Show Old Geese Are Shot When YoungS Young S Ones Make Mk Ern Em SI for Rest By MORRIS ACKERMAN Of the Fish and arid Game Protective Association Wild geese hunters bunters have bave found that hat in iii many cases when they were able to land the fowl they Owed thanks hanks to young birds in the tile flocks attacked In the marshes along the great lakes a few geese fall fan to huntera hunt hunt- era ra durin the Southern light flight These These These- geese geese are killed more lnOr by chance than by anything else The young birds o of a a. flock are arc compelled to o stop for tor rest and the older members mem- mem bers bels ers stop and wait for tor them Farther south even the big fellows fellows- stop for rest on small lakes and ponds and the they fall faIl to hunters In the breeding grounds of the far North in the Canadian provinces many geese fall faU to the hunters It is fa along the Mississippi river and In the far West Vest however that the big kills are made On the tho sandbars sandbars sand sand- I bars of ot the Mississippi in the Southern South South- em ern states in the rice stubble of ot Louisiana Mississippi and and Texas fexas thousands of ot geese are killed each fall tall fallOn On I the Pacific coast geese are a pest A hundred geese to a few tew hours of ot shooting is a a fair bag there In all sections the method of hunt ing lag Is Is' Is about the same Pits arc are made about about- three feet teet i in depth and thirty inches across tile the top and the sand cleared away so the tile pits cannot bo be o leen been until th the g geese are almost on top of them As a rule live and artificial deCOS deCO'S deCOs deCO's decoys de de- de- de COS CO'S are set twenty or thirty yards from the pits In the sand and marsh Live Li decoys are pla placed ed in wire net and as each goose falls taUs to the hunter it is by th the use of ot wire In a po position of feed feed- ing tag Hunters generally use automatic and pump guns and heavy loads of three Ve and nd ne half drachms E E. 0 with chilled shot from threes to toI I sixes sites |