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I expect to be brought into direct commu- 

 nication with all the game. There are a few 

 other improvements I will tell you about 

 when you come down. 



J. E. Miller. 



GAME NOTES. 



Will you kindly send me a recipe to keep 

 the hair from falling from a mounted cari- 

 bou head? It was brought from Circle 

 City, Alaska, and the hide was not in good 

 condition. 



Geo. A. Auchors, Washington, Pa. 



ANSWER 



Your caribou head is undoubtedly in- 

 fested with moths, which are eating off 

 the hair at the roots. To stop this have a 

 druggist make a solution of one quart of 

 wood alcohol, containing corrosive subli- 

 mate powder, in the proportions of one to 

 1,000. Turn the head upside down, and 

 carefully pour the liquid into the hair, so 

 it will run down to the roots at every part. 

 When it evaporates, it will leave at the 

 roots of the hair a deposit of the corrosive 

 sublimate, which will be death to all moths. 

 No time should be lost in doing this. — 

 Editor. 



The prospect for birds here is excellent, 

 not only in this immediate locality, but in 

 other parts of Virginia and North Caro- 

 lina from which I have received reliable 

 advices. Turkeys are plentiful in this sec- 

 tion, but I believe are fast disappearing 

 elsewhere. The nesting time here was most 

 favorable and the coveys are numerous 

 now, many being large birds, wh.ile others 

 have not yet left the ground. My brother 

 from Winston was here for a fortnight, 

 and he is a veteran sportsman of — well, an 

 uncertain number of seasons ; he being still 

 a bachelor, it would not do to be too 

 definite — and he says he has never known a 

 better prospect for birds and turkeys here, 

 and for birds and deer up at his place, 

 Hyco, in Caswell county, North Carolina. 

 Jennie P. Buford, Lawrenceville, Va. 



I have a pair of elk horns larger than 

 those owned by Mr. Darling and described 

 in March Recreation. Mine measure from 

 tip to tip and across the skull 9 feet zVi 

 inches. If the tape is made to closely fol- 

 low the outline of the skull between the 

 horns, it adds 1*4 to i l / 2 inches to above 

 measurement. There are 10 prongs ; the 

 largest is 17^ inches long. The elk was 

 shot 17 or 18 years ago in the Musselshell 

 river, Montana. The points of the horns, 

 unlike those shown in the photo in March 

 Recreation, curve inward. Is the varia- 

 tion common? If not which is the normal 



form? Should like to know the weight of 

 the horns owned by Mr. Darling; also how 

 much of the skull remains attached. 



Dr. B. M. Freed, Sharon, Pa. 



Wm.. Vermillion, our popular implement 

 man, returned Thursday night from a 4- 

 days' hunt in Clay county. A. K. Mont- 

 gomery, a traveling man, was with him. So 

 plentiful was game that in 4 days they 

 killed 450 quails. The abundance of quails 

 down there is accounted for on the theory 

 that Clay county people are politicians and 

 not hunters. — Taylorville, 111., paper. 



In reply to my letter Wm. Vermillion ad- 

 mits that the above statement is correct — 

 or "corect," as he puts it. Therefore I 

 congratulate the people of Clay county. 

 Two sportsmen sometimes kill 80 quails in 

 4 days ; and poultry butchers often kill 450 

 fowls in the same time, but nobody envies 

 them the job and they seldom brag about it 

 — Editor. 



H. V. Shelley, of Ridgeburg, N. Y., says 

 all boys under 18 who wish to use guns 

 should give bonds to county game wardens. 

 I do not see why. I am a boy and have a 

 rifle and do not need to be put under bond, 

 for I take Recreation and follow its teach- 

 ings. My friends do not need to be put 

 under bonds, either. There may be a 

 few bad boys, but why not send them 

 Recreation? They would then be all 

 right. It is not boys who thin out the 

 game ; it is pot hunters. What little we 

 kill is usually killed with rifles and not 

 with shot guns that cover all the territory 

 in sight. Lee B. Chase, Chicago, 111. 



I have had much pleasure in reading 

 the interesting article in July Recreation 

 entitled, "Twenty-one Grizzlies in Sight." 

 It is a pity Dr. Penfield's professional obli- 

 gations compelled him to leave his com- 

 rades before he had any sport or amuse- 

 ment. I have yet to hear of a doctor who 

 did not score if within the limits of aver- 

 age human skill, courage or endurance. 

 I hope to hear that the doctor can have 

 a longer vacation the coming season I am 

 certain if he has lost a grizzly and finds 

 him he will take him to New York and 

 toast his slippered toes on his furry pelt 

 many a cold night after a hard day's work. 

 J. A. Sampsell, M.D., New Orleans, La. 



The first important step in game protec- 

 tion is a gun license. There are youngsters 

 of 10 to 18 vears seen here daily in the 

 woods who shoot every kind of bird they 

 find. I have seen them shoot birds on the 

 nest. A gun license of a few dollars would 



