THE SPORTSMAN'S PARADISE; 



Every sportsman will cheerfully admit that the taking 

 of game ought to be restricted within certain limits. What 

 are these limits? In order to speak intelligently on this 

 question it is very necessary that the speaker should be 

 familiar with the localities in which the game is found, the 

 various methods employed for its capture, the necessities 

 of the people inhabiting the game regions, and the condi- 

 tion of the game at the various seasons at which it is 

 hunted. In those localities where the game is already very 

 scarce it may be highly important for the sportsman and 

 other interested parties to limit, or even entirely stop, the 

 destruction for certain periods. 



Although the interests of the sportsman are commonly 

 identical with those of the inhabitants residing in game 

 countries, nevertheless the necessities of the latter may be 

 such as to know no bounds. In the district of Muskoka, 

 Canada, it is safe to assert that fifty deer are killed by the 

 still-hunters where one is killed after having been run by 

 dogs, either on the run-ways or in the water. The deer 

 killed on the run-ways and in the water are usually con- 

 sumed in the sportsman's camp, and if the price of this 

 venison were determined by the money outlay made by 

 this class of men while seeking the game, it would probably 

 vary from twenty-five cents to one dollar per pound. 



The deer killed by the still-hunter in this region is 

 generally consumed in the lumber camps, where it is sold 

 for four or five cents per pound. 



The great body of the sportsmen entering the district 

 of Muskoka are residents of the United States, and would 

 not remain in this climate during the cold months of au- 



