish and line, or law and citizen.
Ranger Ed was packing tobacco into his pipe with his thumb, his back again t a poplar, knees drawn up. It wa a thirty-minute re t, and my opportunit to draw this ranger out. The ranger was not the talking type. He wa an action - peak-lauderthanword art of fellow.
"Tell me, Ed," I ventured "j u t what makes up-in brief, you know -your job?"
Ed drew at his pipe. "Well," he aid, "fir t and la t it' enforcement of fi h and game law."
"That means lots of patroling?" I suggested.
~~YE ," Ed an wered, "and it mean more. It mean leuthing
for tips on habitual violators of ba3 limit -the game slaughterer. You may pick up 8. good arre t long beforehand in a barber shop, for instance ... It means wading the creeks and prodding around in them for trap. It means a lot of things you'd hardly think of, like ending in weekly reports to headq uarter on hunting and fIshing condition. That is number and kind of bird killed whenever I run into fellow in the field; fishermen' catches too-numbers and kinds of fi h, where caught, what sort of tackle; and be ide all that the condition of the streamshigh, low, flooded, clear, murky; all that. And I keep check on ten thouand acres of land under Game Management by the tate."
That i a lot in a nut hell, I wa thinking, and three hundred and ixty-:five day' work for a fa t man.
"How about licenses?" I asked. "Oh, _ure," Ranger Ed answered "I check licen e in the field. And I have to look after the illegal selling and taring of fish and game; check illegal tran portation too."

eye fell on the thirtyeight revolver in it poli hed hal tel'.
"What about that artillery?" I anwered. "When are you upposed to shoot the work ?"
Ranger Ed grinned. "It' for selfdefen e fir t," he aid. "Second, it's for predatory birds and animal.
ay, do you know one tom-cat gone wild will kill no end of young quail and other game? Even the average alley cat in town get fifty-four bird a year. That's statistic ."
"What's this I hear about educational work?" was my next question. And it brought out that the ranger is a teacher too. The educational program covers talk on con ervation and natural re ources, the showing of government-made movie on wildlife, and les er thing thrown in. Thi educational work is carried to game, agricultural, and civic clubs, and to junior organization as well.
But I was more interested in the things of the earth and the water, the forever rejuvenating out-of-doors.
"Tell me, Ranger," I said, "of ome of your hair-rai ing experience , some of the dime-novel stuff."
The ranger laughed. "Well, I got shot at one day," he aid. "RiAe ball lodged in a pine trunk right over my head. Shot came out of the wood . Never did find who fired it or why, a that' no story.... But I can tell you the craziest thing that ever happened to me . . . I'd picked up a hint about jack-jumpinrr in Lake Olmstead on the northwe t edge of Augu ta." "You got a hint about what?" I asked.
~~JACK-J MPI G. You see it' like thi : you fix open a net, or
usually a big sack, in a small boat, and you put the boat along the bank of a lake or a pond. One fellow tays in the front and one in the back of the boat, each takes a paddle and beat up the water on the land side for all he' worth. The fish can't go up the bank and the thra hing of the water keeps them from going around the ends of the boat, so the only thing for them i to go under it or jump over it. The ones that jump get caught in the sack. Of course you keep the boat tilted alma t to the water-line on the bank side so the .fi h won't have far to jump."
'You mean to ay that Goldberg cherne really work ?"
" ure it works ... Well, I went up to Lake Olmstead one or two moonlight nights and waited for them, but nothing happened. About the third or fourth trip I caught them at it. Two fellows in a mall bateau. I eased up

