FROM the game fields". 



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GAME NOTES; 

 The county of Digby, Western Nova Sco- 

 tia, is not exactly a poachers' paradise. 

 Major John Daley and Edmund Jenner, 

 agents for the Game Society of Nova Sco- 

 tia, have been after the poaching fraternity. 

 January 9th, a fine moose carcass was 

 seized, condemned as contraband, and 

 sent to the county poorhouse. January 

 22d, Agent Daley received word that Abram 

 Ivney, an Indian, was on his way to Digby 

 with moose meat illicitly killed. While 

 Major Daley was overhauling the freight 

 consigned to St. John, N. B., Agent Jenner 

 took a look around the town, and dis- 

 covered Ivney with a bag of fresh moose 

 meat. The magistrate considered that 30 

 days in jail would be about the correct 

 thing and Abram is now enjoying it. 

 January 25th a hotel keeper was fined for 

 having bought moose meat in close season. 

 E. Jenner, Digby, N. S. 



Quails, grouse, ducks and deer are much 

 more plentiful here than they were 3 years 

 ago, showing the good result of stringent 

 game laws. There can, however, occasion- 

 ally be found an editor, too indolent or 

 too poor a shot to bag any game for him- 

 self, who bewails the absence of an oppor- 

 tunity to laud pot hunters. To that sort of 

 editor the game laws of Wisconsin seem 

 a farce and a scheme of the city-bred fel- 

 low and the rich to corner the hunting and 

 fishing. No one who ever carried a rod or 

 a gun with any regard for the future sup- 

 ply of game takes any stock in this editor's 

 wrong theories, and the good work goes on. 

 Sportsmen see more and more the need of 

 laws for game protection, and will con- 

 tinue to work for their further enactment. 

 T. W. Borum, Barron, Wis. 



What kind of game can be found in the 

 vicinity of Jennings, Calcasieu county, 

 Louisiana? R. M. K., Chicago, 111. 



ANSWER. 



Along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, 

 from New Orleans to Galveston, Texas, 

 quails and gray squirrels can be found. 

 Between New Orleans and Orange, Texas, 

 can be found snipe and all kinds of ducks, 

 more especially between La Fayette and 

 Orange, where the rice fields offer them 

 rich food throughout the year. Between 

 New Orleans and the Texas line are vast 

 swamps, or marshes, where many black 

 bear and deer are hunted and killed every 

 season. Fish and oysters of all kinds are 

 plentiful in that territory. — Editor. 



In your battle with the fish and game 

 hogs do not get discouraged. You are put- 

 ting up a fight in which you have the best 

 element of the nation with you, and one 



which will leave youf name in honor long 

 after you and I are gone. Coarse, selfish 

 men have to be roughly dealt with. Her- 

 cules had to club down the heads of the 

 hydra and then have his servant sear them 

 with a hot iron to keep them from sprout- 

 ing again. This kind will not sprout ; they 

 will hide, and another generation will not 

 know them. The lowest class of men 1 

 have ever met are those who shoot for the 

 market. Boone, Lewiston, N. Y. 



In printing one of my letters in May 

 Recreation you credit me with saying that 

 meadow larks are "larger and more diffi- 

 cult of approach late in the season than 

 any of our game birds." This is an error. 

 The word "many" should take the place of 

 the word "any." Kindly correct this or I 

 shall have to undergo a medical examina- 

 tion as to my sanity. 



A. L. Owen, Keating Summit, Pa. 



Squirrels, rabbits and quails are plentiful 

 here. A few pheasants have been turned 

 loose in our part of the country, but their 

 increase has been retarded by the hard win- 

 ters we have had the past 3 years. 



G. L. Linkhart, Pt. Williams, O. 



My home is in a good country for hunt- 

 ing and fishing. Our duck shooting is es- 

 pecially good. Should like to learn where 

 I can find good prairie chicken shooting. 

 C. M. Palmer, Madison, Wis. 



Red foxes are abundant in this vicinity. 

 More than 20 were shot in Jefferson town- 

 ship during the first 2 months of the sea- 

 son. E. O. Wickersham, Zanesfield, O. 



We had plenty of small game last sea- 

 son. Quails were more abundant than for 

 years before. 



J. N. Dodd, County Line, la. 



Quails wintered well and are abundant. 

 We shall certainly have fine sport here 

 this fall. 



H. J. Duke, Shippensburg, Pa. 



Two men went about 15 miles East of 

 here and shot 63 rabbits and 88 quails in 

 one day. C. G. Fisher, Piqua, O. 



Quails got through the winter nicely; if 

 nothing happens, they will be thick next 

 fall. J. H. Crist, Covina, Cal. 



Quails were unusually plentiful last fall 

 for this place, and wintered well. 



J. Dickson, Durham, N. H. 



