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RECREA TION. 



miserable man could be caught who is kill- 

 ing deer for their hides, and leaving the 

 carcasses to rot. His name is John Boyd. 

 Don't fail to print this, for I want every- 

 body to know who our game hog is. 



Arthur Thompson, Bridgeville, Cal. 



Recreation is the best magazine I ever 

 read, and I shall take it right along. I 

 have one of the best deer heads I ever saw. 

 Have hunted all over the country, and find 

 Dresden as good a place as any. I live 

 within 2 miles of Black mountain. Killed 

 3 deer in one day, and when I went after 

 them, the next day, I shot another, and 

 brought out 4 at once. Since then I have 

 killed 2 or 3 each year. If any reader of 

 Recreation wants a day's hunting, and 

 will call on me I will show him where the 



game is. 



Patrick Crockwell, 



Dresden Centre, N. Y. 



I wish Recreation would come twice a 

 week, now, as I have a bad hand and can- 

 not get out much. While shooting, on 

 July 8th, my gun burst and tore my left 

 hand badly. My thumb was almost torn 

 off and the muscles and flesh, in the inside 

 of my hand were blown to pieces. I was 

 shooting a Baker gun, and 31 grains Shultz 

 nitro powder. I shall get more subscrib- 

 ers for Recreation, when my hand gets 

 better. P. E. Clock, Oneida, N. Y. 



The outlook for good shooting near here, 

 this fall, is good. I have seen a number of 

 rabbits, and hear quails whistle frequently. 

 Grouse are scarce. Fishing is poor, al- 

 though we have one of the finest streams 

 in the countryside running near us — Mood- 

 na creek — but on account of the drainage 

 into it scarcely a fish remains. There is 

 fair bass fishing in the mountain ponds, 

 but they are hard to reach, unless one 

 camps. Recreation is just out of sight. 

 R. H. W., Cornwall, N. Y. 



I enclose a copy of our new game laws, 

 which are supposed to go into effect July 

 9. While the game laws are all right, our 

 legislature failed to provide a game warden 

 to enforce them. The result is game is 

 virtually without protection. 



Verily, this is the State where the fish 

 and game hogs are at home! You can see 

 enough any day to make you inquire, What 

 good is a game law with no one to enforce 

 it? P., Lincoln, Neb. 



Fish are plentiful at Roach river, Lily 

 bay and Moosehead lake. A man took a 

 trout that weighed 5l4 pounds. The next 

 day he got a 6-pounder. 



Moose and deer are in good numbers. I 



see that many readers of Recreation use 

 30-30-160 smokeless rifles. I, too, use one, 

 and would not exchange it for any of 

 the heavy rifles. I have used the 45-70, 45- 

 75 and 45-90, but think the 30-30 the best 

 of the lot. 



B. J. Woodard, Dover, Me. 



Owing to a favorable season for game- 

 breeding, quails are without number. Have 

 seen as many as 25 or 30 bunches, dusting 

 in the road, in driving 20 miles. A few days 

 ago I saw 15 turkeys in one flock. They 

 were nearly grown and not wild. There 

 will be the best of shooting when the sea- 

 son opens. Deer are plentiful, and a bear 

 was shot within 4 miles of my house, about 

 a month ago. 



C. L. F., Avon Park, Fla. 



Game is plentiful this fall. Our prairie 

 chickens are protected until '99 and I see 

 quite a difference in the numbers of them. 

 We have a few pheasants, which were 

 turned loose 3 years ago, and which have 

 done well. This is a great summer for fish- 

 ing. We have made some fine creels. You 

 cannot go wrong in any stream here. I 

 will send you a short history of a fishing 

 trip, later. 



Harry Chapman, Vernon, B. C. 



Notwithstanding the unusually . heavy 

 spring rains, which it would seem would 

 have been disastrous to nesting and hatch- 

 ing, reports from various parts of this 

 country are that there are more quails this 

 year than for many years past. The game 

 laws are more generally respected than for- 

 merly, and Recreation's large circulation 

 in this city has, without doubt, done a 

 noble work in the interest of game protec- 

 tion. C. F. Wadsworth, Springfield, 111. 



Some of the Stevens Point, Wis., sports- 

 men have been awakened to a sense of their 

 duty, and to the necessity of protecting 

 their fish and game, by the frequent roast- 

 ings they have had in Recreation. These 

 men have organized a gun club, and are 

 now offering a reward of $10 for the arrest 

 and conviction of any man violating the 

 game laws. 



I am glad to see my work is bearing fruit, 

 in a place where it was so sadly needed; for 

 if ever there was a reckless lot of game and 

 fish hogs, in any town, they were to be 

 found in Stevens Point. 



I should like to. call your attention to the 

 Governor's veto of the Act of the Penn. 

 Legislature providing for a State fish and 

 game commissioner, and for county fish 

 and game wardens. By his veto of this bill 

 Governor Hastings, has made many oppo- 



