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RECREATION. 



the Recreation host, am more. than inter- 

 ested to keep you in good working trim. 

 Dr. E. B. Guile, Utica, N. Y. 



Game is increasing in this part of the 

 State. Five years ago quails were almost 

 extinct; now they are fairly abundant. 

 Grouse have about disappeared from the 

 level country, though that is due, I think, 

 more to the cutting away of the forests 

 than to excessive hunting. In the moun- 

 tains grouse are still plentiful. It is a pity 

 our deer law does not forbid the killing of 

 does. I think the fee for a hunting license 

 is in many States altogether too high. If 

 put at $5 it would produce enough revenue 

 to protect game and at the same time 

 would not bar a poor man from a chance 

 for sport. 



M. J. Keans, West Middletown, Pa, 



You are doing a great work for game 

 protection. I wish the South was more 

 progressive in the matter. Still, I think 

 our people will gradually fall in line. Even 

 now we have a few as thorough sportsmen 

 as can be found anywhere. Quails are 

 abundant here and we have a few deer, 

 turkeys, and squirrels. If our game had a 

 fair chance, all kinds would become plenti- 

 ful. As it is, deer are hounded in sum- 

 mer and fish are netted and dynamited. 

 Robins and other birds are killed by thous- 

 ands in their roosts at night. 



D. L. Smith, Brookhaven, Miss. 



November last Messrs. Duke, Merrill, 

 Eckler, and Neagles and I, old companions 

 afield, revisited a favorite hunting ground 

 near Dollarville, Mich. We were met at 

 the station by a teamster and taken 20 miles 

 into the wilderness. The first day we 

 watched well known runways. Eckler 

 killed a good buck and I got a shot at a 

 big 5-pointer. The second day we killed 4 

 deer, still hunting. There is excellent 

 hunting and fishing all along the Grand 

 Rapids & Indiana railroad. 



C. H. Weisner, Grand Rapids, Mich, 



Will you allow me to correct a false im- 

 pression created by a correspondent of 

 Recreation, Mr. N. W. Wright; of Selma, 

 Ohio. He says in April number, 1901, un- 

 der the heading "Hunting in Arkansas," 

 "Go to Cairo over the Iron Mountain. Ten 

 miles from Cairo you come to the head- 

 waters of the St. Francis where you can 

 unload your boat, etc." As a matter of 

 fact, St. Francis river is more than 75 miles 

 from Cairo. The headwaters are 130 miles 

 Northwest from Cairo. 



A. G. Powers, Dayton, Ohio. 



good in this section of the country. There 

 were few violations of the game laws 

 here last winter and, in consequence, 

 deer and fish are plentiful. Six deer 

 came within 400 yards of our house 

 and let a man walk up to within 30 steps 

 of them before they moved. Guess they 

 knew there are a few members of the 

 L. A. S. in this locality who are ready and 

 willing to pounce on any man who would 

 kill one of these deer. 



A. L. Smith, Kingston, Ida. 



Quails were more numerous in this lo- 

 cality last season than for several previous 

 years, and, as most of our sportsmen are 

 now members of the League, the abundance 

 of birds is accounted for. On the last day 

 of the open season I saw several unbroken 

 covies, so the prospects for this fall are un- 

 usually good. During the mating season 

 I could hear the call ol quails whenever I 

 rode into the country. 



W. K. Decker, Tarpon Springs, Fla. 



Recreation is all right and its work for 

 game protection deserves the hearty com- 

 mendation and earnest support of every 

 public spirited American citizen, whether 

 sportsman or not. Enclosed find $1 for 

 which please send me Recreation for one 

 year from date. 



H. D, Grose, Ann Arbor, Mich. 



I agree with Wade Mcllrath that the 

 grouse of Ohio should be protected for a 

 term of years. We have an ideal grouse 

 country, but birds are exceedingly scarce. 

 Quails wintered well, and with good nest- 

 ing weather should be abundant this fall. 

 W. D. Held, Newton Falls, O.. 



Elk have more than held their own the 

 past year in the Jackson Hole country. Ob- 

 servers on the winter ranges report that the 

 animals are in splendid condition after an 

 unusually mild winter and much more nu- 

 merous than in April, 1901. 



T. R. Wilson, Alta, Wyo. 



I greatly admire and fully endorse 

 your crusade against the wholesale butch- 

 ery which is so often wrongfully called 

 sport. Every right thinking: person should 

 be glad to join in a vote of thanks to you. 

 Mrs. A. S. Murray, Goshen, N. Y. 



I am sure the L. A, S. can do a lot of 



In the Province of New Brunswick big 

 game is well protected and is increasing, 

 but small game is not looked after at all. 

 In the other Provinces, especially in 

 Quebec, big game is not well protected. 

 Henry D. Chisholm, Dalhousie, N. B. 



