CAME AND CAME SHOOTING

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2164, 1 June 1914, Page 4

CAME AND CAME SHOOTING

Bir, —There is a matter I should liko lo draw .your attention to, and that is tlio extermination of tlio native pigeon. Some people will tell you that it is the reason of the hush being cut down and burnt, but I think it has- a lot to do with the sparrow- hawk. My son was out shooting not very long.ago, and lio saw six sparrow hawks after one pigeon. There arc hundreds of these hawks in this bush. I have been a Sircat sport in.my timo, shooting, ote., and I think that this matter should have every consideration from the Government. • ■ > ; There is another matter that I think should ha put a stop to, and that is slnuEhtering tlio hare—shooting them rWn -bv- t.hn dozeii. and letting them

lie 011 the ground. Ido think that it is a sin wiion Uittro are such a Ist of people that would im'te good use of tho haro to-cat, • The law is not strong enough 011 the.se sort ol' so-called sports. There are a few hares about here, but I have nirt been shooting them, because 1 should liice to see them increase, as. they do mi damage to speak of. But people come io my neighbour's farm and shoot tiiens wholesale. I saw a lien pheasant with about eight or. ten chicks at- the beginning of dm season, but 1 suppose tfiey have been shut. ■ People go out ' and destroy everything they fame across, and 1, with others, think that it is cjuife time that something should bo done., ytht-r----wise there will bo no game- ftt all tor anyone to shoot. 1 saw a grand sight to'Dight. Thews is a bolt of blue-gtiins, 1 should say a plantation, just close to juv i'eiiee, and it was just alive with the starlings They art 1 killing the biMe-gtims; but they arc a very valuivtsta bird. They destroy all the vermin from the ground. Someone fed _ $ shot at. tliem, and they went lip in the air in' millions. I can tell you. Sir, it was a great sight, they turned all sorts of. shapes; you wotikl think tlioy wer-g. a balloon, and then they .loch like a big black cloud, and cut a]l sorts of capers. It would ho a good bit of ediwation if it could bo shown ill the rawing pit'tures. 1 can assure you, Sir, that it. is worth coming « long way to see, an 4 if anyone would lite; to take a snapshot of them I will put 3iim up for the night.—l am, etc... jr. J. JACKSON, Dervillc, Slay 54, 10i4.