FROM THE GAME FIELDS. 



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with hook and line, or any other device or 

 means, within 400 feet of any dam, during 

 the period from April 1st to July 1st in 

 each year, consecutively, for the 5 years 

 next following, and to prohibit the sale of 

 fish in the markets of kinds and less than 

 sizes as follows: 



Inches. 



Black bass 11 



White or striped bass 8 



Rock bass 6 



Black river crappie 8 



White river crappie 8 



Yellow ring 6 



Wall-eyed pike 15 



Pike pickerel 18 



Buffalo 15 



German carp 13 



Native carp 12 



Sun fish 6 



Red-eyed perch 6 



Catfish 13 



White perch 10 



Lake and brook trout 6 



Grayling 6 



California trout 6 



Land-locked salmon 10 



Several important measures were recom- 

 mended to the legislatures of the several 

 States, which it is hoped may be favorably 

 acted on during the present sessions. 



Those in attendance at the meeting were: 



Michigan — Senator Preston, Lapeer; Representative F. 

 C. Chr.mberlain, Gogebic ; President Horace Davis, State 

 Fish Commission; C. E. Brewster, Deputy State Game 

 and Fish Warden ; Colonel E. Crofton Fox, John Wad dell, 

 of Grand Rapids Sportsmen's Association; A. S. Lakey, 

 of National Bird, Game, and Fish Protective Association, 

 Kalamazoo. 



Minnesota — Senator E. G. Potter, Minneapolis ; Repre- 

 sentative VV. B. Douglas, Moorhead; Representative A. F. 

 Ferris, Brainerd : S. F. Fullerton, St. Paul, executive agent 

 Minnesota State Game and Fish Commission ; C. S. Ben- 

 son, St. Cloud, secretary Minnesota commission; T. E. 

 Byrnes, Minneapolis, attorney Minnesota commission ; W. 

 G. L. Tucker, St. Paul, secretary Sportsmen's Association ; 

 Uri L. Lamphrey. President Sportsmen's Association. 



Illinois — H. W. Loveday, Chicago, State Game Warden ; 

 S. P. Bartlett, Quincy, United States Fish Commissioner ; 

 M. H. Cohen, Urbana ; M. R. Bortree, Deputy Game War- 

 den and deputy for Representative D. R. Campbell ; C. D. 

 Gammon, Charles E. Felton ; A. H. Noel, Fish Warden, 

 Cherry Valley ; Representative G. R. Lyon, Waukegan. 



Wisconsin — Senator J. H. Green, Milwaukee ; Represent- 

 ative Henry Overbeck, Jr., Sturgeon Bay ; Representative 

 W. H. Flett, Merrill ; H. D. Smith, Appleton. J. J.Hogan, 

 La Crosse, Fish Commissioners ; J. T. Ellarson, Madison, 

 State Game Warden. 



ANOTHER HERD OF SWINE. 



The Circleville Gun Club has chosen sides and expects to 

 start out Saturday morning, at 7 o'clock, on a hunting ex- 

 pedition. Each hunter is allowed to choose his own territory. 



The club will assemble at Hennessey's Hotel, at 7 o'clock 

 in the evening, and the side having the most game will be 

 furnished a supper by the losers. Foxes will count 5 and 

 other game one each. The winners will have their entrance 

 fee returned. — Middletown (N. V.) Times. 



Here is another proof that the hogs are 

 not all in Lebanon and Leominster. We 

 have a herd of them here in the Empire 

 State. Will not some reader of Recrea- 

 tion send me the names of the men who 

 participated in this butchering contest? I 

 should like to put them all on record, where 

 they belong. — Editor. 



GAME WARDEN'S WORK. 



Lansing, Mich. — The annual report of Game and Pish 

 Warden Osborn shows a total of 579 cases for violation of 

 the game and fish laws, prosecuted during l807i as against 

 503 for 1896 and 504 for 1895, a grand total of 1,586 lor the 

 2 years and ei months that Air. Osborn has held office. 



In addition to the number of cases prosecuted, a great 

 many fish ladders were put in dams, work of a nature to 

 prevent violations was conducted in all parts of the stat<-. 

 and a great fight was successfully made to sustain the new 

 commercial fish laws. 



This record is said to exceed that of any state game and 

 fish warden in the United States, and it is now claimed for 

 Michigan that it is in advance of all other states in the 

 work of protecting fish and game. This is conceded by 

 authorities, enthusiastsand journals devoted to that work. — 

 Detroit Journal. 



This shows that game protection does 

 protect, if you enforce the laws. That's 

 what the L. A. S. is for — to help enforce the 

 laws. — Editor. 



GAME NOTES. 



With reference to the side hunt: More 

 than half the names on the " circus poster," 

 as you term it, were put on for a joke, I 

 think, by the projectors of the hunt. Some 

 were lawyers, some doctors, and I am not 

 sure but that some ministers' names may 

 have been on it. All this was without the 

 knowledge of the parties, but they let it go 

 as a joke, I dare say. It may have been a 

 bad joke, and, as I have said before, there 

 is no good excuse for the whole thing; but 

 in justice to those persons who took no 

 part in it, I ask you not to include them in 

 the list of butchers. I will take my share of 

 the medicine with the rest, although I 

 killed mighty little. All the sportsmen 

 here, with whom I have talked, are sorry 

 they ever had any part in the affair, and 

 several have said it was the last time they 

 would ever engage in a hunt for points; 

 so write some of us down as at least re- 

 pentant, and remember " the devil is not 

 always so black as he is painted." For the 

 sake of all who did not take part in the 

 hunt, especially, kindly drop all reference 

 to the affair and we will try not to offend 

 again. 



C. M. Hoffman, Lebanon, N. H. 



Mr. J. S. Askey, of Pekin, Md.. writes to 

 deny the killing of 400 squirrels by himself 

 and Messrs. Bradley, Pollock, Somerville, 

 Spears and Lander, as charged in Decem- 

 ber Recreation. The report of this kill- 

 ing was clipped from a local paper, by a 

 subscriber who lives in Lonaconing. and 

 sent me with the request that I expose 

 these men. Assuming the information thus 

 given was correct, I did so. Mr. Askey 

 states that the party killed 168 souirrels in- 

 stead of 400, as stated by my correspon- 

 dent. Even this number is excessive: and 

 in this day of the rapid extermination of 

 game 50 squirrels would have been an 

 ample number for this party to kill. How- 

 ever, sportsmen everywhere are being rap- 

 idly educated to the necessity of modera- 

 tion in the killing of game, and it is hoped 



