FROM THE GAME FIELDS. 



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ably keep it up as long as there is anything 

 to kill. This system, practised extensively 

 by the negroes in some parts of Virginia, 

 has almost exterminated the rabbits and 

 wild turkeys. C. D. K., Newport, Ky. 



doing noble work in preserving the game 

 of our country. 



E. K. L., Otsego, Mich. 



TOO MUCH LIKE SLAUGHTER. 



Your regard for Mr. Roche, is enough to 

 convince me of his character as a sports- 

 man; but I think him unfortunate in his 

 friends. If he imagines their skill will be 

 admired, or the use they made of it, appre- 

 ciated, by readers of Recreation, he is mis- 

 taken. Those expert hunters may not wear 

 bristles or be in danger of pickling in brine, 

 but they can depend on being pickled in 

 Recreation, when their exploits are pub- 

 lished. 



Think of it — 105 quails in one day! That 

 ranks Mr. Roche's friends with the 

 Steven's Point, Wis., hogs, and with the 

 Boston swine, who boasted of taking 120 

 trout in an hour. It is a puzzling ques- 

 tion to me, how these skilful butchers get 

 their game home. Do they take along a 

 wheel-barrow or hire an express-wagon to 

 follow up their bloody trail? 



A reader suggests giving the game hog 

 a rest. That is just the trouble; they have 

 had too much of a rest, and not enough ar- 

 rest. " There shall be no rest for the 

 wicked," and the rest of us will try to re- 

 strain them until you, Mr. Editor, get 

 rested. 



Sam. Crofoot, Fond du Lac, Wis. 



QUIT WHEN YOU GET ENOUGH. 



I would like to add my testimony as to 

 what constitutes a reasonable amount of 

 game for one man. I believe 12 squicrels 

 is all any man should want to kill in one 

 day. 



I have hunted for 33 years arid never but 

 once exceeded that number. Why kill all 

 in one year? Why not let them increase, 

 so as to have good shooting again? Why 

 this spirit of slaughter should enter into 

 man's nature, I cannot see. 



There are few men living who love shoot- 

 ing better than I, but I never did have a 

 disposition to kill more than I could use. 



I spent the summer of '8o in the vicinity 

 of North Park, Colorado. At that time you 

 would never be out of sight of antelope. 

 In crossing the Park, a distance of 57 miles, 

 I could easily have killed all a team could 

 haul. Yet my partner and I killed but one. 

 That was all we could use. 



We passed 300 carcasses in crossing the 

 Park. From some a ham was taken; 

 others a quarter, and again a piece of ten- 

 derloin. To-day antelope are almost a 

 thing of the past, in that locality. 



I should like to see every sportsman raise 

 his voice against the slaughter of our game; 

 so I say, " Long live Recreation! " It is 



A GOOD PLACE TO GO. 



Schoolcraft County, Mich., is a fine coun- 

 try for fish and game. Dr. R. C. McKes- 

 son, of Manistique, is game warden, and he 

 is the terror of all illegal hunters and fish- 

 ers of that section. 



I have been there several seasons; was 

 there this summer, trout and bass fishing. 

 Caught several messes of brook trout, the 

 smallest were 12 inches long. Deer and 

 ruffed grouse are very plentiful. Ducks are* 

 as numerous there as mosquitoes in June. 

 I always go to Abe. Hughe's place, 35 miles 

 from Manistique, up the Indian river. 

 Those who have once been to Abe's, go 

 there again if they can. From Manistique, 

 take the M. and N. W. R. R. to the Pull 

 Up, which is 5 miles from Abe's clearing, 

 in the heart of the game country. Abe will 

 meet you there if you write him in care of 

 C. L. Co.'s Pull Up, Manistique, Mich. 

 He is a thorough woodsman, and will give 

 you all the pointers you want; and his wife's 

 pies are the next thing to ambrosia. 



t W. S. Bates, Chicago, 111. 



THE PENOBSCOT FOR BIG GAME. 



There are hundreds of sportsmen in New 

 York City interested in that part of the 

 Maine wilderness known as the " Hunters' 

 Paradise." For their information I will 

 say a trip up either the East or West branch 

 of the Penobscot, for 25 miles, will be one 

 of the best in Maine. Deer are plentiful 

 anywhere in the woods. 



While in camp on Ripoganns Carry, last 

 spring, we made a negative of a ruffed 

 grouse sitting on her nest. Carry pond lies 

 just off Ripoganns, and is noted for its 

 splendid trout. ' 



Big game is numerous near the base of 

 Mt. Katahdin. The West Branch river 

 runs within 4 miles of the basin. From the 

 bank of the stream, near Athol and Katah- 

 din brook, a good trail leads to the summit 

 of the mountain. There are hundreds of 

 acres of table land on the mountain, over 

 which large numbers of caribou roam. 



Quite a number of ladies climbed Mt. 

 Katahdin last season. It is a hard climb, 

 but you are fully repaid as you take in the 

 beauties of the surrounding wilderness. It 

 stretches away on every hand for miles and 

 miles, with its hundreds of lakes reflecting 

 the beautiful tints of autumn foliage. 



Peace and contentment comes to him, 

 who, worn out by the excessive demands 

 of our hustling American life, can lay aside 

 these cares for a short trip to this wonder- 

 ful country. 



F. E. Farnsworth, Fitchburg, Mass. 



