Show EXTERMINATION OF MOOSE FEARED BY PARSONS PARSONS' Season One More Open Season Will Deplete Main W Woods oads Commissioner si Says i iBy By Peter P. P Carney I Editor National ts Syndicate j MA MAINE AINE INE last laRt fall ld its f first r t I open season on in lii 1111 five years and id ft ct ja s the opinion opinion of Willia 3 E. E Parsons commis Commiss Commis s oner of inland fisheries and aDd game that another open open season will Just about exterminate all the moose Inthe in inthe the Maine woods Says Mr Parsons in his report The Tile moose moose were increasing and were yere appearing in large numbers Ii III hi Washington Washing washing- ton toll county and some other big game counties but hut they had hind not been hunted for four years and nd had become quite quit tame appearing often In iii the settlements and have fallen e sv rev to to the who had them located for weeks weeks' before the opening of the season I deem It The next J legislature re m l 1 wise to put another continuous close time tillie on moose it Ir they are to be preserved pre pre- served One more more open allen season which will be had before the next legislature assembles It Is believed will win practically exterminate them Our lakes and streams I when depleted ed d can be t restocked stocked but when tilts this monc mon mon- arch c 2 of the Maine Ire w woods od disappears he I I l is gone v i What Mr l says sas After a four years' years closed season season the moose I Iare are tame and the longer the thc close sea close season sea sea- son the easier it is to kill them Moose like deer where they are aro protected for any length of time become becom used to seeIng seeing see see- ing lag hunters and do donot not fear them Then them Then comes conies an open season and they walk right up to lo be killed d J f This Tills doesn't seem seeni right It Jt seems as asif asIf asif I I if there should be a close season long enough to get a goodly nu of moose in the Maine woods t is Just as the commissioner says the says the lakes and streams can be restocked eci but moose cannot cannot cannot can can- not be brought back to life There can be no pleasure In exterminating moose Every true sportsman will and arid should do his best to protect them and see ee that laws are provided for fot that pur pur- pose It Tt is to 10 be hoped that the kill of moose will not be bs so severe next se son I Deer hunters had a glorious season In Maine thousand three four Eighty bundred hundred hundred hun bun dred and thirteen licenses to residents and 2557 licenses t to nonresidents were granted which granted which we might add Is a mighty goodly number for Maine And I these hunters hunter ba bagged ed deer of which which were were shipped out of the state Here I I is what the commissioner has to say the tao deer situation Many more deer have hare been taken this se season son than last and nearly twice as many reported at some some of in inspection Ill In- points as as' as last as' last season season For in instance instance instance in- in stance at at Bangor 1265 1261 deer and 33 bear were shipped da up up- to November 20 20 while ten g tile the number at the h S same time tile the e year previous was deer and 10 bear These represent but n a t small mahl portion of the deer taken In this section I saw deer in one one trio of oC IS ig days The The bear bear killed in Maine totaled Maine is one of the best fishing and andI hunting states in the tIle country and the trappers think it Is 8 s a pretty good state I too Six hundred two and two two forty trapp trappers trappers' rs' rs licenses were were granted In in 1919 |