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to the edge of the bank and looked right down on them. They didn t ee me till I called them to put up to the bank and get out. One of them did a prett good round of wearina at me-without roiling, and ended with 'come and get us.' Th re wa n't but one thing to do, and I did it. I jumped into the middle of that boat -and you never aw uch cuffling in our life. Everything went overboard, e pecially the two jack-jumper and me. Anyho, I turned 100 e three nice bas they'd caught, and I had the fellows."
During the afternoon there were thing to see; many a dark deep hole, many an old mo sy stump with water black and still around it, the kind of place that speak to a man' impul e as urely a a human voice.
I wa getting leg-wear , and going back to the car hoping ther would be no gun-shot in hearing. For-no que tion-the ranaer would hit out for it like a homing pigeon.
"How can this protection of , ildlife work, Ed,' I a ked. ' You rna be looking after hunting up on the north line of Columbia or cDuAie county while orne fellO\ i do, n here in Richmond laughtering duck at the mouth of Briar Creek, or trapping all the fi h out of a mile of water along andy Run? '
"But I might be at the mouth of Briar Creek or somewhere alona that mile on andy Run," the ranger winked.
That wa true. And the thought gave the ranger an advantage, I realized. I realized too that it would be a first-rate idea for fish and game law violators to keep a afe margin from this woodland sleuth, or, better, a afe margin from the woodland. Surely, I thought, it would take a dull mind not to see the everla ting
alue of ranaing the e hill and valley 0 they could hold th ir abundance in ecurity.
Your Gun (/nd Mine
(Continued from page 19)
reI head, or cro, . At fift yard he would have to aim one inch over the target-not a cour e bead." At range areater than thi he would need con iderable luck or a rifle larger than the .22. If a range of thirty-five yard i not available for
ighting the rifle, the same traje tor
can be obtained by ighting the rifle at fifty feet. It is be t to sight the
rifle at the longer range, a mall
errors at fifty feet are multiplied
when longer shot are taken.R F GODWI.

After the rifle ha been iahted it well to check it from time to time a .22s occa ion all change their point of impact. The be t plan would be to hoot a f w ighter each time the rifle i u ed for hunting. Thi will provide the nec ar fouling for the barrel and will show exactly where the rifle shooting on that particular da .
Circuit Writer
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A 20-pound ew Year's turkey, all for the pull of a trigger. But there were buzzards in the air, too, and the gobbler looked like a buzzard until he uttered a laughing yelp behind the protection of a big magnolia and kept 011 flying deeper into the buzzard's roost.
It eem. ironical that the turkey, king- of our game bird, look to the lowly buzzard for protection.
KI 'G OF COA T
The coa tal area, long the tepchild of Georgia wildlife. finally has found a friend. The Old alt gave a fish fry la t month a a climax to hi inaugural conte t in which several hundred coa tal Georgia fi. hermen participated. It wa at this jamboree that the far reaching effect. of the Old all's radio program ov r Station \ TOC (avannah were brought to the surface.
Fi hermen and camp and boat-house operators alike told of the increa e in bu iness inspired by his broadcasts.
ew life ha com to the coast under the stimulus of the Old alt and a neglected industry is about to be revived, it is believed by competent observers.
This nightly broadcast has built a tremendous listcning au die n c e in a comparatively . hort time. It i noncommercial, but if there i a weakfish within JOO miles of Thunderbolt thi combination featur -new program i a natural for an\, large maker of fishing product. The Old Salt argue against "selling" any of hi time. And perhap. it i. not available. The fact remains. however. that this is '3. Grade-A radio hit. eithcr for a fi herman or anvbody catering to the de ire of tl{i trDe of sportsman.
The .Old alt undoubtedly will play a part 111 the re toration of the hrimp and or.ter indu try off the Georgia mainland if for no other rea on than he keep the .ubjcct before the per-
on mo t vitally affected.
WILDLIFE CO ERE CE
Here are ome days to pin on the in ide of your hat 0 you won't forget them-you who are planning to attend the ixth nnual North merican \\ ildlife Conference. Thi year the meeting" "'ill be held in Iemphis, February J7, 18. and 19. The Peabody Hotel will be headquarters.
Details of the program are being worked out by Paul Miller, ecretary of the American \Vildlife In titute and 1. R. \Vatt . Servicing Director for the National \Vildlife Federation, both of which organization are pon oring the

