FROM THE GAME FIELDS. 
better than anything he has owned or seen 
as yet. He made a good record, 3 deer, 2 
killed in their tracks, his third, a buck of 
208 pounds, ran about 4 rods, after being 
shot. 
Our rifles all did good work, none of us 
followed wounded deer very far, and none 
that we shot got away. Of course these 
things depend largely on the man behind the 
gun. We killed 11 deer, and brought home 
10, being 2 to each man, and I think as many 
as any party of sportsmen should kill, al- 
though we heard of several cases where par- 
ties killed all the law allowed, 5 deer to 
the man. I hope our legislature will soon 
enact a law limiting hunters to 2 deer to 
the man. 
We should also increase the bounty on 
wolves. They destroy many deer every 
year. A hunter in the Upper Peninsula can- 
not but notice the scarcity of fawns, which 
fall an easy prey to the wolves, when young. 
There should also be a suitable bounty on 
lynxes, wildcats and foxes, for the protec- 
tion of grouse and rabbits. ! 
RECREATION is doing a great deal of good 
in the protection of game, and in teaching 
people common decency, as to the amount 
of game. one man should kill. Keep up the 
good work, Brother Shields. 
M. M. Conlon. 
A NEW MECCA FOR THE TOURIST. 
I have just returned from a hunting trip 
70 miles Northwest of here. My guide and 
I each killed a deer and saw several others. 
Taking the entire. Adirondack region, I 
think it is harder to get a deer than last vear 
at the same time. Then I had little trouble 
in killing 2 deer in 6 days. This year 
I had to hunt 7 days to get one. I have 
talked with many old hunters and all at- 
tribute this unusual wildness of the deer to 
spring and early summer hunting by law- 
breakers. 
Many who used to hound because it 
was an easy way to secure a deer, now that 
hounding is prohibited, hunt ‘“ before the 
law is off,” because it is easy then to get 
a shot. During this early hunting many 
deer are shot at and missed, and as a re- 
sult, the hunter who waits for open sea- 
son finds the game wild. 
A month ago I was on the summit of Mt. 
Marcy. This is my second ascent. We 
were 6 days’ tramping and camping on that 
trip, during which time we traversed some 
of the wildest and most difficult passes in 
the state. My guide and I believe we have 
the honor of being the first white persons 
-who ever descended the Western wall of 
Panther Gorge. Far up on the side of the 
Gorge, we discovered a wonderful canyon 
which we believe will rival Ausable Chasm. 
I have named it ‘‘ Recreation Canyon ”’ after 
your excellent magazine. 
Success to RECREATION and the L. A. S. 
Harry V. Radford, Blue Ridge, N. Y. 

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SHOOTING DUCKS FROM A PLATFORM. 
I enclose a clipping from the Galveston 
News. W. L. Moody & Co. are prominent 
bankers here. Several years ago they se- 
cured a grant on a large lake near here for 
the purpose of growing rice, so they said. 
This lake is known the country over for its 
fine duck shooting. They never planted a 
grain of rice but instead fenced it up and 
now ship to Chicago and New York a large 
number of ducks every year. On the edge 
of this lake they built a small platform and 
there station themselves while the hired 
hands row around the lake and scare up the 
birds. The Mr. Bryan mentioned is W. J. 
Bryan, late candidate for President. 
Chas. Rogers, Galveston, Tex. 
Here is the clipping: 
Leaving The News Office, Mr. Bryan boarded one of 
Colonel Moody’s yachts for Lake Surprise, where he said 
he would undertake to punish the ducks, which he had 
learned had become somewhat obstreperous since his last 
visit. The hunting party was composed of Mr. Bryan, Mr. 
W. L. Moody, jr., and Mr. Lovejoy. Mr. Sealy Hutch- 
ings is already at Lake Surprise and will join them there. 
Mr. Bryan is said to be a first rate shot, and when here 
before he bagged 30 canvas-backs, which was about as 
good as the other hunters did who were familiar with the 
grounds. Mr. W. L. Moody, jr., says that it is impossible 
for even a good marksman to do his best on his first visit to 
Lake Surprise. He says when his father and ex-Governor 
Hogg went hunting there 2 years ago they fired about 400 
shots and only bagged about 51 ducks. Colonel Moody 
has since learned the ways of the fowl, and on his last trip 
to Lake Surprise he brought down 130 ducks in a day. 
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I enclose a clipping from “‘ The Evening 
Journal,” of this city. If the report therein 
is correct, it is to be hoped the perpetrators 
of those deeds will be speedily brought 
to justice. It seems to me, if ever swine 
were ready for the slaughter house, they 
certainly are. 
J. A. Armstrong, Ottawa, Can. 
The clipping reads as follows: 
DEER SLAUGHTERED BY THE HUNDRED. 
Game and fish overseer Cormier, of 
Aylmer, has received intimation of a grave 
state of affairs existing at Noniningue, 
back of the county of Labelle. Hunters are 
making terrible slaughter among game, 
for the mere sake of destruction. The 
woods are dotted with carcasses of deer, 
while lakes and bays abound with floating 
trout and other fish. The shores are in- 
fected with decaying trout and cart loads 
of them were brought down to Labelle sta- 
tion last Friday and offered for sale at 3 
cents a pound. There is great indignation 
among the law-abiding citizens and imme- 
diate action is asked for. 
The game law forbids a hunter to kill 
more than 2 deer, yet one man sent to Mon- 
treal 39 head of big game. Others have 
slaughtered a great many and left them in 
the bush to rot, without even skinning 
them. 
A Montreal lawyer writes that he saw at 

