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may be lawfully killed, but is of no more 
importance than abolishing fall shooting 
would be 
In the fall birds awe young, unwary and 
easily bagged. In the spring they are 
strong, hardy and shy. These are unques- 
tionable facts, which all sportsmen will 
recognize. 
All true sportsmen are interested in 
the preservation of our game and I do not 
hesitate to say after many years’ obser- 
vation and study of the subject I am con- 
vinced that all states need one game law 
which would givemore protection to game 
than the miscellaneous lot which now ex- 
ist. It is this: Keep game out of the mar- 
et) every day in the year. 
One market hunter will destroy more 
game in a season than 12 men who shoot 
for pleasure. The reason is plain. The 
market hunter makes it a business. He is 
familiar with the haunts and habits ot 
game in his vicinity. Some of them also 
emigrate with the birds. The sportsman 
loses each trip from one to 3 days in lo- 
cating the best hunting grounds, so that 
in a week’s trip he will not have more than 
4 days’ shooting, counting also the time 
to go and come. A friend and I took a 
week’s trip last year. As we stepped off 
_ the train at destination we saw a market 
hunter in the act of shipping more game 
than we got the entire trip and on being 
asked said he had killed them all the day 
before, but, like his kind, did not volun- 
teer to tell where We had traveled more 
than 100 miles and the week’s trip cost us 
each $15 or $20, which was left in the 
community. Market shooters travel from 
place to place with teams, live like In- 
dians, and don’t spend cents where we 
spend dollars. 
The natural supply of game with short 
Open seasons spring and fall will never be 
diminished if kept out of the markets. 
On the contrary, it will increase. Keep- 
ing it out of the markets is a law that can 
be enforced, if any law can be; so can the 
law designating certain periods as open 
seasons. But such laws as refer to use 
of blinds, sink boxes, sneak-boats, sunrise 
and sundown and all similar rubbish can 
not be enforced. 
There should be a law to prohibit ship- 
ping out of the state unless game is ac- 
companied by the shooter. A sportsman 
who has lawfully shot game in another 
state has left in that state many times 
its equivalent in money and should be 
permitted to transport it home, provided 
his state forbids the sale of game. 
Game should be preserved for those 
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who find health and pleasure in the pur- 
suit of it, not for profit. 
Therefore, let us get a few days fresh 
air in both spring and fall. We would 
prefer to get only 6 birds in the spring 
and 6 in the fall to getting 12 in the fall. 
Recreation is what the true’ sportsman 
is after. an 
iS a Eiona), 

GAME NOTES. 
The following is from the Chattanooga 
Sunday Times. I think Jesse Bell is ripe 
for a dressing down. 
J. W. Blair, Chattanooga, Tenn. 
QUAIL SHOOTING IN THE SOUTHWEST. 
One hundred and twenty-five birds in a day to the single 
gun and dog is, so far as my knowledge extends, the quail 
record for Southwestern Texas, a land that is emphatically 
the home of the quail. It was made near Marcellinas, on 
the San Antonio and Aransas Pass railway, in Karnes 
county. These were all fairly killed birds and the holder 
of the score, Jesse Bell, was accompanied by 2 other men, 
who were with him all day. Scores of 85 and go birds ina 
day are not by any means uncommon. The man who is 
unable to count 60 in bag at set of sun thinks himself un- 
lucky. 
He should deem himself the only decent 
man in the crowd. The others should be 
heartily ashamed of themselves. So should 
the editor of the “ Times” for having 
“ puffed” them. 
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The second annual encampment of our 
camping club occurred about 8 miles out of 
the city of New Lisbon, Wis., on the 
Lemonweir river. The party consisted of 
Wm. Wilcox, A. E. Kelk, E. N. Hurd, E. 
E. Winkler and W. E. Buckingham. The 
boys had unusually good luck catching 
pickerel, bass and pike. 
Hunting was out of the question at this 
time of the year, it being the 3d of August, 
but the indications are it will be exceed- 
ingly good in the fall. Prairie chickens, 
ruffed grouse, ducks of all kinds, snipe and 
plover show up in abundance. 
The Lemonweir river, for 25 miles up 
stream, is a perfect dream of loveliness, and 
the elegant sites for camping parties are 
very numerous. Splendid climate, pure ice, 
cold spring water, delightful scenery, no 
malaria and jolly society are a few of the 
points that the tourist should consider when 
he comes to choose a place to pitch his tent. 
E. N. Hurd, New Lisbon, Wis. 

Our prospects for good sport this fall 
were never so good as now. Ducks have 
been nesting all around us, in sloughs which 
for 2 or 3 years have been dry. Chickens 
were never more numerous than now. 
Fred Philips, Spirit Lake, Ia. 

