of fresh mutton and fish and rich dairy foods. Campers in the Margaree Valley buy home-made butter at 18 to 25 cents a pound, cream at 50 cents a gallon and eggs at 12 to 18 cents a dozen, according to the industry of the producer.
Sports.[1]
Hunting and Fishing.
The moose, "gallant roamer of the woods," is stalked in the forests of western Canada and slain by "still hunters." But the Abenaki Indian of New Brunswick taught the white man of the East the treasonable craft of "calling" the bull at the nuptial season, in September and October. At that period he is in his prime. His broad palmated horns, which are shed each winter, are then firm, and ready for combat. The wailing solicitation of the cow is imitated by the guide through a horn of birch-bark. The treachery is attempted during early morning twilight preceding sunrise. Sometimes the trumpeter climbs a tree to send forth the minor summons across windless barrens. Unless the presence of human beings
- ↑ Detailed advice concerning Game Laws, Licenses, Outfitting, Places to Camp, Canoe-ways, etc., may be obtained by addressing the secretaries of the St. John and Fredericton Tourist Bureaux, and the Passenger Department of the Canadian Pacific at St. John, N. B., of the Intercolonial at Moncton, N. B., and of the Dominion Atlantic at Kentville, N. S. Also the chief game commissioner of Nova Scotia at Halifax, of New Brunswick at Fredericton, and of P. E. Island at Charlottetown. The, railway folders are particularly explicit and helpful.
