. Rod and gun. erethat weigh about one hundred and fiftypounds. Now I havens seen all the wolves inOntario yet, but I saw one that I was toldweighed eighty pounds and he was the buttkut among them all; and if I never catchthese geese I will give a dollar a pound to see aone hundred and fifty pound wolf. And thosemoose that wear the everlasting antlers! Itell you that is news to more than city know a man who lived in the woods so longthat he actually went into a hardware store tobuy an orange and then into a drug-store for a bear-trap; and this fellow has never seen »deer or moose with
. Rod and gun. erethat weigh about one hundred and fiftypounds. Now I havens seen all the wolves inOntario yet, but I saw one that I was toldweighed eighty pounds and he was the buttkut among them all; and if I never catchthese geese I will give a dollar a pound to see aone hundred and fifty pound wolf. And thosemoose that wear the everlasting antlers! Itell you that is news to more than city know a man who lived in the woods so longthat he actually went into a hardware store tobuy an orange and then into a drug-store for a bear-trap; and this fellow has never seen »deer or moose with his dry horns later than the14th day of February. Well, the geese are up at the door for results. Yours truly, Jack , Ont. *Butt kut, the largest and by all meansthe heaviest. N. B. Mr. Miner has a permit from the Gov-ernment to net birds for labelling. As isknown to many of our readers Mr. Miner hasmade his home and farm a shelter for the wildbirds from their natural .\ Little Child .Shall Feed Them: Mr. Miners Home at Kingsville, Ontario Conservation of Lobster Fishery The wonderful productiveness of the Cana-dian sea-shores is such that the lobster in-dustry is still carried on on a vast scale, andthe total mo,ley value of the lobster fishery isgreater than ever, but the annual returns arereally misleading, because, while the supplyof lobsters is declining, the price has so mater-ially advanced that the total value is greaterto-day than at any previous period. Thus, in1880, lobsters brought S5 a case, whereas lastyear the price realized was nearly four timesthat amount. In the case of the oyster, though the num-ber of barrels annually produced on the Cana-dian beds is oniy half what it was ten yearsago, the price per barrel has increased in aboutthe same ratio as the price of lobsters, and isnow four or five times what it was in 1880. The following points are worthy of attentionin considering the present condition of lliclobster i
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