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RECREATION. 



A MARKET HUNTER WATCHED. 



In January Recreation I saw a letter 

 written from Lakefield, Minn., by R. C. 

 Darr. From its tone one might suppose 

 Darr a genuine sportsman, but he is the 

 worst game hog I ever ran across. He 

 became a citizen of Minnesota to escape 

 having to pay for a hunting license, and 

 for several years slaughtered game birds 

 for market. When the law prohibiting ex- 

 port of game went into effect I heard him 

 say, "What is the use of hunting now, 

 when you can't get rid of the game?" 

 Nevertheless, he continued hunting as be- 

 fore, shot lots of chickens,' ducks, etc., and 

 disposed of them in some mysterious way. 

 A warrant was issued for his arrest for 

 shipping game, but nothing came of it. 

 Since then he has been closely watched. 

 Abundant proof of these facts can be had. 

 H. R. Heath, Aberdeen, S. Dak. 



Minnesota and all other States should 

 enact laws prohibiting the sale of game at 

 any time, even when killed within their 

 limits. Several of them have already done 

 this, and whenever the remaining States 

 follow suit then the occupation of the mar- 

 ket hunter will be gone, and the sooner 

 the better. — Editor. 



THOROUGHLY NATURALIZED. 



When William Waldorf Astor was said to have 

 bought Battle Abbey the English papers cruelly 

 lacerated our feelings by calling him an Ameri- 

 can. Although the charge was totally unfounded, 

 the humiliation of it cut deep. 



But the most malicious Yankee hater on Fleet 

 street will hardly venture to load us with Mr. 

 Bradley Martin. Mr. Bradley Martin has been 

 having that peculiarly British form of recreation 

 known as a "shoot." We are informed that it 

 was a huge success. 



"The sport was excellent. In 5 days' shooting 

 5,504 head of game were slain, the best day yield- 

 ing 1,236 pheasants and more than 1,000 rabbits." 



In Chicago, visitors are taken to the stock yards 

 to see how fast experts can slaughter hogs, but 

 that is not called sport; it is business. 



In California the farmers of a whole county 

 sometimes have a rabbit drive, in which 20,000 

 jack rabbits are herded into an inclosure and 

 killed with clubs, but that is business, too, and, be- 

 sides, the jack rabbits are wild. 



Anybody who turns his place into an abattoir, 

 inviting his guests to perform the work of the 

 hired butchers in the Chicago stock yards on 

 5,000 tame pheasants and rabbits is forever pro- 

 tected against the charge that he is an American. 

 — Chicago American. 



Even a yellow journalist like Mr. Hearst 

 shudders when he reads an account of the 

 principles of some of our American game 

 hogs. — Editor. 



PAID HIGH FOR VENISON. 



Dr. Charles Bastian and Zack Clark, well- 

 known hunters of Salladasburg, were arrested this 

 morning, and pleaded guilty to killing deer out ot 

 season. For their illegal act Alderman Kellenbach 

 fined them $200 and costs, which in all amounted 

 to $232.60. — Williamsport (Pa.) Sun. 



The Lycoming Sportsmen'? Association 



is only 9 months old, but already we have 

 secured 2 convictions for violation of game 

 laws. The first case cost the culprit $70 

 for 2 rabbits killed out of season. The 

 second case is the one mentioned in the 

 clipping. We mean business and poachers 

 in Lycoming county are now up against 

 the "real thing." 



W. W. Ahmbosh, Williamsport, Pa. 



Another case in which venison proves 

 high living. Dr. Bastian and Mr. Clark 

 could have bought beef enough for $232.60 

 to last both of their families a whole year. 

 They will probably be perfectly satisfied 

 with good domestic meat in future. — 

 Editor. 



TOO MANY QUAILS. 



Offerman, Ga. — J. C. Brewer, of Waycross, J. 

 H. Bynum, of Offerman, and H. G. Williams, of 

 Liberty City, went shooting here to-day and re- 

 turne dwith 286 quails. They had Mr. Brewer's 2 

 dogs from Waycross. — Savannah (Ga.) News. 



To my inquiry regarding the truth of 

 above report the following reply was made : 



There was an error made by the reporter 

 in stating that 2 friends and I killed 286 

 quails in one day. We bagged 106.' Of 

 course we killed a good many that were 

 left on the ground. We expect to take an- 

 other hunt soon, and I will advise you of 

 results, if desired. 



J. H. Bynum, Offerman, Ga. 



That was twice as many as you should 

 have killed. If you had been reading up- 

 to-date sportsmen's literature the past few 

 years you would have known that all gen- 

 tlemen who shoot quails quit, nowadays, 

 when they get 10 to 15. — Editor. 



DOVE KILLING IN GEORGIA. 



There was a lively contest at shooting doves by 

 Moultrie sports Wednesday morning. Two 

 parties went out to different plantations and strove 

 for the largest number of birds. One party went 

 down to Mr. George Suber's plantation, near 

 Suberdale. They were joined in their shoot by 

 Mr. Suber and other local sportsmen. They found 

 doves in sufficiently large numbers to begin 

 with, but after 2 hours' shooting the birds left the 

 fields. The men killed between 350 and 400. An- 

 other party went down to Murphy and engaged 

 in a big shoot on the Murphy plantations. The 

 shooting was lively here, also, but lasted only a 

 short while. This party bagged about 300. The 

 sportsmen claimed it was not a good day for 

 snooting doves. — Moultrie (Ga.) Observer. 



The editor of the Observer should learn 

 to call things by their right names. When 

 he applies the term sportsmen to such con- 

 temptible game hogs as these, he insults 

 every real sportsman in the country. This 

 editor should read Recreation and learn 

 something of modern English before he 

 undertakes to report another side hunt. 



