FROM THE GAME FIELDS. 



Greensboro, Vt., May 5, 1895. 

 Editor Recreation. 



The advent of spring reminded me that I had 

 intended to write you how game (such as we 

 have) wintered in Northern Vermont, but have 

 neglected it until now. Our game consists of 

 ruffed grouse, rabbits, squirrels ; a few woodcock, 

 with ducks and geese in season. Woodcock 

 are always scarce here. 



Grouse were very plentiful last fall and the 

 winter has been favorable for them. I see them 

 nearly every day in making my professional drives 

 in the country. Gray squirrels were much more 

 numerous last fall than usual, have wintered 

 well and ought to breed to such an extent as to 

 give us some good shooting next season. Rab- 

 bits, always abundant in Orleans county, are more 

 so than ever. Their tracks are to be seen in every 

 swamp through which I drive. They have not 

 been hunted as much as usual the past winter 

 and are protected from May 1st till September 

 1st. Deer have been frequently seen of late 

 years, and the prospects are that after the present 

 close season expires, which will be in 1900, we 

 can have a short " open season " on them. 



F. C. Kinney. 



Douglas, Wyo. 

 Editor Recreation. 



In your May number is an article by O. D. 

 Lyon, " Ducks, Geese and a Wolf," in which he 

 openly declares that he was hunting grouse on 

 January 24th, in Nebraska. In that state the 

 open season on grouse closes on January 1st. In 

 the same issue, J. S. Stangroom, of New What- 

 com, Wash., writes that he is going to the 

 mountains after goats, in the spring, in order to 

 obtain a hide in prime condition. The law of 

 Washington makes it unlawful to kill the 

 mountain goat before August 15th, and unlawful 

 to kill any game animal for its hide, at any time. 

 Items like these breed dissatisfaction with the 

 laws and cause them to be violated when oppor- 

 tunity offers. 



Mortimer Jesurun, M. D. 



Wilson, St. Croix Co., Wis. 

 Editor Recreation. 



After being earnestly petitioned, our state 

 solons have finally given us a fairly good game 

 law. During the past two years, the open 

 season for large game in this state, has been the 

 month of October. As a natural sequence most 

 of the game killed has spoiled in the woods. We 

 are now to have the first 20 days of November, 

 with three days in which to dispose of the 

 venison. Each nimrod is allowed to carry out of 

 the state, in person, the carcasses of two deer, 

 not more. The disciples of one " Walton," 

 may take with them out of the state 20 pounds 

 of fish, or not more than two large ones. 



H. B. Crane. 



shoot a hawk or two. After a short walk I 

 heard a partridge drumming. Creeping through 

 the brush for half a mile I came upon six good 

 sized fellows, under a large hemlock. I might 

 have shot some of them, but it being close 

 time I contented myself with flushing them and 

 taking aim, without firing. Harry Boynton. 

 [The writer of the above is a boy 17 years old, 

 and he teaches a lesson in self denial and strict 

 observance of game laws that many an old 

 sportsman might well heed. — Ed.] 



Spokane, Wash. 

 The best section in the country for all around 

 hunting and fishing is on the Yakt river, in 

 Montana. I have hunted there twice, am thor- 

 oughly acquainted with the locality, and should 

 be glad to guide a party to that hunters' para- 

 dise. Game of all kinds is abundant — bear, 

 moose, elk, deer, goats, sheep, trout, grouse, 

 ducks, geese, etc. Fishing is excellent. The 

 country is easily reached, being only 65 miles 

 from the Great Northern Railway. 



W. A. Monroe. 



Boise, Idaho. 

 Fort Hall Indians hunt not only in Jackson's 

 Hole, but wherever game is plentiful within 200 

 miles of their reservation. Sixteen lodges, 

 numbering about 80 Indians, from Fort Hall, 

 have been camped near Glen's Ferry, Lincoln 

 county, Idaho, all winter, and have been 

 slaughtering all the game they could find. One 

 of the bucks told a ranchman that the reason 

 they left the Agency was because " Indian heap 

 hungry ; agent no feed him ; Indian starve at 

 Fort Hall." R. F. Cooke. 



South Butte, Mont. 

 I am familiar with some of the best hunting 

 grounds in Montana, Idaho and Wyoming. Am 

 prepared to outfit and conduct parties who wish 

 to come to the Rocky Mountains in quest of 

 large game, such as elk, deer, sheep, goats, 

 antelope and bear ; and in season, geese, ducks 

 and grouse. Can also show parties good trout 

 fishing. C. H. Robins. 



Lay, Routt County, Col. 

 While you are after the Indians and Indian 

 agents, you should give the Utes a go, at Uintah 

 and Uncompahgre agencies, in north-east Utah. 

 They come up and slaughter thousands of our 

 deer, as soon as they reach their winter range — 

 nearly all for hide> alone. There seems to be no 

 way to stop it, either. A. G. Wallihan. 



Augusta, Me. 

 I strolled out in the woods, a few mornings 

 ago, taking my shotgun and thinking I might 



Ten Sleep, Wyo. 

 "Game is quite plentiful yet, large herds of 

 elk, plenty of deer, no lack of sheep and antelope, 

 and Ten Sleep lakes beat all creation for trout. 

 Too many bears and lions for the gocd of cur 

 stock." James Fullf.rion. 



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