FROM THE GAME FIELDS. 



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razor-back variety. By black birds, the 

 editor probably means what are known in 

 the market as reed birds. These birds are, 

 of course, slaughtered by the thousands, in 

 the South, during the winter months, and 

 shipped to market. Few people think it a 

 crime to kill them, but I do; and I hope 

 soon to see laws passed, in all the States, 

 prohibiting the killing of and traffic in 

 these birds, as well as others, at all times 

 and under all conditions. They are beau- 

 tiful birds, and, as insect destroyers, are 

 valuable to agriculture. It is, therefore, a 

 crime against nature and against man to 

 kill them. 



every reader of Recreation, who knows 

 them, will show them this paragraph, in or- 

 der that they may know what all decent 

 sportsmen think of such slaughter. 



T. A. Morgan, Poca, Putnam Co., Va., 

 writes me he is a " great sportsman," and 

 that he is out after some kind of game all 

 the year round. I have replied to him as 

 follows: 



You do yourself no credit in saying you 

 are hunting some kind of game all the 

 time. If you do this, you should be 

 placed in a class of hunters that are fre- 

 quently denounced in Recreation. No 

 gentleman makes a business of hunting all 

 the time. If all sportsmen did this, the 

 game would have been exterminated long 

 ago, and owing to the fact that so many 

 men kill more game than they should kill, 

 it is rapidly being exterminated, now. If 

 all were content to hunt only a few days in 

 each year, in proper seasons, there would 

 be game enough for everybody, for all time 

 to come. I trust you will think of this 

 matter, seriously. Consider the rights of 

 others as well as your own selfish inclina- 

 tions and be content to let your fellowmen 

 have a share of the game. — Editor. 



■Here is another specimen for your 

 branding pen — a very aggravated case. 



B. W. Spencer, of the Auditor's office, Big Four Railroad, 

 returned yesterday from a successful hunting trip in Illinois. 

 He went to Allendale, in the Southern part of the state, and 

 after 8 days' shooting, returned with no less than 250 

 quails. — Cincinnati paper. 



Two hundred and fifty quails in 8 days, 

 by one man, in Illinois! And "he left a 

 few over for breeding purposes." 



When I read of such cases I always think 

 of the motto on the title page of your Dog 

 book: 



" The more I see of men the better I like 

 dogs." 



J. C. Nattrass, New Whatcom, Wash. 



Three Seattle hunters, Starke, Engel and Price, are said 

 to have killed 106 ducks, a large number of them mallards, 

 at the Nesqually preserve one day last week. If " Coquina," 

 the editor of Recreation, hears of this, he will have some- 

 thing to say about wholesale slaughter of game. — Seattle 

 Post Intelligencer. 



Well, Coquina has not much to say about 

 these brutes. He simply wishes to remark 

 that they are game hogs; and he hopes 



The greatest load of game seen in this village, in years, was 

 dumped in front of the Joppa House yesterday afternoon by 

 Henry C. Miller, Peter Knobloch and John T. Howley, who 

 returned from a four days' trip rabbit hunting at Rathbun- 

 ville, Steuben county. The party left here last Friday even- 

 ing and in four days shot 137 grey rabbits, 5 white rabbits 

 and 2 red foxes. " Hank" Miller, who has a great reputa- 

 tion here as a shot, covered himself with glory, killing 29 

 rabbits and 1 fox out of 31 shots. — Lyons, N. Y. paper. 



If this report is correct Hank covered 

 himself with shame, instead of glory, as 

 did his companions. The city marshal of 

 Lyons should put these men in the pound, 

 the next time they appear on the streets, 

 just as he would any other swine. — Editor. 



GAME NOTES. 



Ishawood, Wyo., on the Shoshone river, 

 and at the foot of the Rockies, is an ideal 

 home for the hunter and guide. It is 12 

 miles in a bee-line from Yellowstone park, 

 though 3 times that distance by the trail. 

 Redlodge, the nearest R. R. station, is 44 

 miles from Billings, Mont. The scenery in 

 the surrounding country is of indescribable 

 grandeur. Rushing rivers, roaring falls, 

 and snow-capped mountains blend in a 

 picture of wild beauty, never to be forgot- 

 ten by those who view it. Mountain sheep, 

 elk and deer are plentiful throughout this 

 region, and wolves and mountain lions are 

 not uncommon. One of the latter was shot 

 near my ranch the other day, while eating 

 a steer it had just killed. The lion meas- 

 ured 9 feet 4 inches from tip to tip. They 

 are cowardly brutes and never attack a 

 man. 



Excellent trout fishing can be had in the 

 Shoshone and tributary streams. 



Nova E. Brown, Ishawood, Wyo. 



Will you please give me some pointers 

 on training a puppy for field work? What 

 books would you recommend, on this sub- 

 ject? What is, in your opinion, the most 

 reliable and best sporting goods house in 

 the United States.— J. B. 



The subject of training a pointer or set- 

 ter puppy is too weighty a one to be dis- 

 cussed here. It would require more space, 

 to give you any important information, 

 than I could spare for the purpose. Prob- 

 ably the best book on the subject is 

 " Breeding, Breaking and Training " by 

 Bernard Waters, whose address is 346 

 Broadway, N. Y. 



Among the best and most reliable sport- 

 ing goods houses in the U. S. are Hartley 

 & Graham, 313 Broadway; Schoverling, 

 Daly & Gales, 302 Broadway and H. C. 

 Squires & Son, 20 Cortlandt Street, New 



