FROM THE GAME FIELDS. 



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open to all. Full money prizes and pre- 

 miums will be given. The target of honor 

 will have $100 in cash prizes. 



Here on Lake Traverse is a queer state of 

 affairs. On the marsh may be seen from 8 

 to 12 tents of market hunters. They shoot 

 black powder, before sun rise and after sun 

 set. The business men of the town go out 

 and slaughter game for market, because if 

 they don't the market hunters will get it 

 all. Chickens are killed before the law is 

 off. The limit on ducks and chickens is no 

 more observed than the Koran. About 

 6,ooo ducks have been sent to St. Paul, by 

 business men and pot hunters. Do I be- 

 lieve all the game I see going there, from 

 this state, is eaten there? No, not by sev- 

 eral carloads. 



Pink Edge, Wheaton, Minn. 



I first went to Plattsburgh, N. Y., where 

 I shot a few ruffed grouse. I then went on 

 to Argyle, Minn., one station North of 

 Warren. I looked up 2 sportsmen who 

 took good care of me. I did not have much 

 time, but shot a reasonable number of 

 chickens, ducks, jack-snipe, plover, etc. 

 The weather was a trifle hot, 104 , and the 

 dogs could not do themselves justice. 



Game is not plentiful in the, vicinity of 

 the railroad, anywhere, this year; but by 

 driving about 50 miles East of Argyle, to 

 the Thief river country, great sport can still 

 be had with chickens and geese. One party 

 came in with 103 chickens, for 2 days. You 

 have to take a tent and grub, if you go in 

 there. Livery horses are cheap. There is 

 a good Hotel at Argyle. Geo. Harris, 

 station agent, Great Northern R. R., will 

 set anybody on the right track. 



E. A. J., Hackensack, N. J. 



I have mailed you a photo of a fawn which 

 I caught some time ago, and which became 

 a great pet. Deer are plentiful at present 

 and will afford good hunting this fall, if 

 they are not molested by wolves, or driven 

 too far back by dry weather. There were 

 a good many deer killed here last season, 

 as every man paying his 50 cents license put 

 in full time in order to make sure of his 

 limit, 5 deer; while the non-residents were 

 obliged to stay away, or pay $25 to hunt. 

 The hunter from outside is usually satisfied 

 with one deer, and is willing to return to 

 his home after a few days' sport, while the 

 home hunters are never satisfied until they 

 reach the limit., Therefore, I think it would 

 be much better to make the fee the same for 

 all, and if necessary for any difference, 

 make it in the number of deer each shall 

 be allowed to kill and to ship. 



C. G. Shepherd, Lathrop, Mich. 



dead bears, a ruined rifle and a crippled 

 man. The man, who "was working in a 

 lumber camp, went out one Sunday, with 

 a 22 calibre rifle to shoot grouse. Find- 

 ing a cub bear, he drove it up a tree, 

 and shot it until it died, by which time it's 

 hide would have made a good sieve. 

 Shouldering the cub, he started for camp, 

 when the mother bear appeared, and dis- 

 puted the right of way. He shot the old 

 bear with the 22, and when she closed in, 

 clubbed her with it until it was knocked 

 from his hand. While the bear was chew- 

 ing him, he used a knife, as best he could, 

 and succeeded in killing her, after she had 

 made him a cripple for life. 



M. P. Dunham, Redlodge, Mont. 



The Montreal " Star " gives a most pa- 

 thetic account of the work of a lot of game 

 butchers, in slaughtering fawns and female 

 deer in the woods of Canada, during the past 

 summer and fall. A game warden found, in 

 the hands of a hide dealer, in Montreal, 

 2,6 skins of fawns, which he had bought 

 from these game butchers, and it is believed 

 this is but a small portion of the number 

 this dealer has handled. From the condi- 

 tion of these skins, it is easy to determine 

 that the animals were nearly all killed dur- 

 ing the close season. The fine for killing 

 deer, in close season, in Quebec, ranges 

 from $2 to $100 for each offence, and it is 

 earnestly hoped the vandals will be detected 

 and punished, to the full extent of the law. 



As I was being paddled down the St. 

 Croix river, quite close to the shore, I 

 noticed something lying on the bank, a 

 short distance ahead. Not much attention 

 was given to it, for I thought it was a deer, 

 a common sight there. 



We were moving quite rapidly, so when 

 I looked again we were within 20 or 30 feet 

 of the creature. At that instant he raised 

 his head and I saw it was a Canadian bay 

 lynx. I at once gave him a charge of shot 

 in the eyes, killing him almost instantly. 



As much as I have been in the Maine 

 and Canadian woods, this was the first 

 lynx I ever saw alive. 



H. B. Clewey, Woburn, Mass. 



Two bears, a 22 rifle and a man were 

 recently mixed in these parts. Result, 2 



In the fall, the sportsmen of Warren 

 have great sport coursing jack rabbits with 

 greyhounds. The adjacent country is level 

 prairie, excepting along Snake river, and 

 the farms are not fenced — just the place for 

 coursing. 



On a hunt last fall, I rode in a sleigh. As 

 we were spinning over the prairie, the rab- 

 bit made a sudden turn. We followed and 

 the sleigh struck an ant-hill, hidden under 

 the snow. In an instant we were over. Al- 

 though the rabbit was killed, we did not 

 see the close of that hunt. ^ 



C. S. H., Warren Minn. y 



