FROM THE GAM/-: FIELDS. 



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We have good shooting and fishing, 

 ruffed grouse and squirrels being plentiful. 



Recreation has many friends in this 

 vicinity. 



G. E. Dunham, Northfield, Vt. 



I am well pleased with your magazine. 

 It is the best sportsmen's and game pro- 

 tective journal in the country, and you seem 

 to be the right man in the right place, to 

 expose the game hogs. We have a good 

 many of them here, but I think they are a 

 little worse than the ordinary game hog. 

 These are the genuine razor backs, who 

 hunt in and out of season; killing every- 

 thing as they go. They are like the other 

 razor back swine of this country — hard to 

 catch. 



H. B. Beidler, Chuluota, Fla. 



Here is a new game law that will meet 

 with general approval: Book agents may 

 be killed from October i to September i; 

 game hogs and fish hogs January I to De- 

 cember 31; spring poets from March 1 to 

 June 1; scandal mongers, April 1 to De- 

 cember 1 ; umbrella borrowers, August 1 to 

 November 1, and February 1 to May 1; 

 while every man who accepts a paper 2 

 years, but when the bill is presented says 

 " I never ordered it," may be killed on 

 sight, without reserve or relief from valua- 

 tion or appraisement laws, and buried with- 

 out benefit of clergy. 



On the second day after the opening of 

 the season for gray squirrels, C. Hanver, 

 D. Lewis and I started early, for a day with 

 the grays. Mr. Hanver got 14, Mr. Lewis 

 5 and I 3. I had an old muzzle loader that 

 had to be doctored up after each shot. Still 

 we felt we had more than our share. 



Give it to the game hogs. 



Recreation is a lot better than some of 

 the $3 and $4 sportsmen's journals, and I 

 read them all. 



C. McToms. Foxville, Md. 



Woodcock and grouse are fairly plentiful 

 this fall, and many deer have been seen, but 

 the game law protects them, in this county, 

 for 3 years longer. Our legislature, last 

 winter, passed a law requiring every one 

 acting as a guide to answer certain ques- 

 tions, subscribe to rules and to purchase a 

 license of the fish and game commissioners. 

 It created a big fight, and already one trial 

 has been held, but the commissioners won, 

 and are generally upheld throughout the 

 state. 



I. T. Monroe, North Livermore, Me. 



A Tacoma, Wash., paper says: 



" Several parties of Tacomans have been 

 enjoying Chinese pheasant shooting, across 



the Oregon line during the past few days. 

 Woodbury. 14 miles this side of Salem, ia 



the favorite hunting ground, and the sport 

 is reported excellent. Everett Griggs and 

 G. W. Crow killed 30 birds; Richard 

 Vaeth and Marshal K. Snell 46 bird,, and 

 Percy Sinclair and 1'. V. Caesar made a 

 large bag." 



Oregon is the banner state in the matter 

 of pheasant propagation. 



The quail shooting was good here, this 

 season, and a great many birds were left 

 over for next year. I thank you for the 

 good you are doing, for the sportsmen, 

 and wish you could devise some scheme 

 whereby spring shooting could be abol- 

 ished, from the Gulf to Canada. 



Frank G. Shoemaker, Maryville, Mo. 



It should be, and will be, some time; but 

 possibly not until the game is all killed off. 

 — Editor. 



The contracts for a new wagon road, 

 from here up the West Gallatin river, to 

 connect with the Yellowstone National 

 Park road, on the Upper Madison river, 

 have been let by the County Commission- 

 ers of Gallatin county, and the road will be 

 open for next year's tourist travel. The 

 scenery is splendid; there are good camp- 

 ing places, and excellent hunting and fish- 

 ing are to be found along this road. In 

 these respects it far surpasses the route up 

 the Yellowstone river. 



August Gottschalck, Bozeman, Mont. 



Philip S. P. Randolph, a Philadelphia 

 millionaire and society leader, was arrested 

 at Narragansett Pier, R. I., for shooting 

 woodcock in the closed season. 



He pleaded guilty to the charge and paid 

 a fine of $106.45 and says he is glad the law- 

 has been vindicated, even though he was 

 the sufferer. He says he is perfectly willing 

 to refrain from shooting, in close season, if 

 others are required to do the same. 



You deserve success and will achieve it. 

 The firms who do not advertise in Recrea- 

 tion will do so sooner or later: for at the 

 rate the circulation is growing your maga- 

 zine will become a power they cannot resist. 



It is on sale at 4 book stores, here, and a 

 year ago nobody had ever heard of it. 



O. A. Pattison. South Bend. I ml. 



My friend, B. Long, and I have just re- 

 turned from a 2 weeks' trip on the Chain 

 lakes. Western Iowa. Ducks and chickens 

 are plenty. We killed in the neighborhood 

 of 200 birds. The fall duck and goose 

 shooting was fine. Snipe shooting was 

 elegant. Recreation was our best com- 

 panion, in the evening. 



J. J. Schell, Mason City, Ia. 