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conference. If you have any quc tions to a k about the c~nference plea e write to either Millh or \Vatt at \Vashington. D. C.
GEORGIA 33rd The third nation-wide annual biggame inventory conducted by the Fi h and \Vildlife en'ice revealed that Georgia has an e timated 9.800 of the total 5,8W,000 big-game animal in the 'nited tate today. Georgia rank 33rd with ,900 "'hite-tailed deer, 831 black bear, 70 European wild boars, and 2 elk. Fifteen pecie of big-game were included in the estimate.
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Continued from page 15) ment and proved the 'conditioned reflex." We won't go into it becau e mo t of ou, ill recall it. It i related to "habit." In every day language it i related to "exp rience." When you want your appendix out you don't go to the lad who ha just read about it in a book. ou call in the man who e fingers are skilled to the knife. When ou board a transport plane you are in the hand of a pilot who ha had mor than 2,000 hour in th air; your afet i not entru ted to a C. A. A. enrollee however brilliant, who has had onl thirty hours of ground in truction.
There i onl one way to I am to drive a car. Drive it! If automobiles were taken awa from the g neral American public ou might !rive all the theoretical instruction ou wished and ou wouldn't make a ingle good cL:iver. If ou doubt an of thi, watch a per on an wer the t lephone who ha never u ed the in trurnent before. He i dum y, inarticulate, doe not understand what i bing aid. Even in uch a simple procedure as thi it take experience. A man can't learn proper table mann r by theoretical in truction and i at ea e in ocialaatherina onl if he ha had experience among other people. It i true of peaking in public, of ,riling, and much mor true of hooting.
To gain familiarit with firearms a man mu t shoot. ot a fel time but literall thou and of times.
The American sportsman gains this experience at his own expense. And when the time come for eriou training he i far ahead of hi European competitor.
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T HERE i another feature to our free a ce to arms of all kind whi h i , orth noting. 0 long a we are an arm -bearin a people there will be manufacturer to cater to our n d, manufacturer who plants can be turned quickly into the manufacture of arm for defen e purpo e .
Let u take a gander at the European y tem where people are not p rmitted to have firearm except under the mo t evere re triction .
//."
" "Something seems to be wrong."
Ha e th e re trictions saved them from dictator hip? Ha th y pr . vented a periodical blood bath \ ith short armisti e b tween? Ha e they prevented fifth-column u b er i e acti itie ? Th have not. The retriction have re ulted in a denial of all ort of per onal liberty uch a we under tand it.
The firearms and the press of Europe are in the hand of the go ernment. I that \ hat we want"? Hardl . The merican port man mu t in ist and ontinue to in ist on a trict interpretation of the C n titution of th nited tat which pecifically promi e that th right of th people to keep and bear arm hall not be infringed.
I am goin a back now to the chap who wrote that he would do hi worrying at th proper time. At the proper time. Remember that!
During lovember a paragraph appeared in ne, pap I' from coa t to coa t. It read:
'A recent urvey by the International Association of Chief of Police reveals that not one state has regulation governing the purchase, pos ession and carrying of firearm which are considered by that organization to be adequate. 'That uch a condi-

tion should exist is particularly alarming in view of significant evidence of the activity of ubversive groups in this COlwtry at the present time,' ay the associations report on the survey."
Lat r the Jnternational ews ervice rei ased the following:
"Legislature 0/ the 48 states
are being urged to pass uniform
laws providing the most stringent firearms act in the country s hi tory as a national de/en e precaution."
Th re it i , bo . Prol agallda of the meanest ort. W don't need to fear firearm in ubv rive activitie for most of the fi rearm are owned b portsmen. We need to fear emery du t and d namite bomb, propaaanda eiled and v nomou like the above.
I F THERE ,a ever a time when ,e hould wake up it is no\. e should peak to our leai lator and our senator and our congre men, let them know that we are alive to this menace. Let them kno, that we will have no part of the European
tem. Let them know that we I' cognize this mena e for exactl what it i . If all sort 0 f re triction i p rmilled on th "bearing of arm it pells the beginning of th en I of our port.
But more important than that it mean the beainning of the end of a free, a of lif . Throttle your pre s and limit the arm -bearing right of y ur citizen and you invite dictator_hip. ou invite foreign aggres ion.
good friend who ha av d hi worrying-this i the hour.

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WILDLIFE in
Other States
ARIZO A
The rizona Game and Fi h Comm1 ion obtained approval in 0vember to u e a portion of the Federal Aid in \- ildlife Re toration funds for the purchase of 2,720 acre along the Lower Gila River for refuge purpo e . In eight eparate parcel, it i thought that the e lands will afford excellent cover areas for quail, rabbit, and other game. !though they are principally arid and in nature, under existing plan for con truction of irrigation ditehe to serve other privately owned land, the water table will be raised 0 that con iderable additional cover will be produced naturally.
NEW YORK
The State of ew York has received approval to use a portion of its Federal Aid fund for a mi cellaneou contruction project de igned to improve the Delmar \iVildlife Re earch rea and the Partridge Run Game :'Ianagement rea.
on truction plan include the building of several mall earthen wale dam to enlar e exi ting water area. fence for holdin pen for deer and other animal, boundary fences, and road within the area to provide ea y acce from the re earch center to the tudy area.
ORTH DAKOTA
The North Dakota tate Game and Fish Department ubmitted a Federal Aid project for the purpo e of making a urvey of wildlife re ources of the tate. which wa approved in ~ OVCmbel'.
The purpo e of the project i to obtain information necessary for the proper mana ement and utilization of the major wildlife pecies of the tate. The program propo ed is wide in cope and will include work on native and naturalized exotic game bird. game and fur mammal .
tan ley augstad, formerly leader of Project 5-R, will be in charge of the urvey and will direct ix field biolog1 t .
TAH
The tah Department of Fi hand Game ubmitted a Federal Aid project to inve ligate habitat condition and determine management po ibilities on tate waterfowl refuge, which wa approved by the Fi hand \Vildlife ervice in r ovember.
Marcu Xe) on. a graduate in wildlife management of the tah tate Agricultural Colle e, has been named project leader and will direct the inve tigation. Cover map of the tate refuge will be made: utilization of areas by waterfowl, pos ibilitie of improving' refuge for nesting and wintering, and the economic of mu krat on refuge are to be inve tigated, along with other problem pertinent to the formulation of a tate-wide policy of waterfowl management.
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Wflfer
(Continued from page 14)
congre ional appropriation to conerve the water uppl and re tore the area for waterfowl purpo e. In 1930 the fir t unit wa opened and duck and O'eese began to come back. ince then everal other unit have been completed and waterfowl. flocked in like old timer during Home Coming Week. But the water supply proved inadequate. ot that there wa not plenty of water avail able. It was diverted into other channels and the over upply went calmly on it way to the a passing up the best possible use it could make of itself if it were turned by diversion channels into the Bear River Refuge. A million dollars or more have been pent on thi refuge in the past twelve year . All, or a considerable part of it, will be made worthless unless more water i made available.
T HERE are pending in Congre s t\ 0 companion bill introduced b enator Thoma and Congressman Murdock both of tah providing an appropriation of 450,000 to build a diver ion dam to turn the overflow into the Refuge unit. p to this time there ha been no action on either bill. The are both pea efully sleeping in their re pective committees. But ther promi e to be a rude awakening. Action on one of these bills should be taken if the Bear River Mar hes are to be maintained in the future. Conservationist- who are interested know what to do.
Duck Diseflse
(Continued from page 10)
breathing apparatu . The final re ult i complete pro tration followed by apparentl pain Ie death. J.VIany bird drown when the become no longer able to hold up their heads.
O TBREAKS of duck di ease in California have been relatively infrequent during the la t ten years, and until 1938 involved only mall area . That a mall area can ho\ever, be re pon ible for on iderable mortality wa demon trated to the writer in 1937 when he vi ited a mall pond, about on -half acre in extent, near the to\ n of ewman, and picked up more than 800 bird about it margin, all victim of botulism.
In 1938, a year of heavy precipitation, Tulare Lake filled again, the urrounding grain land were flooded

and duck disea e was with us again. The epidemic, while by ro mean a exten ive or a erious a tho e of two decade ago, \ er eriou enouO'h and everal thou and bird became affected.
Another, though les seriou outbr ak, 0 cUlTed la t ea on and we an continue to expect trouble until the lake aO'ain become dry.
DurinO' the last two year a !!Teat deal ha been done to lessen the disastrou effect of botuli m at Tulare Lake b re cue and treatment of ick bird and the de truction of dead bird.
It should be explained that a ick bird, if re cued and placed in a dry pen with plenty of good food and fresh water, ordinarily will recover. Once recovered, a bird apparentl is immune to further infection.
IF IT were as ea y to re ue a ick duck a tQ cure one the ta k would be inlple. This, unfortunately, is not the case. In the most eriou ly affected area the water i too shallow to permit the u e of a boat and i ju t deep enough to make the puruit afoot of a madly fluttering bird with th mercur hovering around 110 degree, a heartbreaking ta k.
otwith tandinO' the difficultie invol ed, it ha been po ible to re cue a large percentage of the ick bird each year, and it i felt that the effort ha b en ampl ju tilled by the re ult .
Ho pita 1 pen ha ve be n CODstructed or provided by intere ted ranchers at everal point about the Tulare ba in. The ick bird after a short "drying out" period aTe provided with food and fresh water and about 80 per cent recover without further healnlent.
Experiment to determine the efficienc of medication a an aid to recover were carried on thi eaT and a studt of the disea e it elf i till being carried on in the California Divi ion' laborator.
During the three-month period of la t Augu t 15 to ovember 15, 1,277 ick bird \ ere re cued. Of thi- nUllbel', 1,025 recovered and were ub quentl released after being banded. A total of 1,879 dead bird wa picked up and de troyed.
The pre ent day epidemic of duck di ea e are virtually nothing when compared with earlier outbreaks, but we mu t constantly be on guard against thi de tructive enemy of waterfowl.
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Guardian of the Breed
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tretched into a chair be ide the dog in front of the fire.
"He's not for ale," the half-drunk handler quickly replied.
"Well, now that you know I want to buy omad, talking will be ea ier for both of u ."
T HE dog yawned and lowly moved hi tail in circle. He looke:l with dark eyes at the t\ 0 men. He eemed the perfect thoroughbred, a etter of true type, the kind that won in th day when ioux and La Be ita thrilled the O'allery , the doO's that won before the pointer ever reached the la t braces.
His coat \ as silky white, upplying a beautiful background for the mall blue-black ticks, flecked over hi trong back. His che t had a deepne that denoted powerful, tirele s action. Hi ears were amply long and well- et, hi pring of rib \ a good.
r. toneson continued, 'That heat our setter ran thi afternoon convinced me that he' the dog to head my kennel. He \ ill make a valuable tud. Name your price."
"There i no price," followed Add point blank.
"Add, that dog i old-six now, according to hi regi tration papers. He can't do much more winning, and
ou can t pIa e him at tud your elf. 0, lIen paper don t lie." "That make no difference ' replied the red-faced dog man. "It's hard for me to tell you, Add, you who in years pa t \ on champion hip for me a handler of my dog, but no one would send his bitch for ou to breed to omad. They won t tru t you now." "Ten years ago, I would have killed a man for aying omething like that, tone on," growled Add, "but now all I ha e to offer i asurance that thi doO' will never be tudded or old. Is that clear?" "But you need the money; I'll give you t\ 0 thou and," jerked the con-
fident Stoneson. "I'd starve fir t. Go on now; leave
me alone, ' came the cracking reply. "Add, I've got a check here for
two thou and \ hich I am leaving on

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thi mantle. If ou ha e any en e, you'll bring 1 omad to my kennels tomorrow morninO'. nd there's a room in the over eel" hou e for you if you want to take over my tring.'
AFTER r. tone on left, Add ju t toad before the fire, leaning against the mantle, watching the flame make a he out of toneson' check.
He eemed to be in a daze when the door opened, a short man entering, nappinO' hi finger and whisperina to the doO' who emed to know him.
" rice work port, you prett halfbreed; no wonder you frailed hell out of all tho e pointers and etters together. You knew them both, you son of a etter mammy, a-looking like your pointer papp . Add, you can have him."
"Here' your money, Jeff," aid Add handing over the prize winnina. "That cleans up m la t gambling debt. I've owed you for eleven
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years, but no more. 0, take that dropper with you; he's done enough for me and it's dangerou for me to keep him now. They want him for a stud and he' not what they think he i ."
"Come on, port. Goodbye Add," Jeff aid a the dog aro e and followed him out.
The bang of the door left Add alone again, but the words that came from deep in ide kept him company.
"Too bad the real omad died before he ever ran a race. But old country Sport, in hi hone t way, took his place and \ on for u both.
omad a half-breed u ed your paper . But he 11 never tart again . . . he's gone back with a bird hunter, and nothing more.
A fro ty moon looked in on the small hotel room and a man who knew that a thoroughbred, a guardian of the breed, i measured in more ways than one.

The Outcast
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IT EEM that the best bait for jack are large, urface type plugs
that you would jerk or pop for ba . In tead of giving this plug it normal erratic motion if you hold your rod tip low and reel in traight you will get your hare of jacks. The best ca ting ground is in backwater where a ditch or creek run i bordered by areas of shallow , ater ,ith plenty of water plant. Cast into the hal10\ and pull the plug into the deep water. The jack, ill rise in the hal10\ water, follO\ to the edO'e and trike down into the deep water. A four-pound jack can give you all the fight you need and if he can get around enough tra h you will never land him.
Another odd thing about the lowly jack i his liking for bad weather. The be t fi hing season for jack is during the winter and early pring month and it doe n't matter how rough the' ea th r i . On Jack on Lake et hook fi hermen catch hundred of jack in arch when the weather i a rough that big driftwood fires are a necessary part of their tackle. It may be that many fi hermen are not familiar with this game fi h because they don't fish during the be t jack easons.
Take my advice and thi winter when hunting i bad get out your tackle and go jack fi hing. When you get back to town you can brag about the two little ba s you caught and then mention your tring of ja k as if they just happened to get in your boat. You can keep your ba rating and at the arne time be a true "jack fi herman."

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